Fire Emblem Awakening: The thread of the game

[dsheinem]

Awesome, awesome game, everyone NEEDS a copy. I've had a blast with it(beat it recently). I hope one day I can get the limited edition Fire Emblem 3ds too, but I'll have to save up for that. I really thought getting a physical copy of the game was a higher priority anyway

Your enthusiasm makes me think I should give this another shot. I got a few hours in and yawwwwwn...

[Gamerforlife]

Awesome, awesome game, everyone NEEDS a copy. I've had a blast with it(beat it recently). I hope one day I can get the limited edition Fire Emblem 3ds too, but I'll have to save up for that. I really thought getting a physical copy of the game was a higher priority anyway

Your enthusiasm makes me think I should give this another shot. I got a few hours in and yawwwwwn...

It didn't hook me early, but once it did I loved it. I should mention though that I jumped right into Lunatic difficulty, Classic mode right from the get go. The high difficulty and high stakes (perma death for characters) made me enjoy the game a lot more than I might have on normal difficulty, casual mode, which seems to be what a lot of people play it on. Every fight felt like a legit, life or death, real battle and I enjoyed that. One tactical error could mean death for one or more of your units, like a real battle. I think that's one of the hooks for this series from what I'm told. I thought it'd be a turn off, but I ended up liking it. It makes you have to try harder, unlike other rpgs where a knocked out character can easily be resurrected and life goes on

[isiolia]

I dunno, the permadeath angle to it more feels cheap than something that adds dimension. You can reload, so it's just a matter of replaying missions until you succeed without deaths. But, frustratingly, it seems more like the AI will just hammer any weak unit it possibly can instead of going for the logical threat/etc.

[CavZee]

You've just got to constantly make sure your more vulnerable units are in "safe" areas where they can't be OHKO'ed by particular enemy units.

[ninjainspandex]

I almost bought this game until I found out that you can grind your way out of the strategy elements of FE.

umm pretty sure you could arena grind levels in all the GBA versions too, if you don't want to ruin the strategy element don't grind. Your missing out on a great game.

[Valkyrie-Favor]

Permadeath isn't cheap. Isn't it cheap, from the enemy's perspective, for you to have an immortal army? Either way, it makes a big difference to the gameplay. If your characters are dying left and right, you need to plan carefully and learn more about the game system. That's why I love Fire Emblem.

I planned on starting with Hard mode, but should I just dive into Lunatic? FE is generally hard, but Tactics Ogre was no problem.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Permadeath isn't cheap. Isn't it cheap, from the enemy's perspective, for you to have an immortal army? Either way, it makes a big difference to the gameplay. If your characters are dying left and right, you need to plan carefully and learn more about the game system. That's why I love Fire Emblem.

I planned on starting with Hard mode, but should I just dive into Lunatic? FE is generally hard, but Tactics Ogre was no problem.

I don't know. In Lunatic, for the first several battles, you only have one person on the field that can take a single hit without dying. The AI becomes hyper aggressive well. It won't have any tanking nonsense. It'll find whatever it can kill and it will kill it.

Normal was just about right for me, but I didn't grind much at all. I'd say hard is probably the sweet spot if you're going to grind at all and play the DLC maps along the way.

[isiolia]

Permadeath isn't cheap. Isn't it cheap, from the enemy's perspective, for you to have an immortal army? Either way, it makes a big difference to the gameplay. If your characters are dying left and right, you need to plan carefully and learn more about the game system. That's why I love Fire Emblem.

If you're looking at it from the enemy's perspective, it's probably pretty cheap that you can just retry over and over until you complete the mission with no casualties too.

From a practical standpoint, you'll never actually have a dead and gone character unless you simply don't care to redo a battle. It just feels more to me like the designers accounted for that with the AI, and made it favor kills over anything else, knowing that it would prompt players to reload, regardless of how well the rest of the battle was going.

[MrEco]

I'm not the best at SRPG's, so I know I'm not gonna do Lunatic mode and will be going for the no perma-death option.

But past that, do you guys think Normal or Hard is the more balanced difficulty?

[flojocabron]

I played the GBA versions back in the day and this time I'm playing casual mode on the 3ds

It was nervewracking trying to play these, and I was constantly restarting and playing over levels.

I couldn't let anyone die. And I didn't, not till the end, on the final boss.

And it was especially evil when you reset your GBA to not let someone die; only to restart it and see the same death over again.

Forcing you to restart the level again.

Playing the games like this didn't let me enjoy the game fully and I missed out on some things.

Now that I'm playing it on the 3DS and grinding, I'm building the characters relationships and I'm liking that. I missed out on doing that on the GBA.

I dont mind grinding, I'm used to it now from playing too much Disgaea.

When Im done with this game, I have to play the DS one. I own it, but I skipped it. Its on my backorder list.