When comparing Fire Emblem Awakening vs Pokemon X & Y, the Slant community recommends Fire Emblem Awakening for most people. In the question“What are the best Nintendo DS/2DS/3DS games where breeding affects gameplay?” Fire Emblem Awakening is ranked 2nd while Pokemon X & Y is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Fire Emblem Awakening is:
Users can pair certain male female characters in battle to improve their relationship. Once it reaches a certain point the characters can breed offspring who then can be used as more troops in the team. This makes for an ingenious way to build up ones roster as well as adds a relationship aspect to the story and gameplay.
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Pros
Pro Interesting use of relationships
Users can pair certain male female characters in battle to improve their relationship. Once it reaches a certain point the characters can breed offspring who then can be used as more troops in the team. This makes for an ingenious way to build up ones roster as well as adds a relationship aspect to the story and gameplay.
Pro Very customizable
Not only is ones troops customizable through their looks, armor and weapon choices but there are many aspects of the game itself that can be changed such as the voice work or skipping cut scenes.
Pro Deep breeding mechanics
While not always a focus in the game for casual players the breeding aspect allows for one to breed Pokemon with certain stats. This is done through random number generation but makes for a way for hardcore players to breed the ultimate Pokemon by using two compatible Pokemon with particular stats to breed a new Pokemon who inherits those stats.
This is basically a meta game that allows those that compete competitively to make the perfect team.
Pro Easy to get started
Previous games in the series featured slow starts to the game that would take the player hours in order to get to the meat of the title. Changed in X & Y the player can now have access to the majority of gameplay elements withing the first hour, which is considerably faster that prior games.
Cons
Con Amount of options may be too much to grasp
While not the worst thing in the world there are quite a lot of options in this game. A forging system for weapons a special power system for all characters may not ever be touched in a playthrough making one ask why they were included. On top of this they may be difficult to grasp the full mechanics upon first look and so may make for systems people do not really want to explore.
Con Story feels the same as always
Not much has been done to upgrade or change the story found in the game and is basically a rehash of previous titles where a young boy is tasked with cataloging all the Pokemon in the world while also taking to task bad guys bent on ruling the world.