Elfforkusu
Member
Did my first playthrough of Awakening (years ago) on classic. Started another recently on casual, everything goes so much faster with the quick save.
Classic is dead. Long live casual
Classic is dead. Long live casual
-
Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!
Was playing FE: Awakening on Classic a mistake?
- Thread starter FutureZombie
- Start date
Well, if you are not that good with the game, and if you loose so many charter... yes, casual mode should be better for you.
Honestly, i have two file, one in classic and one in casual.
The casual mode, well is a file that i cancell all times i finish the game and i wanna play again, the other file is my main file, finished at 100%, with all charter at maximum.
Honestly, i have two file, one in classic and one in casual.
The casual mode, well is a file that i cancell all times i finish the game and i wanna play again, the other file is my main file, finished at 100%, with all charter at maximum.
Why do these threads always seem to devolve into "resetting = playing on casual"?
Most FE players don't role play their army when playing Fire Emblem. I don't really give a shit about the realism of someone being "resurrected" from death 5 times because I had to reset 5 times on a map before I cleared it. I'm not playing a D&D campaign.
On the first few difficulties, it's easier to beat the game by accepting 20-30% character casualties and not resetting than it is to reset whenever someone dies (on later difficulties taking too many losses will probably screw you over, especially if you are not grinding). In awakening, the ability to change classes means that most units can just fill in the gap if you lose a specific healer, tank, etc. So, you are not penalized much at all from taking light losses.
Resetting on a death in classic, is not the same as losing half your army on every map (as long as Chrom and your PC are safe) in casual and being perfectly A-OK.
Most FE players don't role play their army when playing Fire Emblem. I don't really give a shit about the realism of someone being "resurrected" from death 5 times because I had to reset 5 times on a map before I cleared it. I'm not playing a D&D campaign.
On the first few difficulties, it's easier to beat the game by accepting 20-30% character casualties and not resetting than it is to reset whenever someone dies (on later difficulties taking too many losses will probably screw you over, especially if you are not grinding). In awakening, the ability to change classes means that most units can just fill in the gap if you lose a specific healer, tank, etc. So, you are not penalized much at all from taking light losses.
Resetting on a death in classic, is not the same as losing half your army on every map (as long as Chrom and your PC are safe) in casual and being perfectly A-OK.
freeofgreed
Member
Yeah i'm still shocked that after all these years Nintendo still has included a mode where you insta loose if any character dies. Would save everyone a lot of trouble.
Yup.
OldGangWarily
Member
Playing FE Fates: Conquest on Classic is the definition of a mistake T_T
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
I'd play that mode, since it's how I play anyway. Character death or (almost any) NPC death = game over.
Exploding8
Member
This is why it was my favorite game for a while, and possibly still my GOAT. I've got a ton of great stories out of the game, from families being wiped out to protect loved ones, to legendary battle hardened vets staying behind while my forces gather to defensive positions and dying during the effort. Some heroes became arrogant with their power, charged too far ahead, only to be ambushed and dying a foolish death. By the time I got to the end I was almost out of characters, making the whole ending feel incredibly bitter sweet and like this last ditch desperate suicidal attack to save the world. It was fantastic and I havent experienced anything like it in any other game. Only x-com has come close but it's characters don't have the stories that get you really invested in your troops like in fire emblem.
The time lost in Fire Emblem games can be a lot of time, given late game asshole reinforcements and the like.
Why? That takes away all the challenge...The aim is to not let someone die. Play better. Learn from your mistakes.
That's what I enjoy about it. It's a pretty common thing for long time FE players anyway. The devs for Fates even made an in-house t-shirt about it.
Even the devs know that resetting is playing Fire Emblem the way it was intended
Conquest hard is pretty hard. Alot of people got stuck on chapter 10.
This is only for the Japanese version, as these games usually get rebalanced a tad in the States, so who knows if it will retain the difficulty there.
What about us mortals who play games on normal?Still hard?
In general all the normal modes were made more difficult in this game compared to Awakening, as they made normal mode too easy in late game in Awakening.
To compensate for the players that really don't know what they're doing they added phoenix mode.
So I'm reading that Birthright is supposed to be on par with Awakening, Conquest harder and then Revelations(?) somewhere in the middle. I guess I'll start with Birthright.