You barely mentioned the amazingly awesome soundtrack!

Donnel, Nowi, Olivia, Tiki and any other special class can change after they hit level 10 with a Second Seal. As a tip, you're better off changing classes after a character's learned their second class skill anyhow. So change Donnel out of a villager soon, okay?! You're not doing him any favours by keeping him as a…

No bonus EXP, but there are plenty of other avenues for leveling up your greener characters. You can pair them up with a stronger unit to give the stat boosts which will put them on par with everyone else, too. Or the "grind" which won't take very long, anyhow. If you play your cards right you can get someone up to…

You'll gain an appreciation for the new mechanics and improvements over Awakening's predecessors, but if there ever was a time to jump into the series, it would be now, with this game.

They have data on all of them, my friend.

Children are linked to the mother, but the father affects hair colour/stats/skills. You can kind of see why they reverted to using cel-shading for the character designs.

You can't make gay pairings because there's something only hetero pairings can do that significantly affects gameplay. I know, adoption and all, but you kind of miss out on the genetics aspect in gay couples (which is also very important in the context of this game). And don't pull the bigot card on me, I'm gay,…

You can't just turn it off. You have to pick it from the beginning of your save file, and it stays throughout the entire thing.

If you're referring to the series on a whole, it kind of is. Past games have had this element but not as much emphasis—and trust me, this game has a LOT of emphasis placed on romance and bonds.

Some of them have, some of them haven't. In this one the whole "bonds" thing is a central theme of the game, and heavily factors into gameplay, whereas in other ones it wasn't available at all, and in others it was only for some characters. This game has the most emphasis on it since the Japan-only FE4, though.

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The one before (FE12) for te DS had a casual mode too (and an Avatar) but it was never released in the West. I would know, I translated the damn thing :D

There's currently 4 worlds: Elibe (Roy, Eliwood, Lyn, Hector), Magvel (Eirika, Ephraim), Tellius (Ike, Micaiah) and Judgral/Archanea (Sigurd, Marth, Chrom). The stories are often standalone ones but Radiant Dawn and Path of Radiance are linked, as are the first five (very indirectly), and the ones with Roy and Eliwood.

We had this ad running in Australia like, over five years ago.