This is what happens in... Fire Emblem: Awakening [FE13 Plot Review] 

"God the only thing that's more abused in Fire Emblem is Noire!" I laughed way harder than I should have at that tbh

"You can't actually die by being killed in this game" aka casual mode

"We need to save Emmeryn!" Alright, alright. Just let me tour the country four times, recruit donnel, maybe pick up my laundry, fight tons of risen and do some shopping first.

2:51 " Chrom's plan failed because Robin didn't think of it." Holy shit that part had me dying.

wow the plot really does sound pathetically stupid when you word it like thay, can't say I didn't love it when I got it though

I bet Chrom has a wardrobe of shirts with one sleeve missing.

Time travel plots are really easy to fuck up *thinks about Sonic 06*

It bothers me so much that Mustafa wasn't recruitable in anyway. It makes TOO much sense to recruit him. He agrees with Chrom's cause, He's a base class beserker (A class that no other character can have without class change) and support conversations imply he has a close bond with Henry. What the fuck? You bring back The fucking Filler arc villain before you bring back Mustafa? Even Cervantes had more character.

To be fair, whatever Chrom's weaknesses as a hero are, at least he never loses the Falchion like certain Lords named Marth. ... Seriously, man, I spent the whole of your first adventure looking for the damn thing and in the sequel you just magically let it slip from your fingers? Are you some kind of distance ancestor to Samus Aran? >_>

You know who doesn't live in the end? PHILA! I WANTED MY TRIANGLE ATTACKING, PEGASUS KNIGHT TRIO, DAMMIT!

Take a shot everytime somebody says Awakening is the worst Fire Emblem of all time and ruined the series, then take another when a fanboy comes in and says it was literally perfect in every way possible.

Hey! You forget about Cervantes not living.... He was a legend. He will be remembered.

Grima may be a terrible villain, but I (am the only person to ever say this) will admit that he has a pretty sweet artistic design. Nothing quite beats the look of a six-feather-winged centipede-dragon with six read beady eyes and gigantic horns. (And before anyone argues, there has been worse in the past. Duma looks like, and I will quote, "All the animals of a zoo got pulled inside out from their assholes and stapled together.")

okay okay okay i get what within the moon means lol chill

The Fire Emblem Community: Players whose first Fire Emblem game was Awakening: "Awakening is awesome!!" Fans of the older Fire Emblem games: "Awakening is awful, Fates will be awful!!......but I am still going buy it and play it for hours and hours."

"Robin has less growth than a pizza pocket" My Robin would say otherwise....

"You know the kind of girls who get high school photo shoots in an open field?" Oh my gosh, why is this so true...no freaking wonder XD

You forgot Philia dying right before Emm

no, mustafa no, #prayforMustafa

You know what doesn't live Ghast? My hope for a good story in a future Fire Emblem game. Though I'm okay with future Fire Emblem games sucking if it means we get videos like these on your channel.

Let's play the Awakening fanboy drinking game. Take a shot whenever you see "awakening saved the franchise." in the comments!

This is amazing. And any people who can't appreciate this don't have thick enough skin to see their favorite game with all its flaws. (Yes, it's my favorite game, but damn it has a lot of problems. Haha.)

As someone who has only played Awakening (I've also preordered Fates: Conquest), I definitely though the plot could've been much better. But, you know, I liked pretty much every character that wasn't Miriel, so that was nice. Support conversations were also great. Also this game introduced Owain.

1:04 - That is one sexy avatar btw! Just sayin!

I'm starting to like Awakening's story. Hear me out on this. It's so bad that people can make fun of it in pretty clever ways. In that regard, it is an absolute masterpiece.

That Moulder Kamehameha though.

"Within the Moon" "Within the Moon Cycle" "Within the Month" Usually what it boils down to.

Intelligent Systems: We really messed up with Awakenings plot, how do we fix this for the next game? Moar tits! Nailed it. Anyway, I love these, keep it up! xD

Ok thank you thank you thank you for finally ripping into Sumia and Chrom's freaking horrible relationship!

I interpreted Awakenings ending as Avatar is sent back in time to the start of the game and is stuck in an endless loop of killing Grima and restarting without remembering the previous timeline.

lol You're right, like no one actually dies in Awakening's story

4:08 In Sumia's defense, those were really tasty pies.

As much as I love Fire Emblem Awakening I have to admit that the story was shit and the fact that the villains and Emmeryn can be recruited even though they die is ridiculous

Am I the only person tired of Awakening roasting? Sure, Awakening deserves it, but I still like this game, you know. Then again, I'm the same guy who likes FE1 the best due to my love of 8-bit, so whatever. Early installment weirdness is no excuse for flawed gameplay and you know it.

Actually that one General guy you fight in the chapter after Emmeryn dies for real. And it's actually sadder than Emm's death too.

"and no, just because she's a pink general does not make her better than Gilliam!" No, but the fact that she's a tiny little girl in a suit of armor so fucking huge that for her it basically qualifies as a MECH does. ...Also, Sacred Stones had the best Generals by far, because they both could use swords and looked so fucking badass wielding them. The only general in the game cooler-looking than SS generals was the black knight.

I loved awakening but omg you are not wrong in the slightest lol. XD

I won't exactly say that "Fire Emblem Awakening saved the franchise", it was overall lackluster compared to the previous games. As a player who actually began with Awakening, I found the game personally addicting. It was easy for me to get into and in terms of what I expected in a story, it was good (I normally like to see what Awakening distributed in it's game). I got to make my own avatar which helped me get a feeling that I was the one playing and living in the story, not just playing it as a person with an on-screen unit that was supposed to represent me. However I will admit that the minor villains like Cervantes, Excellus, and to an extent Validar, were rather one sided and very boring after a repeat play or two. Walhart was honestly one of my favorite characters, even if his ambitions copied Emmeryn's, wanting to see peace for the world, he did it in a different manner. Same with Yen'fay, who swore allegiance to Walhart simply because it would protect his little sister from her own courage getting her executed. However, as time went on after finishing Awakening and seeing Fates confirmed, and even the report where it had confirmed from the directors that if Awakening hadn't done well in sales, that it would be the end of the series, I was suspicious about what the older games were like. I started by watching SlimKirby's playthrough of Path of Radiance, and then Radiant Dawn, and I'm watching the same person play Sacred Stones as of this moment. I can definitely see what people mean when they say Awakening ruined the series with how easy and one-sided it was. I will admit, Chrom was a lackluster character in his own right when compared to past protagonist lord units. Compared to Ike's strength, Chrom was a toddler. Compared to the loss Ike went through, Chrom's were minimal (sort of. Emmeryn's suicide was still no match toward Greil being killed by the Black Knight.) Anyway, my point here is: Awakening may be one of the more lackluster games in the series, but I refuse to say it's the worst and I will concur that it might not have 'saved the franchise' but at least kept it on it's feet, even just barely. I've seen gameplay of Fates (thank you Linkmstr for taking such time and care to translate game script), and it is definitely an improvement from Awakening, and the losses the avatar goes through are much greater. So, in conclusion: Hi. Anyway. Time to leave. *Watches the video of Podghast 3 posted six days later than this.* Oh. Okay. Hi.

Nice use of Riki's theme :3

I loved awakening for two reasons: 1- dating sim 2- steroids everywhere. Yep, story sucks, but at least there's playable mode so I can see all the cars before i actually do my real playthrough. and story sucks so much but it's my most played FE game.

BUT AWAKENING SAVED THE FRANCHI... 'thousands of fe fans all over the world at that moment died of alcohol poisoning.

This story is crap on a second listen, lol. Maybe the characters are why I love this game so much.

the ending to fire emblem awakening was the weakest part, especially since my guys were way over-leveled for the encounter and my boi kellam walked up to the final boss, untouchable & ready to dive bomb through his chest, and smacked him down and he continued to smack down the final boss until the player character could get there and do the cutscene. fighting on the back of a giant dragon should've been the highlight for being awesome, but it was, by far, the most hilarious thing to ever witness in a fire emblem game.

The story in the nutshell: -random amnesiac guy/girl wakes up and is accepted into a group of royal warriors with no questions asked -girl in an insanely unconvincing man disguise comes from the future -group fights off a medieval mage version of Darth Vader to protect a very nice queen -Medieval Darth Vader respawns because why not and brings along a clone of the amnesiac -queen gets kidnapped and killed by a clown-king dude -Clown-king-dude with a hot sidekick gets his ass kicked and Medieval Darth Vader takes over his kingdom because...why not. -a giant lobster man on a horse sends an army to kill the group for a shield...because for some dumb reason he couldn't bother to use ask for the damn thing -Medieval Darth Vader pulls the "I am your father!" gimmick, and then is forgotten 5 seconds afterwards -future girl reveals herself to be the daughter of the new king of the good guys/semi main protagonist -the Mustache God descends onto the Earth, then gets his ass kicked because the group hacked to bypass his insta-win invincible mustache of infallible science -Lobster Man and his army gets killed -Clown-king dude's hot sidekick turns out to be with Medieval Darth Vader and the two do the most obvious betrayal ever -amnesiac revealed to be an evil dragon god of the apocalypse who needs a shield with 5 useless pretty rocks to go full power -Lobster Man revealed to have been a dumbass because he wanted to stop evil dragon god, but was too damn stupid to explain himself and ask for the shield instead of wage war -Medieval Darth Vader gets curb stomped -hot sidekick takes over the villain role and mostly just flies around throwing cannon fodder until eventually beaten -amnesiac's clone turns out to be the evil dragon god from the future...except for some dumb reason didn't just annihilate everyone sooner and decides to fight at the end because why not -an overleveled unit 2-3 shots evil dragon god/1-shots it with a crit...idk The...End.

Awakening is one of my favorite games of all time, but even I can admit all of your criticism is spot on.

I will now rant about how Lucina and everyone else in Fire Emblem Awakening shouldn't technically exist. Lucina was born in the two year period when they weren't fighting any wars, and was left to be taken care of after the threat of Grima arose. She wouldn't have had any time to become as old as she was when she went back in time to save Chrom. The oldest she could have been was five to six, so she couldn't have stayed alive while Grima was taking over, because she would have been helpless. So really, the whole storyline is logically incorrect, and the future should have stayed the way it was, and everyone should technically be dead. I hope this wasn't to depressing.

I hear "Riki the Legendary Heropon" in the background! Hooray Xenodorks

Holy shit, I love this game and MAN the story has huge issues. In the end though, I can still look past them and enjoy the story, mostly because the characters are awesome to me (because the support system).

This was too good, I can't get tired of people trashing this plot. Fun fact: Nintendo and IS admitted Awakening's plot is bad in Fates' Iwata Asks. I don't think it will get flamed now, but if you released this say, when Awakening first came out, then you would've gotten a lot of flak.

I subscribed for the comment about Noire's abuse alone.

They kill no one except for the two best characters yenfay and mustafa

I think "within the moon" part meant a cycle of the moon until it’s the full moon, so that means it could have been crescent or half of whatever so that’s why it was phrased Ike that… I think…

FE8 next right? YES??

Yeah the story was shit. I love the characters and game though.

It's six~seven years too late, but "within the moon" means roughly within the month. It's a lunar month, not a solar month (which we use), though. According to Wiki, a lunar month is around 29.53 days, so... Yeah, it basically just means that they're going to be executed in a month's time.

Despite the plot holes, and the Valm campaign. I do enjoy this story. Especially when you level up a few of the characters to be basically gods. Like Donnell and Cordelia.

Playing the game: Ok, this seems fun. Watching this video: Man this game *ducking sucks. Playing the game again: It has nice music. The end.

I really like going across these videos and mangs videos and seeing all the exact same people comment on them

"People die if they are killed" Some Fated Red hair, Yellow eyed, sword obsessed anime boy.

And now Ghast Station's favorite FE game is Awakening. Because Mark.

Your self drawn portraits still look better than the portraits in game

10:23 Phila :c

I FUCKING LOVED THE RIKI INTRODUCTION THEME IN THE BACKGROUND

I'd have to say, Fates is pretty good, it's got better gameplay, but Awakening is better in my opinion just because of the characters.

We need either a new FE or a DLC to actually develop Robin. And Please try to focus on talking about corrin's dragon powers, That got NO mentioning in ANY of his supports with the exception of Kiragi. They avoid the subject like it's the plague....

"Because god forbid anyone dies in this game" Took the words right out of my mouth. Cause pray tell we sink someone's ship.

Didn't expect to see Sumia roasted so well but I'm so glad you did.

Lol those faces on the risen chests are so subtle but necessary. A lot of good points in this summary and top notch art. Noooice

Seriously, I wish we could've just recruited Mustafa. He was a genuinely nice guy.

I actually really like Awakening. Sure the story is a bit cliched but I still really like it and the characters are all really memorable and likable (okay, there are some exceptions coughcoughmirielcough) Honestly, if the pair up mechanics from Fates were put into Awakening, I would have no reason to play Fates. Fates just isn't all that fun to me, but the pair up system is undoubtedly better than Awakening's, imo.

Mustafa xD Congratz, you just earned yourself a new subscriber :3 Great video! :)

FE Devs : So we are gonna create this FE that will basically celebrate all things FE with this silly anime plot FE Fans : THIS IS THE WORST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO FE

You're right about the whole "every protagonist is better than Chrom" thing. Chrom is the worst and most boring lord in the series in my opinion.

Where can I find this "big daddy" thing from the beginning?

I don’t get why some people think Robin was the main character when they’ve gone out of their way in the story to show its Chrom

"Within the moon" sounds like a fancy way of saying "this month"

Damn ghast you roasted this game harder than Alvis roasted Sigurd

Awakening is like the sao of anime. Terrible, cliche, and unoriginal writing but everyone loves it anyway bc it was their first one/ gate way to fe/anime creating nastalgia. Although other parts of the game were great, and it did save the franchise. Not bc im a fanboy but bc if it wasnt popular it would have been the last game.

Does anyone here actually like Tharja? If so, you're wrong lol

Stupid plot makes up with awesome characters. Just like Gurren Lagann.

Great video, but I do have to point out one flaw, which is that this game has nothing to do with FE4 story wise. It's multiple generations after FE1/3/11/12.

Why was Riki’s Theme from Xenoblade playing in the background LOL

Argh I wish Awakening allowed you to recruit Yenfay with Say’ri like how the gba games let you recruit certain enemies with certain characters. And it would even make sense too because since he’s “trying to protect his country and sister”, he soon realizes that he can join with Say’ri and the Shepards to defeat the blackmailers.

I like this game a lot and it’s nice to see a casual review/summary of it

I don't know if anyone has commented on this yet but they did bring back rescuing in fates.....sort of. its a skill that cavaliers learn at level 10.

The ending is the best part.

What's weird is that if you play classic mode, characters can only die for real during gameplay, never in cut scenes. Unlike almost every other RPG.

I kept getting this video in my recommendations box, well, happy I decided to finally watch it! Subbed, too. You're awesome!

Dat "Fie Fie Fie Fie" Made my day.

if you play the game as a girl, you end up being the wife of Crom

Turns out, the kids didn't quite save their future by just defeating grima in the past, because of multi-verse shenanigans. They only mention that in some support conversations though.

When Faerghast talks about Sumia: “He’s out of line, but he’s right.”

still waiting for the fe4 one of these. c'monnnn you know you want to.

"So Robin." "Yes, Chrom?" "Let me get this straight: We have traveled across two continents, ignored three endangered merchants, somehow gone through three enemy filled areas without being detected, just to buy, two more swords for Inigo?" "Yeah, pretty much." "....fine. What now." "Simple. We go the entire way again to keep training him in an alternate dimension." "...." "...." "...." "...." "Virion, you're our new tactition."

Your comment at the end about Mustafa turned this from an A tier video into an S tier video. That man deserved more.

"Within the moon" is just purple prose for "within a month"

Mustafa was the best character in the game. Anyone who wants to fight about it lets go.

I didn't do much of a check in the comments, but I'll say it anyway. Within the Moon is within the month. So yeah, '_'

I know I’m a little late, but… “Within the moon” = “by the end of the month.” This hearkens back to times where months were calculated via lunar cycles, and thus referred to as “moons.”

Everyone except Yenfay and Walhart and Validar and any non-special boss dies Everyone else in classic mode just gives super injured and leaves