Well, Fire Emblem games are meant to be replayed. You get 70+ Characters to use, Mutually Exclusive Choices, Different Routes, Missable Secrets...
Turnwheel was great for those moments where I accidentally move a player or attack.
Personally I feel "Chris" your avatar in FE 12 (Japan only so a lot people have not played it) is a bit worse when it comes to the player fawning. Fates is pretty dang close though.
I took this screenshot in a playthrough where I married Hinoka
The biggest problem with adding 7's tactician to 6 is that it would mess with Roy. Roy is fairly standard among the lords but one characteristic he has going for him is that despite his inexperience he is pretty smart, and going further down that route would greatly improve his character in a remake and help make him stand out more among the other lords.
Having a playable gary stu avatar is probably the worst thing they've done to the Fire Emblem franchise, because it enabled the dating simulator aspect we veteran fans grew to hate. At least the avatar in FE7 couldn't actually mate with anyone.
I never really felt like the avatar in Awakening and Fates were a self insert thing, they have their own personality and dialogue, generally make their own choices and just don't feel like blank slates. Other than being able to change their sex, looks, and name they're not used differently in the narrative than any other main character in the series.
Part of it is that they're pretty conscious about how gameplay power plays part in popularity, just look at the Royals in Fates. They pushed them onto the player not only storywise, but also through their stats.
I think even without an official Avatar elements like Awakening's 1st person marriage pictures or Fates' "My Room" would still have happened. Just look at Echoes. Even though Alm and Celica aren't avatars, the game has no problem suddenly going first person with them when it wants (like the conversations in villages). Rather than an avatar, you'd just get a designed protagonist that couldn't be customized in the same position.
The fact that the avatar is one of the most broken characters and that he can S support with almost any one of the opposite sex is telling that it's a self-insert character. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember the avatar in Awakening had amnesia, which is a classic plot device precisely because it introduces a blank slate. He/she can't remember who he/she is, so you use your own projection. You own that character as a result. What else could he/she be?
What happens in FE and in XBX are pretty different, our character in XBX is silent, that's why Elma ends up becoming the main character. I said in my other post that the Avatar in FE has their own personality and dialogue that isn't influenced by the player, that's why they don't feel like a self insert to me. I'm not making Robin's or Corrin's choices for the most part, I don't own them.
jesus christ this take is dumb
aside from Ike not being close to the best in either of his games, Ephraim is basically Raven with a better weapon type/promotion but worse availability in Eirika's route, he's good but Seth, Vanessa, Franz, etc. are all much higher.
Ike is nowhere near the strongest unit in his games and in several of the Kaga games the Lord was the best character.
I don't think Robin is the strongest in Awakening either, I'm guessing it's Morgan, maybe some other kid. I don't know how the units stand in that game though.
I meant there's better characters in Radiant Dawn then Ike.
"Correct me if I'm wrong again, but all FE main protagonists aren't the strongest characters in their respective game until Ike came along"
