ecoho

that depends on what you think are the games themes, i think a golden route would solidify it. the theme to me and many others is perspective, in every route you see how just a change of perspective paints how you see people and how the actions of one person can change everything. so like i said before the best way to do a golden route would require you to do every path to unlock it(something ive found most people wont do because "edelgard bad") and have byleth remember all the routes so they have a way and reason to change things.

so created an account to just kind of throw out a way to make this work that even the people who hated revelations could possibly get behind. instead of edelgard going back why not have it be byleth and sothis? now the set up would require you to do every path in order to unlock this route making it impossible to just jump into it like you could with revelations(the reason i disliked it mostly), then have the new game you start be called called dejavu or something along those lines with sothis realizing that youve relived the same frame of time four times. this would allow for them to add a new BBEG maybe someone whos on sothis' level of power who is trying to destroy not only fodlan but sothis herself. so realizing this at the start sothis uses her powers to basically bring a bit of your power back with you making byleth start out a little more powerful say making his skill levels all the highest they were through all paths(say you had an A in brawling in one path but E in another the A would overwrite the E) but this lets the BBEG in on you figuring out hes there so now he decides to use what he knows of the possible timelines to push fodlan towards its doom. the only way to not get a bad ending requires you to use what you had learned in the other paths to convince each person to work with you to save the world, making this more of a fight against far more powerful TWSITD as they now need not fight in the shadows as they have the support of their god. you can even have tyhe first half end with sothis coming back as a new unit due to your efforts(maybe kill off rhea to pull it off) hell you can even have it require you to do something specific in each mission in order not to fail like kill kronika before you beat the last enemy on the save the students level were jearelt dies or talking to the death knight about his past(hell offer him a sweet to stop while calling him emile) there are so many options that could be used in this kind of time loop story. the best part is no one has a reason to hate it as its something you actually have to work for and makes each route meaningful.