Official Fire Emblem: Awakening Thread 2.0

[Jarrad]

Just playing through awakening for the first ever time (it's my first FE game) and I made my main character a female.. and she ended up marrying CHROM ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

I wanted her to marry Stahl

 

[bloomwaker]

My Unit married to Chrom does make for interesting story elements. I also find her to be the best wife for him if the player is female. I feel like someone who's good at managing people, funds, resources ,and large-scale scenarios would make a good queen.

If you want to make sure she doesn't marry Chrom, though. Be sure to marry her off to her intended spouse. Generally means avoiding supports with Chrom until after he's married, depending on who you want to marry him, too. You could also have him support with whoever you intend to have him marry until they get S-support, to get your guarantees.

 

[00jachna]

My pairings for my next playthrough

Chrom x Frederick

Pairings
Chrom x F avatar

Lon'qu x Sully

Gregor x Lissa

Henry x Olivia

Frederick x Cherche

Ricken x Nowi

Stahl x Miriel

Virion x Marribelle

Vaike x Cordelia

Donnel x Panne

Kellam x Sumia

Gaius x Tharja

Units w/o pairings:

Flavia
Basilio
Say'ri
Anna
Libra
Tiki


Children charcters

Yarne x Nah

Inigo x Severa

Laurent x Morgan

Owain x Cynthia

Gerome x Noire

Kjelle x Brady


I didn't really think about passing down skills to kids when doing this, I just went with the pairs I liked
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I'll be planning my reclassing shenanigans now

 

[bloomwaker]

Eep, Sully is the only Shepherd mother that doesn't grant Galeforce to Lucina. ;; Though if you don't care about that as much, it won't really matter. Her conversations with him are nice.

 

[00jachna]

Eep, Sully is the only Shepherd mother that doesn't grant Galeforce to Lucina. ;; Though if you don't care about that as much, it won't really matter. Her conversations with him are nice.

Yeah

If I ever do a lunatic playthrough I'll probably care more about the children and stuff. But not in this one, I just like Sully and Chrom as a couple

 

[bloomwaker]

I've only been playing on Lunatic lately, and my next playthrough is going to be a Lunatic+ draw-along, so I have to be a bit more careful about the kids, but I'm still going to go with the pairs I like, lmao.

Me, though:

 

[00jachna]

Chrom: Reclass to great lord
Planned Skills: Dual strike+, Aether, Rightful King, Charm

Avatar M:
Asset: Strength Flaw: Skill.

Reclass to Dark knight at lvl 10 to get the ability "life taker" at lvl 15.
Will reclass into a Great Knight at lvl. 15 to get the Luna ability at lvl 5.
Then reclass into a general at lvl 10 and get Pavise and Rally Defense abilitys.

Planned skills: Solidarity, Life taker, Luna, Pavise and Rally Defense

I think I did a decent job on planning my avatar
I'll edit this later when I have the time to do some more planning on other units

 

[bloomwaker]

If you don't plan on using Armsthrift or Miracle as skills, I'd say -Luck is a better flaw for you.

 

[pokedude729]

Would you guys recommend this game to a person hoping to get into the FE series?

 

[Halloqueen]

Would you guys recommend this game to a person hoping to get into the FE series?

I have a lot of issues with Awakening due to changes and plot quality compared to the older games, but it's a fine game to show you the general idea of the series. It has Casual mode which means you can play without fear of your units dying.

That said, if you have a Wii U, you can get Fire Emblem (7) and Fire Emblem Sacred Stones from the Wii U Virtual Console for a lot cheaper than Awakening. I'd recommend those over Awakening personally, though I feel I'd be in the minority in doing so on this site. Awakening has a lot of fanservice (referencing and including characters from past games as DLC) so it would be good to have some knowledge of the older games before going into Awakening.

It's more of a question of less money and a better plot or more money and an easier first time.

 

[tumut]

Would you guys recommend this game to a person hoping to get into the FE series?

Yes, it's a great place to start and has a lot replayability with different ways to tackle the game each time. If you enjoy turn based strategy type combat you'll probably like it because that's the entirety of the gameplay. There's also a lot of character bonding as you get to know each of your units better with support conversations, and a lot of ways to customize how your avatar and children work on the battlefield.

 

[Jarrad]

Would you guys recommend this game to a person hoping to get into the FE series?

Yes. This was the first FE game I've played and I'm obsessed with it. I don't usually like strategic RPG/turn-based combat games (pokemon and earthbound are pretty much the only exceptions), though I loved how the story was told and how engaged with the characters and storyline I felt when I played the game.

Not to mention the cut scenes are amazing, and if you play an older FE game (I think the Wii one has cutscenes, but they're ugly) then there aren't any "real" cutscenes. Just dialogue being thrown back and fourth.

 

[Halloqueen]

Yes. This was the first FE game I've played and I'm obsessed with it. I don't usually like strategic RPG/turn-based combat games (pokemon and earthbound are pretty much the only exceptions), though I loved how the story was told and how engaged with the characters and storyline I felt when I played the game.

Not to mention the cut scenes are amazing, and if you play an older FE game (I think the Wii one has cutscenes, but they're ugly) then there aren't any "real" cutscenes. Just dialogue being thrown back and fourth.

Both Path of Radiance for the GameCube and its Wii sequel Radiant Dawn have cutscenes. For the older handheld games, instead of cutscenes, there are pictures. But you shouldn't really expect amazing looking cutscenes on a GameCube or Wii anyway. They look fine and serve their purpose for what they are.

 

[Jarrad]

Both Path of Radiance for the GameCube and its Wii sequel Radiant Dawn have cutscenes. For the older handheld games, instead of cutscenes, there are pictures. But you shouldn't really expect amazing looking cutscenes on a GameCube or Wii anyway. They look fine and serve their purpose for what they are.

I have exceptionally high standards when it comes to animation, and finding a game that has decent cutscenes is crucial for myself.

If awakening's cutscenes were to the same quality of the GC/Wii's then I definitely would have deleted FE from my 3ds.

 

[Halloqueen]

I have exceptionally high standards when it comes to animation, and finding a game that has decent cutscenes is crucial for myself.

If awakening's cutscenes were to the same quality of the GC/Wii's then I definitely would have deleted FE from my 3ds.

Well, everyone has their own tastes. I will say that I feel you're robbing yourself of a great experience by not playing Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn since they have really interesting stories, settings, characters, and battle mechanics.

It just seems sort of like refusing to watch a classic black and white movie just because it's not in color. The cutscene quality is a product of the time and machines they were running on. More power to you regardless.

 

[Jarrad]

Well, everyone has their own tastes. I will say that I feel you're robbing yourself of a great experience by not playing Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn since they have really interesting stories, settings, characters, and battle mechanics.

It just seems sort of like refusing to watch a classic black and white movie just because it's not in color. The cutscene quality is a product of the time and machines they were running on. More power to you regardless.

I know what you mean. I've become dependent on modern-day technology to story tell. I'm sure they were great games in their prime, though I can't describe the bland disappointed feeling I get whenever I play a sequel of x quality and then go play one of its original games which looks and feels so noticeably different.

I remember I have a GBA virtual console fire emblem game on my 3DS from back when I got given that nintendo embassador thing where you could download like 20 exclusive GBA/GB/NES games on your 3DS. I played it for probably 20 minutes before losing interest, though this was before I had played fire emblem. I may revisit it sometime before fates gets released.

It seems like the older games have less character development as well. Do the older games have similar interactions between characters like in awakening?

 

[Halloqueen]

I remember I have a GBA virtual console fire emblem game on my 3DS from back when I got given that nintendo embassador thing where you could download like 20 exclusive GBA/GB/NES games on your 3DS. I played it for probably 20 minutes before losing interest, though this was before I had played fire emblem. I may revisit it sometime before fates gets released.

The Fire Emblem game that was given out to 3DS Ambassadors is Fire Emblem Sacred Stones. It is the most similar to Awakening compared to all of the other games in that you can free roam on the map and grind against enemies. It's a fine game and I recommend you try it out sometime.

It seems like the older games have less character development as well. Do the older games have similar interactions between characters like in awakening?

The older games also have character interaction. From the sounds of it, you just didn't get far enough into the other one to come across it. I find Awakening's character interactions far more bland than in the older games, and you get a lot more backstory and depth to certain characters in the older ones.

You don't really do the whole marriage thing in the older games though. In some games you do, and some characters are written to be romantically involved, but it's not a main thing. You can still get supports between male and female units if you want to ship them, but they don't all necessarily end up married forever after. Some endings say people split up, one of them died, etc.

There aren't children characters in the same game as their parents usually, except for in 4. But when they are it is written so much better because there's no time travel.

 

[piichinu]

Would you guys recommend this game to a person hoping to get into the FE series?

definitely, especially if you want to get into the series

 

[Cam1]

My marriages are usually along the lines of:
Chrom x Olivia
MU x Nowi
Lissa x Vaike (sometimes Lon'Qu)
Sully x Donnel
Panne x Stahl
Cordelia x Virion
Sumia x Frederick
Cherche x Kellam
Tharja x Gaius
Miriel x Henry
Maribelle x Libra

These choices are a combination of the skills I like to give the kids, the way their design looks with x hair color, and my overall liking of the couples (if I didnt like Nah so much as my daughter I would so do Nowi x Lon'Qu their supports are my favorite)

 

[bloomwaker]

Ah! I can never get behind Chrolivia, for story reasons. Stat/skill-wise, I get it, but I'd personally never be able to put them together. Plus, she has much cuter conversations with other people, like Lon'qu and Virion (who she finds dreamy even before getting to S-support).

As a sidenote, I recently tried Cordelia X Lon'qu, something I've never done before. Severa looks adorable with that hair color, and she gets all the -breaker skills. It's pretty dang funny.