Fire Emblem

Admittedly, the Fire Emblem series has been one that I've not followed all that closely over the years. Maybe it was overkill from other strategy RPG type games (Disgaea). Mostly the thought that deaths in these games was actually death for these characters and that kind of scared me away from it. I had some experience into this matter with Final Fantasy Tactics. There were quite a few battles restarted to save a fallen friend.

But this newest entry into the series, Fire Emblem Awakening, sure looked interesting to me.

So I scoured the Internet for info, trying to find out what this game was all about (besides the permadeath). What I found only increased my interest in the game tenfold! But it comes out on Monday! This Monday! Surely that gives me enough time to reserve this!

I was wrong.

Apparently my local GameStop has been sold out of reservations from a couple of weeks ago. From what I've heard, they are even saying they are not sure if they will even get any more copies beyond what was reserved. Really?

So now the anxious game of hunting down a copy of this game begins. Surely there cannot be that few copies? While the world would not end if it were true, I would certainly be one very disappointed gamer.