Right, my bad.
Anyway, here's the problem with the bolded; the Echoes didn't present a real challenge. They're barren, poorly designed and depressingly shallow. Every map is approached the same way, with little variance in strategy. There are no side objectives, and 99% of the maps are rout. Send your strongest, fastest units and kill everything. The game also littered its maps with enemies in an indiscriminate fashion with no real focus. That's what happens when you faithfully adapt the worst Fire Emblem game's maps and do nothing to change things. Hard mode was more tedious than outright difficult.
Conquest offered the polar opposite of that. The maps in that game actually required strategy and thinking ahead. Things that are fundamental to a strategy game. The pot map is the perfect example of that; you actually had to carefully map a route past Ryoma, and somehow find a way to do it before time ran out. Or maybe you found a way to defeat him yourself? Maps like that are bad if you're the type who enjoyed throwing units at enemies and killing swathes of enemies but for people who enjoy strategy, Conquest is among the best in the series.
This is fundamental to literally every Fire Emblem game in existence, and Echoes is by far one of the easiest games when it comes to keeping your units alive.
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