Got Severa. Her recruitment chapter wasn't too tough, outside of the fact that all enemies were really strong. Chapter 17 was, again, easy.

Just got to chapter 22 everything clicks now. I'm not gonna say more because I don't want to spoil for anyone else. Damn this chapter is tough!

Not at all. The first few chapters walk you through the mechanics quite well, and while a lot of the talk goes into the minutiae in an attempt to squeeze out the very best from the party, the game is designed to accomodate the less stat-happy folks amongst us as well.

Like me! I tend not to focus on statistics so much as the general rock-paper-scissors mechanics.

On another note, i'm annoyed by the fact that basically every enemy gets silver weapons as soon as you get to Valm. There's nowhere to build from there, making every single enemy a real threat.

Is ramping up the difficulty not the aim of the game, though? Guess it depends which chapter you're on...

Cool, I don't know if I should buy this or Dark Moon yet. I might get both but the chances of that are a bit slim because I will definitely be buying New Leaf.

Right, but Silver Weapons are top-level already. Valm starts at chapter 15/26, you'd figure enemies should start upgrading to top-level weapons closer to chapter 20 or so.

Oh, there are also Killer, Brave, and specialist weapons left to choose from... >=D

I take it you haven't tried Lunatic yet? Foes get Silver weapons starting on level 5.

Unless enemies start getting legendary weapons perhaps? I dunno, does seem early I guess but it's not that unlike Radiant Dawn (you had enemies with Steel Blades etc. as early as Part 3 Chapter 4)

So I beat the game! *confetti falls* I chose for (End of Game spoilers ahead) Avatar to have the final blow, which I suppose is the "right" decision to make. The ending was very sweet. I liked how the Grima seal was gone from the hand.

And now that that's over with... it's time to start again! Still playing on Normal/Classic, as I really have no interest in playing on a harder mode. This time I got Donnel, and this'll be my "Let's do/get everything!" playthrough.

But I'm kinda hazy on one part of the story:

(End of gamish spoilers) We know that Future Avatar possessed by Grima goes back in time even before Lucina to try and possess Present Avatar. Instead the possession backfires and Present Avatar is left with no past memories. Yet somehow he/she knows Chroms name... how did that happen when Present Avatar (at this point) had never met Chrom at this time?