Skynstein

I feel weak... I'm scared of Hard mode. Lunatic would be torture for me.

^I swear the RNG is rigged in most RPGs. It makes thinks happen even with an unrealistic chance. Then again, I've had my fair share of shiny Pokémon and even Pokérus at some point, which I think is lower chance than what Rey posted, so I have no idea. I swear games are possessed by a lucky fairy sometimes.

I have and was an advocate of Casual mode but I think Classic mode is more suited to the game because of some missions like Chapter 5. I mean, in Casual mode you don't even need to save Maribelle and Ricken, because they'll come back from the dead anyway, so a big part of the mission becomes pointless. I wish you could save in the middle of the mission in Classic mode, however. I'm sure everyone has gone through having a mental slip and losing an unit right before beating a boss, essentially wasting 30-40 minutes of gameplay.

Well wouldn't you prefer to marry the girl to a badass character? MU wishes he was as badass as Lon'qu, lol. Or as adorable as Stahl. <3 In the specific case of Cordelia, you need to be better than Chrom at something. Lon'qu is more badass and Stahl is more sympathetic. Ironically enough these are her best pairings from an optimization perspective. But yes, I agree with everyone who says the Avatar is a Mary Sue, and in the worst definition of the term. He's very powerful, he's crucial to the plot, he's instantly likeable, the mastermind behind the success of Chrom's league, and on top of that he can marry the girl you want to marry! That's overkill, lol. Still, with regards to pairings, I wanted the avatar to either remain celibate or marry someone unimportant to the plot and who can't support anyone else, like Anna. Then I can freely marry the other characters without worries. Of course, with regards to optimization, it's best to marry the Avatar to someone involved in the plot, but I don't care much about that.

I love Awakening but the existence of the MU, from a story perspective, really bugs me. I know it's supposed to be "you" in the game, but somehow I can't overlook the fact the MU obviously isn't me, so I try to think of it as a standalone character, and when I created my MUs I took this into account. So I would create an MU with a name I devised and think of it as just another character with his own backstory. But then I started seeing people online who sort of put themselves in MU's shoes, even going as far as marrying their favorite opposite gender characters, which is something I didn't consider when playing for the first time. For example, my favorite girl is Cordelia, but I didn't want her to marry MU in my current file because I thought there were male characters who were better for her, like Lon'qu and Stahl, and my choice fell on Stahl since he's among my favorite males and they work very well together (also their supports are cute). But in the end, I did feel somewhat bad about not marrying her (especially after seeing her supports with MU), and I wanted to make MU marry another girl I liked, such as Miriel or Cherche. Anyway, even though the MU is supposed to be a self-insert, truth is they have a character of some sort and I think the writers didn't succeed in making him/her as generic as possible so you could really fantasize about being in MU's shoes, or they could've included different writings based on personalities... I don't know. Whenever you're given the option of creating a character like this, I can't help but not feel like I am the character. In Pokémon, for example, I tend to use canon names, because there's no way I'd see myself as the protagonist (and in Pokémon he's silent which means the immersion is bigger). I welcome the gameplay value of MU, though. Fully customizable units FTW.

Short list: Gold: Gyarados, Slugma, Drowzee, pretty sure there's another one I'm forgetting. Platinum: Hoothoot (stupid Cheryl killed it), Roselia Black: Watchog

Maybe, but only through emulation, which is the best way of playing older games anyway. ^^

Hi, I'm Malebolganone. From Malebolge (one of the circles of hell) and Bolganone (the spell). I got a 3DS and bought Awakening because of all the reviews, and now I'm addicted. But I'm still a bad player who cowers at the thought of a Lunatic run. So yeah, don't know anything else to say... Hope it's a fun ride!