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[Cyonan]

While I can't offer any feedback specific to Awakening I am in the same position of considering getting a 3ds and FE Awakening.

I did love the past games, having played most of them pre-GC/Wii ones including the ones which were never officially released in North America.

I do know that the standard FE formula is that in combat you control the entire party in turn based strategy. Each individual unit also has their own set of stats which increase at varying rates based on RNG.

[EarthboundNess]

Good? Awakening is freakin' awesome. I'd never played a previous FE game in my life and thought I should probably give it a shot when I saw Awakening on release. Best impulse buy I've ever made.

Regarding your questions, the maps are brilliant and plentiful. Locales and style frequently change. Its also one of the only 3DS games I actually appreciate 3D on, because of the maps, which are seriously enhanced by it. Little touches like birds flying over look seriously great.

Travel is little more than a level select on a world map, Theres no wandering around towns or anything like that. You create a character at the introduction, (who can later evolve into a ton of classes,with some really great choices too e.g: wyvern rider), who joins an ever expanding team of chracaters that you control as a group in battle. Almost every map you'll see some one new, and most are really interesting. You move from battle to battle on the world map, with a cutscene introduction advancing the story prior to each. (along with the odd anime cutscene)

Its also a really challenging game, fairly so even on the easiest difficulty. If a team member falls, their subject to perma death, so you cant use them again, (though that can be turned off, dont recomend it though). You end up really valuing their lives and thinking through every move.

It took a good 30 hours for me to complete the main game first time around, and it has immense replay value due to an element called supports. Basically, when your units fight together, their relationship improves, and they begin to gain bonuses when fighting together. After a little while, you unlock conversations between most of the characters, and with enough work some will even enter a relationship. It would take hours to see all the convos, and theres a ton of combinations A twist in the plot creates one of the single best game mehcanics Ive ever seen based on their relationships, but I wont spoil that. Building your sqaud can become seriously deep as well, as you can change any members class to another from a selection, making your team highly customisable.  

Long winded, but that about sums it up. I can't recomend it more. 

Modifié par Earthbound N, 17 septembre 2013 - 09:16 .

[Cyonan]

You'll be fine without having played the early games story wise. A quick Google search on characters in the game suggests to me that this is a brand new story, which is really common among Fire Emblem sequels for them to do that.

Good to know that they keep the game's usual hard difficulty there, and even with the option to turn off perma death I'd have to agree to keeping it on. It makes the connection with the characters that much better, and makes things a lot more tense at times when you know you could lose one of your best people.

Out of curiosity, does this game feature the weapon and magic triangles from the GBA games? The one where lances get an advantage over swords, swords over axes, and axes over lances?

[EarthboundNess]

Cyonan wrote...

You'll be fine without having played the early games story wise. A quick Google search on characters in the game suggests to me that this is a brand new story, which is really common among Fire Emblem sequels for them to do that.

Good to know that they keep the game's usual hard difficulty there, and even with the option to turn off perma death I'd have to agree to keeping it on. It makes the connection with the characters that much better, and makes things a lot more tense at times when you know you could lose one of your best people.

Out of curiosity, does this game feature the weapon and magic triangles from the GBA games? The one where lances get an advantage over swords, swords over axes, and axes over lances?

Yes, the story is completely independant, a few references aside and a returning character. Also the dlc, some paid, some free, which adds characters from the older games, though they lack supports. 

Also its exactly the same triangles, along with the archery bonus against aerial targets.

Modifié par Earthbound N, 17 septembre 2013 - 11:08 .

[Shepenwepet]

I cannot recommend this series enough. Awakening is actually a great game for newcomers thanks to the casual setting.

BUY IT BUY IT BUY IT.

If you do get yourself a 3DS, you can download a demo of the game off the e-shop, and it's enough to show you what the majority of the game will be like.

[Shepenwepet]

Yes you can! If you're a completionist, you'd have to play as both genders to get all the support conversations.

I spent about 270 hours with a female avatar and eventually gave up.

[EarthboundNess]

Shepenwepet wrote...

Yes you can! If you're a completionist, you'd have to play as both genders to get all the support conversations.

That was easily one of the best things about FE for me, playing through as a male avatar, then restarting on a harder difficulty with a female one, only to find that her supports were completely rewritten. Just shows the level of detail within the game. 

[Dave of Canada]

It's called Waifu Wars for a reason, Awakening made that more apparent.

[EarthboundNess]

Dave of Canada wrote...

It's called Waifu Wars for a reason, Awakening made that more apparent.

Lol, never heard that before, but its acurate.

[AventuroLegendary]

Yes, yes, yes. You can spend hours upon hours doing any of the above things. To me, the only Fire Emblem game better is Path of Radiance.

[Shepenwepet]

LegendaryAvenger wrote...
To me, the only Fire Emblem game better is Path of Radiance.

After Awakening's new game smell wore off, I also found myself thinking that I liked PoR better. What it lacks in team customization it makes up for in what I thought were a better story, characters and definitely better quality support conversations. And, as a bonus, PoR features a complete lack of Nowi.

It also doesn't hurt that PoR has four of my favorite FE characters ever - Haar, Shinon, Ilyana and Zihark. Sure, Shinon's a useless turd by endgame, but he can solo maps in Radiant Dawn. Haar probably could too, now that I think of it.

If Radiant Dawn had proper support conversations, I'd probably still be playing it.

[Fiddles dee dee]

AMAZING, GO PLAY IT!

Do not under any circumstances play it on easy, play with permadeath or it won't be (I shudder to use this word) "authentic" Fire Emblem experience. 

Modifié par Fiddles dee dee, 19 septembre 2013 - 01:42 .

[In Exile]

Cyonan wrote...
Good to know that they keep the game's usual hard difficulty there, and even with the option to turn off perma death I'd have to agree to keeping it on. It makes the connection with the characters that much better, and makes things a lot more tense at times when you know you could lose one of your best people.

I disagree with that. The game takes a while to get used to and to developing your intutition, so playing with perma death on just makes it more frustrating to learn the game and how it works. It's a feature that's worthwhile only once you are actually competent and capable at the game. 

[Shepenwepet]

PoR is fantastic. I don't know how familiar you are with the tactical rpg genre, so here's about two minutes of gameplay. That's the meat of the game, right there, along with 2D character sprites and text. Same with Awakening.

I found the story and characters a lot better in PoR. If you can get it for 25 bucks, do so. It'd be a lot easier than paying 200+ for a 3ds and Awakening only to find out the game isn't for you.

[Shepenwepet]

I guess so. But not being able to post spoilers is going to seriously hamper my funnies.

[AventuroLegendary]

I heard that if I want a more grey storyline in a Fire Emblem game, I should play Radiant Dawn. Ugh. If the Wii-U had it along with tons of other GC/Wii games on Virtual Console, I would get it, no question.

[Thunderfox]

Easily the best 3DS game so far, probably only Pokemon X&Y will come close. I'm also torn between Awakening and PoR being my Favourite. I'd probably give a slight edge to Awakening. Theres no major gameplay differences between FE:A and the Older games, so if you enjoy awakening you should be able to pick up one of the GBA or Por/RD with no issues. Probably the biggest is there is no "pair Up", only rescue which is a gimped version.

It could've been the last Fire Emblem game based on the poor sales of the last few entries and IS went all-in and it paid off massively.

[Shepenwepet]

Trista Hawke wrote...
I feel slightly intimidated only because I've never touched a Fire Emblem game before, but I have played FF Tactics and enjoyed it very much. 

Don't feel intimidated. PoR was my first Fire Emblem. I suggest trying the normal difficulty first, and try to avoid easy as much as possible, just in case you happen to find Radiant Dawn someday down the road. If you try to import PoR data into Radiant Dawn and you have an easy save file, it crashes your Wii so hard that it actually has to be unplugged from the wall. Normal and hard saves are fine, thankfully.