Fire Emblem
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Video Game Reviews of Fire Emblem
Customer Review: A one-of-a-kind RPG, an important GBA title
Summary: 5 Stars
Another great game for the GBA. This RPG / strategy game is a one-of-a-kind. The games it most resembles is a cross between Advance Wars and Final Fantasy Tactics. Overall, fantastic RPG gameplay with a powerful BGM. Watch out, the game will be a challenge.Customer Review: Definitely NOT For Especially Sensitive People
Summary: 4 Stars
Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword, as it is called in Japan, was the seventh game (I think) in the Fire Emblem series and the very first Fire Emblem game to be released in North America (unless you count Super Smash Bros. Melee).
In this game, the player does not play as any of the protagonists, but as a tactician who gives orders to the characters. This is not a bad thing, because occasionally the characters will speak to the tactician, making it feel as if the player is really part of the story.
The story is in told three arcs. The first arc of the story, "Lyn's Story", revolves around an eighteen-year-old swordfighter named Lyn, who is an orphan, as her entire tribe was slain by bandits. She goes off with the tactician (i. e. the player) in search of adventure, and, meeting two young knights, learns she is heir to the throne in a far away kingdom. However, her grandfather, the marquess, is being poisoned by his evil younger brother, who hungers to usurp the throne, and it is up to Lyn to save her grandfather.
The second arc of the story takes place a year later and centers around Eliwood, a young noble whom Lyn met earlier on. Eliwood is searching for his father, who disappeared a month before.
Along the way, Eliwood's best friend Hector shows up, as well as Lyn, and together they learn of an insanely powerful madman's heinous and diabolical plot to embroil the world in chaos. It is now up to them, and friends they have met along the way, to save the world.
The third arc of the story is basically Eliwood's story, but told from Hector's point of view.
Fire Emblem is by no means a bad game, but there is no way whatsoever I would recommend it for everyone, because once you reach Chapter 18 or so of Eliwood's story, things start to get really dark. Also, there are times when the characters never stop going on about death, which really could be done without, in my opinion.
Here are the pros and cons of this game:
Pros:
1. The graphics and music are quite good, especially the music.
2. The dialogue between characters is very well-written, although there are occasions when the dialogue will become rather corny. But I did pick up a few new words from this game.
3. There are these "Support Conversations" between characters which can be rather clever and/or funny. Unfortunately, they are very difficult to unlock, and you can only get a limited number of them between each pair of characters.
4. You can play as your own gender. This changes some dialogue in cinema scenes, particularly from this one character who tends to flirt with girls.
5. The game has a Sound Test (an area where you can listen to all the music from the game), which becomes available once you beat Lyn's Story for the first time.
However, you can only access the music once you've already heard it at one point or another in the game.
Cons:
1. The game can be very morbid, as I said before. I wouldn't recommend this game for anyone especially young and/or sensitive. Of course, sometimes sensitivity has nothing to do with age; speaking as a rather sensitive teenaged person, sometimes I almost wish I hadn't bought it.
2. Sometimes the game can be ridiculously hard.
3. You can't save the game at particular points--so if you lose a character, you can only get the character back if you start the WHOLE DARN CHAPTER OVER. So you can't save just before a boss battle and then try it over and over and over again different ways, which would help immensely.
In conclusion, Fire Emblem isn't a bad game, but I wouldn't recommend buying it unless you aren't fazed by characters dying. If you ARE fazed by such things, I'd recommend getting a Pokemon game instead.
Customer Review: An interesting strategy game with a storyline.
Summary: 5 Stars
This was one of the first games I every played on a GBA. I enjoyed this game first and foremost for its characters and the way that they interacted (and all the support convos). I am also an RPG and strategy game fan, so this also contributed to my enjoyment of this game. However, if you are not a big fan of turn-based games, and do not want to start a chapter over many times, then you may have difficulty liking this game. One of my gripes with this game is that I was always afraid to buy items for fear of not having enough money for the next shop. And the fact that some of the characters didn't seem all that useful (although, I could just have bad luck with the leveling up). All in all, I do suggest that you give this game a try.Customer Review: A fantastic title for GBA
Summary: 5 Stars
Yes, just as the title of this review suggests, Fire Emblem is a fantastic game. If you have played the Golden Sun titles, then you would know how the basic battle system and character control works. However, there is a slight twist. Unlike in Golden Sun, in which you could regain lost minor characters, once a character's HP reaches zero in this game, they are gone forever. The only exceptions to this rule are the first ten missions.
There are many factors that make this game, what I think, is one of the best games for the GBA system. First off, this game is a game in which tactics plays a vital role. This means that serious thought is required while playing the missions.
You may be wondering why this is. Usually, games have a mindless AI that just seems to play harder when the difficulty is increased. The major twist in this game is that when you close distance between enemies, they will start to play according to how you play, trying to intimidate you, which sometimes works, and trying to exploit your fighters' weaknesses. If they can't do that, they do the next best thing, which is to go for whoever is closest.
Speaking of the fighters you get, there is a wide range of the kinds of people who will join you. The kinds of combatants are: Lord, Cavalier, Knight, Pegasus Knight, Fighter, Mage, Archer, Monk, Cleric, Trobadour, Mercenary, Myrmidon, Druid, Dancer, Bard, Wyvern Rider, Pirate, and more. On top of that, when characters reach a certain level, they can be promoted to a higher class, making them much more versatile and powerful than before. Each class has its own strengths and weaknesses, so thought must also go into who fights in what battle. Also, there are more than 25 playable characters in all. Wow!
Although this is a game of tactics, it also plays somewhat like an RPG. Characters gain experience at the end of a battle, and when their experience is high enough, they gain levels. The producers have managed to cram two types of games in one.
My one and only problem with this game is that after doing a few missions, you may feel compelled to take a break from the game because you may find the proceeding mission to be a little bit of the last mission, with the exceptions that the objective may be different or that there are different enemies involved. However, during the first few missions, I felt strongly compelled to take breaks from the game for this very reason. However, the repetativeness begins to show signs of fading a little later on, so this isn't too big a problem.
Would I recommend this game to anyone who owns a GBA? Absolutely! Not only is this game a lot of fun, but, unlike most other games, it requires you to think and plan ahead. Fire Emblem is a great title to add to your GBA collection if you are a fan of tactical/RPG platforms.
Customer Review: The stragey game to rule them all
Summary: 5 Stars
Fire Emblem...one of the best games ever,why isn't the day it was releashed a national holiday yet? Anyways,on to the review. Ths game is awesome,for starters the wepon/magic cycle,it goes Swords beat axes,axes beat lances,lances beat swords and with magic it's Dark arts beat Genral,genral beats light,light beats dark arts and it's great with the wepon cylcle becuase it makes sense how Ls beat SWs.also there's horse,peg. and dragon back troops (pegesus and dragon back units are varnuble to bows) the game is quite hard (chapter 26 comes to mind,heck i'am still stuck on that chapter) there's plenty of classes includeing Fighters,mercerarys,myrmidions,peg. knights,wyriden rider,calivers,nomads,clerics,horseback clerics,thiefes,pirates,mages,monks,shamans,archers,knights and the 3 main charters (called lords)are compley differnt from each other and that's only SOME OF THE CLASSES. good plot,cool storyline,good game,will turn based stargey games ever be as good again