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Absurdly easy?! Have you played it on Insanity+ Classic mode?!
My 'easy' point of view mostly comes from the fact you can grind a character into immortality, just it takes more time on higher difficulties, which makes it a lot easier than any previous Fire Emblem game, as in them you can't do side missions or anything of the like, you're railroaded through the story full speed ahead and if you fall behind you're screwed. A lot of Awakening's difficulty really comes from enemies appearing out of nowhere on some maps, then moving immediately after appearing and possibly killing one of your people (This was mentioned in an episode of Extra Credits). And the whole choice between Classic/Whatevertheothermodeis is to just make it more appealing to regular players.
Besides that, no, I haven't played it on Insanity mode, but I did do Hard/Classic on my friend's copy of awakening without losing anyone. I destroyed the final boss due to my expert use of grinding on other people's people, at least on the easy ones until I was unstoppable, then the hard ones. (Had to restart several times, and I did not use any characters I didn't get from the story). I've also beaten Radiant Dawn on Hard without losing anyone as well, though I had to restart a hell of a lot, though I didn't get every single character due to that BS scene where you have to have beaten the game once with that save slot to choose not to murder a person.
He's talking about the navigable world map and easily abuseable DLC that gives you EXP outside of chapters for nothing. As it stands, Lunatic+ can't be considered hard when levels can be literally unbeatable based on bad luck alone.
That as well, but all of Fire Emblem has had a bit of a luck thing to it that can screw you over. But at least in the more recent additions they give you some idea as to when you're more likely to get bad luck.
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I can't quite handle Insanity difficulty but if anyone ever chooses an option other then classic they are a disgrace to the Fire Emblem series. We want to have to restart missions five times to make sure everyone lives.
Amen.
