You don't get Awakening for plot and character development. You get it for waifus, fanservice, mindblowing graphics, and more waifus.
You don't get Awakening for plot and character development. You get it for waifus, fanservice, mindblowing graphics, and more waifus.
don't get it for gameplay either because veteran is stupid, class sets aren't very well balanced, braves kind of destroy the only challenging maps (which you have to pay for), reclass is poorly done and loony+ is just stupid. lunatic reverse was much more interesting.
oh and the non-lucy/morgan kids are either useless or superior in every way.
I got into the series with awakening and I play it for the characters. Easily the best bunch we've gotten so far. I'd play it for that alone. I love the other games too though.
Like I said, I think that almost all the characters look extremely attractive and the sheer amount of effort put into making the game look beautiful is astounding. But almost all of the characters are incredibly generic in terms of personality.
The main reason I like Nino in general is because she has a very compelling story and I could feel an attachment to her as a person and a unit. The only reason I like Gaius is because he's sexy as hell. Other than that he's a complete one trick pony; he "loves candy" and that is really the only depth to his personality. Same with Sully be strong willed, Kellam not being noticed, Sumia being clumsy, etc. The trope overtakes their personality.
They are fickle and can only be viewed as characters based on appearance alone when compared to other FE games. If Vaida were a recruitable character in Awakening, she would look about ten years younger and have a cute smirk instead of a terrible battlescar on her face.
Example I made comparing Awakening characters with older FE characters.
here's a good tumblr post (well, as good as tumblr posts can be) on the topic
Anyway, a quick comparison:
GOOD:
http://serenesforest.net/media/fe10i...elincia_en.png
http://serenesforest.net/media/fe10i.../tanith_en.png
http://serenesforest.net/media/fe5illust/l/misha.jpg
wut:
http://serenesforest.net/fe13/img/hq/fb/Cordelia.jpg
http://serenesforest.net/fe13/img/hq/m/Sumia.jpg
what the **** why:
http://serenesforest.net/fe13/img/hq/m/DLC_Palla.jpg
http://serenesforest.net/fe13/img/hq/m/DLC_Elincia.jpg
http://serenesforest.net/fe13/img/hq/DLC_Catria.jpg
tbh since i was never really exposed to older fe games that much i easily managed to get comfortable with the characters of awakening
but im a massive weeb anyway
maybe if japan got some good taste in anime fire emblem wouldn't be in this mess!!!!!!
who's ready for fire emblem: kill la kill edition