Forreal you’ll feel good blowing through the story missions then those paralogs will humble your ass with the quickness. They’re not like “side quests” in other games, they legit take me a lot longer to finish due to the tricky terrain & setups.
Seteth/Flayns wasn’t too hard but it took me forever to finish due to the terrain layout. The sothis one had me restart my game a few times yesterday tho, and I was leveled higher than the requirement
Catherine is goddamn powerhouse tho. Never use her in the story missions but she’s pretty much a must have for any paralog with giant monsters
Marianne's is some ol bullshyt

Fog + a dozen monsters with one boss monster you gotta kill 5 times + priests healing them

And did I mention that it's in a forest you van barely move in?

Went with the Blue Lions cause it seems like everybody is choosing either Gold Deer or Black Eagles to start. Also chose to be a chick because the male character looks like a damn doofus and for some reason you can't customize your avatar anymore. Don't know why they shoehorning these mute ass surrogate avatar characters into the story if you can't even change how they look but whatever I guess
Oh and I noticed you can S-support Alois as a female, they really givin you the option to be the WOAT daughter imaginable and fukk your dad's lifelong friend of 20+ years
Get married to your old comrade's young twentysomething daughter who wears goth patterned stockings into armed combat brehs 
