The Art of Fire Emblem: Awakening

This book is fantastic even if you have never played Awakening and are just a fan of the series. The cover is very nice and non glossy. The binding is very good. The book is large and well printed so the colors and all the details of the art look great. It is also laid out very well. It doesn’t feel like a bunch of extras shoved together as a cash grab like some art books do. However as with all large/heavy books sold on Amazon, be prepared to return a copy or two that arrive with heavily damaged corners since Amazon is completely incapable of safely shipping books. My first copy arrived with a completely destroyed front top right corner to the point that it tore through the cover material and was basically hanging on by the glue of the inside paper, and damage to the back bottom left that caused heavy wrinkling of the cover material.

I purchased this book last year as a Christmas gift for my close friend who is a huge fan of Fire Emblem: Awakening. I was able to skim through it with her, much to my excitement! The book itself comes in at over 300 pages of in-game CGs, official art, concept, sketches and in-game dialogue. Many of these pages are in full-color and in my experience, each and every page is printed in high quality. The Art of Fire Emblem: Awakening is a gorgeous art book. Aspiring character designers will find inspiration through the amazing works of Yusuke Kozaki. Even those who don't have interest in Fire Emblem will have to appreciate the sheer effort and creativity demonstrated by the talented artists and developers of Fire Emblem: Awakening. This is overall one of the most in-depth video game art books I've ever seen, and I highly recommend it to anyone who may be on-the-fence about purchasing it. Not to mention, it also serves as a great and thoughtful gift to any Fire Emblem or Nintendo fans you may have in your life.

Book arrived with a very small dent on the top of the cover, and one very minor printing error that didn't affect the look of the page it was on. According to other reviews, the damage and printing errors can be much worse, so please exercise caution when ordering! That said, as an Awakening fan, this art book is lovely! It includes all of the story and marriage CGs, character profiles and concept sketches, and lots of dialogue and tidbits from the game. I was also happily surprised to see storyboards for many of the animated cutscenes. I'd highly recommend this if you are someone who enjoys seeing what goes into the visuals of games, and especially if you're an Awakening fan.

An absolutely beautiful masterpiece of an art book. I am a pen and ink artist, and carry this book as well as the Art of League of Legends around with me regularly for inspiration. It is also worth noting that this art book is much thicker than it may be advertised. It is the likeness of a textbook, and chuck full of content ranging from weapon concepts, early designs, and character portraits for every character in not only Awakening, but all of its DLC characters as well. Each character from the Awakening storyline gets their own dedicated few pages in the book. At the beginning of each character there is a large illustration of them, followed by several pages of design or expressions. Over all this is easily one of three of my favorite art books, and I own well over 50. If you were debating getting this, then stop right now and just buy it. If you are an avid fan of Fire Emblem or you simply enjoy a good art book, definitely make the investment.

Bought this because I enjoy the Fire Emblem series and hands down Awakening is my favorite game of the series. From my understating this book is every bit like the original one released in Japan but in English. The quality of is book is fantastic with great colored pages and hard cover. I ordered two of these books ( one for myself and the other as a gift to my brother). Be warned however for Amazon doesn't provide much packing protection and on both my orders the books arrived loose in a box. Neither book was dinged up too badly but just don't expect it to arrive in mint condition. Both arrived with slightly dinged corners. Great buy overall and way cheaper than the Japanese original at 19 dollars and some change as I write this review.

I was blown away at the quality of this art book. It’s large in size (over 12 inches), is long with over 300 pages, and the print/pages are very high quality. This is not just an art book. It has all the support conversations and more too. Amazing!

Content wise, the book is very good and contained a lot more than I expected. (In addition to concept art and official CG's, there are also cutscene storyboards, results of fan-polls, einherjer illustrations, epilogue flavor-text, and full support conversation logs.) I also appreciated the translated notes in the concept art, and the extra commentary boxes from the creative team. Unfortunately, there are some minor printing errors(?) in the book. Ink smears (see pictures of: Basilio's hand, the shadows in Flavia's portrait, the outside of Brady's silhouette, and the storyboard pages) and some white patchiness (see picture of Severa's hand, this also occurs a few other times but not as noticeably). These errors are confined to the marriage proposal CGs and the start of the cutscene storyboards and aren't a problem in any of the other sections, so it may be a one-off error. Additionally my book was damaged on the bottom when I received it (see pictures). I'm not sure if this happened during shipping from Amazon/USPS, or if the damage was already present before shipping, but other reviewers have encountered similar problems, so keep that in mind when ordering. Overall it's a good book, the printing errors and damage aren't enough to overshadow my enjoyment of its content. However, my excitement was definitely dampened upon seeing the physical damage to the book (honestly the ink problems didn't bother me too much since they weren't incredibly large or obscuring anything too important). If possible I would've given this a 3.5, but I'll go with 4 instead of a 3 because I'm not sure which party is at fault for the damage to the book.

Love this game, love this book!