Chrom: “Alright Uzuki, here’s the situation: They have several Archers posted around the perimeters, with various warriors, knights, and mages surrounding the walls. Four of our eight units are dead, three of them are below half health, and all of our weapons are one hit away from breaking. What can we do with this situation?”

Uzuki: “……….”

Chrom: “Umm…. Uzuki? You’re our Grand Tactician; you have to have a plan.”

Uzuki: “Well…. we could bend over, put our heads between our legs, and kiss our arses goodbye.”

Chrom: “That’s… a horrible plan”

Uzuki: “And you have blue hair so I guess we’re even.”

Hello my friends and welcome to yet another thrilling post from your 1 & only, Uzuki. I know it’s been awhile since my last post. And I mean awhile. But to sum up what’s been going in my life let’s just say ‘Life is a bitch’. But it’s not like there’s anyone actually reading this in my tiny corner of the internet sooooo……… with that out of the way let’s talk about something a lot better than my personal life: Fire Emblem: Awakening.

I just gonna be honest I have never played a Fire Emblem game. I know, I know please put your pitchforks down I know I’m a complete shame to the entire nerd population. Please don’t rub it in. Frankly I blame my 12-year-old self for being a massive Final Fantasy fanboy. I missed out on a lot of good things because of that bastard. But now isn’t the time for regrets, I have a game to review!

I have never played a Fire Emblem game before. The only contact I had with this series was through “Smash Bros Brawl” with Ike flying in and slicing a nuclear bomb in half (Yeah let that image of badassery soak in your mind). Of course I knew nothing about them and like Lucas dismissed it as another series that I would never play. Fast forward several years and one obsession with strategy games later I saw this at a Gamestop and decided to check it out.

What have I been missing all these years?

If the rest of the “Fire Emblem” games are like Awakening then I truly have been missing out on a great experience. This is probably the hardest strategy game that I have ever played. Which is ironic seeing as this the easiest game in the series. It's a simple game with a simple plot, a simple battle system with simple characters. But really it's how the game brings these simple elements together that makes Awakening's it's own inversive world.
The game's plot is a simple one: Guy needs to save the world from a evil dragon. Yea, that hasn't been done a thousand times. But again it's how the game goes around to doing this. Mind you it's not like