What made Fire Emblem Awakening so special? 

Not doing feet because it was hard and you were too busy is iconic and I love it.

“What, Fire Emblem Awakening is relatively new right? It came out semi recently” *Fire Emblem Awakening is nearly 12 years old* 🙃

This was my first Fire Emblem game and I freaking loved it so much. It really pulls you in and makes you want to keep coming back.

What make awakening special is that because "it was gonna be the last Fire emblem game they would create" , they decided to incorporated almost every single element from each FE game into this one. Thus why we have pretty much everything from the previous FE games , including the "child units" that was only used in FE4. You slap there that they even put DLC , end game content , and a lot more. There will never be another FE game that got the "Awakening" treatment on "we make it with the purpose on being the last one"

Help this is exactly how i talk for a school video project, I can hear myself in this video. Wonderful video

for me it was the eugenics

I mean, you take a very good game formula that has great brand recognition thanks to smash, make it accessible to a general audience, then put a heavy emphasis on character story telling and romance and boom, you have a hit. As someone who grew up watching my parents play blazing blade, shadow dragon, and the radiance games before playing them myself as I got older, awakening will probably never be in my top 5 fire emblems. (Radiant Dawn, three houses, binding blade, path of radiance, blazing blade) However, I'm very glad for its existence and have a lot of respect for it as a game. I feel like it did as good of a job of bringing fire emblem to a wider audience while maintaining core mechanics as it could have, and saved one of if not my favorite series.

I will always defend casual mode, because I never would have gotten through lunatic without it. Its just hell and its a fun hell when there aren't as harsh consequences for failure.

As someone who got into the series after watching one gameplay video of Awakening, this hits home. I specifically got myself a 3DS to play Awakening. After finishing the game, I went back and played the Shadow Dragon remakes and even the fan translated New Mystery of the Emblem. Since then, I played all three versions of Fates, Echoes, FE Warriors, Three Houses, FE Tokyo Mirage, Three Hopes and of course, Engage more recently. I tried Heroes but Gacha at the time is not my thing.

I just realized this is your first video,bit looks pretty good, keep it up!

I just got a copy of FE Awakening and I’m so happy! That’s my comment xD sharing with you some enthusiasm for this game!

You're right about the sprites making it look like an Hd2d game, I loved them!

Hands down my favorite game of all time! I got the mark of naga tattooed on my arm just like Chrom

fun fact, casual mode actually originated in the Japan only game fe12 (new mystery), but we should give awakening credit for it anyway because I don't like New Mystery (bad game) so I refuse to give it credit for any good ideas.

I was curious of Fire Emblem around the time Awakening was released and there weren't many 3DS games I wanted that time so I gladly accepted it when I was given the chance to try it. Another thing, Awakening returned to Marth's world and was a success so I can't help but wonder what would happen if they returned to Roy's world or Ike's world.

It was released 2/3 years into the 3DS's life span and had just enough fan service and good gameplay to capture the interest of nearly anyone who played it.

You might have mentioned it but in case you didn’t, it’s the only FE game with 3 characters in smash!

7:08 they originally didnt expect the 3ds to be able to handle more complex models, so they made the feet very simple, but were then informed that the 3ds could have more complex character models, but they decided to keep it and just leave that for the next game

Man, this was a really well edited vid!

pretty iconic video

On Mars? Could you imagine a world were Fire Emblem completely went off genre and turned into a successful scifi genre instead? It would remove peoples expectations of Fire Emblem being exclusive to Medieval fantasy.

what made Awakening so special? The fact that it was going to be the last game if Intelligent Systems couldn't get their shit together and so they decided "Eff it, let's put everything that could potentially sell this game into it" And unfortunately, the game succeeded and now we're stuck with the consequences of them putting a dating sim in the game and using anime tropes. BUT THE SERIES LIVES

Good video always fun to listen to someone talk positively about one of your favorite things 😁

It's cool to see so many new players in the comments saying they just started playing this game. I bought the game years ago but was too busy to play it back then & just set it aside until finally I got back into it just a couple of months ago. I've enjoyed it enough that I'm now looking at buying all the subsequent games.

I played through it and finally fully finished the game a few months ago. And damn… add it to the list of games I’ve cried at the end. Not the end cutscene, but I as I read through the stories of all the characters as the credits ran, I was crying, laughing, and everything in between. The thing I want the mention that I slightly disagree with, is the Valm arc. I agree that from a standpoint of the storyline, it very much dragged on, without a doubt. But in my opinion, it boasted the best combat of the game. The armies really felt thematic to exclusively the kingdom of Valm. With their huge focus on heavily armored knights and cavalry. The combat felt more than just a strewn grouping of enemies.

Something something "achtulley it didn't sahve the sherees" Something Something "this game has x flaw in common with the other games but it's awakening so I must complain because I feel good about myself when I praise obscure older games"

Still my most beloved fire emblem game

He's a content creator!!!

Giving you a follow, hope the channel grows! :) Nice video.

love you aloey

The 3rd generation of FE (2012-) was lucky enough to be successful but at a cost of story and character development to make it anime

I like this video and Fire Emblem Awakening :)

Been playing it for the first time, enjoying it

If only there was a path of radiance remake on switch

I honestly think that the reason awakening was such a success in every thing it wanted to do was because Nintendo wanted to make FE a global game also they gave everyone 30$ in America for getting it.

it had marketing

very good 👍

hello! great video ❤

music is too loud... but good script

This video is wonderful, but please buy a better microphone, I can barely hear you throughout the entire video

I am surprised to see how many contrarians there were in this comment section

Awakening did NOT introduce casual mode. The game before it, New Mystery, did

So I have played 13 Fire Emblem games and I can tell a lot of Fire Emblem fans are full of shit. Awakening is very clearly a culmination and celebration of the Fire Emblem series. Chrom and Lucina are direct descents of Marth. Ylisse is Altea but way in the future. Valm is Valentia and that whole area is a giant fanservice bit to gaiden. Tiki is even back. It also takes a lot after FE4. Chrom is older and kind of stupid like Sigurd. And a lot of parallels can be drawn between Lucina and Seliph. Skills play a big effect into making characters stand out. The affection system is also very similar to 4 but they actually show you who is gaining affection and let you pick your pairings. Robin is also a callback to Mark from FE7. This is further emphasized from Morgan's Japanese name being Marc. It takes a ton of ideas from previous games and tries to combine them into something new and it was a legimately good game. Hard Mode was maybe a bit undertuned, but a lot of Fire Emblem games don't have the best difficulty balance. But I don't get how you can look at how much they were trying to both appeal to old fans and new fans and treat that game like old man Fire Emblem crowd does. It sold well for a good reason. Don't give me that marketing horseshit 12 years later it's still in rank 3 and that's competing against the combined sales of all the different versions of Fate.

Great video

waifus. Thats why Awakening got big. Big titty free thighs waifus. And don't forget the obligatory 1000 years old loli. Nah game was just solid. Nice gameplay, easy breakable, reclassing increased replayability, grinding possible for the casual players

I don't love Awakening very much, but I recognize that it saved the series. I would rather the series change than simply die out, even if their efforts at broadening appeal alienated old fans like me... I already had to watch Advance Wars die (twice now if what I hear about Re-Boot Camp is true) and I would rather have 'Weeb' Emblem than no Fire Emblem at all. It kinda sucks to feel that being a loyal fan pre-Awakening wasn't 'good enough' to keep the series afloat though -- that making good, niche games that appeal to a smaller fanbase isn't enough to succeed. I mostly wish they'd have done more with the child characters; they are fully optional, tend to bloat your roster due to their later availability, and are completely unnecessary for beating the story (very much unlike FE4 which it borrowed the concept from). The only purpose they have is the one you come up with yourself, which seems to mostly mean they exist for (galeforce) metagaming purposes.

I can tell you exactly what made is special: playing it as a child. Hahaha. But yes, it’s a great game.

Damn this video is ass (I immediately subscribed)

I liked Awakening at first, but eventually it became apparent that the strategy was far more linear and less interesting than previous games in the series. And the higher difficulties are ruined by ambush spawns, and then Lunatic+ gives out ridiculous enemy-exclusive skills. There are some great things about it (most notably the soundtrack), but not really enough to save it it from some pretty critical gameplay issues.

lol did you play this game on an emulator? The issues with the capture kinda tell a tale of how you potentially played this game lol

never liked fire awakening despite being successful. why the character no feet and had pencil pointy feet lol.

why is it that FEtubers will call awakening 13 instead of 11 but ff7remake is still 7?

intro is too long. it has nothing to do with the title topic.

I’m very glad that a lot of Awakening fans are finally old enough to tie their own shoes but can we please stop pushing the “saved the series” narrative now? It was old the month after release, 10 years of it is too much.

Fire Emblem Awakening is just a decent game, in my opinion. It was 'special', cause of the marketing. However, it ruined the franchise in my opinion. The difference between FE1-12 and FE14-onwards is huge.

Didn't mention beach dlc (best part of the game) so I have to dislike!

*Promo SM* 🌺

Probably the garbage map design, nonsensical balance, trash story that loses all focus after what's her name falls from the building and the 3DS game drought

What made it special was making me wonder how they managed to make an FE game so unfun to play.

Fire Emblem 13 is an awful game which permanently destroyed the Fire Emblem series for better or for worse, and is why I coined the term "True Fire Emblem," which includes FE1-12, Tear Ring Saga, Vestaria Saga 1 and 2, and even Berwick Saga. Awakening onwards however? They feel nothing like Fire Emblem. That said, I'm glad you love it.

It's actually the 11th original game, not the 13th. And in fact it's the worst of all to date. There is no chapter or mission that is not "kill all enemies." I respect that this is the Fire Emblem that introduced many people to the saga and that is why they consider it the best, in my opinion, pure nostalgia. The reality is that, how Fire Emblem, it is the most mediocre of all. Says someone that he technically learned Japanese through this franchise and whose first games were 5 and 6.

I picked up Awakening on my 20th birthday because I was curious about all the buzz it was generating in the Smash 4 hype cycle. I've kept an eye on the (main) series since. Though sadly Engage didn't do much for me, I couldn't deal with that game. (That's right, I actually liked Fates more than Engage.)