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you know what, since i went off on here with my end of sov stuff, i figure i may as well tell anyone who’s interested why i adore the game as much as i do. strap in because this is probably gonna be a long one.
so it all essentially started about two years ago when i first wanted to get into FE, thanks to smash peaking my interest. i didnt (and still don’t lol) have a good way to emulate the games, so i started out like most did: with FEH and the 3DS games.
the first game i got was awakening, which i loved and still do, but had a lot of gripes with. specifically the fact that 1/3 of the cast felt like punchlines, the villains were bland as 100 year old bread most of the time, and the story was either super safe or confusing as hell.
from there, i wanted to play another. i didn’t want to try fates since this was back in mid-2019 where fates/awa hate was still popular, so i decided to try sov since i didn’t really hear much about it. but this time i decided to look into it a bit more before playing.
i think this is where my love first came from: the community. the sov community was and still is my favorite in gaming communities. for such a game regarded as mid or bad, it has such a fantastic and welcoming community, but what really did it for me was the art.
from the stupid meme edits to the genuinely fantastic stuff, the art did it for me, official and fanart. the thing that really hit me though was the alm x celica art i saw. back then (and even to an extent now) i can feel really alone, obviously nothing too bad but still.
this may seem odd, but the art i saw just made me feel so.... good? there’s always something about alm and celica art, like a sort of warm ans comforting feeling to it. maybe i’m weird as shit, but there’s always something just lovely about it.
from there, i decided to get the game. i scoured game stores looking for it, never really finding luck, until one day i finally found a single copy of it on the shelf. this made me feel really accomplished for some reason.
and then, the rest is history. played the game and adored every minute of it, although i gotta admit something: me posting on here with my play through at the end was my first time beating it, but that victory was so sweet that i just had to gush over it in this thread.
i feel like a good portion of my online presence can be summed as “the guy who really likes SOV”, which i don’t mind, but i feel like needed reasons to explain. the story, characters, gameplay, all of it feels so fun and lovable to me.
there’s something about this game that makes me think “this is the best FE has ever done creatively and i feel won’t be matched.” sov feels so unhinged with its darker themes and incredible voice acting that i don’t think any other game would dare try again
(yes, jugdral is really dark already, but i feel unless they retain that story completely in remakes with more fleshed out elements, sov will always beat it, even now. am i biased, yeah totally. are you allowed to think differently. absolutely)
so yeah, that’s my story. if you agree or disagree, i’m glad you read my stupid story and i hope now y’all get why i’m so attached to this game. thanks to all y’all, honestly i would’ve never shared this if it weren’t for the FE community here being so great. night y’all :)
