Permanent death has been Fire Emblem's calling card since its inception, and that's no less true in Awakening ... includes multiple sidequests and enemy encounters. These sidequests are important ...

With a tale told across continents and generations, and featuring dozens of characters, Fire Emblem ... Awakening features 13 such characters in all, each unique with character portraits, stats ...

Lt. Gen. Boykin has clearly never played Fire Emblem: Awakening. Intelligent Systems’ strategy game is founded on the idea that friendships, and especially those between the sexes, make for the ...

There were greater commercial and critical successes than Fire Emblem ... enemy units you'll find yourself after 10 turns pushing forward in ways you wouldn't have predicted eight turns prior ...

Enemy Unknown and Fire Emblem: Awakening. Until I beat them and tried the higher difficulty levels, that is. I just started the Lunatic difficulty on Awakening a few hours ago, and I’m unhappy.

Achieving victory may be as simple as defeating all enemy units ... too. Fire Emblem's earliest days focused entirely on its ...

Fire Emblem: Awakening bears ... these opponents will find weak links, and as Awakening hits its stride the maps begin to stretch your forces thin. As the enemy forces grow ever more numerous ...

Fire Emblem: Awakening can be a library of ticketless ... A dragon-girl cleaned the barracks with a raven-cloaked enemy turncoat, and then they both died. In fact, all but five of my characters ...

While some pioneering games have a tough time evolving along with the genres they helped form, Fire Emblem: Awakening takes many ... up to peddle rare wares, enemy Risen outbreaks happen in ...

Fire Emblem Awakening is another entry in a beloved role-playing series known for its sense of humor and daunting challenge.

If concessions like that are what it takes to continue to see high-caliber games of this ilk then Nintendo can tweak away; Awakening may be the most accessible Fire Emblem to date but retains its ...