Poll: Fire Emblem: Awakening - Which difficulty do you play on?

[TheEvilCheese]

I'm finding Hard + Classic to be a really good mix of fun and challenge. While Hard difficulty really isn't all that tough on its own, the real challenge is keeping absolutely everyone alive, particularly the squishy healers. I've had to even leave out the healers altogether on one of the fights because they kept getting picked off by enemies with a huge movement range.

Also, does anyone think that Frederick makes the game a little too easy? I paired him with Sumia so he gets enough speed to attack almost every enemy he encounters twice and he kills even boss units in a single turn with no troubles, taking barely any damage from enemy attacks. Its a viable strategy to just leave all your units at spawn and send Frederick into the middle of the enemies, where he decimates them all with counterattacks, barely losing any of his own hp.

The thing with Frederick is, as a pre-promote, he gets waaay less exp from kills. Using him is easy early on but if you don't level your weaker units you're going to have to grind later on as frederick stops being able to solo.

 

[Bad Jim]

I don't get what the difference between classic and casual is (outside of epeen).
I play classic (because why not?) and restart if things go sour...but I'd most likely do the same in casual as well.
The permadeath feature and making units more personal is genius, but I don't think a majority of players take advantage of 'em at all. Just instantly reset, try again. No real consequences for your failure outside of another go at it.

Well the difference is that if you lose a unit or two in casual but win the fight you can just keep going because they get resurrected. I've been playing on normal/casual because I'm new to the series. I generally have the fight under control but I do get times when the AI suddenly dogpiles one unit and they go down. It's usually Sumia for some reason. Is she cursed?

 

[Eliwood10]

First time was Normal/Classic, then I did Hard/Casual. Right now I'm doing a playthrough on Normal/Casual to get ALL the Support convos unlocked. Then I'll movie back up to Hard/Classic then keep moving up.

 

[ohnoitsabear]

Started on Hard/Classic, but could figure out how to beat the damn fifth mission, so I restarted on Normal/Classic. Normal/Classic is about right for me, but I'm sure after I finish it I'll be playing hard or lunatic.

 

[Risingblade]

Normal casual after trying the harder difficulties I figures why fucking bother? I'm having more fun playing it normal casual anyways.

 

[Cpu46]

Even though I am a big Fire Emblem fan I will probably be playing on Casual Hard just so I can through the story before adding the permadeath in.

 

[McMarbles]

When I finally get to it (sometime this or next week *crossed fingers*), normal casual. I don't feel like I have to prove anything to anyone or myself.

 

[Fappy]

I play Hard Casual because I like the extra difficulty in combat, but don't care to deal with permadeaths. I would likely reload a whole fight if someone died anyway, so all it really does is save time. If a unit goes down in combat I'll generally reload to a few turns back because I think it's kind of cheap to sacrifice units with no penalties.

 

[Yopaz]

Normal casual after trying the harder difficulties I figures why fucking bother? I'm having more fun playing it normal casual anyways.

And how much fun you're having is more important than getting the "real" experience in any game which is why I am quite happy with the casual mode (though I don't ever intent to use it myself).

OT: Hard classic for me. I want the challenge of the hard mode without feeling like the game is holding my hand. I might try a lunatic casual mode in the future since I think those might actually work well together.