I think FE4 just wants to be a different kind of story. FE3 is a tragedy. FE3 is about struggle, despair, sacrifice. FE3 is a story about how people suck.
FE4 is a story about heroes. FE4 is a story about how fathers might fail but sons will see their divine mission through. FE4 is a story about adults who fucked up and kids who fix their mistakes. FE4 is just inherently really optimistic, and its dramatic structure follows accordingly. First things go wrong. They go really wrong. And then they get better. Those with divine right inherit these mistakes and fix them. There's a reason second gen chapter titles are things like "Light Inheritor."
Chapter 5 is in some sense the climax, and the second gen is its long-winded resolution. If I were to fix FE4 without changing its spirit, I would probably do so by somehow shortening the second generation, Radiant Dawn style.
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FE4 is a story about heroes. FE4 is a story about how fathers might fail but sons will see their divine mission through. FE4 is a story about adults who fucked up and kids who fix their mistakes. FE4 is just inherently really optimistic, and its dramatic structure follows accordingly. First things go wrong. They go really wrong. And then they get better. Those with divine right inherit these mistakes and fix them. There's a reason second gen chapter titles are things like "Light Inheritor."
Chapter 5 is in some sense the climax, and the second gen is its long-winded resolution. If I were to fix FE4 without changing its spirit, I would probably do so by somehow shortening the second generation, Radiant Dawn style.