@skooky said:
Playing casual mode and continuing the chapter when somebody dies and replaying the entire chapter to save a character is exactly the same thing.
How does that make any sense? Yes, the end result is that you move on to the next mission with your full crew alive and well, but the play experience is vastly different.
On casual mode: everyone but Chrom and your player avatar is canon fodder that you can just run forward. As long as you heal a couple times and your guys are trading hits with enemies, you should have enough gas to finish off the mission, or at least get to the point that Chrom and avatar are still alive to finish off the last guy. It's pretty hard to lose a mission unless you really try to put Chrom/avatar in harm's way.
On classic mode: you have to formulate a sound strategy that allows you to play to units' strengths while keeping them reasonably safe/near a healer. Some strategies are so bad that even if you restart dozens of times, you will keep losing a unit, because no matter how lucky you get with dice rolls, your chosen strategy is just not viable. This forces you to actually learn how to be better at the game and learn effective tactics, and actually presents a considerable challenge on some missions, but is never impossible.
I'm fine with people playing on casual if strategy games really aren't for them yet they really want to check the game out, but the difference is that on casual you never really have to get much better at the game. It's not "exactly the same thing".
