Im not a larping oldfag like most of this thread is, I started this franchise with Conquest of all things, and its pretty sad to see nobody defending FE4 at all in the thread, the large maps are boring when you want to move your units around sure, but I dont mind at all the time wasted in each chapter, I usually would only tackle one chapter per day not to burn myself out and I vastly enjoyed it, It was kind of fun to get units up to a level where they could pretty much clean off entire army portions by themselves, Larcei's family especially guilty of this, Gen 1 was a bit more boring to play as because it felt like no real progression was being done unit-wise since most were already promoted and strong, I enjoyed the Gen 2 portion a lot better, that said shoutout to Lachesis I was invested in making her the best as she could be
FE4 feels like a sandbox version of Fire Emblem which is quite unique to me