Kuroko

Someone called for Jin Kisaragi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWvO1Gxa-5c Assumingly a lot of the names will be changed in Translation like with Awakening, so your wish will probably be granted.

I personally think the liberties taken upon Awakening's story were due to a lack of budget, rather than a lack of good ideas. The game's story had a lot of potential to be much better, sure, but the game might have been the last we ever got, and IntSys scrapped together all their funds for this one. [spoiler=spoilerinos] From the very beginning of the game, you are thrown into your "Final Battle", and kill Chrom. You have no real reason why your Avatar would do this, you know nothing of his or her motives, where you have been placed or what's even going on. Then you're awoken by the very same man you just killed. The Chapter's name sets it up quite well, it's not something that's happened, it's a Premonition. At some point you know you will backstab this man, whoever he is, and wind up killing him. From the literal start of the game, you have two giant threats looming over your head as you slowly grow more attached to the cast, the bleak future that is to come, and the fact you kill Chrom, for whatever reason. After that literal ton of foreshadowing, the game takes a more natural Fire Emblem approach, there's a nation, Plegia, troubling yours. And a common enemy, the Risen. Whether Plegia is having trouble with the Risen is never stated, but I like to assume they spread all over the world as they first appear with the Children. Assumingly, those Gates (like what Lucina jumps out of) appeared all over the World as the 16 Children came back. This would explain how they got scattered, too. Gangrel is probably the best villain in the game, despite my huge bias to WARE WA GURIMREI, as he's one of those villains who you are made to hate. First with his capture of Maribelle, then with the murder of Emmeryn, and just the way he taunts you all the way up to Chapter 11 before you finally get to kill him. Grima is actually one of my favourite villains in the series because s/he is so mysterious. He introduces himself to the player in Chapter 6, with the very same character who you killed in the Premonition. Further amplifying connections between the two when it happens again, I believe this is after Chapter 10? I like how the threat of Grima is presented to the player, this unstoppable god of destruction being revived and wiping out the world, yet s/he has been with you the entire time. And in essence, you ARE Grima. I mean, I look at it this way. Robin is the Avatar of Grima, and Chrom is the Avatar of Naga. They both to a degree symbolise the dragons they represent, Robin through Cunning, Guile and Betrayal, and Chrom through Caring and Companionship. Walhart, while he is my least favourite of the 3, mostly from coming at a massive low point in the game's story, is actually a great villain because he has similar ideals to Emmeryn. Different methods of course, but outside of Grima, none of the 3 main villains are really heartless monsters, they all have reasons for their actions and once you can get behind them they make a lot more sense as characters. Overall, Awakening's major problem was it's story. The gameplay was for the most part top notch and thankfully a lot of the budget went to that it seems. Liberties had to be taken somewhere and it unfortunately happened in the characters. While I personally don't find any of the characters that "flat" or 1 dimensional, that may be because of my personal bias towards them. I can certainly see the flaws with Awakening, but I love it all the same for it's much improved game system, and the characters who are good are really good. I personally don't think that while a game should be striving for deep characters, it's really that necessary. I am thankful that the budget went to the gameplay, and not making Olivia have more traits that make her best girl. (Because I mean, come on) I think that Awakening's character quirks add a whole lot of depth to them, it just requires viewing a lot of the support conversations and realising the characters at time can be a bit rigid due to lack of development funds.

How could they not like Ike? He fights for his friends, after all. I'm actually kind of sad that Marth wasn't Number 1, though. best husbando best Lord.

An alternate universe of Awakening where Naga and Grima can actually kill each other. The two fight, Naga is killed. With her last breath she enchants the Falchion with part of her power. Because of her weakness, she can't perform the full Awakening, instead bestowing the Falchion the ability to seal Grima within it. Provided the Sword remains undisturbed after Grima was sealed inside of it, Grima would remain sealed for an eternity, far longer than what he normally would if he were put down by the Awakened Falchion. The Sword is sealed away and a great war breaks out over the Sword, destroying Ylisse and Plegia in the process. Several hundred years later, the land of [Placeholder] is invaded and destroyed by [Placeholder 2]. With no hope for her people except to follow the myth of the now cursed Falchion, [Protagonist] sets out to find the Sword, and use it to save her people from [Placeholder 2]. When she does so, she immediately becomes possessed by the Sword's Power, going insane and becoming a tyrannical Empress. Game then begins Gen 2 where you play as the Son of the Empress who was seperated from his mother when the Kingdom was destroyed. You are a sellsword that struggles to scrape through the day, upon hearing about the insane Empress, you create a small band of rebels to oppose the ever increasing empire, in the end, you unmask the Empress, who has become fully corrupt with Grima's power, revealing that she is your mother, and fufill her final wish of destroying the Falchion, and Grima for good. Sounds very fanfictiony, but I think it would be pretty awesome. I liked Grima as an antagonist a lot, although really and evil dragon could work, it wouldn't have to be a carry-on of Awakening, just I chose this because it would feel more logical to me.

I've done many playthroughs will all sorts of bizarre special rules. One I like to use the most is that: [spoiler=Major spoiler] You're not allowed to attack Grima in Chapter 26 until you have killed all of his/her Grimleal. The fact they respawn infinitely is part of the challenge. Also, only the Avatar is allowed to fight Grima. Other challenges I've done include Reverse Harem and Harem challenges, Ironman runs, no Second Seals (this one is quite common apparently), No Galeforce, Robin/Chrom solo. One thing I love about this series is how well it takes restricting yourself and yet still remaining possible if you have enough skill. I personally really enjoy Lunatic No Second Seal, No DLC Ironman runs, although I've messed up so hard at times that I've made certain maps nearly impossible due to Frederick being dead.

Bought these carts for £18 off ebay. Originally I had no suspicion of the cards ever being fake, until I got to Chapter 4 on the FE8 cart and the game repeatedly frozen no matter what I did, cleaned the cart, everything. There's also a lack of Battle Backgrounds, especially apparent if playing on a Gameboy player, the map itself is shown where the background should be, and the stages are just a huge mess of pixels. Supposedly the map itself does show up on a few maps. Other mysteriously suspicious things include the fact the ESRB label is shown twice on the FE8 cart, once at the top, in the totally wrong position, and second underneath the FIRE EMBLEM text on the cart. The image on the front of the carts themselves also appears to be different. Roy is featured on the front of the cart, and again, the ESRB label seems suspiciously small. The Nintendo seal reads "Official Nintendo Seal", when every other legitimate game I've seen reads "Official Nintendo Seal of Quality", Nintendo's logo seems awkwardly scrunched up, and the carts are really dark. They feel... Really weird too, they don't make a sound like normal GBA carts when tapped, or at least it's very different. All signs seem to point towards these being fake. Here's a picture, it's quite big so I'll just post the link: http://i.imgur.com/eXXhJKU.jpg Probably fell for something too good to be true, I guess. EDIT: This would also explain a lack of boxes.