>>715593126
FE8's gameplay mechanics in a vacuum are exactly as complex as the other GBA games. Just because it dangles some keys in front of you with useless promotion branches or overwold battles that trivialize an already easy game even further, doesn't mean any of it is of any substance. Except it means your decisions matter even less because the game is easy enough as is. You need at least some degree of difficulty for these ""complex"" gameplay mechanics to actually mean anything. But FE8 has the smallest cast of all the GBA games, lowest map count by a good amount, and by far the lowest difficulty. By any reasonable metric it is a less complex game than the two that came before it.

>>713727654
>christianity is gone
I mean it's declining in the US, but it is still the majority of the population.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/religious-landscape-study-religious-identity/