Fire Emblem Awakening (2012)
Fire Emblem Awakening is a 2012 role-playing (rpg) video game made by Nintendo SPD Production Group No. 2 and Intelligent Systems.
War gathers on the borders of Ylisse, and you command its defense beside the young prince Chrom: knights, mages, archers, and fliers moved square by square across the battlefield. Position decides everything. Pair units together and their bond sharpens their strikes and, over campaigns, their affection, until soldiers marry and their children join the fight. Fallen allies can stay dead, which gives every risky advance real weight. Grid tactics meet a sprawling cast you actually come to know. This entry revived the series for a wider audience without softening the cost of a careless order.
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What is Fire Emblem Awakening about?
War gathers on the borders of Ylisse, and you command its defense beside the young prince Chrom: knights, mages, archers, and fliers moved square by square across the battlefield. Position decides everything. Pair units together and their bond sharpens their strikes and, over campaigns, their affection, until soldiers marry and their children join the fight. Fallen allies can stay dead, which gives every risky advance real weight. Grid tactics meet a sprawling cast you actually come to know. This entry revived the series for a wider audience without softening the cost of a careless order.
When was Fire Emblem Awakening released?
Fire Emblem Awakening was released on 19 April 2012.
Who made Fire Emblem Awakening?
Fire Emblem Awakening was made by Nintendo SPD Production Group No. 2, Intelligent Systems and Nintendo.
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A few thoughts on Fire Emblem Awakening
Christopher Paolini's Brisingr scratches the same dragon-and-destiny fantasy itch, right down to its sword-named chapters. On screen, Game of Thrones and its prequel House of the Dragon deliver warring bloodlines, dragons, and the constant chance that a favorite will not survive the season. Permadeath finds its natural television form.
Wars where every fallen soldier stays fallen
Fire Emblem Awakening's permadeath means a careless order costs a character for good, and these share that same refusal to soften real stakes. Game of Thrones built its reputation on exactly that risk, House of the Dragon keeps the streak going, Oathbringer stacks its epic war with real losses, and The Witcher 3 lets a war-torn world absorb the consequences of every choice.
Music that sounds like a kingdom might fall
Ylisse's defense plays out like an old war ballad, and this music carries the same weight. The Return of the King score is the gold standard for an ending built on sacrifice, In the Court of the Crimson King supplies myth-sized dread, Living With War wears its title as a mission statement, and The Spectre Within leans into doom-laden, fantasy-tinged metal.
Bonds forged in the middle of a war
Fire Emblem Awakening lets soldiers fall in love and start families between battles, treating those pairings as seriously as the war itself. The Song of Achilles builds its whole story on a bond tested by war, Wizard and Glass gives young love the same backdrop of looming conflict, Sailor Moon pairs its heroes off inside a larger fight, and Saint Seiya turns brotherhood into its own kind of armor.
Defending home turf against overwhelming invaders
Ylisse's small army holds a border against a much bigger threat, the same underdog defense that drives these stories. Redwall's Abbey fights off a vermin horde with home-field grit, Avatar: The Last Airbender follows kingdoms resisting a much larger empire, Fullmetal Alchemist ties its military conflict to a threat worth defending against, and Jack Ryan: Ghost War keeps that same defensive pressure in a modern setting.