That's not sad really. One wrong move and Lissa is a gonner! Just be careful and check if the enemy can reach your weaker characters.I got her duble hit and was left with one hit point. Some enemies can attack twice on certain characters so be careful of how far the enemy can move. You can always put the cursor on the enemy to see how far their range is. Also be extra careful that they donet have a weapon with extended range. Some weapons can attack from one square away or two like some axes!!

Dude, no worries. Just roll with it. Play the way you want to, if that means you'll enjoy the ride ^_^
Some OG Fire Emblem fans love the tension and ragequitting that is playing it on hard + classic, but if you don't dig it, then no worries.
The important thing is to enjoy yourself.

Yeah that was most likely my biggest problem overall. I kept just running all over throwing characters around attacking with reckless abandon. When you are used to games like Mario where you just jump in and play, it kinda makes something like this different territory. But no worries, I should adapt without much trouble (I have played all the Age of Empires games in the past, so that helps).

Gonna be hard and classic for me, tried lunatic and lost Chrom almost immediately . I can't imagine playing FE where my characters come back to life.

I suppose I might be the minority here, but I rather enjoyed Shadow Dragon. The first game I played in this series, the simpler story and game play made it easier for me to get into. It seems like most of the hate toward this game is because it doesn't quite match up to the newer games, but how could it, it's 20 years old! It's a good thing that the series' gameplay and stories have improved over 2 decades. I think it's fair to say this isn't nearly the best fire emblem game, but calling it a "discrace" to the series just because it's old doesn't make very much sense.

Anyways, back to the topic. Fire Emblem awakening is coming out in two weeks and it's going to be amazing!

I'm inclined to keep those two together to see how or if their story advances! It could be an interesting and funny development throughout the game! Also I'm one of those sick individuals who must level their characters evenly throughout the game. Can't have one at level 6 when another is at level 4 now!! I will swap out archers probably ever other map!

Wait, you can actually lose Chrom? But how? Isn't he the main character?

/me is so baffled by all this Fire Emblem nonsense.

When he lost him it was probably game over.

So in Fire Emblem games, is there usually that one character that if they die its automatic game over? Just trying to figure out the mechanics here.

Also, is it acceptable among all these die-hard permadeath lovers to basically rage quit if you lose someone good? :3

Lol. Rage quite yes. In the past I had too repeat a map a number of times because I lost someone I didn't want to lose!!

Also yes. Usually there is more then one character you need to keep alive or its game over. Some maps have specific goals as well like keep this person alive or its game over.

For the most part I'd suggest if you're some guy who was just planning on quitting and restarting every level where anyone dies, then turn off permadeath. The only downside to that is not being able to kill off characters when you're done with them.

Lunatic mode seemed lame to me. Some games are great with higher difficulty like Halo on legendary mode. Enemies don't get tougher, the AI gets smarter--working together, taking cover, that sort of thing. Mega Man 10 does a great job with difficulty too. On easy mode, enemies don't get weaker, their attacks get simpler and easier to dodge. Fire Emblem's lunatic mode on the other hand, just felt like enemies had triple health. That's some pretty weak game design. I'll probably play on normal or hard--whichever feels like the enemy's and the player character's abilities are on equal footing.

If a lord dies it's over. I'm guessing your custom avatar too.

If anyone expendable dies in my Fire Emblem games I don't rage quit or restart the level. I keep playing. Fire Emblem gives you a lot of duplicate character classes for a reason. The only way I'd restart a level is if I lost all my characters or an irreplaceable class such as my only thief.

I call it a disgrace not because IS never should have just left it at a 20 year old instead of giving it a major face lift like they did with new mystery.

/me is glad there's finally some FE love here~

I mostly knew this already, but I learned the hard way that's it's certainly true, and during the DEMO no less!

My FE play order (lol)

SSBM > PoR > SSBB > FESD > RD > FEGBA > SS > ??FE: A??

I've found myself playing as Marth a lot on SSBB now (despite the fact that no matter how many times I try, I just don't do all that well with him). Come to think of it, I play as a certain character depending on what other game I'm playing at the moment (for example if I'm playing Kirby's Return to Dreamland I pick Kirby in SSBB frequently). Kinda funny actually.

I just finished the demo, it was amazing. Since I have never played a FE game before It made a good first impression on me.

I won't have enough money for everything I want now that I want this game >_<.

But FE is so worth it and will give you hours and hours of playtime. Give in to the temptation!

Seconded for emphasis

Can you feel, the love toniiiiight.