Review: Fire Emblem

The Fire Emblem series is probably one of my favorite 'Under the Radar' games, mainly because most of its games were never released outside Japan, Fire Emblem: Awakening is the series' latest entry and is a 3DS exclusive.

While the game is short (take this with a grain of salt, I usually speed-play through my first playthroughs), there are still tons of side-missions and DLC's, unlockable characters, and a myriad of relationship options for all the characters.

The game gives you difficutly options when starting, Normal, Hard and Lunatic modes, I think the names explain them clearly, what the series used on Awakening from one of the Japan-Only Fire Emblem games, Fire Emblem: Hero of Light and Shadow, is the option to choose from Classic or Casual mode, Classic mode, as the series is probably most known for, is once a character dies, he/she is gone forever. Casual mode makes the units 'retreat' once they hit 0 HP so they become available again in the next battles.

Dialogue is very well written, considering there are tons of different relationship options. The cast of Fire Emblem: Awakening will certainly make themselves lovable in their own way that if you play in Classic mode, will kill parts of you as well as they die. You will be able to load a save file, yes, but that defeats the purpose of playing in Classic Mode.

Voice Acting is also fantastic whether you're playing on English or Japanese(Subbed), the Voice Cast is so star studded that you're bound to recognize one soon enough.

Fire Emblem: Awakening is an awesome addition to the series' already incredible line-up

It also might make you cry during certain points of the game, so get those napkins ready!

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Score : 9 / 10

Platform : 3DS

By: Sephie