Fire Emblem Awakening

[Skyblade]

*Sigh* Still not nearly enough love for this game.

And why are the DLCs coming out so slowly?! Two a week?! Graaah!!



Anyway, was backreading through Penny Arcade, when I stumbled across this quote.

Fire Emblem’s imminent release reminded me that I owned the platform in question, and once I managed to cast the right spell on my router, I was able to download a demo for the game. I have to take a minute and appreciate Intelligent Systems; a software package like this is generally thought of as a marketing exercise, a mathematically dowsed optimus of interactive surface area, something to amuse your bouche while you trundle entropically toward dissolution. But you can die in this thing - that is to say, it will kill you - in the very first fight, on normal difficulty. It doesn’t give a trout. It will pulverize you with warhammers and zap up on a mothersmurfer with a witch. Even amid the barb and flourish of the retail lure, it would rather teach players hard lessons than kindle consumer desire.

I gotta give props.

(CW)TB out.

And all I can think is, if he thinks Normal does that, he is never going to beat Chapter One on Lunatic mode. Like, ever. The difficulty curve is frelling insane on that mode, and you will die a lot, if you don't plan and execute really carefully.

But man, oh man, is it fun. I love this game. I want more of this game. I want more DLCs for this game. I want a sequel. More more more!


Slight additional problem: Children characters are overpowered. They usually start out with higher stats (Lucina, Cynthia, and Morgan actually had max stats for their base class when I got them, because of how much I'd trained their parents), and they get access to more job classes, and can inherit some of the best abilities in the game without training them themselves. Not very overpowered, since you have to put the work in to get the return, but having a half dozen characters with Galeforce and Luna or Astra right from the time you get them does kind of put the parents to shame.

Edit: Ooh, right, or Lifetaker, I keep forgetting to mention that one, but it's awesome. Every time you attack and kill something, you heal for half your max health. And it can be used at the same time as Galeforce, so you can go from one hit point to full health in one turn. Crazy stuff.