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You can get new formations as soon as you finish up Leon's prologue, and really, if you even let anyone die during Gerald's generation, like you evidently did, you're beyond saving.
>LP is just there and doesn't contribute to anything.
Except it does, otherwise you wouldn't complain about it like you're doing.
Again, LP serves multiple purposes, one of which is forcing you to play aggressively since you can't just leave somebody incapacitated on the field like other games, which you still ignore because again, it destroys your "argument"
>XCOM at least provides an Iron-Man mode
So it's okay when a game provides an explicit challenge to force you to admit you suck at the game but it's not fine when it doesn't have it?
>and Fire Emblem makes it explicitly known that permadeath is the way it's meant to be played
And permadeath in SaGa somehow doesn't?
>Saving anywhere is more lax and prone to "let me relod my save until RNG favors me"
I agree, what does that have to do with SaGa though? Don't tell me you're THAT bad at the games you have to hope what little RNG is there turns around to save your sorry ass?
>LP is pointless, POINTLESS.
First you say that LP is unavoidable and now you say LPs are pointless? Damn dude, your grasp on logic is failing hard here.
I guess that why Romancing SaGa 2 of all things has stuff like Life Steal or things like Death Scythe spam, let alone limited LP potions, I guess that's also why the games have limited healing tools coupled with various systems that make LP a key resource, from Frontier 2's LP cure system to Unlimited SaGa's LP based damage or Minstrel Song's LP channeling mechanics.
I guess that's also why LPs are integral parts of character identity for people like Koumei, Coppelia, Michelle, Silver or Hermann and people also do specific challenge runs or builds around low LP characters.
But lo and behold, the anonymous genius designer appears once again in the retro board of 4chan to school industry veterans.