Apparently you didn't watch 4 either because it was not his son that helped him lol. Only his daughter was in 4.

The reinforcements is always what gets me on harder difficulties. I'll leave my weaker characters in the back so they don't get demolished and then they'll randomly pop up like 5 units behind you and then they get to move first before you and wipe out everyone I had in the back and I start throwing temper tantrums haha. It hasn't really happened in this game though because I don't have any weak characters in battles since they are all upgraded and whatnot thanks to the DLC maps etc...

Looks like we are! I've almost got my unit and Lucinda to S rank (not sure if they will marry because of story reasons that I don't want to spoil for people, but it's a tricky slope and I am interested to see what happens). I'm also working on Henry and Cherche's relationship haha.

28 hours into Fire Emblem: Awakening and I'm on chapter 18. Like others, I too have been abusing the DLC maps and the wireless features to gain levels haha. I got Vaike and Miriel to marry, which was quite hilarious. Love the conversations in this game. I'm almost to the point where a couple of my characters are upgraded and level 20 and I'll need to reclass them. Love this game.

I wish everyone else wasn't simple minded and appreciated this game more like everyone in the forum. I hate talking to people in the public about it because they are childs and treat me as the outcast just because I think this game is better than pretty much anything Capcom did with the series themselves.

Haha I did the exact same thing and it was absolutely hilarious. They are the exact opposite of each other, but that is exactly why I think they are so funny and naturally drawn together in my mind.

I actually miss those days before the internet spoiled everything. It is half the reason that I rarely read or watch trailers beyond like announcement stuff because I want to go into a game with as little information as possible because I find that the most enjoyable. When I get with a group of friends and they start talking about details in games that aren't out yet I tune it out. Sure I'll read the reviews when the games come out to see if they are worth a damn, but even then I go more towards the opinion part and less about how the game plays etc. Like Grim said, I played FFVII, VIII, IX, X, and XII when they came out and they were absolutely superb games for their time. Honestly you can criticize all older games because they simply have archaic elements that aren't even used anymore like random battles, high encounter rates etc... but to me those games will always be time capsuled to when I first played them. Sure, you can say I need to removed those rose tinted glasses and smell fresh air, but the teenager in me will always get excited about that era of games and how they shaped the gamer that I am today.

Man, I really have lost hope for this franchise lol.

I agree with Grim. Until XIII, when a FF game came out it was like an event for me. I knew I was getting an excellent game that I would enjoy for a long time. I even loved FFXII. It was fresh and unique to me and I enjoyed the story even though it wasn't quite as good as previous entries. I was SO hyped for XIII that it eventually became too much and the game never had a chance to live up to the hype, especially considering that the game did not hold up to the standards the series had held until then (at least for me) in the first place. I played XIII for 5 hours and have never gone back, even till this day, and my interest in the series is waning considerably. VSXIII has been in development forever, I hate mmo's and FFXIV got horrendous reviews anyways, and nothing else has been announced. I still have FFXIII and I do want to see how much XIII-2 improved it so I might play it after I finish off Fire Emblem: Awakening, but I have lowered my expectations so much in hopes of just enjoying the game and not expecting the next great JRPG. Who knows, maybe Lightning Returns ends up being the next great JRPG, but I'm not holding my breath.

I think I have 2 of those, but I read online that the best use for them is to use them when you are promoted and level 20 because you keep most of the stats and go back to level 1 again.

Final Fantasy X and XII are two of my favorites in the whole series lol. The constant complaints about Final Fantasy after IX gets old.

Yeah after chapter 10 I bought one, then after chapter 11 I bought two more. Still need 2-3 more though lol.

Ugh that sucks hardcore. Sorry!

Does anyone know what chapter you start getting upgrade items? I have a bunch of characters level 15-19 (prolly around 5-6) that are going to need upgraded soon. I have upgraded 2 characters so far, but they were both master seals I have been given from the DLC map. I'm on chapter 10.

Yeah, this one will be the first to draw in some people that were turned off by the difficulties of the others as well as some newcomers who want an easy difficulty to get used to the game. It helps that the reviews are the highest of the series, drawing it extra attention that it deserves past the hardcore fans like a lot of us here.