@Five-seveN Fire emblem: Awakening is a much more streamlined game in comparison to Sacred stones. I found SS very slow, and found extremely hard to get into. (I quit after chapter 3...) However, the pacing in FE:A just feels natural. Every mission feels like an integral part of the story. The characters are very clever and are fun to see interacting with each other. The cutscenes are very pretty. The tutorials are not as annoying to get past as they were in SS. Whereas SS had you do certain commands by force, FE:A prompts you what to do on the touchscreen but never forces you to do any of what it says. If you are a newcomer to the series, the bottom screen is helpful in that it has various icons and stats that display a description of what they mean when you tap on them. Again solving a problem that I felt was present in SS. I've had the game for 2 days now, and honestly haven't regretted my $40 purchase. (fyi, if you download the game instead of a cart purchase; the game takes up a little more than a gigabyte of space...

I waited for this game for like 3 months. Then I played the demo....well at least I was able to read the review before I bought it!

Ive always secretly hated pokemon because my broyher hogged it and would never ever let me play it(Including dungeon for my B-Day!) But since im gonna be able to play this for the 1st time ever!!! HOORAY!!!Especially after the pokewalker announcement!

How does this ignore all basic controls found in a fighter game? It's tight and has awsome controls. It has some awsome finall finishers!

How does this ignore all basic controls found in a fighter game? It's tight and has awsome controls. It has some awsome finall finishers!