How Fire Emblem: Awakening SAVED Fire Emblem! - BeyondPolygons

[@MegaPokefan97]

Awakening will always hold a special place in my heart, because my late girlfriend gave it to me during my Eagle Scout court of honor... Rest in peace, Lily. You will forever be missed

[@theunseen896]

damn sorry for your loss

[@connor___]

I'm really happy I was able to fully experience the Masked Marth/Lucina twist before her real identity became public knowledge. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it really caught me off guard my first playthrough

[@Freashplayer]

Some asshole put it in the video title so it was ruined for me.

[@shiroalter8975]

Same

[@BernexChips]

TheSonicTurtles you damn lucky

[@jacobg8640]

Smash 4 ruined it for me. And another certain masked knight from Radiant Dawn was also spoiled by a video title. That really stung since I was just a few chapters from figuring it out. At least Shadows of Valentia I got through spoiler free except the after game. Which is funny when it's a remake, but one hardly any played.

[@Skallva]

Smash team in general does not understand how touchy spoilers are in jRPGs and just keeps on spoiling. Trust me. It's painful to see as a Xenoblade fan and now I kind of fear how they'll handle Persona next.

[@Andreu0rtin]

A Fire Emblem youtuber that praises Awakening who is an old fan and doesn't say that everything in FE13 is bad? Great Lord this is awesome

[@-lord1754]

Find me a fe youtuber thats a veteran that shits on awakening AND has a following

[@zacharystevens6193]

@@-lord1754 Ghast Station, Mangs there are a couple others as well. Ghast hated Awakening so much that he refused to play it from bad word of mouth from a FE Veteran that was his friend. All he did was do a Wiki search to know the bases about the games story. As far as gameplay goes he really hated playing Awakening after Echoes and only played it because of its connection to Echoes (his favorite FE game in the franchise). The problem is that many people that make up the FE KZbin community are veterans that perfer the older games over the newer ones. There is nothing wrong with that but, when you began to only find flaws in modern games and look over the past games many flaws that's were biases and nostalgia gets in the way. This skewers any games reputation in the eyes of many veterans and new FE gamers to the franchise. Causing many people in the community to label each other based off of their favorite FE games which is very toxic to the community. It also annoys me how many FE KZbinrs have not even tried to make a video addressing this issue.

[@-lord1754]

Zachary Stevens Pretty sure mangs likes awakening and pretty sure ghast has changed and he now thinks what he did was unfair. You are creating bullshit. Said bias is hardly noiceable

[@zacharystevens6193]

@@-lord1754 No need to curse and throw insults over the internet be professional and mature. Anyones opinion about something can change but, how they originally acted or believed is a part of their past.

[@zacharystevens6193]

@@-lord1754 Mangs likes Awakening's music alot but, that does not mean that he likes the game. Its definitely not his top 5 FE games (not that it matters anyway).

[@Pavise]

I wish more of the video was adressing the prompt in the title, but still an enjoyable watch. Although, sometimes I feel you lean on saying "pretty good" a little too much. More detail explaining some of your stances would go a long way. Keep the content coming though! Interested to hear your thoughts on GotHW, there is alot to talk about.

[@zayaannashrid1374]

It's a shame because it was kinda shoved in at the end(other than the mention of sales at the end). Oof-

[@francie3169]

If i hear a single word of shadow dragon being mediocre i will personally come to your and have a reasonable discussion and try to explain why it is my third favourite fire emblem

[@superblanco444]

Francie good taste

[@dhisufiroafrozenseraphimdragon]

I like SD a lot too. It was my first FE and I like Marth in SD.

[@Ajia_No_Envy]

The only reason the fans didn’t like it as the norm was filled to the brim with story and a meaning behind a lot of characters but in the remake they flat out reset it and they was no support system for more story building and the story is limited so ya also you had to kill people to get to the Gaiden chapters

[@carlosavila4290]

Lmao, explain us why... I really wanted to like SD but I couldn't,however, I'm in love with New Mistery.

[@pksprite6401]

Shadow Dragon is a good game. Long live Castor

[@tactless2061]

Umm New Mystery is way better then Shadow Dragon. It is considered better than Shadow Dragon by the community as well. Rather the that good vid.

[@garbageman9999]

Story wise it’s actually worse than shadow dragon and this dude really likes his story

[@ptr4410]

@@garbageman9999 The story? It was honestly one giant snore fest. New mystery had you already more hyped for the characters because it was a sequel and had actual stakes/interesting villains.

[@GanRPG]

Despite it's flaws, I still love Awakening, no matter what anyone says. I've literally put in 1965 hours into it, according to my 3DS activity log.

[@Practitioner_of_Diogenes]

I think you're getting Naga and Grima confused when it comes to the time/dimension traveling. Also, ***GOOD BOY, YOU USED THE GOOD WIKI FOR YOUR INFO.***

[@Andreu0rtin]

I think he says it to not give any spoilers. I think he means because of Grima and his power the children are forced to time travel. Not that Grima make the time travel possible

[@samflood5631]

4:15-Thank you for going over Cordelia's character. A lot of people think that her unrequited love for Chrom is her only character trait without getting know her supports a lot better (Robin/Stahl/Lonqu for example).

[@Sniperboomheadshot49]

I will defend fire emblem awakening to the death.

[@esteban8471]

I shall fight alongside you! For Ylisse!!!

[@vbnm7309]

@@esteban8471 at least awakening was actually a great fe game unlike it's successor...

[@esteban8471]

hi Fates is the Dragon Ball GT of Fire Emblem. It had several ideas that could have made it stand out from other games...but it's execution was just worse than Lucina's taste in fashion.

[@Andreu0rtin]

@@esteban8471 That's really bad... But I can't disagree since I only managed to finish one time two of the paths...

[@esteban8471]

Andreu Ortín Borràs Fates tried it's best, and I love "Lost in Thoughts All Alone." But...let me make a comparison. I struggle to remember the names of just the royal families in Fates. I don't think I can remember anyone else besides a VERY small handful. Whereas in Awakening, I am confident that if one showed me images of every single Shepperd, I'd be able to name every single one of them. That's how big of an impact Awakening left on me.

[@samuelrodriguez5704]

I'm just so glad Chrom is finally in smash.

[@esteban8471]

I am too. But I'm honestly disappointed that none of his taunts has him stab the ground with Falchion. That's his signature victory pose in Awakening.

[@samuelrodriguez5704]

@@esteban8471 That was my first thought too, but at least it's one of his results screen victory poses. And they gave him the character art pose as a taunt.

[@esteban8471]

Samuel Rodriguez At least that's something. I saw Chrom do it in the opening, but none of his taunts actually feature him doing it. It really confused me.

[@mcdonkey500]

Too bad he needs a nerf though. He's probably the best character in the game.

[@esteban8471]

mcdonkey500 No, King K. Rool and Inkling need to get nerfed. Chrom is decent enough.

[@kipame]

You forgot to say that Fire Emblem: Awakening was the only game that had marketing and thats why it sold well The older FE's was like: *"Here, have a FE game"* and nothing else

[@DTBluesreviews]

Path of radiance had a lot of commercials that I remember seeing as a kid and it sold like ass

[@kipame]

@SephirothLVL99 Yeah, he did, but I think the marketing was the big reason the game sold well Also, FE:A had no competitiom too, its strange use less time to the bigger factor

[@definitelynotpaul9209]

@@kipame People really understate how much marketing other FE games have gotten. Both the Tellius games had plenty of marketing, as did SoV, and neither sold anywhere close to Awakening. There's more at play here than simply marketing.

[@kipame]

@@definitelynotpaul9209 Yep, the launch window, FE:A launched in a time that 3DS games would rarely launch

[@jlima5509]

SoV didnt have near as much marketing as awakening. i only Heard of SoV during the announcement in FE direct, and later on by a friend that told me they released a second trailer. i only got to know awakening during my first playthrough of FE4, and it was only bcs of youtube had a trailer of awakening, which didnt caught my attention at first. but i grow interested after finishing FE4.

[@megakoopa2361]

>>>>>FE12, a game that literally did nothing but improves on all the flaws Shadow Dragon had by adding things like supports, improved on the class balancing, weapon balancing, improves the gameplay on the game it was a remade of, and further builds on the QoL features introduced in Shadow Dragon, is worse than Shadow Dragon

[@Swordsmaster]

New Mystery is better than Shadow Dragon. The only gripe for me is the Avatar as they're just...there. New Mystery added supports that Shadow Dragon lacked, the music is gorgeous, there are so many characters to use (probably too many though), and the added gaiden chapters add more to the story. As for Awakening, they took the Avatar from New Mystery and made them even better. For Ylisse!

[@luisramirez-liberato85]

I agree Kris was kinda boring and just acted as the perfect human being, I think an avatar can work in Fire Emblem just as long as they give the player choice in order to actually play as if the were in that world

[@zakariamohamed3202]

luis r-l I still don’t think Robin is a shining example of an avatar unit. He’s light years ahead of kris and corrin. But he sometimes comes off as a little too bland. And he’s kinda just, there for most of the story until the last couple of chapters. It’s chrom’s story...until the last few chapters. That’s what I feel anyway.

[@Swordsmaster]

@@zakariamohamed3202 Yeah, but it was still good, at least for one of my first FE games. The twist was not surprising, but I liked Grima and with Echoes expanded lore on him, it makes him an even better viliain.

[@tahamohammad8842]

Zakaria Mohamed I think the main advantage that robin has over corrin and kris is that s/he’s an outsider to the world. Kris and corrin are established people in their world with established relationships,(meaning that marrying the nohr/hoshido royals is disgusting). On the other hand robin similar to the player is an outsider to this world and you get to establish who your relationships are, like an actual avatar.

[@luisramirez-liberato85]

Anyone out there who hasnt played Fire Emblem new mystery (Fire Emblem 13) its actually a really solid game that has pretty good supports, characters and really awesome maps along with some great antagonists (I love you Michaelis). Its honestly one of my favourites and is a lot better than shadow dragon. That being said shadow dragon is also really good. It has some amazing map design allowing players to create some amazing strategies for the game. The only thing really holding it back is it's lack support which is actually fine and has a lottttt of replayability. Over all the Archenea games are really good

[@lpfan4491]

its fe12,awakening is 13

[@Harkz0r]

I loved New Mystery, but Shadow Dragon was an absolute slog, and I say that as someone who's played most of them (except the older Kaga games, yeah yeah I know I'll get around to Genealogy at some point).

[@luisramirez-liberato85]

@@Harkz0r how so? I loved it man the levels were well designed and it was just fun for me. Also its pretty easy to find a ROM of Genealogy and serenes forest has a translation patch for the game. Just a heads up

[@mr.i6527]

Fe12 was a great entry, definitely better then 11.

[@rodrigolealmartir5902]

Came here to say this. FE12 is awesome, probably one of the best games in the series.

[@shanksmudfish5583]

Literally, the fe adankening characters are copies of the fe12 characters

[@ChillstoneBlakeBlast]

@@rodrigolealmartir5902 chapter 3. Nuff said.

[@ziggymcdougal]

how does one map ruin a game? by that logic, every FE game is bad because they happened to have awful maps. also chapter 3 isn't even that awful of a map. if there's one thing wrong with it, it's the savepoint positioning.

[@torgan]

The only games worse than fe12 WERE fe11 and their original versions

[@jenniferguajardo1335]

Who's Kellam? I played the game 5 times and I never noticed him. 🤔

[@garbageman9999]

He was supposed to show up in that one chapter on the ferox border. He doesn’t show up on the map due to a bug but it still shows a “ally phase” screen every turn as though there’s a recruitable character. People found him through hacking the game

[@noot_noota]

Fire Emblem Awakening will always have a special place in my heart. The feels I get when playing or even just thinking about the game are... nostalgic and just happy overall ☺️

[@vopop30]

Started the franchise with Awakening, enjoyed it, then played FE7. For me, FE7 blows Awakening out of the water when it comes to story and world building. So uh...for Lycia!

[@mcdonkey500]

Yeah I went back and played 7 after Awakening and was surprised how much more stuff 7 had. Like why would they take all that stuff out?

[@custom-r]

Aw man, yeah. Like I was still shocked FE7 had so much in there. It got even better for me once I played FE6 right after.

[@SurfingKyogreNL]

Awakening was good. The music is great, some characters are actually pretty well written, skills are better balanced than previous entries (especially FE4), the avatar, though certainly not perfect, is much better implemented than previous avatars and bland corn, references to previous games (weapons, locations) were implemented quite well and logically and it looked pretty good for an early 3DS game. There are a lot of problems though. Characters have very unrealistic personalities. Some characters in previous entries (especially in the GBA and the Tellius games) were a little more "unique," however they were always balanced out by more realistic, well written characters. FE8 to FE10 had odd characters like L'Arachel (dramatic), Devdan/Danved (...) and Haar (unrealistically lazy), but it was compensated by other characters. FE13's roster is sadly 95% "odd", with barely any compensation. Frederick is mostly fine, though he still has a weird pebble gimmick. Unfortunatly, while enjoyable, most characters act like they jumped right out of an anime (especially Owain and Tharja). Furthermore, reclassing plus skills plus pair up is way too broken. For example you can pair up two grinded units with galeforce, kill one enemy, head to another enemy, switch and kill that enemy and move again. Pair up by itself is already broken in FE13. Enemies never use it and Duel Strike is nearly guaranteed. That was one of those few things Fates actually did better. The story is also very, very weak. Grima was never explained (not until SoV that is), the villains are very poorly written (especially Gangrel and Walhart) and the avatars role is still way too large for such a "generic character." Last but certainly not least, the marriage-child mechanic was very poorly executed (though not nearly as poorly as Fates'). Child units easily replace all parent units (other than the avatar, Chrom and maybe Olivia). This causes people to simply ditch their units as soon as they have the right skills for inheritance. Although this isn't that good by itself, there's also the fact that none of the child units interact with the story, because you can decide when or whether you want to get them, which hurts the story even more. The reason why (in universe) they are even there in the first place is really BS too. Maybe, just maybe if it was just Lucina it could've worked, but it just didnt't. The part that stings the most is that FE4 simply did it better many years prior. Some minor nitpicks are: - Some character designs are simply awful, being either very ugly (mainly knights and generals) or very impractical. Just compare female character designs from the Tellius games to Awakening. The only slightly impractical Tellius design I can think of is Nephenee, who has her thighs exposed. - Every single character has to be at least attractive to some people. There's no character like Jagen, Wrys, Gonzales or FE6 Marcus, because of the marriage system. This simply hurts variety in character designs and personalities. (Fates did have some of these characters, but they were all "Corrinsexuals.") - Lunatic+. That's all. It is quite obvious that IS sacrificed many things to "lure in the casuals" as some would refer to it. Most of these things were simply done to make the game more casual, with the simple story, ships, waifus, over the top personalities and broken gameplay. Regardless of all my problems, the positives outweigh the negatives and I'm very glad it exists. It's nowhere near my favorite, though I don't blindly despise it like others. It's simply good: not bad, but not amazing either. Btw. FE12 was fantastic. Easily the most underrated title in the franchise. (Yes, this took a really long time to write)

[@mullent169]

New mystery of the Emblem is "WORSE" than Shadow Dragon? EXCUSE ME!? Please, do yourself a favor and actually PLAY the game before you discredit it. It is LEAGUES better by far!

[@wat5058]

Fire Emblem Awakening always meant a lot to me because of these same things, and the fact that I'd gotten it relatively early. The game came out here in North America DAYS before my birthday, so it also ended up being my major birthday present. It was one hell of a birthday present. Easily one of my favorite entries in the series.

[@aradyn9125]

Edit: For Ylisse, I did watch the whole thing. Few things I need to say: Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn sold much worse than Shadow Dragon, FE12- New Mystery actually is my favorite FE title. The difficulties are really enjoyable and difficult in unique ways (for instance, there's a mode called Reverse Lunatic, the only time we get a mode that does something other than inflate stats for difficulty), the art is improved from Shadow Dragon's, the music as usual is amazing, and it does a solid job of being an enjoyable FE game. And yes, there is an english patch for the game. Kris (the avatar in FE12) is really strong, as are all avatar characters, but the personality is.. meh. If someone says FE12 sucks, they're most likely calling Kris a bad and not well-written character, or they probably haven't played FE12. But either way, at least the rest of the cast is much better. However, when I say rest of the cast, I'm not referring to every single character in FE12, because of a natural drawback of having one of the *largest cast across all FE titles,* (78, excluding the free DLC roster, which covers a sidestory,) which is, not every character gets the same amount of spotlight. There's flaws, as with all FEs, but it's definitely one of my favorite FE titles.

[@BAPK1602]

Was always pretty interested in the FE series, but couldn't find a FE game that really caught my eye that stood out enough to me to play. That was, until in Smash, I learned of Lucina and her backstory. I quite enjoyed reading about how she went back in time to stop a calamity that happened in her time, I thought it was extremely selfless and incredible. Then, in that same Smash game, I found out after playing him several times that I was really good with a character called "Robin", I never knew why there was a male and female version (honestly thought it was because of diversity at first). One day after playing Smash, I decided to read more about Lucina and felt a really big urge to play a FE game, googled which FE game Lucina was in only to find out that Robin was in the same game! Immediately got FE Awakening and played it, fell in love literally first cut scene, started playing a few days ago and have already played through the game 5+ times and now I want more. FE Awakening honestly set the bar for me, it's what I want in an FE game now, and will always be an FE fan from this point on. I'm mad that I waited so long to find this amazing series, but, happy that my first FE game was Awakening. 10/10 literally can't stop playing it. P.S Love Lucina and Robin even more now that I've played their game. Heart broke listening to Lucina's Japanese VA cry to her mother (Sumia for my first playthrough), saying that she missed her more than she'll ever know. Adore her character to death.

[@melmacianmage]

I feel people are hyper criticial of this game since it received mainstream praise, while not excelling in individual aspects that previous games do better. To me its still a solid game of the franchise that doesnt deserve many of the complaints people have against it. Its not perfect but still pretty damn good.

[@sizzle5775]

> Good plot twist > says FE12 is worse than FE11

[@shanksmudfish5583]

Obviously he knows about fire emblem

[@maxg2335]

I really like the characters in Awakening and I appreciate having a good avatar character and I really like Chrom, he’s one of my favourite protagonists behind Ike (the best) Lyn and Alm.

[@greenherring1057]

3:00 New Mystery actually improved and added new and old features do to the complaints about Shadow Dragon, I wouldn't say it's worse than Shadow Dragon but it's definitely easier than it.

[@Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

Fire Emblem Awakening , not Smash, was my first exposure to Fire Emblem. I own it my thanks for without it I would not be a Fire Emblem fan at all.

[@esteban8471]

It was the exact same for me, General Kenobi.

[@AnjnShan]

For "Marth's Sister!" E-Elise. Ylisse. YLISSE!

[@remmbermytitans]

I need this game to be remade for Switch. What a great game this was.

[@vandal3860]

For Ylisse! Great video! As someone who started with Awakening, I couldn't help but feel conflicted because of the split between the contemporary fire emblem players and the og players, because I had loved Awakening as a whole. That is why I started playing more and more, such as Echoes, which is my second favorite now. I even went back to those GBA titles and enjoyed them. That being said though, I can't wait to hear what you have to say about Genealogy, because that is the FE game I have heard the most talk behind. I might try my hand at this super nintendo classic!

[@HeavenlyM]

For Ylisse! After Three Houses I thought I’d try the game that saved the series and after finishing it I agree with almost all of your points. It’s a charming and beautiful game through and through

[@Blazecap]

I like the game for everything it did. But sadly it’s not for me. I have nothing against the shipping, or children mechanics but simply put it’s not for me and it doesn’t appeal to me. That’s fine but I was afraid when Fates Cranked it up to 11 but thankfully Three houses seems to be going for more of a Path of Radiance sort of game. And I’m looking forward to see what it brings to the table.

[@MrCHAMMOND]

I wouldn't be too sure that they are straying away from the whole offspring thing. It adds a whole other level of strategy.

[@intervalgaming6196]

God I hope marriage doesn't come back

[@johnathanera5863]

@@intervalgaming6196 almost certainly will. Especially considering were getting MU or some sort of hybrid MU/MC not really sure tbh. I also like the marriage mechanic and hope it comes back. Not the kids tho, that shit is too much lol.

[@intervalgaming6196]

@@johnathanera5863 if they can do s support ranks in a tastefully paced and non cringy way ill welcome it back, but children are going to be forced in if theyre coming back.

[@intervalgaming6196]

@@johnathanera5863 just for the love of god no incest/implied incest in the way that fated handled it

[@KidSnivy69]

I will always appreciate Awakening. I'd always known about Fire Emblem (thank you Smash), but I had never been able to find the game at a decent price or on a console I owned. So when Awakening came out I was hesitent, but I was curious. After playing it and LOVING the gameplay and the character supports I got interested in learning everything I could about this wonderful franchise. Awakening isn't a perfect Fire Emblem game, but I feel it can be the best middle ground for casual fans (like me) and hardcore fans. FOR YLISSEY!

[@entermaidtheelegant2513]

A video I can agree with although I don't mind if WE are the MC if written well, relatable and fleshed out. If that's how the next new installment will be (which looks to be the case with what little we know so far at least maybe Awakeningwise with a mix of an old titles like Blazing Sword/Tellius games and improvement of Fates's ideas of course we don't know everything so we'll see) I'm content. I love every game and will keep doing so!

[@blackbird7781]

Personally i really liked Shadows of Valentia

[@entermaidtheelegant2513]

@@blackbird7781 ok

[@blackbird7781]

@@entermaidtheelegant2513 what? Something wrong with that?

[@entermaidtheelegant2513]

@@blackbird7781 nothing I just answered you although I don't agree your free to think so.

[@burntbeans9871]

Awakening is my personal favourite in the series. I feel our role as a tactician in the game serves as an overseeing figure that truly brings out the charm of this game. Yes obviously as our job dictates, we control (and so justify) our armies movements and tactics but I think it's important to notice that our ability to build supports and relationships with the various characters and personalities from scratch due to our amensiac beginning allows players to really connect and love the characters as if they too are entering the world of Fire Emblem. We start to feel an even greater attachments to said characters and as a tactician, tasked to protect and guide them through battles without losing anyone. And yeh sure, the "power of bonds" inspiration scene during the final battle is something we have all seen before but awakening is one of the few games I could actually take such a cliche message to heart and truly cherish the bonds (and families) created throughout our playthroughs instead of being bound by inherant fate. I guess this is why i could really appreciate and play the game in this scope and is something I continually remind myself when I see complaints about the game I personally do not agree with. Awakening is an amazing game and fantastic entry point to the series.

[@DevonVoixVO]

Whew the people in the comments are pissed.For the record, I played Blazing Blade, Awakening, Fates, and Echoes, and I'm partway through PoR. Honestly, I still adore Awakening, and Echoes the most. But I think I just love Fire Emblem.

[@Meg-nc4su]

But , according to elitists, FE awakening is shit because it's not a GBA fire emblem. *ahem* joke aside Awakening introduced me to the franchise, and holy shit I loved it. Chrom became my favorite character ever, and after that, I played all the old fire emblem games that I also loved. It's in my top 5 favorite franchise now And I'm glad that it get more and more successful and popular , can't wait for Tree houses! And unpopular opinion but : I love the marriage mechanic. It's only bonus, and add more content, I liked to discover what the children looked like. But In fates, it was too much.. pet your wife/husband? wtf was that..

[@sizzle5775]

The marraige system isn't new to FE, people just blew FE13 out of proportion with it because of the MU and child units.

[@stuff1487]

Meg the term elitist is just backwards now. There are people who have played the older games and so they are better than Awakening. But there are people who have played all the games in the franchise and understand core game design of FE and understand core flaws with Fe7/8 on the GBA, Path of Radiance, and Awakening as well. I just don’t think elitist is a very good word to use anymore.

[@intervalgaming6196]

Totally agree, the petting/incest in fates was overboard. Awakening made marriage/children naturally fit in its story, while fates was just shoehorned in.

[@mr.fanfedgiveaway7016]

@@intervalgaming6196 incest? Corrin wasn't related to any of them because of his father.

[@mr.fanfedgiveaway7016]

@@intervalgaming6196 I think u probably understand this but I was like wtf freakin stupid ass.

[@_Ellurion]

Für Elise! Man Awakening is one of my top games on the 3DS, I got it off an auction on ebay and it was so worth it. I also started on the GBA and FE is up there with Disgaea for tactical turn based RPGs!

[@macbison9501]

New Mystery?! WORSE than Shadow Dragon?! Who told u that LIE?! It's not perfect but it's a decent game!

[@NotABot55]

For Valm, baby! If you told Alm and Celica about Walhart's rise two millennia later, they would wonder if you had taken too many falls from the Mila Tree... Cool video... just another reminder for Three Houses on the Switch this year.

[@tomsmasher7457]

I love this game even if the Fire Emblem community is divided by it. The love and work that was put into this game can really be felt while playing it imo and it felt like a celebration of Fire Emblem with all of its references to previous Fire Emblem works and the fact that you can recruit (and interact though very limited) with previous Fire Emblem characters. The amount of detail put into this work is impressive, even if there are quite a few rough things (like gameplay balance and some of the story itself), but to me this game will always be special as it's not only the game that saved one of my favorite franchises but also a game that helped me with a personal time in my life and always brings a smile to my face.

[@TheOneTrueOtaku1]

It was after Lucina and Robin were announced for Smash 4 that I downloaded the demo, mostly out of curiosity and good word of mouth, I played it in between college classes, and immediately bought it after I got home that same day. As I’ve gotten more familiar with the series, I’ve recognized some of the weaker aspects of of Awakening, but those never really hinder my enjoyment on returning play throughs.

[@Coreyographed]

So excited for the Genealogy video. FE4 and 5 are my favorite entries in the series!

[@reddokun]

Thank you for pointing out why Awakening is remembered better than Fates, and why it saved Fire Emblem from cancellation. Can't wait to see the Jugdral video! For Ylisse! ...Wait, that doesn't sound right...

[@riggso]

Only found your channel the other day, but I’m loving to effort into these videos. Keep up the good work! For Ylisse

[@TurnaboutAdam]

For Ylisse! Merry Chr-Happy New Year!

[@esteban8471]

*For Ylisse!* I was introduced to Fire Emblem via Awakening. I love this game, from the story, to it's lovable and memorable characters. Thank you for making this video.

[@R_Didsy]

I just completed Genealogy for the first time yesterday. It's a fantastic game. I'm looking forward to your video on it.

[@custom-r]

I've played FE since Sacred Stones, and then played Blazing Sword. I never got to try Binding Blade at the time, but then I got Smash Brawl. I learned of Ike and was miffed that I had no way of getting Path of Radiance or Radiant Dawn. It was several long years before I would hear of Awakening. Once I saw it, I decided to try it. As someone who champions creating of customizing things in games, it was a must. Especially as I couldn't believe Mystery of the Emblem was locked to Japanese shores. I cleared Awakening and clicked in over 1000 hours on it. I just got so much out of Awakening. Then came Fates. I got the Conquest version because 1, I like Xander and Camilla. 2, I instantly became a fan of Nohr. 3, it looked interesting as you could be on the side of evil for the first time. Needless to say, storywise, I was let down a fair bit. But thanks to skipping scenes I can tolerate it. Revelation...well was Revelation. Echoes came and from the moment I saw it, I knew it was a must. For once, a game I couldn't access was made available. I recount that story more than I do for other games. Now with Three Houses...I can only hope they wisely choose to release in a similar way to Awakening's launch. Because that game seems like a return to form and seems deep. I hope for a big success for thay game.

[@Demon0fTh3Fall_]

For Elise! Merry Chr.....Happy New Year to you too! Four years later...lol.

[@macollinsworth]

I think it is nice to see a Fire Emblem KZbinr who doesn't think Awakening is a horrible game with a bad story. It is like a breath of fresh air.

[@MrProg-lq8od]

Thank you friend. This video was well made, and well done

[@shadedhydra6674]

I agree, Awakening should be people's first FE game, it was mine and while I will not hold back on talking about how it is my least favourite game in the series (that I've played) I will always be happy I started with it. The main reason I don't like Awakening is the gameplay, more specifically the Pair-Up and Reclass mechanics both of which were improved by Fates, you mentioned Pair-Up but reclassify is even more broken, seriously there's a reason why Donnel always becomes people's best first generation unit, since he's basically forced to reclass, while his level may say 1 it's more just a reset and the levels are carried over, this can be abused so easily, one reclass on a unit and they'll become leagues better than any unit that hasn't been reclassed it's that bad. The story of Awakening is quite barebones in my opinion, when I compare it to any other games story, it's the second most disappointing, first being Fates as a whole, Awakenings story starts off strong but after Gangrel dies it takes a nosedive, Valm is boring, though I'll admit I do like on how it shows how strong Chrom and Robin's relationship is at that point and the Grima arc basically makes only three characters at that point matter being Chrom, Robin and Lucina, the Khans don't really do much, Validar and Aversa are killed off without much buildup and then the good guys win (simplified yes but compared to the start of the game it's such a disappointment). Character wise the game shines though, there's not a single character in Awakening that I now dislike, (albeit I wasn't too much of a fan of Severa and Gerome in my first play through), the writing is charming each character is unique and while some of them (cough Lucina cough) have been used so often by IS in Heroes and Warriors that it's made me like them less, I'll still say that Awakening has my third favourite overall cast behind Blazing Sword and Sacred Stones.

[@blackbird7781]

Awakening was the First FE i owned. My first i played was Sacred Stones, but the first 5 chapters of a friend's copy

[@shiroalter8975]

I wouldn’t say Fates really improved on The Pair- Up and Reclass ability’s

[@shadedhydra6674]

Redemption V Gonna have to disagree, with Pair-Up the percentage chances didn't happen at all early game but then quickly got to be too good a few chapters in, if you say supported Sumia with Chrom by about B support there will be a 50% chance of Chrom getting in another (based of if it we him attacking so the damage would do so much) attack, Fates fixed this by making Supports only boost the stats of the other unit and instead added the gauge which wasn't broken, it was good because the player could only use it to avoid one attack until it had to be filled up again as well as if the units weren't paired up another attack could be initiated but would deal a lot less damage making being paired up not always the optimal strategy. I felt Reclasses were also fixed as instead of two class lines it was one instead, still giving units the opportunity and customisability to have an option of 4 classes for the end of the game and instead made pairings benefit units more and gave way more replay ability anyway, for example say you wanted to make Felicia a Sniper (not that you would) and so you can have options, either pair her up with Corrin (who gets to chose the reclass) or Takumi. Ironically giving the game more replay ability than Awakening as any unit can have any class instead of being stuck with three.

[@stridersanza426]

ShadedHydra >Not a fan of Severa and Gerome Are you my arch nemesis? (Married Severa first play through, fathered Gerome 2nd play through)

[@shadedhydra6674]

Strider Zero Don't worry I don't dislike them anymore, Severa was saved by Fates and Gerome grew on me after a while.

[@robsilver8942]

Great video man. Three houses is maybe my favorite game of all time honestly ordered awakening rdy to try it

[@TMX1138]

Awakening was my first Fire Emblem game.

[@Just_Shaun]

I recently bought fe awakening and bravely default in a bundle on Amazon for $95~ (£75). I’m mostly done buying 3DS games, but fire emblem was a franchise I missed out on, as I only started recently with fe engage. I have got both of the games on my homebrew 3DS, but they’re *almost must-have games… *if not for Elise, great video btw 😂

[@DTBluesreviews]

I've had so much fun with awakening and I'll still go back doing random playthroughs and drafts with friends I go back through my high school stuff and I was so excited for this game I wrote fire emblem awakening and it's release date all over my notes and I remember playing it all through highschool seeing the characters telling my friends about them and how cool they were the Lucina twist the Robin twist of course as time went by the cracks started to show and it lost favor in my eyes but it still probably sits in my top 5 FE games I've played being all NA released titles and 6

[@wrestlingwombat3821]

While I disagree with some of your points about fates, I do respect your opinion on them, and thought you did a great job on this video.

[@Josh-rs9kg]

I'm currently saving up for awakening, and I want to go into it with relatively few gameplay spoilers. Time to watch a comprehensive review of it!

[@batterychugger6714]

For Ylisse! And a merry new year. Good video!

[@91whydoesitmatter19]

Just wanted to thank you for your Fire Emblem videos. So far I've only played Awakening and Three Houses. Loved them both. Now I'm going to go back and go through the Marth and Roy games (+ Sacred Stones). by the time I'm done with all those, maybe I'll do Geneology and Thracia if there hasn't been a remake by then.... And maybe I'll have become a classic mode player too?

[@thegamermaks4316]

Merry Chr- Uh Happy New Year!!

[@Flareboxx]

Yay another Fire Emblem video! Keep em up :)

[@crashthebandicrash3357]

I loved the music, I think it might even be the best in the series. And I am also happy I got to play it spoiler free. The cutscenes are beyond impressive for the time and they really helped make the experience all that much better. I also felt the first arc of the story is really well done, while it gets convoluted later on I did appreciate the effort to properly explain why the children are there and why robin is a part of the story. The characters were also pretty well written. Side note: Woohoo! Another Canadian!!!

[@fangthefabulous1132]

For Ylisse! Also, I hope you do Echoes/Gaiden after Genealogy.

[@corruptpixel8441]

The first FE i played, I wasn't a turn combat enthusiast but damn Awakenig just got me, it did everything good (for the most part) yhe combat is fast and exciting, you get to know the characters well and the final battle it's painful to do but that ending just made me smile

[@CoffeeEmblem]

FOR YLISSE! Great video man! Can't wait for the FE4 one! Also Happy New Year! 🎊🎉

[@bobbennett063]

Finally! An Awakening video! I still play Awakening and love a permadeath run through. I swear, Ricken never sees the end. FOR YLISSE!!!

[@j.fletcherskorpius551]

I'm glad this was the first fire emblem game I played

[@slowpokefriedrice]

Awakening is an amazing game and this is coming from a guy who believes the Telius games are the best. I will defend this game forever. Awakening got me into FE which is now my favorite franchise and other RPGs in general. Before 2013 I only played Pokémon and that’s it

[@diegocandido001]

Hi. I am a big fan of FE from Brazil and I love your channel. Congrats.

[@hylianmage413]

Personally, I've always been a huge proponent of the map screen- it's why I count Sacred Stones as easily my favorite. Everyone plays differently, and for me, there's a huge joy in maxing out my characters and letting them achieve their potential, and I appreciate the games that give me the resources to do that. The best part with a map screen is that grinding is optional- as you said, it's great to be be able to have options to accommodate different playstyles and provide replayability.

[@dragonturtleab.3036]

Awakening was my second fire emblem game and i enjoyed it a lot i still play sometime especially the dlc maps, maxing some of my favourite units from previous games like ike, Hecktor or the Black Knight it is still fun to play 😊

[@madestmadhatter]

For Elise! Also I love grinding but I hate over complicated strategies, so I just made sure to teach Chrom and St- Robin Gale force and pair them up with a dark flier, not necessarily S ranked just made sure they always had one with them, I always paired Chrom with Sumia so that was an S but St- Robin didn't really meld well with any of the fliers to me so usually I'd have him hang out with Cordelia who I paired with Frederick due to their mutual love of Chrom and how perfect that worked with their daughter... Off topic, point was once Chrom and St- Robin could conquer the map I could always ensure they'd be there to save optional characters and kill characters that I felt the plot needs them to kill. Honestly though the hardest part of the game was plotting out relationships so that everyone except for the robin exclusives would have an S rank, which really makes me hate fates more since they had so many characters completing all the support conversations drove me half mad, and yet they still couldn't have the player character pick anyone outside of the Corrin exclusives without someone ending up dateless, and even if you didn't pair corrin with a non CE there was a chance you'd still isolate two or more characters.

[@Ei8hthRyan]

I love this video. I bought Fates but hadn't finished it yet. It's my first foray into the Fire Emblem series. Then i also got Awakening since many FE fans praised it. And then i got the spoiler from here, Lucina. Haha. I'm still on the Donnel quest atm.

[@darkrairoxas4102]

I just watched all your fe videos keep up the good work 👍👍. Can't wait for the echoes video. Its my favorite 3ds fire emblem.(weird i know)

[@maramba32]

Awakening isnt my first game. But I do love it for reviving the series. Marketing can only get so far for this. Geez why are awakening/fates cut scenes alot smoother than most. Echoes was choppy

[@therealsploge]

They used different studios. I hope they go back to CGI cutscenes for the next FE.

[@adamandom]

i love awakening - its probably my favorite game. I have so much nostalgia for it too. I remember waiting for smash 4 to come out, refreshing the Dojo every day to see new characters. Seeing the Lucina and Robin reveal trailer gave me literal goosebumps. I then got the awakening demo, I played the shit out of it - easily blowing through all the demo start limit counter. I eventually got the game and holy fuck it was amazing. Seeing awakening gameplay, hearing its music or seeing its characters makes me so happy as i remember the days of cozying up in bed at night and flipping back the 3ds screen to play it when I shouldve been asleep. I dont think any other game nails as many marks as Awakening does, and this is definitely from a place of ignorance as Im not too "into" the fire emblem franchise (outside of maining marth in smash lol) but I'd argue its the best of the series and its last good game. Then Fates came out. I was excited. More Awakening? Sign me up! I bought all three versions - originally I was going to buy the special edition but it was sold out. I ended up getting Conquest with the other three as DLC. I went for the Conquest route (mostly because Inigo was in it) and damn was it a slog. None of the characters were interesting in the slightest, worst of all was Corrin. Corrin is the reason I despise custom main characters. You sacrifice character design quality, writing and pretty much everything else and for what? To be in the story? But you have no control over how the main character acts, so whats the point? All that ends up happening is the main character becomes generic, unrelatable and unmemorable at best. Thats the case with Corrin, though I'm sure they are the worst example of a custom main character, but the same applies to the protagonist of Fallout 4 who is their own character that you superficially change the appearance and "choose" the dialogue for. Robin was perfect. They dont take up valuable screen time until the end where its earned and not forced (the Valm section forces the shepherds to strategise unlike the Plegia section which makes Robins transition into center focus in the Grimleal section a lot more reasonable and smooth). Robin being customisable makes sense, too. Hes the "avatar" for the player, yes, but hes also the literal avatar for Grima. You customising his stats and physical traits is *Grima making Robin the best vessel for himself*. After Fates came out, I felt burned. £70 down the drain. Thats the price of TWO 3ds games. Awakening will always hold a special place in my heart, and its real shame that its emulation is so poor with stutters during fights and so forth. I could go on about more things I enjoy about awakening: its UI, music, the support mechanic, the story and the child units but I'll save that for an essay one day. I only hope they remaster the game at some point - include all the DLC and add a few additional chapters into the mix to make it last just a little bit longer.

[@DarkHeroCC]

Brilliant work!

[@litzijimenez1795]

And then the music is so beautiful for awakening

[@trynottodie5352]

Super Fire Emblem Bros. is so fun I like playing as Marth #1 and Marth #2 and Marth #3 and Marth #4 and Marth #5 and Marth #6 and Marth #7 Down Special - counter is my favourite move

[@blankcityaudio]

Great quality video. New subscriber. I look forward to more content in the future.

[@sharpfegamer]

Fire emblem awakening, one of my favourite games of all time, glad to see someone else enjoy it.

[@hemangchauhan2864]

Happy New Year!

[@Zappers42]

I've watched a bunch of fire emblem video essays and everyone seem to completely gloss over Radiant Dawn which I honestly feel is the best game in the series. Like I get it, the support conversations were taken out, the difficulty settings were mistranslated, I get it, I get it. But story, characters, and gameplay I feel really beats out all of the other games.

[@dhisufiroafrozenseraphimdragon]

RD is one of my favorites.

[@HybridAngelZero]

12:59 Oh THAT'S where I left my Pyre. Geez, been looking all over the place

[@statesminds]

This game was sooo good. I loved the GBA ones and Gamcube path of radiance because of Smash Bros. But Awakening made me fall even more in love and now it is my all time favorite franchise along side Monster Hunter. I absolutely loved Three Houses. I personally like they did relationships. The characters so well written it just feels organic

[@buddhabinaural]

I heard of FE from Radiant Dawn, which was crazy good. I was like oh my God, chess just got amazing. I never heard of FE again since until 3H. Now deciding on a 3DS title to try. Looks like Conquest and Echoes are beating this in the race for my list to Santa.

[@ViewtifulDarnell]

Would love to see a Geneology of the Holy War remake. I'm under the impression that Shadows of Valentia was the final 3DS installment so I guess it would be on Switch then.

[@DarthWillSmith]

I have a grudging respect for FE: Awakening. I absolutely loath most of the characters and the story. Yeah the gameplay is good, but Fire Emblem gameplay in general is always good so I can't exactly praise it for doing the bare minimum. There seems to be more of an overemphasis on stats over strategy, and most chapters devolve into either turtling up on superior forces, or shock-and-awe against inferior forces. Also character models have NO FUCKING FEET. But yeah it did save the franchise and kept it relevant today. Without it, there would be no Echoes (which is my favorite of the 3DS trio and one of my favorite games in the series period), there would be no Three Houses which looks amazing so far, and there would be no hopefully inevitable remakes of the older games that I feel really need modern re-interpretations just like Gaiden did (Jugdral, I'm looking at you).

[@blackbird7781]

Shadows of Valentia was so awesome! It was so much better of a remake than 11 and 12 were. Also the creator of SoV said they wanted to remake FE 6 next. However they probably won't be able to due to SoV doing horrid sales wise compared to many other FE games due mostly to people hating it in Japan cuz it wasn't a 1 for 1 remake and internationally it was hated for being a game that was a mix of new and old in fire emblem so elitists for the newer games and older games despised it

[@DarthWillSmith]

It's news to me that Japan hated Echoes. I hope they continue the remake subseries all the same. I need to see Jugdral rendered in modern fashion. I have heard that FE6 was next in line but I honestly dont think that game warrants a remake, at least not for another several years.

[@blackbird7781]

@@DarthWillSmith i think a remake for 6 and 7 in style like Geneology of the Holy War would be good. Also apparently Jugdral won't get a remake unless they hugely change lots of the story and make certain marriage options not doable anymore. Otherwise it could get an M rating which Nintendo would not be happy with

[@DarthWillSmith]

@@blackbird7781 If all they take out is the incest it wouldn't be such a huge loss. it was never really in the foreground to begin with. plus it's gross anyway.

[@sebasallcool5]

Awakening’s gameplay is NOT good, at all

[@caseysummers556]

I love this game so much, I recently bought a copy for my cousin who has never played an FE game before and he is loving it so far. Great entry title imo.

[@jasonfox6932]

I don't remember kellem what mission did he show up in... Was there a paralogue I missed?

[@GentlemanGamer94]

FOR ALYSSE! Probably spelled that wrong, but W/E :) I'll forever love Awakening because, while I do like Echoes more, it's what introduced me to Fire Emblem. A friend attempted to get me into the GBA games years after the fact, but I couldn't motivate myself to play through them somehow. I have done so now however, and that's because of Awakening; it's presentation, romance mechanics, gameplay, music and everything is just so goshdarn enjoyable that, even as someone who doesn't usually play strategy titles, I couldn't help but fall in love. Now there are only two localized titles I have yet to play, and my getting that far owes itself entirely thanks to Awakening; I wouldn't have wanted to do nearly that much if I'd started with, say, Fates.

[@Sergept]

3 years later me: FOR ILIS!! (I'm new to FE, sorry if I said something weird.). Thank you for these videos, got hooked on Shadows of Valentia and will jump straight to Awakening :)

[@ChuytheDrax]

I'VE BEEN WAITING THIS VIDEO FOR AGES!! PLEASE KEEP MAKING FE VIDEOS EDIT: FOR YLISSE

[@saltyluigi4011]

Only things I like about Awakening are the cutscenes, music and UI. The UI is very clean. FE12 >>>>>>> FE11 There's a pairing system was in FE4 btw. You can get children. Radiant Dawn and Path of Radiance also have skills. Skipping enemy phase was in DSFE. nvm you already know I guess but I wish you could say something else instead of "this thing's pretty good"

[@vicethane]

Shadow Dragon was my very first Fire Emblem game. Not the best way to introduce the series,I'll admit. BUT it's arguably my favorite Fire Emblem game. I just how it has zero fcks given about new players. Perma death,Items are few and far in between and you have to rely on shops and conservation,not to mention tight money. First time I didn't know perma death was a thing and when I did I made my mission to recruit every single unit and keep them alive till the end of the game...and then immediately fail because Cain died in Minerva's chapter and saved over it. Funnily enough I never actually finished SD and went straight to New Mystery and I just love everything about New Mystery. Kris' character creation is the best because you can choose their background and it actually effects their growth. Not to mention that Luke gives you different nicknames depending on what face you choose. Little details like makes the game pretty cool on my scale. And Then Awakening came along...and I just couldn't play it. I don't know why but something about it driven me away from it. I want to give it a shot I really do but I just can't for some reason. Fates was a similar case except I kinda played Birthright and stopped halfway through because of how boring it was. I get Awakening saved the franchise and I'm really glad it did and if you like more power to you but I don't think I'll ever will.

[@IdolPretender]

I like this video it's a nice in depth look and comparison to Fates but the title is a bit misleading and it doesn't really explain ANYTHING about how "How Fire Emblem: Awakening SAVED Fire Emblem! " minus the like last 3 minutes. It never really explains how it saved the series. Kinda disappointed it felt more like I was watching him just compare aspects of Awakening to fates and a few other games in the series.