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I finished Fire Emblem Awakening, 10/10 game (hexbear.net)
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It was my 2nd Fire Emblem game, i really like the pair up system way better than the Adjutant in three houses that i would sometimes forgot to use, i like the story, i already kinda knew bits of it via cultural osmosis but i still like it very much and also the parts i didnt know about like the Ferox Khan surviving and the fake gem.

Child units were pretty fun, they all have good growths so they became really strong units but i didnt got all the kids only, Lucina, Cynthia, Morgan, Nah, Severa and Noire so only half. Severa was my favorite since she was pretty funny

i like reclassing to pick up good skill for my units in the end the units with max skill slots were robin, the kids and tiki, i kinda tried to get the another kid unit but the units i didnt use were pretty weak so it was hard to get them lvl so i just forgot about them

This was the Peoples Liberation Army of Ylisse (plus Sumia), in the final campaign plus my beautiful dragon daughter that can solo maps

i did a bad play in turn 2 and 4 which killed my healer and then the pagasus paladin pair up, but in the end the Manateke squad was able to beat the grimleal and then Morgan got a double Luna proc vs Grima and i got the final hit with Robin to permanently kill Grima since my wife and daughter were dragon and they would have 100% have to deal with him in 1000 years, i like the ending i think it makes more sense than the chrom last hit ending.

10/10 game i really liked it, i will play FE Fates next since it has similar gameplay

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[–] Moomoo_Milk@hexbear.net 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It was literally the game that saved the franchise. If it didn’t sell well, the franchise was to be shelved.

FE12 did a great job of taking a ton of the best mechanics from previous games, modernizing them, and fitting them into one package.

Traversable overworld map with mobs - FE2 and 8

Skills - FE4/5/9/10, not including 8 since you had one, maybe, and it was tied to that specific class if you had it

Second Generation Characters via Supports - FE4

Flexible Class System - FE2/8

Human-beast hybrids - FE9/10

My Unit - Technically FE7 if you count Mark

Couple all of that with the story being a thousand years after FE1/3, having cameos by old characters, it being the first voice acted game (not including cutscenes from 9/10), and it having a “My Unit” and it’s no surprise that the game absolutely took off. Every modern Fire Emblem fan that hasn’t played it, should. Why? Cause it truly set the groundwork for what the series is today.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Fire Emblem is an ex that I begrudgingly am glad is doing well. I like old restrictive fire emblem dammit

[–] Moomoo_Milk@hexbear.net 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Me too. To me, Fire Emblem went severely downhill starting with Fates and cementing its fate with Three Houses. I would’ve been perfectly happy if Awakening was kept as a one off, but it sold so well that it’s no surprise they chased that golden goose. I miss the old days, but am happy that it has evolved into something a modern audience can enjoy.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Have you played the Tear Ring/Berwick Saga? The creator got fired from Nintendo after thracia and made his fire emblem so hard on Playstation they sued him.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Kaga right? he made some FE like games in steam too

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yeah. Haven't played the steam ones. Berwick saga is the only one I played through and it is next fucking level in both the good and bad. It's a weird complicated in every sense game

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 5 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Just a bit of caution if you want to play Fates.

Awakening was the first of the "new" Fire Emblem games, that started a lot of the absolute worst trends in the series. They're fine in Awakening (except Nowi, wtf pedo shit were they thinking?), but they get really, really bad in Fates. They got rolled back a lot in Three Houses.

The stuff that is kind of noticeable in the background of Awakening takes the front seat in Fates. A lot of the characters are just one dimensional waifu bait, the protagonist is your OC and they are super special awesome cool guy(or girl). If you can't tolerate cringey dating sim style events shoved awkwardly into your game, or terrible plots and nonsensically stupid characters, or the weird character breeding system just being awkwardly shoved into the game with no real explanation beyond a hand wave (which makes it go from a pretty unique mechanic tied to the plot into straight up character eugenics), and the fact that it'll probably be hard to pirate it since the game is split into thirds, with the second and third part being DLC, which you can't even get legally now, since the 3DS shop no longer exists.

It was a game that made me question whether Awakening was even a good game or not, had me reconsidering the whole series, thankfully it is by far the worst in the series, but for me it crosses that line of "so bad it's good" and more "So bad I would not want anyone to see me ever playing this because they might think it is a weird ass anime porn game or something."

Awakening made me a Fire Emblem fan, Fates made me no longer a fan.

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

it’ll probably be hard to pirate it since the game is split into thirds

Special edition has all three parts as a single cartridge

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 9 hours ago

I have been praising old school fire emblem big itt. I would STRONGLY recommend 7 and then 3

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

i think i will be fine, since my first FE game was Three houses, i downloaded the special edition so it has all 3 paths, i wont play the dlc which i think it will be fine

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 2 points 9 hours ago

My problems are entirely with the writing and the characters and the very otaku focused choices they made there. The gameplay is still great at least.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

It's fun. Hmu when you wanna play the gba and older games, Awakening is the newest one I played and while I did really like it. It wasn't my fire emblem anymore. I like the restrictions, reclasssing, being able to grind outside of chapters and having shops outside of battles etc makes it a different thing to me. Fire emblem 8 was the first to do it and while the Ike games balanced it well, they swung for a direction I'm not that into. I should play the newer ones than Awakening cause I don't mind power fantasy fire emblem but I prefer the older style. If you pick up any older games ill play along on my own file. If you want a bit of a tutorial in how to get into older games/break fe7 to your will, id recommend that next. My last run on standard difficulty was an absolute swath of blood and bones of my enemy cause I totally ignored party balance and only used mounted units. In older gsmes exp is a sorts limited resource and you can't 20/20 everyone, its actually a good idea to promote around level 15 or so instead in the long run and certain units should promote ASAP at level 10 cause the promotion bonuses outweigh their growth rate over so many chapters before they become useless unless promoted, so the early class up breaks even for stats cause you dont need to protect them snd they can gain more enemy phase exp. We're gonns get you through Thracia 776 and onto Tear Ring/Berwick Saga

[–] Moomoo_Milk@hexbear.net 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

You could actually grind in Fire Emblem Gaiden believe it or not. Mobs would respawn in caves and dungeons. IIRC, mobs would also spawn on in certain areas on the overworld map, but I could be misremembering. It’s been over twenty years since I played the original NES version so yeah.

It also was the first game to have a very robust class system. There were restrictions of course, but it was way more flexible than any game in the series until Awakening.

When I actually think about it, FE8 is definitely heavily inspired by Gaiden. They share a lot of similarities. Two lords. Two paths. Undead all over the place. Traversable map. Semi-customizable units that could branch on promotion. Grinding against overworld mobs. Dungeons. Similar antagonists. Never actually thought about the stark similarities until now for some reason.

Had to edit this cause editing on the phone sucks and I couldn’t format the spoiler tags properly, so I simply abstracted it.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Gaiden is the old game Shadows of Valentia is a remake from right? i will probably play that one after fates

When I actually think about it, FE8 is definitely heavily inspired by Gaiden. They share a lot of similarities. Two lords. Two paths. Undead all over the place.

oh yea, like that post i share that refered to both as monster emblem

[–] Moomoo_Milk@hexbear.net 5 points 9 hours ago

Correct. Definitely play that over the original. The original is as clunky as you can imagine a 1992 NES SRPG to be. Also, if the translation patch hasn’t been touched since I played it, it is glitchy and barely coherent.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 9 hours ago

I left Gaiden out just to keep things more simple. It is the start of that style but its like calling Simon's Quest as the first metroidvania game in the castlevania series. Genealogy is closer to the Gaiden and newer style than most would admit sd well, its just so janky people see it them as one time mechanics and not evolved from Gaiden. The risk free star of match arenas are just a worse versiom of overworld grind. Thracia is my favorite FE btw. Not cause its hard, but because the gameplay and story are so perfectly in sync that I genuinely get emotionally into it where most fe is stats to me now

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

catgirl-salute im sure i will enjoy the old ones and berwick saga

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Not enjoying Berwick Saga is perfectly acceptable. That is like...the final boss of tactical jrpg. I should play awakening again, ive got an emulator to do it and I did like it a lot. I kinda forget, how possible is it to only play story chapters and avoid random encounters etc? I may try a classic style run

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

you can just ignore the encounters, they block the shops but i never had problems with a lack of weapons, i use the azahar emulator btw

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Any suggestions for an challenge run? I forget all the characters except that you can do ideal eugenics with a woman tactician so she can have an OP baby with chrom and the three can solo the entire game. I gotta recheck my 3ds emulator, haven't used it in a bit.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

i think you could totally do a no shop run, specially if you ignore the random encounters, i didnt do it but robin-chrom can make a broken lucina and morgan and you could solo squad all maps

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 9 hours ago

I can go major character free. They can be undeployed/mobile inventory guy like the old school merchant class. No class change and mounted units only too! Should be doable on normal. The biggest trick to fire emblem is that movement is the most important stat.

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 9 hours ago

Awakening was my favorite for a long time until three houses came out which tied with it
as much as i love the old ones, newer style FE is far nicer

[–] lurkerlady@hexbear.net 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

My favorite game about incest outside of CK3

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 9 hours ago

Incest is a common thing in fire emblem.