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Fire Emblem: Awakening is requited love on a Cartesian coordinate system
Last week, a demo for Fire Emblem Awakening, the latest entry in a series of tactical-role playing games that dates way back to 1990, was made available for free on the Nintendo 3DS store, and there went my night! You can think of Fire Emblem like chess or go or Djambi, but with less balance and more videogamey things, like numbers and leveling and potions and a degree of randomness. In general, I’m not crazy about strategy, but something is incredible appealing about these sets of XY-coordinates. Around 1:30 P.M., I was tented under the sheets, engaged in strategical bliss,…