First of the notion that restarting a battle because a favorite unit died is silly. That is absolutely an option. I played the original fire Emblem back on the GBA with the screwed notion that I shouldn’t restart, and ended up having to replay the entire game because I didn’t have a good team in the end.

One thing to think about his how episodic the original game was. You had part 1 Midgard then you had the first open world segments with that town where you meet Cid, you had the Theme park, Barrett mining town/prison. The ice mountain, then the search to heal Cloud etc. it’s very easy to break up the games story, and…