#asrielity

so fire emblem is this turn based tactical RPG, and it’s set in this fantasy world and there’s an ENTIRE TIMELINE WITH SHIT GOING ON but they kinda follow up on each other but anYWAY

Thing is, Fire emblem was kinda on the verge of dying out and ending forever because of that the games were too hard (units would dissapear forever if they died during a battle), hence why it was only appealing to a small audience, and that’s when nintendo went like “okay we’re going to release one more game but THROW OVER EVERYTHING WITH THE ART AND MAKE IT LOOK FRESH AF” aka the birth of fir emblem awakening and casual mode

With the entry of casual mode the game suddenly was much more appealing to a larger audience due to that in casual mode, the units do not die forever, but rather just faint for the battle and will be back to health the next time you enter a chapter/challenge. Awakening still gave the possibility to go play on classic mode though (units die forever), and also offers 3 difficulties-- Normal, Hard and Lunatic.

Then you also have the introduction of partnering people up and support conversations (which i don’t think were available in games before awakening), which basically are dialogues between 2 characters which are unlocked by partnering them up together during battles (and not dying). Higher support status means a higher chance for support in battle, which is REALLY USEFUL but in awakening its kinda broken since enemies don’t do it??? but that got fixed in fire emblem fates but anYWAYS

casual mode + support conversations is the reason why fire emblem awakening suddenly sold extremely well-- to the surprise of nintendo probably because awakening was originally intended to be the final game of the fire emblem series, so they decided to go like HEY LETS MAKE A NEW FIRE EMBLEM GAME SET IN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WORLD and thus fire emblem fates was born

and i still don’t have an european release date AND IM SAD

but yes please play fire emblem, i’d say start with awakening and then see if you want to play the other games still! i... havent played the older games yet but i might at some point