“The enemy sure had some nice weapons. I should look into their suppliers.”
Anna – Fire Emblem: Awakening
Best Class for Every Character | Fire Emblem: Awakening
Choosing a class for each of your characters is critical in Fire Emblem: Awakening. Well, it’s critical in any Fire Emblem game if we’re honest, but it’s particularly relevant in a game that has 43(!) of them available, not including DLC units. The wrong class can render a unit completely useless and with Second Seals…
Promotion Timing Explained | Fire Emblem: Awakening
Promoting units is, let’s be honest, one of the best parts of a Fire Emblem game. Seeing your favourite characters go from zero to hero – by your hand – is incredibly satisfying, and it’s one of the main pulls of the series for fans. We’ve replayed countless Fire Emblem titles for the sole reason…
Choosing The Best Asset and Flaw | Fire Emblem: Awakening
In Fire Emblem: Awakening, picking the correct Asset and Flaw for your Avatar might seem like a small decision, but it influences their statistics for the entirety of the game. Your choice will increase the growth of one, whilst leaving the other to languish. OK so it’s not actually that meaningful, but you certainly want…
Recommended Classes for Robin | Fire Emblem: Awakening
In Fire Emblem: Awakening, unlike prior games in the series, you play the role of a unique character within the game, Robin. As a non-Lord character, you’re able to name the character and mould them into any role you wish, a fact that is signposted very early in the game when you come equipped with…
Recommended Classes for Chrom | Fire Emblem: Awakening
Choosing a class for your lord in a Fire Emblem game is unusual. Such things are usually limited to the supporting cast, often leaving you lumbered with a foot locked, weapon locked unit of sorts to lumber around increasingly difficult maps. They usually promote of course, often following some kind of important story line point,…
Top 10 Best Skills | Fire Emblem: Awakening
In a Fire Emblem game, your skills really make or break your units. Sure, some classes might have fantastic statistics, and some characters may have excellent growth rates, but without the right skills they’ll be rendered useless. This is especially true in Awakening thanks to the second generation of units, and your ability to pass…
Top 5 Best Pairings | Fire Emblem: Awakening
Pairing up your units in a Fire Emblem game isn’t exactly a new concept. These games have had second generation units taking part ever since the Super Nintendo days. We’d argue that Fire Emblem: Awakening does take it to another level however, given that the sheer amount of options on offer each come their own…
5 Beginner Tips | Fire Emblem: Awakening
We were new to Fire Emblem once, and we would have loved to get some tips from somebody a little more experience – it might have saved us from countless hours and numerous restarts. Then again, that’s kind of a right of passage for the Fire Emblem series isn’t it? These games are all about…
Frequently Asked Questions | Fire Emblem: Awakening
When it comes to Fire Emblem games, Awakening is one of our favourites. Perhaps it was the perfect use of the 3DS hardware or the re-introduction of a second generation, maybe even the controversial Pair Up system. Either way we couldn’t put it down for a good few months back when it released, an experience…
First Generation Tier List | Fire Emblem: Awakening
The Fire Emblem series is perfect for Tier Lists. The games are full of characters with different specialities, classes, strengths and weaknesses, each accompanied with their own visual style. All of this means that players will gravitate towards those that they enjoy, either for their look and feel or their individual power. This leads to…
The 5 Best Classes | Fire Emblem: Awakening
A Fire Emblem game, especially one like Awakening, lives and dies by its available classes. Sure the characters are important, and we love romancing pixels as much as the next gamer, but when you’re deep into tense, tactical battles you’ll be deliberating over class choices more than anything. As the series has developed, characters have…
Top 5 Best Characters In Fire Emblem Awakening – First Generation
The Best Characters in Fire Emblem Awakening can often be found in the first generation. These are the ‘parents’, with the second generation being the ‘children’. Each of these characters come with their own character traits and skills, some of which are much more useful than others. Fire Emblem Awakening doesn’t make all characters equal,…
Fire Emblem: Awakening
- Platform: Nintendo 3DS
- Release Date: April19th 2013
- Genre: JRPG / Tactical RPG
- Developer: Intelligent Systems
- UPFIVEDOWN Stats: 1251 Hours