Shouzou Kaga's final Fire Emblem game was the ambitious and underperforming Thracia 776. With former driving force Kaga gone to pursue other things, FE went in a new direction-- handheld games instead of console games, with a new system of support mechanics.
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Since FE8 and FE7, with their similar support systems, were the first to be released worldwide, many fans have the idea that these A-B-C supports with paired endings are simply how Fire Emblem works. Clearly that is not the case. You may like it the best, but that doesn't make it the norm.
The next continental saga challenged that assumption, hard.
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Since FE8 and FE7, with their similar support systems, were the first to be released worldwide, many fans have the idea that these A-B-C supports with paired endings are simply how Fire Emblem works. Clearly that is not the case. You may like it the best, but that doesn't make it the norm.
The next continental saga challenged that assumption, hard.