I'm so happy I did it this morning. Art book is mine >what the heck is going on with the release of this game though
Nintendo huffed and puffed, so EB/Gamestop stopped selling to the Canadian public.
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Fire Emblem Awakening |OT| Lord of the RNG
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Nintendo huffed and puffed, so EB/Gamestop stopped selling to the Canadian public.
I'd suggest to go through Normal, especially if you're used to the other Normal modes. Even though Hard mode in the demo is a breeze, it does get harder fairly quickly.
I'm not sure if this is exclusive to Hard mode, but enemy reinforcements spawn at the start of their turn. Fun stuff!
The Awesomest
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What I've heard is that Awakening Normal = Sacred Stones Hard, and Awakening Hard = roughly Radiant Dawn "Normal", probably a little tougher.
Hard is a pretty good challenge for me, and I've played all the western released. I prefer it though. Mistakes should cost you and I don't want to be able to run into the middle of a battle field and just tank attacks. I guess if I had to compare it up to Chapter 6 so far.. Hard mode is far, far more difficult than Normal Sacred Stones and maybe more on par with FE7 Normal. Maybe a bit tougher because of the more intelligent AI.
Tathanen
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Yeesh, was Sacred Stones really that easy? I guess I don't remember it well enough.
Probably leaning towards normal though, thanks for the replies dudes. Fire Emblem drives me crazy enough with the permadeath, which I refuse to turn off this time around, so it'll be nice to maybe take a little bit of the edge off.
The Awesomest
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I just called three Gamestops around me to ask if they were selling it, and none of them seemed like they were gonna break the street date. The closest I got was one that said they'll sell it once it comes in... but it doesn't come in until the 4th or 5th. Meh.
thetrin
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*insert Rob Liefeld joke here*
I'm so happy I did it this morning. Art book is mine >
I'm not so sure that preordering secures you an art book.
Some people who have preordered did not get the art book because there were not enough in store.
Hard mode for me it is then. Didn't find RD that difficult, especially after Part 1.
I don't. The game's playable that way if you want to be..."realistic", if you will.
I'd advise against this in the first playthrough. You might be screwed in later chapters if you have certain characters die. But on a replay I think it would be interesting, especially once you're more familiar with the mechanics and strategies.
IIRC, the game has a very large cast so it shouldn't be too hard to replace units. But that doesn't mean you'd be OK relying on weaker characters.
dakkumauji
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You can easily be locking yourself out of certain characters depending on who you let die.
NeonZ
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The only character that really lags behind the others after a while is Frederick, and even then he's still usable. There's no 'trap'/trash unit in this game. Also, when the game is officially released, everyone will also have the opportunity to fill in their teams with characters from past games to replace any lost Awakening units. Even if you have no nostalgia for them, they're still perfectly usable.
On the other hand, he won't even see the entire cast or play through all Gaiden stages if some specific characters die...
Laurentius
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Dunno if this is true or not, but in the trailer he sounded awfully like Nolan North...
EDIT: Sorry, was thinking of Chrom, not Marth. Haven't heard Marth yet as I don't have the game yet.
Samurai_Heart
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You're thinking of Chrom aren't you? XD
That would be quite the feat.
Laurentius
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Er, you're right. Dunno what I was thinking there. Kind of distracted at the moment, haha.
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qizah
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Nope, normal. I'm relatively new to the series. lol.
Haha I get you, no worries. I think Chrom has more a Troy Baker kind if everyman voice. (Even if those two sound pretty much the same sometimes.)
Very curious about the rest of the cast. A few more seem familiar to me too.
A lot of people play like this. I'll probably end up doing it on my second Hard playthrough. You get so many party members, losing one even every other map won't hinder you too much, so much as it will limit your options (before you can class switch). Play it however you want, just don't get attached to any character too much, but if you do they are sure to suffer an onslaught of critical hits.
Freezie KO
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Classic. Heightens the stakes and the drama. Nothing beats the rush of seeing a unit with a sliver of health be surrounded by enemy reinforcements, each battle as a referendum on life and death, only to barely make it out alive... until getting hit by a 3% critical.
Fair enough! I'm one of those OCD people who restart when a unit dies though.
If you are the type to reload when you lose a unit then it shouldn't matter much anyway. If you want to save anywhere go casual and reload when you lose someone?
You can suspend the battle and return at any point. So it still works well for short sessions.
But keep in mind that's not the same thing as a mid-save battle (which does not exist in Classic). You can suspend the battle halfway through, but if you return to the game and then lose a unit... you have to restart the entire chapter if you want to get him/her back.
Freezie KO
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I continue playing when units die. But I think in either situation, Classic raises the stakes of playing.
Casual is just that. Battles don't mean as much because there are no consequences to doing just enough to get by. I'd say if you want to blow through the story, play Casual. If you want each battle to be elevated to the dramatic tension of Greek tragedy, play Classic.
The Grim Heaper
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Marth might be Laura Bailey. Not 100%, but that's what I thought when I played the demo.
Freezie KO
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Classic it is
One of us!
Classic it is
Good choice
But like other people have said, if Casual mode helps gets new people into the series, then that's fine. They can graduate to Classic once they're more familiar with system (weapons triangle, terrain, strategies, etc).
Reluctant-Hero
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Jeremy Parish has written a nice little Retronauts article on Fire Emblem.
Oh, yeah, definitely. I have no problems with them offering a Casual mode to appeal to new gamers to get them into the series. I'm just glad they implemented it the way they did instead of just offering one mode and having it be casual.
Wish they would do something similar for Zelda in all honesty.
But then we get back to the point of restarting every time one of your important units (or even unimportant, in my case) eats that 3% crit.
I think SRW had a simple and elegant solution - you lose money for losing units. So if you play through a level and your best guy goes down to a 1% chance, it sucks but no big deal in the long run. But you don't meaninglessly throw away units because you don't want to be broke when it comes time to upgrade your robots. I'd prefer if this game's Casual mode had a mechanic like that, because then you don't start throwing away your units on distraction tactics and such.
If I'm going to play with permadeath I would actually prefer a mode that enforced it with autosaves, like XCOM.
I think SRW had a simple and elegant solution - you lose money for losing units. So if you play through a level and your best guy goes down to a 1% chance, it sucks but no big deal in the long run. But you don't meaninglessly throw away units because you don't want to be broke when it comes time to upgrade your robots. I'd prefer if this game's Casual mode had a mechanic like that, because then you don't start throwing away your units on distraction tactics and such.
If I'm going to play with permadeath I would actually prefer a mode that enforced it with autosaves, like XCOM.
dakkumauji
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It's the first one released in America where your character is playable. You could name a character and have it be you in FE7, the first GBA one released in America but you wouldn't take part in battles.
FE12, the unreleased DS one to America had a similar system that this game has but there were less waifus involved but still an usable character in battle.
I wouldn't really call that a spoiler considering that's one of the biggest hooks in the game. And it's in the OP.
The previous game did. Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem ~Heroes of Light and Shadow~.
Reggie doesn't think you're interested in playing it, though.
Highest difficulty in this game is considered harder than anything else in the series, but Normal is fairly easy.
Nothing.
Ah sorry, I didn't read ANYTHING about this game because I was afraid I'd be too desperate to play it. It looked amazing even without me reading/watching anything about it, I just knew.
There's no way Iron Man mode from X-Com would work for Fire Emblem. Soldiers in X-Com are just generic and can be replaced whereas Fire Emblem actually has characters. Having to restart the entire Campaign from the first mission because someone got a crit on your unit is insane. That's not even difficult but an exercise in frustration.
Agreed. It's why I enjoy the game so much. The frustration with eating a critical from the boss after playing a map for an hour is part of the entertainment value. FE is about minimizing risk and laughing out loud when bad luck hits. If I could just bulldoze my way through maps with little regard for my safety, I wouldn't feel anywhere near the same about the series.
Yup, that's why I don't care for Advance Wars (as much). I just win through brute force without giving two shits about how many units I lose.
Actually I wonder if we'd ever get a Fire Emblem character-driven twist on Advance Wars.
Hmm.
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