On my wishlist too. A little worried that this game is going more towards cutesy drawings, hours of boring pointless dialog to click through, and infinite skill tweaking settings that have little or no effect on the game-winning strategies. I'm pretty sure this game will have all of those things, but I prefer being able to jump through the battles to progress the story quicker. Sometimes a Fire Emblem battle takes me more than a day to finish.

Always liked past Fire Emblem games, but there is almost always one or two levels that will set me back for months trying to defeat. By the time I beat those levels with enough luck, I've forgotten my entire class leveling strategies and other hidden steps to avoid to unlock future characters. Keeping track of which conversations and relationships I was building was always a nightmare. Sometimes I prefer a more straightforward approach with only a few characters to worry about.

Advance Wars in some ways is more fun, because the characters are already balanced and never level up. It's more about the placement strategy, choice of army members, and managing funds to crank out enough units to survive. Used to spend hours challenging my friend to various battles. Always liked that they let us choose a CO with unique global abilities that could add a fun wildcard to the battles, a bit like playing Risk.

Glad I won't be gridlocked in this game worrying about permadeath issues changing the story for the rest of the game. Nothing I hated more than having to hit the restart button and reload the game, hoping I don't get to the end of the level and run into another surprise hit kills that weakest party character.