Fire Emblem: Awakening manual question

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Fire Emblem: Awakening manual question

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I am deciding whether to get a physical or digital copy of Fire Emblem: Awakening. Is the manual actually substantial in the physical copy? So many manuals these days are just leaflets. Anyone own it who can let me know?

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I seem to remember it being just a leaflet. As far as physical vs. digital, I would pick physical in this instance because you know in a few years its gonna be worth a bit of money. All the other games in the series are.
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I am 100% about physical copies & I love the FEA cover art... but the "manual" is weak. A 4 square fold out.

1. Art
2. Basic Controls
3. Street Pass info
4. DLC info

Back of this is warranty & service info.

... weak sauce. The cartridge does have nice pixel 8/16 bit art.
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Jagosaurus wrote:I am 100% about physical copies & I love the FEA cover art... but the "manual" is weak. A 4 square fold out.

1. Art
2. Basic Controls
3. Street Pass info
4. DLC info

Back of this is warranty & service info.

... weak sauce. The cartridge does have nice pixel 8/16 bit art.

Are you serious? Even Nintendo's doing this? Bah.

Let me guess, the full manual has to be downloaded online, right?
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Both Vita and 3DS games seem to be doing this, but it's not a "go download the manual" thing. It's included on the game card, and you can pull it up on the home screen.

Frankly, it's a pretty logical thing to do. That way you can have it accessible anywhere.
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How much is the digital copy? I got the hard copy for $39.99. Worth tracking down IMO for the case & ability to know I can play it decades from now :)
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Jagosaurus wrote:How much is the digital copy?
Full retail MSRP.
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I'd really just go with the physical copy. It has nice boxart, nice pixel art on the cart, and a physical case for you to hold onto for years. Fire Emblem games seem to hold a good amount of value too. Even though it doesn't really have a "full" manual, at least it's nowhere near as bad as other games I've seen like Resident Evil 6. RE6 has a slip of paper with health warnings and another slip trying to advertise some new Hollywood RE movie. :evil:
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CavZee wrote:I'd really just go with the physical copy. It has nice boxart, nice pixel art on the cart, and a physical case for you to hold onto for years. Fire Emblem games seem to hold a good amount of value too. Even though it doesn't really have a "full" manual, at least it's nowhere near as bad as other games I've seen like Resident Evil 6. RE6 has a slip of paper with health warnings and another slip trying to advertise some new Hollywood RE movie. :evil:
Heh I actually passed on a used copy of RE 6 because I thought it was missing the manual.
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ninjainspandex wrote:
CavZee wrote:I'd really just go with the physical copy. It has nice boxart, nice pixel art on the cart, and a physical case for you to hold onto for years. Fire Emblem games seem to hold a good amount of value too. Even though it doesn't really have a "full" manual, at least it's nowhere near as bad as other games I've seen like Resident Evil 6. RE6 has a slip of paper with health warnings and another slip trying to advertise some new Hollywood RE movie. :evil:
Heh I actually passed on a used copy of RE 6 because I thought it was missing the manual.
Might as well pass on RE6 outright. :cry:
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