Fire Emblem Awakening: Who's ready to start matchmaking?

[Icewings]

I played one FE game and it was so scary I was always afraid of losing units oh my « Harvest Goddess »

BUT! I think I'll get this... And go for Krom because Tomokazu Sugita <333 Or Frederick.

please tell me henry is romanceable because he looks like a massive yangire

[Osuchin]

I played one FE game and it was so scary I was always afraid of losing units oh my « Harvest Goddess »

BUT! I think I'll get this... And go for Krom because Tomokazu Sugita <333 Or Frederick.

please tell me henry is romanceable because he looks like a massive yangire

Yep, the permadeath feature is something FE is both famous and infamous for.

Yes he is, he is both a character that any of the girls that have a set child can marry, and the My Unit can marry any party member of the opposite gender(with the exception of DLC characters).

[Blue Rose]

So, tell me how this works...does the game have MCs, or do you just play as all of the characters or idk?
/is really confused

[Osuchin]

So, tell me how this works...does the game have MCs, or do you just play as all of the characters or idk?
/is really confused

Awakening has three main characters, Krom, Lucina, and the My_Unit.
Each one acts as the center of the main story, and unlike other units if one of them dies it's game over.
And unlike a lot of games with multiple MCs and a highly customizable player avatar, the My Unit actually has a really major part in the game's storyline.
Not only in their role as the tactician of Krom's army but also in the overarching plot.

Though with Lucina, she doesn't join you until later into the game, whereas you get Krom and My Unit at the beginning.

[LoveisSame333]

So, tell me how this works...does the game have MCs, or do you just play as all of the characters or idk?
/is really confused

Awakening has three main characters, Krom, Lucina, and the My_Unit.
Each one acts as the center of the main story, and unlike other units if one of them dies it's game over.
And unlike a lot of games with multiple MCs and a highly customizable player avatar, the My Unit actually has a really major part in the game's storyline.
Not only in their role as the tactician of Krom's army but also in the overarching plot.

Though with Lucina, she doesn't join you until later into the game, whereas you get Krom and My Unit at the beginning.

So, do you create a My_Unit from the start of the game? And it's you? (Sorry, but your explanation cleared some questions of mine, but now I want to know more about My_Unit.)

[Osuchin]

So, tell me how this works...does the game have MCs, or do you just play as all of the characters or idk?
/is really confused

Awakening has three main characters, Krom, Lucina, and the My Unit.
Each one acts as the center of the main story, and unlike other units if one of them dies it's game over.
And unlike a lot of games with multiple MCs and a highly customizable player avatar, the My Unit actually has a really major part in the game's storyline.
Not only in their role as the tactician of Krom's army but also in the overarching plot.

Though with Lucina, she doesn't join you until later into the game, whereas you get Krom and My Unit at the beginning.

So, do you create a My Unit from the start of the game? And it's you? (Sorry, but your explanation cleared some questions of mine, but now I want to know more about My Unit.)

You control all of the your units on the battlefield, but the My Unit is intended as the player's avatar in the game. They have a background in the story, but when Krom's army first comes across they had collapsed and were suffering from amnesia(cliche yes, but the story explains the cause of it later on).

Yes you do create the My Unit at the start of the game. You can choose your gender, with each having 3 body sizes, 5 eyes (for each body size), 5 hairstyles (for each body size), 20 hair colours and 5 voices(one which is silent). The voice determines the character's voice actor and are used in dialogue, not just battle grunts.


This will not only change how the My Unit's 3D avatar will look, but also their 2D portrait used during dialogue sequences, and will reflect how the 3D avatar looks.



You also can name the My Unit(thier default name is Robin), select their birth month and day, as well as pick their best and worst stat.
Choosing your best and worst stat allows you to tweek My Unit's default initial stats, stat growth, and max stats, a bit to specialize them a little to your general playstyle.

They will always start as the Strategist class(a class unique to them and their children), which is sort of a battlemage class, capable of using swords and magic, and has class abilities focused around improving ally stats, and performing special attacks. The Stategist class is also one of the few unique class capable of being promoted. In which case they promote into a Grandmaster, which is an overall improved version of the Strategist.

The My Unit is also capable of class changing into any other class, that is not a unique class of another character or a beast class(like Manakete and Taguel).

And as stated before they are capable of marrying any party member(assuming said party member is still alive), so long as they are of the opposite gender.

[Blue Rose]

So, your party members can die? Are they suppose to die, or can you prevent their death (like via save point before hand)? jfalk;dsjf;sdfjal;sdjfas

[Osuchin]

So, your party members can die? Are they suppose to die, or can you prevent their death (like via save point before hand)? jfalk;dsjf;sdfjal;sdjfas

They die if they fall in battle(their HP reaches 0 in a battle). In which case you can no longer use them in that file(unless you reload an earlier save).
The game continues on without them. So it is a permadeath feature.
The only exception is if one of the Lords, Krom, Lucina, or My Unit(though technically My Unit is the only lord who doesn't have access to the Lord class); dies.
In which case it's game over.

[LoveisSame333]

So, tell me how this works...does the game have MCs, or do you just play as all of the characters or idk?
/is really confused

Awakening has three main characters, Krom, Lucina, and the My_Unit.
Each one acts as the center of the main story, and unlike other units if one of them dies it's game over.
And unlike a lot of games with multiple MCs and a highly customizable player avatar, the My Unit actually has a really major part in the game's storyline.
Not only in their role as the tactician of Krom's army but also in the overarching plot.

Though with Lucina, she doesn't join you until later into the game, whereas you get Krom and My Unit at the beginning.

So, do you create a My_Unit from the start of the game? And it's you? (Sorry, but your explanation cleared some questions of mine, but now I want to know more about My_Unit.)

You control all of the your units on the battlefield, but the My_Unit is intended as the player's avatar in the game. They have a background in the story, but when Krom's army first comes across they had collapsed and were suffering from amnesia(cliche yes, but the story explains the cause of it later on).

Yes you do create the My Unit at the start of the game. You can choose your gender, with each having 3 body sizes, 5 eyes (for each body size), 5 hairstyles (for each body size), 20 hair colours and 5 voices(one which is silent). The voice determines the character's voice actor and are used in dialogue, not just battle grunts. The voice actors for the My Uniy are: Males (Travis Willingham, Dave Wittenberg, Tony Oliver, James Arnold Taylor). Females (Amanda Winn Lee, Kate Higgins, Jennifer Hale, Barbara Goodson)


This will not only change how the My_Unit's 3D avatar will look, but also their 2D portrait used during dialogue sequences, and will reflect how the 3D avatar looks.



You also can name the My Unit(thier default name is Robin), select their birth month and day, as well as pick their best and worst stat.
Choosing your best and worst stat allows you to tweek My Unit's default initial stats, stat growth, and max stats, a bit to specialize them a little to your general playstyle.

They will always start as the Strategist class(a class unique to them and their children), which is sort of a battlemage class, capable of using swords and magic, and has class abilities focused around improving ally stats, and performing special attacks. The Stategist class is also one of the few unique class capable of being promoted. In which case they promote into a Grandmaster, which is an overall improved version of the Strategist.

The My Unit is also capable of class changing into any other class, that is not a unique class of another character or a beast class(like Manakete and Taguel).

And as stated before they are capable of marrying any party member(assuming said party member is still alive), so long as they are of the opposite gender.

Thank You so much for explaining to me My_Unit. (I think I may get this game after all )

[Plushenkoo]

Ahh, I love FE. I can't wait til this game comes out, especially since I've beaten all of the other 3DS games I had.

I really like that you can create your character, and they gave more purpose to the support system (I think marrying was an old feature, right?).

So, your party members can die? Are they suppose to die, or can you prevent their death (like via save point before hand)? jfalk;dsjf;sdfjal;sdjfas

I actually don't know about this game, but in previous ones i've played you could save before the battle starts, but not during. So if they die, you'll either after to go on without them, or restart from the beginning of the battle.

I have a strict rule of not letting any of my units die, personally. But it gets frustrating when you're near beating a battle, and then one of your units gets killed, and then you have to restart. That's happened to me too many times...

[HaseoGUA]

For those of you scared of permadeath Awaking has a "casual" mode that disables the permadeath :D

[Osuchin]

I really like that you can create your character, and they gave more purpose to the support system (I think marrying was an old feature, right?)

Some characters did marry in past games.
But it was only a handful of them.
Nothing like what is in Awakening.

For those of you scared of permadeath Awaking has a "casual" mode that disables the permadeath :D

That's right it does. I had completely forgotten about that. XD
Probably because the permadeath feature is so ingrained in my view of the game that it slipped my mind.

[LoveisSame333]

For those of you scared of permadeath Awaking has a "casual" mode that disables the permadeath :D

Can you put "casual" mode at the beginning of the game or only on some parts? (I always hated my character's dying, I would turn it off and restart every time they died)

[Chinchilla]

For those of you scared of permadeath Awaking has a "casual" mode that disables the permadeath :D

And this has made me decide to definitely buy the game :D

I hate permadeath. Urgh. I am horrible at strategy games. I've played the first GBA Fire Emblem to come to NA and Radiant Dawn. I liked both of them, but permadeath. I kept trying so hard to not lose any units. I eventually got stuck in the GBA game (I could not get past a certain chapter without someone dying) and just gave up. Radiant Dawn, I just got distracted by other games and quit >_>

But the character customization for My Unit does look nice. I like.

[maydaysoup]

Based on the video posted earlier, it sounds like you can only select "Casual Mode" in the beginning of the game.
Ahh, I wonder what I'll do.... I can easily throw >5 hours at a single chapter if my characters keep on dying, especially when some odd fluke like a sudden critical occurs. I've been playing the old FEs in preparation for this game, but I still don't know if I'm confident enough to take the risk of choosing the hard route.... jsdlfjhqkfhlqwk
Also, so many marriage options. Makes me nervous. I kind of dislike the way they've super-saturated the romance element, though. I mean, there are no older people. No platonic (non-sibling) support events. I kind of liked having friendships and demographics in the past games... Oh well.
That is the only bone I have to pick. I'm having a similar issue with the voiced vs. silent protag thing, though. I guess if My_Unit is gonna have pre-set dialogue, anyway, might as well make 'em voiced. Still....

Otherwise, hype runs through my veigns. Soooo excited for this game. Thank « Harvest Goddess » they're releasing a demo; demos convinced me to buy Rhythm Thief. It makes a game so much more marketable....