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Fire Emblem: Awakening (ファイアーエムブレム覚醒 Fire Emblem: Awakening) is a Nintendo 3DS game, the thirteenth installment in the Fire Emblem series, the first original title in five years following Radiant Dawn. It is a distant sequel to Monshou no Nazo and Shin Monshou no Nazo, set thousands of years in the future of the continent Archanea, now a very different world. It follows the story of Chrom, prince of Ylisse and distant heir of the Hero-King Marth, as he leads The Shepherds in observing and combating the bizarre activities of the neighbouring country Plegia.
Awakening is the first title on a Nintendo console to facilitate the creation and sale of paid downloadable content, here coming in the form of purchasable maps and characters, sometimes providing completely unique classes and skills. A special edition package for the game was produced and available in both Japan and America, containing a Awakening-themed "Cobalt Blue" Nintendo 3DS system with unique printing on the shell; the Japanese version of the package also contained a physical copy of the game and 1000 eShop points, while the American version has a digital copy of the game pre-installed on the Nintendo 3DS system.
A European release was tentatively confirmed in February 2012, with no specific release date provided,[5], and a United States release was accidentally confirmed by Reggie Fils-Aime at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2012[7]; solid release dates were not confirmed until December of that year[4]. In the United States of America, Awakening was the subject of an extensive advertising campaign to a scale unprecedented for the Fire Emblem series, receiving extensive preview coverage on Nintendo of America's Facebook page.
Plot
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“ | Two sleeping dragons - one a sacred ally of mankind, the other its sworn destroyer. Two heroes marked with symbols of the dragons. Their meeting heralds the dragons' awakening - and the world's ending. | ” | — English text in the game's Japanese logo[8] |
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Over one thousand years have passed since the Shadow Dragon Medeus died his final death at the hands of the Hero-King Marth and the continent of Archanea was united under a single flag under his rule. In this time, countries have come and gone, Archanea has once again split into three nations, and the descendants of Marth and his wife Caeda are now the royal family of Ylisse, a peace-loving nation which reveres the Divine Dragon Naga; this royal family possesses the marks of Naga on their bodies and are the owners of the divine blade Falchion and the Shield of Seals.
In the time of the rule of Holy King Emmeryn, reports of bizarre and dangerous behaviour have emerged concerning Plegia, a kingdom neighbouring Ylisse which instead worships Grima, the evil dragon which was once the archrival of Naga. In response to this troubling news, Ylisse's Prince Chrom, Emmeryn's younger brother, has convened a small militia called The Shepherds to observe Plegia's actions and repel violent acts from their neighbor. Among all of this, there are reports of strange undead creatures roaming the lands, and a swordsman claiming to be the Hero-King Marth himself has appeared, wielding the same Falchion now in Chrom's possession.
Gameplay
The development team of Awakening described the game as being intended as an "all-star" assortment of ideas from past Fire Emblem series installments[9]. Many of these features return from Gaiden and The Sacred Stones, acting as another spiritual successor to the former.
- The Free Map system, similar to the world map of Gaiden and The Sacred Stones, allows the player to walk across the map to different locations to battle or shop.
- A new included feature called "dual system" activates when a character attacks an enemy unit and an ally is besides them. This mode powers up the abilities of the attacking unit as well as the ally unit helping with attacks.[8]
- As in Shin Monshou no Nazo, the Avatar concept is used again - a customizable main character, representing the player and playing a large part in the story.
- Also returning from Shin Monshou no Nazo is the Casual Mode, a gameplay option which disables the series' traditional permanent death and allows "dead" characters to return at the beginning of the next chapter.
- Branching promotions return from The Sacred Stones, allowing for further unit customization.
Chapters
- Main article:
List of chapters in Fire Emblem: Awakening
The main story of Awakening is comprised of 28 chapters - an introduction, a prologue, 25 chapters, and the finale. Additionally, there are 17 sidequest chapters in the game. Completely new chapters can also be obtained through SpotPass or downloadable content.
Characters
- Main article:
List of characters in Fire Emblem: Awakening
The core game of Awakening features 43 playable characters, divided into two groups. There are 30 initial units, comprising a "first generation". These thirty characters can, like in Seisen no Keifu, be paired up to have a set of children characters who join in sidequest chapters. With one exception, the children characters are completely optional, and it is entirely possible to not receive them by simply not pairing up the parents or by not visiting the sidequests in which the children are recruited.
Outside of the core 43, more characters can be obtained through downloadable content or SpotPass. In addition to offering the reappearances of characters from older installments, previously unrecruitable characters from Awakening's main story will be able to be recruited through sidequest chapters obtained through SpotPass.
Support Conversations
- Main article:
List of supports in Fire Emblem: Awakening
Pre-release information
- Main article:
Fire Emblem: Awakening pre-release information
First announced on September 13, 2011, at Nintendo's 3DS Conference in Japan, Awakening came to be the subject of extensive preview coverage, at a level unprecendented for the Fire Emblem series.
Demo version
The American Nintendo eShop released a playable demo of Awakening on, released on January 17, 2013.[10] It allows the player to create an Avatar, albeit restricted to being male and lacking some other design choices, and play through the entirety of Prologue and Chapter 1 before ending. All three basic modes of difficulty are available for play, but Classic Mode is not available and the player is forced to play in Casual Mode. The demo is restricted to being played a maximum of thirty times.
The demo is a subject of a glitch: the Bullion item does not exist in the demo, but Leif's Blade (which is available through event tiles) exists unmodified and so still attempts to load the item if its chance to "steal" a Bullion activates; as there is no Bullion item, the game crashes.[11]
The Japanese version did not have a playable demo, nor does the European version at this time of writing.
Reception
In its first week released in Japan, Awakening sold approximately 242,600 copies, rivaling the lifetime sales of previous entries in the series.[12] Awakening was also number one on the Japanese game charts for its first week.[13] In the following weeks, Awakening managed to stay high on the Japanese charts.
Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu scored Awakening at 34/40, broken down between its four reviewers as 9/10 each.[14]
Gallery
Bundled special edition Nintendo 3DS
In other languages
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References
- ↑ http://www.gamekult.com/jeux/fire-emblem-titre-provisoire-J000112205.html
- ↑ http://www.gamespot.com/3ds/action/fire-emblem/tech_info.html?tag=tabs%3Bsummary
- ↑ http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/19404651
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Nintendo Direct (Nintendo of America), December 5 2012
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Nintendo Direct (Nintendo Europe), December 5 2012
- ↑ Entertainment Software Rating Board: Fire Emblem Awakening
- ↑ Nintendo World Report: Fire Emblem: Awakening Coming to North America
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 http://andriasang.com/comzyw/fire_emblem_permadeath/
- ↑ Iwata Asks: Fire Emblem: Awakening
- ↑ http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=194036
- ↑ Serenes Forest Forums: USA DEMO UP!!!!
- ↑ http://www.4gamer.net/games/117/G011794/20120425050/
- ↑ http://mynintendonews.com/2012/04/25/nine-nintendo-games-in-japanese-top-ten/
- ↑ The Magic Box
External links
- Fire Emblem: Awakening official American website
- Fire Emblem: Awakening official Japanese website
- Fire Emblem: Awakening at Serenes Forest
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