Fire Emblem: Awakening

[Gardevoir the Dragon Slayer]

Most of the DLC is fantastic. I've yet to beat Priam's DLC though. He's just too tough for my team, I guess.

When I did that on Easy mode most of his guys killed all my team apart from Donnell (Chrom and Avatar survived but stayed well out of harms way) who then proceded to wipe out nearly all of Prisms army then Prism himself :p

 

[Cerberus87]

I like this forum because here I'm not guilty to admit I liked Awakening's story.

I mean, it's not 10/10 but it sure isn't the trainwreck people at SF and GameFAQs claim it to be.

 

[TRIFORCE89]

I've heard so many good things about this game. Sounds like an essential 3DS game.

I haven't played any Fire Emblems before. I don't know the first thing about them. How accessible is this game to a newcomer?

 

[Gardevoir the Dragon Slayer]

I've heard so many good things about this game. Sounds like an essential 3DS game.

I haven't played any Fire Emblems before. I don't know the first thing about them. How accessible is this game to a newcomer?

I was the same as you never played fire emblem before (only knew about it because of smash bros). It really accessible to get into though, Give the demo a go and you will get a good feel for it.

 

[Klippy]

I've heard so many good things about this game. Sounds like an essential 3DS game.

I haven't played any Fire Emblems before. I don't know the first thing about them. How accessible is this game to a newcomer?

Very! You will have a learning curve, like any game, but it was my first Fire Emblem as well. I got it and instantly fell in love. Especially if you like turn based strategy games, a pretty good story, and some nice character building. :)

 

[TRIFORCE89]

I was the same as you never played fire emblem before (only knew about it because of smash bros). It really accessible to get into though, Give the demo a go and you will get a good feel for it.

Completely slipped my mind that there might be a demo for this.

That is a brilliant idea. Thank you!

 

[Nick]

I've heard so many good things about this game. Sounds like an essential 3DS game.

I haven't played any Fire Emblems before. I don't know the first thing about them. How accessible is this game to a newcomer?

Awakening was my first Fire Emblem game too. The best way to go into it is to think of it like chess. It's a strategic game and the field is a chess board. Your characters are the chess pieces, and you move a certain number of spaces depending on their moving capabilities and the terrain. I'll explain it all right now in a way that I wish I found when I was starting out.

The chess pieces have HP. Rather than being able to take a chess piece, you attack a character. Like Pokémon, or any other RPG that you can possibly think of.

Starting out, you're given the difficulty option, and the option to choose casual play or classic play. In classic play, if you lose a character in battle, they're gone for good and you can't use them ever again. In casual, this consequence doesn't exist.

The main characters - Chrom and your avatar - are the king. If they're killed in battle, then its game over for you. You have to reload the save file. Thankfully, the game prompts you to save after every battle you have.

You're given certain objectives for the game. Sometimes you have to kill the entire other team. Sometimes you just are required to kill the general. The objective is always shown right before you're able to move the pieces.

You can pair up your pieces to strengthen them. They also have support systems, where if your characters have higher support, then they're more likely to help each other out. Blocking blows, attacking as well, etc.

Your characters have stats, and abilities that they're able to learn after they level up. They have classes that give them unique powers and dictate what weapons they can use, like healing, magic, bow and arrows, and shapeshifting.

Your characters can change classes after level 10, and they can also be promoted at level 10 as well. There are two ranks to each class, and different possible choices for some of the base class for which way you want to go. Each class has their own mostly unique set of abilities. The abilities help you out. One ability for example allows you to make another move after you kill a piece on the enemy side. That's usually taken as the most valuable ability. You can change classes as many times as you like, and you can essentially pretty much collect nearly all of the abilities available on the game, with some restrictions based on gender and Lords (there's a Lord rank in which only Chrom and his child can access) and your starting class - which I forget the name of.

The support system I mentioned earlier has four ranks, depending on who they are. C, B, A, and S. When some characters reach the S rank with an opposite gender (they can only reach an S rank with an opposite gender character), they'll unlock a prologue. A side quest in which their child is accessible to be recruited. Sort of like Pokémon, their child inherits their parents abilities (they inherit the last slot ability of both parents).

 

[Aeroblast]

Completely slipped my mind that there might be a demo for this.

That is a brilliant idea. Thank you!

If you want to buy the full game (which sounds like you do) Mr. Downstairs provided a good barebone basics. If you do buy it, I can give more advice as well.

One additional early advice I'd give is to try to spread out the experience between party members that you're going to use (there's couple dozen units to choose from), ESPECIALLY during the first couple chapters.

 

[Dragon]

If you don't mind me asking on the side guys, who are your favourite characters?

Mine, form a list are: Lucina, Owain, Inigo, Noire, Morgan, Severa, Cordelia, Robin, and Lissa. But if I had to choose one, I'd definitely be Morgan! He/She is so perky and nice all the same time; definitely wanna be like them. C:

 

[Aeroblast]

Oh god, I've reached this stage of the game again...

Spoiler:

Chapter 10 is such a tear jerker. Right after a tragic event, this chapter has depressing background music in the preparation screen, sad and emotional battleground theme, boss that you feel sorry for once... I nearly cried the first time playing through this, which doesn't happen often, if not at all.

I'm currently playing on Lunatic.

 

[Gardevoir the Dragon Slayer]

If you don't mind me asking on the side guys, who are your favourite characters?

Mine, form a list are: Lucina, Owain, Inigo, Noire, Morgan, Severa, Cordelia, Robin, and Lissa. But if I had to choose one, I'd definitely be Morgan! He/She is so perky and nice all the same time; definitely wanna be like them. C:

Mine are:
-Severa (I love her whole attitude and snarky remarks that she uses to cover her insecurity)

-Say'ri (Shes just a bad ass and I love the way she talks)

-Tharja (She's crazy and she just doesn't care)

-Cynthia (Shes adorable yet dorky but she always tries her best)

-Sumia (Shes really cute and helpful, shes also puts her self down despite being an elite Pegasus knight and being the queen of Ylisse if marred to chrom)

-Lucina (excited for smash bros now, Shes just a bad ass and extremely serious whist most of the others are mostly light hearted)

-Olivia (She's really shy and cute)

-Lissa (She's always gleefully cheerful and up to mischief and has a squeaky new york ascent despite being a princess, shes also quite a handful for some of the others like Fredrick and lon'qu )

-Gerome (The guys practically Batman)

-Panne (She's distant to everyone at first but she actually has a good heart and soon warms to the others in the conversations)

 

[Aeroblast]

i cri evrytiem...

Spoiler:

And to answer your question Dragon, Owain is my favorite character.

 

[Klippy]

A few of my favorite characters...

Yen'fay - I always thought he was a BA and one of the cooler characters in the game. I would shred the battlefield up with him then send in my weaker units after, haha.
Owain - Another one of my BA fighters. He was the son of my Avatar in my "canon" story, so they often fought side-by-side and were an unstoppable force.
Olivia - I liked her personality and ended up having her marry Libra, since she was a dancer and he was a monk. :)
Lucina - One of the more personable characters, I really liked her story and am glad she'll be in Smash too.

I honestly like all of the characters though, because this game is great. I am just about ready to replay it now. :P

P.S. I posted in this thread at the beginning about who my favorites were, but I decided to re-examine some. I still like those other ones, but these are more and contain reasoning as to why.

 

[Nah]

My favorites would be MU, Lucina, Nah, Chrom, Severa, Virion, Anna, and the Vaike. Some other people are cool too.

Oh, and Owain's hilarious sometimes.

I had to scroll through so many pictures

i cri evrytiem...

Spoiler:

Ya know, he says that, but I've always slaughtered all or most of his units by the time I get to him.....


Btw, has anyone besides me and Shawn seen this ****ing gold mine of a site: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/fire-emblem/photos

 

[Dragon]

You really should check outt that site. C:

 

[bobandbill]

That image makes it more likely for me to avoid it, sounds risky. =p

I quite enjoyed FE:A, although I do prefer some other titles' maps. But the support system is good to see back; I always liked seeing the characters interact with each other, and it's pretty darn extensive in this game. Not too big on the waifu part, but don't mind it much either. I suppose it is an interesting way to have the bonus chapters and characters, and did fit the plot (which was alright but not the greatest in parts). Great music overall as well.

As for the previous topic on how easy is this FE game to get into, I'd say probably one of the easiest. But to be fair, a lot of the FE games (certainly GBA and onwards) have tutorials and introduce features and additional mechanics as you go, and I never found it hard to pick up.

 

[Nah]

I finally beat Rouges and Redeemers 3; did it without losing anyone too.

Whew, that....that was quite the battle. There's still the Wellspring of Truth map and Priam's map (and the Endgame), but I'd like to think that if I beat R&Rs 3 that I can do those as well.

 

[Keiran]

Hm, something about this game has been bugging me - yes, it's a wonderful game, but, there's a lot of mechanics that are missing from the previous Fire Emblem handheld series which.. got me disappointed, like, Fog of War? I used to really love stradegizing with that.

I dunno, to me, they didn't really focus on 'strategy' more so than fan appeal? If that makes sense? Not to say that they have really hard battles like.. Apotheosis and the DLC maps having the old Fire Emblem characters~

Another thing, the characters can be really, really OP, haha. Like Morgan? He/She is pretty broken as a spellcaster w/ Notsferatu. Like, they really did a great number on stats, hm.

Again, those are just things I've noticed; it's still a good game regardless. But eh, did anyone find faults within this game?

I got the game last week and I have to agree. While I enjoyed my first playthrough of it (Hard/Casual) it was pretty short and easy. I'm not really enjoying my Lunatic playthrough, though. It just feels like an endless grindfest because they start throwing hordes of max stat enemies at you. Like you, I really miss mechanics like Fog of War, weapon weight...and rescue. Where is rescue??? :'( Oh, and why are the random Risen in the world map battles nearly max leveled at the start of the game? 0_o

I don't know. They fixed a lot of things I hated in Radiant Dawn (class imbalances (except they didnt make archers not suck *SIGH*), awful Laguz system, lack of support convos and each chapter being an hour+ long rout) but it feels like strategy was replaced with grinding, which is something that has ruined a lot of games for me. I did love the first few chapters of Lunatic, though. I made some neat strategies for those. I'm not sure if I'm interested in Lunatic+, though, from what I've read it's entirely RNG dependent..


Anyways, on the other hand, I love all of the characters. In fact, the only one I don't like is Severa. Lon'qu, Basilio, Flavio, Owain, and Nowi are my favorites right now.

 

[Aeroblast]

Only have Grima left in my Lunatic playthrough. I think I might use this save to do all the DLC stuff as well.

I don't think I'll try Lunatic+, though. Too much resetting for enemies to have the right skills before even attempting the chapters.

 

[Klippy]

I'm about ready to restart and play through the campaign again. I tend to not like replaying RPGs, but Awakening deserves a second look definitely.

Which character is your absolute favorite from Awakening? Who would you defend and protect no matter what, even if it meant leaving them behind the battle lines for their safety?