Fun fact! This is one of the only songs in the game that doesn't have a dynamic variant for when you enter battles. The song begins and plays as the map theme *and* the battle theme with no transition. Really drives the emotion home.
Actually it was a different song that played in the prep menu. It’s a soundtrack that’s different than the usual prep menu still and fits the tone perfectly. It’s a song that’s hard to find on CZcams however because it’s literally titled “…….”
I hate when FE games do that. Having a hype soundtrack whilst I’m looking through the convoy, applying tonics, changing weapons, and coming up with a battle plan really stresses me out and pushes me to rush preparations. I do, however, like unique prep screen music, it has a good balance of knowing stuff’s about to get real, without spoiling the initial surprise of a banger map theme.
You likely found out by now, but it was in fact played live by an orchestra. Search for The Intermission Orchestra 2017 Fall Concert. It's not as good as the original piece here but it's a work of love and it deserves to be listened to at the very least.
Everything about this chapter, the story of Awakening, and even Emmeryn's death is made all the more tragic and heartbreaking when you know her backstory. She was always fated to die, but the timeline that won, the timeline where she made a difference, and the timeline where her utter love for humanity prevailed was also the one where she ultimately *chose* to die.
@@jenkohr IIRC she lost all her memories and is basically a cripple now that is a shell of her former self, that seems like it actually makes the emotional impact even worse, knowing that the person's body is there, but their mind and soul are not
@@jacchann I agree with this. If she came back as she was, the impact would be ruined. But since she isn't all there, it makes the joy of finding her alive once again dashed by the fact she can't remember her beloved siblings.
This reminds me of two things: Emm's sacrifice and how big and moving that scene was, and sorrow for Mustafa. He was a good character that I liked more and was somehow more developed than a lot of the other Plegians and it made me sad that I couldnt recruit him.
This is one of the few games I ever cried for. The emotion going into this fight is already raw. Then you enter into this soggy, muddy, gloomy battlefield. Then that haunting piano melody kicks in. It doesn't have a battle melody; just the same mournful dirge on full display. Then the Plegian morale breaks down. Your opposing leader's own forces announce they've lost the will to fight you. Then the leader dismisses any soldier who wishes to leave. There is no announcement of punishment. There are no insult, taunts, or accusations of treason. The opposing leader informs the soldiers that his entire family will be executed if he does not perform his duties. This man is not your enemy by choice. The soldiers realize their loyalty is to Mustafa and not to Plegia. They will serve to the death out of love and respect to him. Then, with his final, dying words, he begs you to spare his soldiers. I quietly saved the game. I walked away because I needed a minute...
This was one of the only times I felt bad for killing enemy units. I took 'defeat the enemy general' as 'route the enemy for the experience.' Then Mustafa said "please, spare my men." I felt like a horrible person. Five playthroughs later and I do everything I can to avoid killing as many as possible.
This was the track that made me fall in love with Fire Emblem as a series. I bought FE: Awakening 8 years ago in my freshman year of high school. I was interested in the series for a while, and decided to pick up this game. It was fun, but not much really stood out to me for a while. Even the music, though it was memorable, at this moment in my life, I wasn't always looking out for soundtracks in games. Then I got to this level, and my expectations were immediately shattered. I was expecting the usual battlefield theme, but what I wasn't expecting was something solemn like this. I genuinely was crying when this song came on that I had to step away for a few minutes. I immediately knew that this game was something special. 8 years later, I'm still coming back to this, and I still feel how I did then.
Middle school for me. Shit broke me and solidified that Awakening lived up to its name. It reawoke the West's love for Fire Emblem and awoke a love in me that has yet to be toppled by ANY OTHER STRATEGY GAME. This song and map has immortalized itself in me as the pinnacle of Fire Emblem story telling, nothing compares to it.
I remember sobbing my eyes out during this part, apologising to everyone I had to fight. They were scared to fight but stayed behind despite Mustafa allowing them to go back to safety, because cared about him and saw him as a friend. And Mustafa... having to fight despite not wanting to, because his family were on the line, rather it being him who would die than them. Complete selflessness from the man. I sobbed so hard over his death.
This OST breaks my heart every time I hear it, and every time I have to battle against Mustafa. This battle is a butcher fest, filled with nonsensical killing. Enemies and allies are devoid of meaning after Emmeryn's suicide. No one wants to kill each other on this battlefield, yet they have no other way to proceed. Even the player does not have a choice; every opponent on this field must die.
I remember crying a little when Emmeryn died. That infamous "illusion of choice" just gets to me every single time. But I did a little bit of side work, emotionally recovered, and when I started this chapter, I heard the song and reverted back to tears dripping down as I ploughed through anything that stood in my way. Caution was thrown fully to the wind. I was shattered, and as the music guiding me on, I just let my frustration carry it forth. The past several chapters were fully focused on saving her and keeping her alive, and in the moment where it mattered most, that was the one thing that my party and I failed to do. And being able to evoke such strong emotions due to that fact is what made this a peak Fire Emblem game, and a peak work of fiction overall.
This really seems to be the chapter were the game clicks for everyone, and oh boy is it clear as day why, this song is absolutely gorgeous, one of the best in the entire franchise, and both the cutscene before it and the chapter accompanying it are heartbreaking to sit through, no wonder Awakening saved Fire Emblem from being left in the dust with no fanfare.
When this track came out with the game I thought this was the absolute peak of gaming OSTs. Since then the Fire Emblem and Xenoblade series both haven't disappointed. Apparently both share the same orchestral team too.
Check out the Ace Combat series! It's got a slightly different feel to its music, but is PACKED with legendary bangers on par or better than even fire emblem. Electro-orchestral-flamenco dogfighting music, from AC Zero: "Zero" czcams.com/video/FlSLCnbXMIE/video.html The most recent game: "Daredevil" from the climactic battle: czcams.com/video/-kVdCaczLE8/video.html The one that started it all: "Rex Tremendae and Agnus Dei" from AC04: czcams.com/video/dZBoiW460nU/video.html Keiki Kobayashi is responsible for a lot of the AC ost, and he also worked on the Valkyrie theme from one of the final fantasy games: czcams.com/video/0RYEE6lJ334/video.html
I recently decided to play awakening as my first Fire Emblem game, and oh boy, I legitimately teared up here. Haven’t beaten Awakening yet, too busy grinding support levels to get all the children. I just need two more at this point.
Fun Fact: Gangrel has severe acrophobia (despite having acrobat later on) which is why he was surprised one could "fall so gracefully" after Emmeryn's sacrifice.
This person gives me the same energy as the internet check point channel. They arrive on the platform, post the best video game music ports you ever did see, then vanishes into the night and refuses to elaborate further.
My friend who does not play video games at all though this was a wedding song... And oh damn she's right. Proof that this music is gold: it drives such emotions that even non players feel it.
Ive got a little disappointed to be honest. Never played the series but it felt like a track for some field strolling around randomly gringing some enemies. The 3:47 part feels like having some SciFi elements. Or the party is approaching a huge tower after walking through huge meadows.
@@CinderedCaelus Oh yes, ofcourse I enjoy the piano, but I do like to imagine other worlds and sci-fi, and as an artist the 3:47 part inspires me the most, so thats that. Disappointing is because I personally felt it doesnt fit in a battle situation, but the song is played at one apparently. Its great nonetheless!
@@coffeediction It foes play in a battle but it's not meant to fit the battle, it's meant to fit the situation, basically the main character's sister (who is also the queen) is being held hostage by the bad guys to blackmail the main character (the bad guys want something that can end humanity if they acquire it) so the main character goes to the capital to save her, but she commits suicide to save humanity, then the main character has to escape the capital but he's surrounded by an army, the general doesn't want to fight either but if he doesn't fight his family will die so he chooses to die himself, he even let's go of his men but they don't want to leave their general to die, and this song plays during the ensuing battle This is a VERY basic and watered down version sonit may seem a little silly But for the love of god GO PLAY THE GAME, it's one of the best video games ever made
We need more, it's simply amazing, thank you for all the videos you made thus far, I really appreciate it and I hope you will do more in the future! Cheers!
I remember when I was modding music for Project M and I really wanted to somehow add Distant Planet's rain to Castle Siege just to add this track in the game.
When this battle came up with this solemn song starting at the background and I read all of the enemies' conversation between Mustafa and his men as well as their unwillingness to fight (bcs if they don't they probably gonna get executed anyway), I took a deep breath, pair all of my strong units to all of my flying units and fly over terrain, trying not to touch any area that will aggro enemy there until I reach the enemy general and somehow, somehow only killed him and probably two other enemy units at max. Until this second, I have no idea how I managed to do this fight like that and if I got a second chance to experience it for the first time again, I would. It was one of the longest fight I've ever done in the game, but it sticks in my memory forever as one of the best fight in Fire Emblem I did and also one of the blurriest fight since I can't stop bawling.
I never beat this game but this is one of my favourite video game songs of all time anyway. I think I cried during the battle because of the song's power, and I never cry at games ordinarily. Even years later I keep coming back and listening to the song xD
"Hey, you know that level in Awakening that made everyone sad because you DIDN'T want to fight the enemy commander because they were humanized?" "Yes." "What if we did that, but the ENTIRE GAME, so we can make it even sadder?" And that's how we got Three Houses.
When I close my eyes and listen to this, I can still see this map. I can hear Mustafa's brave speech to his soldiers and feel the rain and the absolute emotional devastation that the party was in as they ran for their lives. I also feel the absolute sorrow and pure shame I felt when I went out of my way to absolutely slaughter every single enemy unit because I needed Xp on my Lunatic+ run. This map is in 9th in my top 10 awakening maps/moment. Behind Future-Past DLC 4,3,2,1; The moment Lucina finds out you are the one who will kill Chrom and confronts you on the field during the sunset (She was my wife in my first run so that scene just about broke me); Endgame: Grima; The moment where the party find out who Lucina actually is; The Battle at the Dragon's Table/Grima's Resurrection This one; and the 2nd mission where Lucina breaks into the timeline in that order. That's not to say that I don't absolutely love this map, Awakening just had a *_LOT_* of fantastic moments.
This music is amazing. But why bash the rest of FE music? There's edge of dawn, over the next mountain, god shattering star, blazing through heaven, ect.
This game is fantasic, i hadnt played it but i had played fire emblem fates and thought that all fire emblem games would be bad like that one and then i recently played awakening on a whim and here we are a few weeks later i bought a phyisical copy and the art book and a few amiibo and display them proudly
I started playing this game roughly a week ago. None could prepare me for the emotional gut punch I felt as this song played. I was even less ready for me having to cut through men who fight for ideals they don't believe in, for a king who would see them die if they retreated. And Mustafa? I pleaded and hoped I could reason with the man. However, when I bared witness to the brutal and crushing reality that I had to cut through his men, having ran down the fleeing bandits and making sure no man could take anyone out, just to realize I could not spare his life. I couldn't even make his demise quick. Donnel had the last jab at him, and when he died, I felt all the more horrible about running his men down when I saw him ask for his men to be spared. I did not shed tears, but laughed. I laughed a pained, anguished filled laugh. Because I realized something so pitiful, gut-wrenching, and utterly upsetting that I couldn't help but laugh my pain away. *Because I realized that I was no hero.*
The fact that this very song is in FE Heroes… Why must the Fire Emblem series have such memorable songs, and yet only included very few in Smash Bros?😭
Fire emblem music has always been good. But of course with better technology comes even better music. Take Gaiden’s twilight of the gods. That was good, and then the fucking remastered it
This is my favorite theme in fire emblem and my favorite level (although I am 3D fire emblem scum that started with fates so take my opinion with a grain of salt).
this game is officially over ten years old now... am i wrong for kinda wanting a remake of this soon? like of course all the other fe games should at least get some kind of english port but... man awakening is, really something special and like... a remake that could add more depth to the story and characters would be phenomenal realy
This is easily the best chapter in Awakening, purelyu because of this track. And as emotional as it is for the main party, its that one soldier who stays back to fight on the enemy side that really drives thsi chapter home for me.
Freggin love this game and this song. Before this chapter, I was already having a ton of fun, but this chapter cemented this game as truly something special. FE:Awakening remains one of my favorite handheld games of all time. :)
I instantly recognized this piece as the greatest piece of music I'd ever hear in my lifetime. A dozen years later, that belief is as strong as its ever been. Awakening as a whole I have mixed opinions on. The characters and the music were great. The gameplay innovations were interesting, but really sloppily implemented. It made the game feel like it was more about how to make effective builds than it was about strategic positioning. I'm pleasantly surprised to see that Fates and Engage were able to keep this level of mechanical complexity, while managing to actually refine it to the point that the strategic aspects remained important.
Lo que consigue esta canción es lo que funeral of flowers intenta desesperadamente, pero como el juego hace un trabajo excelente en que no tengas simpatía por rhea, no lo consigue.
Will Smith's favourite song
BRO
This should go up
😂😂😂
“Keep the Exalt’s name out your fucking mouth!”
@@Caddance 🤣
Fun fact! This is one of the only songs in the game that doesn't have a dynamic variant for when you enter battles. The song begins and plays as the map theme *and* the battle theme with no transition. Really drives the emotion home.
I love that about this piece. And I usually spend the first 5 min or so not even playing the map, just listening to it.
And that's a rooooock fact!
the sense of overwhelming grief.
I mean, Id purpose does that too.
But yeah. Agreed
you know the music is going to hit in Fire Emblem when the battle music starts in the prep menu. and man, this hit.
Actually it was a different song that played in the prep menu. It’s a soundtrack that’s different than the usual prep menu still and fits the tone perfectly.
It’s a song that’s hard to find on CZcams however because it’s literally titled “…….”
I hate when FE games do that. Having a hype soundtrack whilst I’m looking through the convoy, applying tonics, changing weapons, and coming up with a battle plan really stresses me out and pushes me to rush preparations. I do, however, like unique prep screen music, it has a good balance of knowing stuff’s about to get real, without spoiling the initial surprise of a banger map theme.
I would kill to hear this preformed live by an orchestra
yes ;; OMG A COMMENT 4 HOURS AGO
Time to let Emmeryn die again then
Same here.
You likely found out by now, but it was in fact played live by an orchestra. Search for The Intermission Orchestra 2017 Fall Concert. It's not as good as the original piece here but it's a work of love and it deserves to be listened to at the very least.
Everything about this chapter, the story of Awakening, and even Emmeryn's death is made all the more tragic and heartbreaking when you know her backstory.
She was always fated to die, but the timeline that won, the timeline where she made a difference, and the timeline where her utter love for humanity prevailed was also the one where she ultimately *chose* to die.
until she gets brought back as a recruitable character in a paralogue and ruins all emotional impact of her sacrifice 🙃
@@jenkohr IIRC she lost all her memories and is basically a cripple now that is a shell of her former self, that seems like it actually makes the emotional impact even worse, knowing that the person's body is there, but their mind and soul are not
@@jacchann I agree with this. If she came back as she was, the impact would be ruined. But since she isn't all there, it makes the joy of finding her alive once again dashed by the fact she can't remember her beloved siblings.
Emmeryn's what?, she is recruitable lol
@@AzumarillConGafasBv DLC only, my dude.
This reminds me of two things: Emm's sacrifice and how big and moving that scene was, and sorrow for Mustafa. He was a good character that I liked more and was somehow more developed than a lot of the other Plegians and it made me sad that I couldnt recruit him.
Maybe I'm going mad, but you CAN recruit him.
@@gamertagboakan7417 you’re definitely going mad
@@BoltTheEmolga not if he’s thinking Heroes
@@bruced09 If he's thinking Heroes, he's mad for playing Heroes either way
@@BoltTheEmolga heroes kinda fun tho :(
This is one of the few games I ever cried for. The emotion going into this fight is already raw. Then you enter into this soggy, muddy, gloomy battlefield.
Then that haunting piano melody kicks in. It doesn't have a battle melody; just the same mournful dirge on full display.
Then the Plegian morale breaks down. Your opposing leader's own forces announce they've lost the will to fight you.
Then the leader dismisses any soldier who wishes to leave. There is no announcement of punishment. There are no insult, taunts, or accusations of treason.
The opposing leader informs the soldiers that his entire family will be executed if he does not perform his duties. This man is not your enemy by choice.
The soldiers realize their loyalty is to Mustafa and not to Plegia. They will serve to the death out of love and respect to him.
Then, with his final, dying words, he begs you to spare his soldiers.
I quietly saved the game. I walked away because I needed a minute...
This was one of the only times I felt bad for killing enemy units. I took 'defeat the enemy general' as 'route the enemy for the experience.' Then Mustafa said "please, spare my men." I felt like a horrible person. Five playthroughs later and I do everything I can to avoid killing as many as possible.
This was the track that made me fall in love with Fire Emblem as a series.
I bought FE: Awakening 8 years ago in my freshman year of high school. I was interested in the series for a while, and decided to pick up this game. It was fun, but not much really stood out to me for a while. Even the music, though it was memorable, at this moment in my life, I wasn't always looking out for soundtracks in games.
Then I got to this level, and my expectations were immediately shattered. I was expecting the usual battlefield theme, but what I wasn't expecting was something solemn like this. I genuinely was crying when this song came on that I had to step away for a few minutes. I immediately knew that this game was something special. 8 years later, I'm still coming back to this, and I still feel how I did then.
Same here actually.
Early high school, picked this up almost on a whim and fell in love.
2003 gang?
Banger.
Middle school for me. Shit broke me and solidified that Awakening lived up to its name. It reawoke the West's love for Fire Emblem and awoke a love in me that has yet to be toppled by ANY OTHER STRATEGY GAME. This song and map has immortalized itself in me as the pinnacle of Fire Emblem story telling, nothing compares to it.
@@salj.5459 for real. I picked it up the summer before I started high school.
My favorite fire emblem chapter, song, and boss character. R.I.P to a respectable man and a great leader.
I remember sobbing my eyes out during this part, apologising to everyone I had to fight. They were scared to fight but stayed behind despite Mustafa allowing them to go back to safety, because cared about him and saw him as a friend. And Mustafa... having to fight despite not wanting to, because his family were on the line, rather it being him who would die than them. Complete selflessness from the man. I sobbed so hard over his death.
This OST breaks my heart every time I hear it, and every time I have to battle against Mustafa. This battle is a butcher fest, filled with nonsensical killing. Enemies and allies are devoid of meaning after Emmeryn's suicide. No one wants to kill each other on this battlefield, yet they have no other way to proceed. Even the player does not have a choice; every opponent on this field must die.
they must... to empower the legendary peasant with a cooking pot as helmet for him to become the greatest hero.
@@Grim_Bud Donnel>all
You only have to kill Mustafa to end the battle.
I’m pretty sure the player did have a choice. If I remember correctly, only Mufasta had to be defeated
@@agentglowstick8704 Indeed, this is the case. And it broke me when I realized that after I had already killed them all...
I remember crying a little when Emmeryn died. That infamous "illusion of choice" just gets to me every single time. But I did a little bit of side work, emotionally recovered, and when I started this chapter, I heard the song and reverted back to tears dripping down as I ploughed through anything that stood in my way. Caution was thrown fully to the wind. I was shattered, and as the music guiding me on, I just let my frustration carry it forth.
The past several chapters were fully focused on saving her and keeping her alive, and in the moment where it mattered most, that was the one thing that my party and I failed to do. And being able to evoke such strong emotions due to that fact is what made this a peak Fire Emblem game, and a peak work of fiction overall.
This really seems to be the chapter were the game clicks for everyone, and oh boy is it clear as day why, this song is absolutely gorgeous, one of the best in the entire franchise, and both the cutscene before it and the chapter accompanying it are heartbreaking to sit through, no wonder Awakening saved Fire Emblem from being left in the dust with no fanfare.
Can we all agree General Mustafa is the ultimate chad?
When this track came out with the game I thought this was the absolute peak of gaming OSTs. Since then the Fire Emblem and Xenoblade series both haven't disappointed.
Apparently both share the same orchestral team too.
But of course they do. If only Zelda games were taken over as well
Wait they do??
Check out the Ace Combat series! It's got a slightly different feel to its music, but is PACKED with legendary bangers on par or better than even fire emblem.
Electro-orchestral-flamenco dogfighting music, from AC Zero: "Zero" czcams.com/video/FlSLCnbXMIE/video.html
The most recent game: "Daredevil" from the climactic battle: czcams.com/video/-kVdCaczLE8/video.html
The one that started it all: "Rex Tremendae and Agnus Dei" from AC04: czcams.com/video/dZBoiW460nU/video.html
Keiki Kobayashi is responsible for a lot of the AC ost, and he also worked on the Valkyrie theme from one of the final fantasy games: czcams.com/video/0RYEE6lJ334/video.html
@@Hoosiergirl2022I don’t think they mean the composers but the people arranging and playing in the orchestra
Such an amazing song. Awakening was my first and is my favourite Fire Emblem game. I love it so much.
I recently decided to play awakening as my first Fire Emblem game, and oh boy, I legitimately teared up here.
Haven’t beaten Awakening yet, too busy grinding support levels to get all the children. I just need two more at this point.
been there man
Beat the game, chose to have Robin land the final blow.
@@realdogking hell yeah. congrats on beating the game :)
Welcome to the game that brought me to the franchise, my friend. I cried at this chapter myself as well
I severely underestimated how good this song is, absolutely carries the emotional impact of this entire part of the story
Awakening was my first FE game and ughhhh the feelings this song brings ;_;
It was my first FE game too. Man. It's been 3 years since then. The memories of this game will stay with me forever.
Fun Fact: Gangrel has severe acrophobia (despite having acrobat later on) which is why he was surprised one could "fall so gracefully" after Emmeryn's sacrifice.
This person gives me the same energy as the internet check point channel. They arrive on the platform, post the best video game music ports you ever did see, then vanishes into the night and refuses to elaborate further.
3:26 is easily the greatest part of any video game ost
Funnily enough that exact melody is in Pokemon
@@justachilldude4356 where
@@yoloswagnemite5416 czcams.com/video/Pyyis1fasd0/video.html lol, not the exact timing but all the notes are there
@@justachilldude4356 YOOOOOO
@@chimbychimbson I know right, I remember having a similar reaction when I first listened to the song
This is the chapter that sold me on this game and made me a Fire Emblem fan for life. I love this piece
My friend who does not play video games at all though this was a wedding song... And oh damn she's right. Proof that this music is gold: it drives such emotions that even non players feel it.
Spare your men?
Me having already killed all of them for exp:
Oh my God I just realised that you're the one who put together my favourite version of God-Shattering Star, thank you for that
My poor 3ds speakers could not deliver what this song was trying to convey...
5:35 is SO GOOD AHHHH
Dang this song really is outstanding. I've always been more of an Id (Purpose) kind of guy, but this track... it really is something special.
insane to think this song was made for anime chess on the 3DS
Ive got a little disappointed to be honest. Never played the series but it felt like a track for some field strolling around randomly gringing some enemies. The 3:47 part feels like having some SciFi elements. Or the party is approaching a huge tower after walking through huge meadows.
@@coffeediction have you got no ears or something? This song is filled with so much emotion, and how tf is that part SciFi???
@@CinderedCaelus Oh yes, ofcourse I enjoy the piano, but I do like to imagine other worlds and sci-fi, and as an artist the 3:47 part inspires me the most, so thats that. Disappointing is because I personally felt it doesnt fit in a battle situation, but the song is played at one apparently. Its great nonetheless!
@@coffeediction It foes play in a battle but it's not meant to fit the battle, it's meant to fit the situation, basically the main character's sister (who is also the queen) is being held hostage by the bad guys to blackmail the main character (the bad guys want something that can end humanity if they acquire it) so the main character goes to the capital to save her, but she commits suicide to save humanity, then the main character has to escape the capital but he's surrounded by an army, the general doesn't want to fight either but if he doesn't fight his family will die so he chooses to die himself, he even let's go of his men but they don't want to leave their general to die, and this song plays during the ensuing battle
This is a VERY basic and watered down version sonit may seem a little silly
But for the love of god GO PLAY THE GAME, it's one of the best video games ever made
@@CinderedCaelus Its def. on my list when I get my hands on a switch.
Mustapha looked so kind 😢
I listen to this whenever I want or need to cry and get emotions out
"Aye. That's a good lad."
Imagine a timeline where Awakening does not save the franchise, and everyone thinks this game became a niche
We need more, it's simply amazing, thank you for all the videos you made thus far, I really appreciate it and I hope you will do more in the future! Cheers!
I remember when I was modding music for Project M and I really wanted to somehow add Distant Planet's rain to Castle Siege just to add this track in the game.
I'm always coming back to your channel after listening to *Water no get enemy from Fela* . I love great music.
+aaa
That piano break is still so beautiful after all these years.
Ah, replaying through this game, very wonderful track
Same
And you just want to drag the fight for a long time just to hear this beautiful score
when music has a purpose it is attached to, it gains a lot more power
this piece has an otherworldy beauty about it behind what its purpose was. I wonder if it matters that much.
did someone on this music team work for the music for Kingdom Hearts?
When this battle came up with this solemn song starting at the background and I read all of the enemies' conversation between Mustafa and his men as well as their unwillingness to fight (bcs if they don't they probably gonna get executed anyway), I took a deep breath, pair all of my strong units to all of my flying units and fly over terrain, trying not to touch any area that will aggro enemy there until I reach the enemy general and somehow, somehow only killed him and probably two other enemy units at max. Until this second, I have no idea how I managed to do this fight like that and if I got a second chance to experience it for the first time again, I would.
It was one of the longest fight I've ever done in the game, but it sticks in my memory forever as one of the best fight in Fire Emblem I did and also one of the blurriest fight since I can't stop bawling.
I never beat this game but this is one of my favourite video game songs of all time anyway. I think I cried during the battle because of the song's power, and I never cry at games ordinarily. Even years later I keep coming back and listening to the song xD
"Hey, you know that level in Awakening that made everyone sad because you DIDN'T want to fight the enemy commander because they were humanized?"
"Yes."
"What if we did that, but the ENTIRE GAME, so we can make it even sadder?"
And that's how we got Three Houses.
I fell in love with this series because of this game..❤❤❤
I also love Fire Emblem! Awakening is my favorite 3DS FE game, alongside Echoes (remake of Gaiden).
When I close my eyes and listen to this, I can still see this map. I can hear Mustafa's brave speech to his soldiers and feel the rain and the absolute emotional devastation that the party was in as they ran for their lives. I also feel the absolute sorrow and pure shame I felt when I went out of my way to absolutely slaughter every single enemy unit because I needed Xp on my Lunatic+ run.
This map is in 9th in my top 10 awakening maps/moment. Behind Future-Past DLC 4,3,2,1; The moment Lucina finds out you are the one who will kill Chrom and confronts you on the field during the sunset (She was my wife in my first run so that scene just about broke me); Endgame: Grima; The moment where the party find out who Lucina actually is; The Battle at the Dragon's Table/Grima's Resurrection This one; and the 2nd mission where Lucina breaks into the timeline in that order. That's not to say that I don't absolutely love this map, Awakening just had a *_LOT_* of fantastic moments.
1:34 when the anger sets in
God this song…it’s just beautiful…
(I love your Kat pfp!)
Single best piece of music in all of Fire Emblem, and no other song even comes close.
This music is amazing.
But why bash the rest of FE music? There's edge of dawn, over the next mountain, god shattering star, blazing through heaven, ect.
Apex of the world goes hard
Twilight of the Gods & God Shattering Star.
@@connortodd4538 Oh I didn't. There's some amazing other songs fs. I'm not bashing them at all.
This one is just better. :)
@@shirakorimio1363I think PoR's end credits theme is better by a hair
3:48 insanity starts, reminds me so much of Star Ocean.. walking towards a huge spaceship in plains and grassfields.
to think awakening was supposed to be the last fe game
We never would have gotten 3 houses! On the other hand we never would have gotten fates, which kinda makes me wish it was the last cause holy hell.
@@zeke2388 fates had good maps but the story...oh boy the story....
@@caydenjohns2440 the maps were bad wdym at least for conquest
@@prestononuselogu9973 I think you are very wrong
@@caydenjohns2440 dragon vain is a bad gimmick it should be how well your army fights the opponent. Not how well your army fights against the map.
Thank you for your hard work.
i need to confess something. this song plays in my head sometimes when i use a skyview tower in totk.
the strings at 1:35... ugh, love it
At 0:23 Is probably my favorite part for some reason.
I never play fire emblem games but the soundtracks are so good
Super good song, love all the vibes !
I love this song :")
"ANYTHING CAN CHANGE!!"
mustafa was such a goat
This game is fantasic, i hadnt played it but i had played fire emblem fates and thought that all fire emblem games would be bad like that one and then i recently played awakening on a whim and here we are a few weeks later i bought a phyisical copy and the art book and a few amiibo and display them proudly
idk if its just me but 3:27 sounds exactly like the beginning of the pokemon ruby/sapphire surfing theme
So I get to recruit that cool Berserker guy...right? Right...?
Uh, In Fire Emblem: Heroes you can... not in Awakening though. Sorry.
@@jonathanryan9946 Yeah...;n;
you know the music is good when it makes u feel like YOUR sister died
This song is a hard hitter
this so good
Easily my favorite song from the game.
I spoke her name.
How dare.
Rude
Chrom: "NOW IM ANGRY!"
i need to play this again.
I started playing this game roughly a week ago. None could prepare me for the emotional gut punch I felt as this song played. I was even less ready for me having to cut through men who fight for ideals they don't believe in, for a king who would see them die if they retreated. And Mustafa? I pleaded and hoped I could reason with the man. However, when I bared witness to the brutal and crushing reality that I had to cut through his men, having ran down the fleeing bandits and making sure no man could take anyone out, just to realize I could not spare his life. I couldn't even make his demise quick. Donnel had the last jab at him, and when he died, I felt all the more horrible about running his men down when I saw him ask for his men to be spared.
I did not shed tears, but laughed. I laughed a pained, anguished filled laugh. Because I realized something so pitiful, gut-wrenching, and utterly upsetting that I couldn't help but laugh my pain away.
*Because I realized that I was no hero.*
The fact that this very song is in FE Heroes… Why must the Fire Emblem series have such memorable songs, and yet only included very few in Smash Bros?😭
what I would give to hear this song played by a live orchestra
You’re gone
and i’m still far apart
She may be fiction
But always in my Leafheart
R.I.P Sister…..
thanks you po
The era when fe music started gettin gUUd
Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn had great OSTs though. lol
Fire emblem music has always been good. But of course with better technology comes even better music. Take Gaiden’s twilight of the gods. That was good, and then the fucking remastered it
@@nap2149 Wouldn't say better music, but more possibilities for creativity in composing it and higher quality sound for real life instruments
normie
This is my favorite theme in fire emblem and my favorite level (although I am 3D fire emblem scum that started with fates so take my opinion with a grain of salt).
this game is officially over ten years old now...
am i wrong for kinda wanting a remake of this soon?
like of course all the other fe games should at least get some kind of english port but...
man awakening is, really something special and like... a remake that could add more depth to the story and characters would be phenomenal realy
Hopefully it'll get a remake in 20 years
Real ones will know Mustafa is one of the best one-time map generals of all time in FE
She will never be fallin'
Excelblem: *plays the airhorn*
This is easily the best chapter in Awakening, purelyu because of this track.
And as emotional as it is for the main party, its that one soldier who stays back to fight on the enemy side that really drives thsi chapter home for me.
Freggin love this game and this song. Before this chapter, I was already having a ton of fun, but this chapter cemented this game as truly something special.
FE:Awakening remains one of my favorite handheld games of all time. :)
This will be the best song in the inevitable remake
Doing the Not Living : The Theme Song
Oh man Ima go busking with this on piano
Best Chapter in the whole game
Gotta say, i'm digging the Kat emblem
Someone else who is a Kat fan.... finally I am not alone.
I am too
All that come into contact with Kat are to become a Kat fan, it says so in the law
Bruh I already have 7 slots on my playlist taken up by you you mind being not that cool
Song that might play when you say her name
This is the best song from this game!
The piano part reminds me of To The Moons "For River" ^^
emmeryn
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I instantly recognized this piece as the greatest piece of music I'd ever hear in my lifetime.
A dozen years later, that belief is as strong as its ever been.
Awakening as a whole I have mixed opinions on. The characters and the music were great. The gameplay innovations were interesting, but really sloppily implemented. It made the game feel like it was more about how to make effective builds than it was about strategic positioning. I'm pleasantly surprised to see that Fates and Engage were able to keep this level of mechanical complexity, while managing to actually refine it to the point that the strategic aspects remained important.
Hello has anyone the link to this photo???? One of the greatest i’ve ever seen
Pretty sure it's from the Fire Emblem Awakening Artbook
1:56
Gorgeous
The only stupid part of Plegia is that right after Gangrel is "killed" they literally elected another psychopath that is even worse than him.
3:21 3:27 1:55
If this song is from FIRE Emblem, then why is there water in my eyes?
Lo que consigue esta canción es lo que funeral of flowers intenta desesperadamente, pero como el juego hace un trabajo excelente en que no tengas simpatía por rhea, no lo consigue.