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Title: Fire Emblem: Awakening
Medium: Video game, available for the Nintendo 3DS
Summary: A single-player turn-based strategy fantasy role-playing game centered on a player character with amnesia (with selectable gender), an extremely earnest prince, the prince's private militia, and a lot of dramatic reveals. There's mind control, time travel, extreme devotion, angst and hurt/comfort opportunities abound, battle couples, the power of friendship, dating sim elements where you can marry most of the cast (though it is gender-locked depending on which version of the player character you are playing), and, you know, maybe a dragon apocalypse or two. Fire Emblem!
Content Warnings: Brief but important mind control elements in the plot, if that squicks you. Character death but It's Complicated. It's a game about war, so there is violence, but it's bloodless and not gory. Some "men writing women in video games" sexism, including one character being a peeping tom and Chrom and F!Robin's supports being different from his supports with M!Robin - Chrom and F!Robin walk in on each other in the bath in some anime-esque shenanigans.
Why I Like It: I'm a big sucker for stories about the power of relationships overcoming everything! Also, the battle system is fun - I'm not very good at strategy but I have a blast putting the game on an easier setting and building my army, and the characters are very charming and shippable. Also, the Chrom/Robin (the player character's default name) ship hits me right in the heart. The intense loyalty comes through regardless of which version of the avatar you play and they are great both as friends and as a romance. Also it's got very pretty cutscenes and portrait art, and the balance of humor, fluff, and angst combined with the way some things are left vague provides a lot of range for fantastic fandom fun!