Yesterday, I finished my first ironman run of Awakening. It was also a "no grinding" run (although I will admit that I didn't always follow that rule, even though two of the encounters were due to an enemy blocking a shop in the early game, when there aren't a whole lot of alternatives yet). I've decided to share some of my overall thoughts on both the Ironman and the game as a whole. I've separated my thoughts with spoilers, as they ended up longer than I thought it would be.
Deaths
Pairings
For the record, I only grinded four times total, and here's why:
Main Thoughts on the Gameplay, Story, etc.
Characters
Random Thoughts and Observations
This took much longer than I thought it would to write, by the way.
I also would have given my final turn count and how many battles/kills everyone got, but my phone sucks and the pictures/videos took up too much space, so I had to delete them.