Fire Emblem Awakening.

On my first playthrough

Male avatar & Lucina
Chrom & Sumia
Lon'qu & Panne
Gregor & Nowi
Frederick & Miriel
Virion & Cherche
Donnel & Sully
Kellam & Lissa (lol)
Gaius & Mirabelle (I like this pair)
Libra & Tharja
Stahl & Olivia
Vaike & Cordelia

Just started. Went to Old Hubba in search of wisdom. Chrom and Lissa are siblings, so it had to be done. There's an arrow pointing from him to her saying "totally platonic," which sounds rather defensive. There's a pink arrow going from her to him, with 3 hearts, described as "always staring." Hubba then says, "Their parents must be proud!"

I like this game.

I lol'ed hard.

I never got to finish that final DLC map. The supposed hardest one...

I don't understand this DLC adoration I keep seeing in various places. I need an explanation for the appeal of these "maps." I refuse to lower my standards just because this is the 3DS, and having seen the maps available in the Outrealm Gate along with their prices, this is clearly Nintendo milking the shit out of this game with exorbitantly priced, trivial additions. $3 for what is basically 1 map? Activision had packs of about 5 CoD maps released for $15 and they were clearly taking the piss with that price. The bundle pricing doesn't make me feel any better. I had to apply XCOM tactics to play this game properly, so I'll compare it to XCOM: Enemy Unknown. There's a DLC for EU called Slingshot. It's basically 3 (mostly) scripted missions (i.e., maps) where you do precisely what you always do during any other mission: move squad, then kill aliens. At the end you get a unique soldier. It costs $7. I bought it for about a buck when EU was on sale. I don't value map packs very highly.

The only DLC that seems to be somewhat worth it is "EXPonential Growth." "The Golden Gaffe," however, just seems like pay2win. I understand the desire to grind in order to power level weaklings, but being showered in money with minimal effort is basically cheating. Would it not break the game if you were to easily fully upgrade every single weapon?

Aside from that, I'm hooked. This is my first FE game and I'm playing classic normal. I've seen suggestions elsewhere that I should probably do my first playthrough on casual, but the changes made to the game's internal rules would have an egregious effect on the strategies I decide to implement. If no one died I could easily suicide bomb bosses and any battle's tension would evaporate.

There was a point in Chapter 5, the one where king dickhead starts a war, where I had to block a bottleneck in the mountains and put Lon'qu in a spot where I anticipated him being attacked twice and surviving. I didn't have enough foresight, however, to notice that he would murder his melee attacker, thus leaving a spot open for a third assailant. This was me when the third guy attacked Lon. I watched that battle sequence the way new yorkers in tall office buildings watched 9/11, but motherfucking Lon masterfully dodged the attack, did that squinty-eye jap shit in the center of the screen (which promptly led to the attacker shitting himself), and crit killed the cunt in slow-mo. This experience was brought to you by classic mode.

Oh yes, one last thing:

Chrom & Sumia
Stahl & Miriel
Vaike & Sully
Mirabelle & Ricken

Not sure about Lissa. Should probably give her to Donnel, who I heard is a fucking powerhouse. I'm trying to level him as fast as possible so I can reclass after he gets his second skill. I paired him up with Fred. I also heard Fred is useless (I'm talking long-term), so Donnie boy is leading.

The replayability value is so high on this game I didn't even give DLCs a look. Trying to challenge the game on the highest difficulty without relying on the stuff spotpass is giving away for free is what's going to devour your time.

I had one complaint though which is the option to summon parties on the world map as cannon fodder to exp your own characters, or recruit them. Is this something recurrent in the fire emblem series? I've ignored this until now but I wish it wasn't there at all in the first place.



Some characters level more slowly than others, Fred is one of them. At one point he'll be behind everyone else so people tend to throw him away. Donnel's passive gives him improved stats growth rate, making him a strong asset in the long run once you hit his second job.

I killed Gaius. Whoops. This game doesn't fuck around and neither do I.

You are talking about the Spotpass teams right?
Since Awakening was the game to decide whether Fire Emblem will continue as a series or not. They went all out with this game. All the DLCs and bringing back the previous Fire Emblem characters.
So Awakening is the only to do this something like this.

First I've heard of this. I also started with Awakening so I'm glad to hear the game sold well world wide. Can't wait to hear what's next in store for the series.

From what Ive heard what he said is true. This game also pretty much secured other FE games being localized from what I can see.



You gotta sweeten the deal, like literally. I myself bought the DLCs because of the dialogues between characters. The Summer Festival, Beach and Hot Springs being my fav. The DLC map which gives you the OP weapons are cool too, the Gold map has funny dialogues too.

I'll sprinkle some chocolate flakes on his grave. He's staying dead. I'm not restarting that zerg rush chapter for him.

Also, considering it's possible to continue the game with people's kids, time travel is at the tip of my mind's tongue. Then Marth comes along warning me she's seen some shit, but quickly runs away without saying shit; behavior I find familiar. My point is:

Marth's dialogue is now more interesting because of the added element of dramatic irony. Now I just need to figure out what the fuck the deal is between my avatar and the dark elf shitbag mage. Time/inter-dimensional travel seems to be involved.

He would've made a great assassin in times you need to kill a Ruffian with good items or who's about to steal your chests (Fuckin' pricks). Still, you wouldn't be needing him if you have a decent thief (like anna or children characters). Only people you should give a fuck about are the moms, Chrom and yourself of course.


Hahaha, well you're in for a surprise.

Chrom can be a grandfather in this game. Fuck morals. That's why I love this game.

So there's incest?

"you can make things happen" is all I'm gonna say.

All right, so I'm 95 hours in and I be mad. About 90% of that time was spent grinding to A rank everyone with everyone else and I'm at chapter 13. I have only two regrets for my playthrough: I killed Gaius and should've restarted because I didn't realize how crucial characters were to making this game good. My second regret is marrying Donnel to Cordelia. I fucking hate Cordelia. Luckily, I married Sumia to Chrom so I never learned to hate her. I promised the best soldier in the goddamn game some good pussy, but little did I know that Cordelia, a fucking married woman, would perpetually be fantasizing about Chrom tripping and accidentally getting his falchion stuck inside her. It's bad enough now, but after Donnel humps her lifeless body only to be greeted with her yelling "Chrom" when she finally manages to orgasm, she has Severa, who turns into a fucking tsundere because mommy was too busy blubbering about Chrom while daddy was out being the ultimate badass, deserving of the finest pussy foreigners can offer (i.e., Cherche). I would fuck Severa all day, every day, if I had to choose between her or Cordelia, and I hate tsunderes. Cordelia should've been married to Virion, that way they would both spend the rest of their days thinking about the best ways to fuck other people. Too much ntr for my tastes. At least Tharja warned Libra that he would never be her number 1, and the beta bitch still accepted her.

Also, why are all the kids such flamboyant faggots? Noire is a lunatic (understandably). Cynthia is a retarded lunatic. Owain is a retarded lunatic who keeps spouting masturbatory euphemisms. Gerome thinks he can be the goddamn Batman, but instead of mastering the art of brooding he's fingering minervykins (using mom's techniques). Severa is a tsundere. Kjelle is a second gen feminazi. Laurent is a fucking nerd (as opposed to his mother, who is a respectable scientist). Lucina is a royal robot. Yarne is busy trying to suckle on his mama's teats, which happen to be occupied by Lon'qu, another badass motherfucker. Nah, however, is okay. I approve of loli dragons.



>Marry Kjelle and Yarne
>Husbando and Waifu
>Chrom is Cynthia's father
>S rank Cynthia and Owain to form dynamic incestuous duo
>"Companion"
This is bullshit.

Owain and Lucina has that too.

As a female character, you can hook up Morgan and Lucina in a true wincest.

I want to drown in Tikiwiki titties so bad but Lucina has galeforce.

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I also want to ride the bicycle. Good lord, I would ride it across time and space.

I only just realized you can summon and fight the outrealm teams from previous games to increase renown >.>

edit: BAWHAHA! After about a year now I finally beat lunatic+ classic... chapter 3.
Wireless unlocked now; the rest of the game should be easy pickings.