I think there are certainly parts of Awakening that pay attention to the daily shittiness of living in warlike conditions. You bring up the history of Ylisse as well as Lucina's future, and I agree for both of these examples. I also think that the Future Past DLC does a pretty good job of conveying the gloom and hopelessness of their situation, and that the kids in their own ways seem a little bit broken by having grown up the way they did (though some of their traits are unbelievable). I'd also add to that some of the very early paralogues, which directly address how the war affects the common people in some pretty nice ways: ruffians exploiting the situation, people turning on each other...
Unfortunately all these things are very peripheral. Everything above mentioned except Chrom's father happen in purely optional content. So even though FE13 does bring it up... you get the sense that it doesn't care all that much about it. Not when you compare it to what happy friends we all are.
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I think there are certainly parts of Awakening that pay attention to the daily shittiness of living in warlike conditions. You bring up the history of Ylisse as well as Lucina's future, and I agree for both of these examples. I also think that the Future Past DLC does a pretty good job of conveying the gloom and hopelessness of their situation, and that the kids in their own ways seem a little bit broken by having grown up the way they did (though some of their traits are unbelievable). I'd also add to that some of the very early paralogues, which directly address how the war affects the common people in some pretty nice ways: ruffians exploiting the situation, people turning on each other...
Unfortunately all these things are very peripheral. Everything above mentioned except Chrom's father happen in purely optional content. So even though FE13 does bring it up... you get the sense that it doesn't care all that much about it. Not when you compare it to what happy friends we all are.