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>>14043147

>the game is "objectively" good

What the fuck is this supposed to mean? Regardless I felt the game was a step backwards from its predecessors in almost every way. The absolute biggest deal breaker was how they spawn enemies in ridiculous places which ruins any strategy to be had from unit placement by turning maps into annoying trial and error exercises. This game is one of my most regretted purchases of all time.

>>14043147

I wouldn't say the game is "objectively good". If you aren't feeling it, just don't play it. Awakening is vastly different from the last great FE title, which was Path of Radiance. I'd honestly rather go play that again than ever touch Awakening/Fates/SoV again.

Is this your fire fire emblem? If you aren't a fujoshi, you won't enjoy it. FE7 is a good entry point, it's a decent game with some nice and simple characters but what makes it so much better than awakening is the map design. Each level has its own victory conditions from defending a throne or target from massive waves of tough enemies, reclaiming a throne or building, reaching a target, killing all enemies, or eliminating the leader.

Fire Emblem awakening has all maps being a matter of "kill everyone." which doesn't lend itself well to game play and the level designs in general echo this same laziness.

Sounds like it's not for you.

Do what newbies usually do. Give up and use a walkthrough

Why kid ourselves? You're never going to progress without one, noob.

>>14043147

>There's just too many characters in the game and I don't feel connected to any of them, I wish I just had a small group of 5-7 to keep track of, not dozens and dozens.

You don't need to keep track of all your characters, just the ones you use. Most maps in Awakening have between 12 to 14 deploy slots, so you only need to use that many characters, you can ignore the others, they're just there as options so you can make whatever type of party uou want. Also, Pair Up is extremely OP, so rather than having a party of 14 characters, you really want to have a party of 7 pairs (Which make it even simple since you'll just pair up the same characters every time).

>Try to get it around launch because /v/ hype bandwagon (never fall for this)

>EB Games runs out of digital keys instore, somehow

>Physical sold out for like two weeks

>Buy it, but forget about it for like 3 years

>Finally play it

>First FE game, but played FFT and TO to death

>Choose hard with permadeath

<Partner mechanic is interesting but ends up making certain pairs overpowered or fall flat, there is no middle ground

<Can't be aggressive, have to let enemy come to you, but half the times you have to assault their base so good luck?

<The missions are fundamentally flawed because they'll get reinforcements X turns later, only to have them show up as soon as you're done moving, take an immediate turn, then kill a straggler you had

<Have to immediately restart a 30 minute fight

I got to that Yggdrasill tree thing and quit

>>14043147

Just find a core group of strong characters and grind levels until they are practically invincible. You can ignore the trash characters. Protip; the farm boy pothead is actually the strongest character in the game of you can level him.

>>14043232

>a walkthrough

>for a strategy game

Walkthroughs only work for RPGs and Adventure games, tbh.

pick 7 characters you like and stick with them, ignore the rest of the waifu shit

if you find the combat long or the map big pick horse riders

The game is easy. you can beat it with whoever you want.

there you go. Avoid the DLC with the exception of the Free one that comes after post-game

>>14043414

You were about halfway through. Honestly, everything after the introduction of the future kids is a downward slope.

It's shit, I wrote a copypasta on why it's shit but it's not currently on me. I'll post it in a little bit if the thread is still up, but just know that literally any fucking game in the series is better. GAIDEN is fucking better.

>>14043706

> Awakening is just a bad game with the only good thing being the soundtrack.

Ya I guess so.

I've started it 3 times, each time stopped at the 8hour mark. I guess I got 24hours of gameplay out of it, worth the money I suppose…sort of

Awakening is shit.

Second worst Fire Emblem next to Fates.

At best its only average for new players coming to FE and spoils them; not only that but it encourages mechanics usually atypical to the franchise like grinding with how it handles difficulty combined with its shitty map design.

Characters were okay once you delved into supports, but the level of reading needed to do so for each character is absurd and you can easily see where they got lazy. Earlier Fire Emblem games managed to do so much more with so much less.

If you're going to play a nu-FE game, play echoes so you're at least supporting the old fanbase and style of game you'd like to see come out from ISIS.

Play FE7, I'm on my 5th run of that game, now on a challenge run where I had a few retards pick my units (had them be rough and pick the worst in the game) on the highest difficulty setting. Its been… very rough, but fun overall. I've gotten over 200 hours out of it I think, which is pretty rare for single player games for me.

awakening is odd i mean i put like 300 hours into but like after a few self challenges most of the time i was spent min maxing faggotry. cause it literally was wipe the whole map or kill the leader the game.

that said is Echoes any good? fire emblem fates was decent but had translation issue like being very bad.

is echoes replaybility good? can i breed and fuck whoever? or is it strict and no min maxing stuff etc

>>14047550

>can I breed or fuck whoever

No.

>is its replayability any good

>Fates is decent

given that your taste is the inverse of anyone with a modicum of it, I'd say it probably wouldn't hold much attraction for you.

You'd probably like Fire Emblem heroes a lot, I think.

Its meant to take in addicts with surface-level shit and fanservice. I think the girls' clothes rip when they're injured, though the artwork is very good.

Plus its a gacha. I'm sure it'd be great for you.

>>14047561

but you can't breed on the phone

>how do I get into FE:Awakening

You don't. Go play a better FE like the Radiance games, Blazing Sword or even fucking Sacred Stones if you really want your experience to be casual as possible. Awakening is patient zero for everything wrong with modern FE.

>>14049484

I've played that

>>14049570

How are the PC ports of Disgaea? I know it's NISA so I'm clearly going to pirate, I'm just wondering if there is any fucking awful dialogue/character changes/censorship/bugs.

Etna was my introduction to DFC, so I figure it's about time to play the games she's from.

>>14049570

>Utawarerumono

haven't played it but the anime that was sub a while back put me off from the series idk

>Langrisser

haven't seen anything new from it also think the 3ds one looks pretty ass

>disgaea

played them all and every remake outside vita games and have pc disgaea 2

>front mission

never got into wanted to just couldn't

disgaea is probably the only other game i played heavily outside of fire emblem

>>14049587

haven't had any problems with disgaea 2 heard the first one had problems but a mod patch fixes most of them

The reason i downloaded it on Freeshop was for Tharja, when do you get her?

>>14055751

There's a rope you find in chapter one

You can use it to hang yourself for bumping this thread and being actual cancer

>>14049621

which disgaea is the most pedo and why

i need a new game to play

>>14056564

all of them

>>14056564

All of them have a loli in the main cast. Though I wouldn't consider Flonne and Etna loli. Compared to Hanako in 2, Raspberyl in 3, Desco in 4, and Usalia in 5, Flonne and Etna are taller and act less childish.

>>14043147

>I wish I just had a small group of 5-7 to keep track of, not dozens and dozens.

then let them "die" as they're supposed to

>>14043147

>"objectively" good

The context you state this makes zero sense, in order for a game to be "objectively" good it would have to minimum be considered good by many people. I barely hear anything about this game outside the odd waifu mention or porn so it's obviously not even meeting that criteria. "Average" would be the best description for it.

>>14043147

>I know the game is "objectively" good

oh dear

Awakening is fine for an entry point game. Reinforcements basically ruin half of the strategy of the game. The game also introduced a wait that pretty much single handedly brought back FE from the grave, for better or worse, mostly worse.

Of the three fates games, one is basically awakening with a worse story and characters, but better gameplay, one has an atrocious and embarrassingly bad story, but some of the best maps in the history of the series, and the last one is bad in literally every sense and is probably the worst fe game period.

SOV is… goodish. The characters are fantastic and the story is pretty decent. The maps are generally creatively bankrupt at best and horrifically gimmicky at worst, and the post game basically just surrounds you with enemies with absurdly inflated stats.

>>14063886

Its more that its the only good 3DS FE game

>>14064264

This is an accurate post; its funny that the biggest problems with Gaiden was that it was too faithful of a remake in that respect

>>14043147

If you can't get invested in it enough to finish it. Chances are the game is simply Not to your tastes and you should play something else, instead of trying to force yourself to play something you don't truly enjoy.

>>14043147

>how do I get into FE:Awakening

pick a waifu, play on easy

when you're done, play an actual good game

>>14064365

it's great that it was faithful to gaiden like a remake should be. thus, shitty and barren map design are in order.