Finished Awakening. Contrary to popular belief, the NOE localisation has a lot of rude words in there.
"Bastard", "Piss" and "Arse" are just a few I came across in the game.
The best one is from Bastillo (one of the Khans), as he says "They can kiss my big brown (whatever race he is) arse!", and he says it in the end credits too "I bet my sweet brown arse".
I was like...."WTF?!? SWEARING IN A 12+ GAME!?! D:"
Overall, the story was boring....the grinding was boring too...it really is the permadeath that saves this game (since it's the challenge and USP of the game).
After playing Radiant Dawn's more interesting second half of the story, I was disappointed overall with Awakening (and can see this game NOT becoming rare because of it being more accessable to new gamers)...since the pairing up feature doesn't really help you level up weaker units, but you have no choice but to not use them since the AI ALWAYS goes after the mages/healers due to their low HP/DEF....
I think Radiant Dawn is better despite being more unforgiving in regards to stuff like your MC being a mage herself and the likelihood of losing at least ONE character on a End of Part (1, 2 or 3) map.