![]() So I just played through "A Robot Named Fight!" last night after watching a video about "Roguevanias" and really enjoyed it. I love Fire Emblem on GBA's super dynamic and over the top animations. Here's a pleasant one though, click the image below to take a listen: Give the game a go if you can, it’s a good time and I recommend it.įire Emblem 6 has a solid soundtrack which is fairly memorable, but choosing a standout song was difficult - none of them other than the series' main theme really stand out as iconic to me. Oh, and the translation patch I used is also pretty great, unlike some of the other games in the series which are a bit hit and miss in the translation department. Whilst Fuuin No Tsurugi shows a few rough edges from being the first GBA game in the series which were fixed in the next game, I think it still holds up nicely and I had a great time playing it. ![]() The GBA era of the series is my favourite as I think it’s a nice balance between the more refined mechanics of modern Fire Emblem and the simplicity and focus of the gameplay of the older games. ![]() Overall, like I said, it’s more Fire Emblem, and that’s never a bad thing in my eyes. Like most Fire Emblem games, I felt like the difficulty curve is a bit off – in the early game enemies are much closer in stats to your unit, the middle features promoted units and stronger weapons which are a real threat to your units, but in the late game you have such a big stat advantage that the list of things which can truly threaten you is far smaller so you dominate the last few chapters with ease. I, like most other people, reset when I lose a unit, and the extra difficulty there just feels like a consequence of trying to cheat the system to me. The middle of the game was definitely the hardest, with some crazy missions that required to to handle objectives at different corners of the maps only a few turns apart in order to rescue everyone, but in all honesty, if you were playing Fire Emblem honestly then you would just have to suck it up and accept it and move on. That said, I found the game to be challenging, but entirely manageable, and I had a great time playing through the game. Late game has lots of magic users armed with status staffs who will reliably sleep, berserk or silence your units from across the map. Enemies often spawn, move and attack in the same turn making them impossible to plan for, hit rates in general are much lower and less consistent meaning there’s a bigger luck element to your attacks, and enemies are also equipped with some very tough weapons from early parts of the game, including the potentially deadly killer weapons which offer 30% critical hit rate boost. You’re also rewarded with some very powerful weapons for each chapter, but if they break early you’ll miss those last two chapters still, so you’ll want to save them for the end.įuuin No Tsurugi seems to have a reputation amongst a couple of people here as being cheap or unfair, and I can see why some might think that. Finding all 8 of these chapters unlocks the final two missions and the good ending, with the story finishing sooner otherwise. The game features 20-something main chapters with a host of tough secret chapters to access as you play through – which normally require beating the previous levels in under a certain turn count or without a certain unit dying. I’m not going to spend ages going into the mechanics of the game, because it’s very much ‘another day, another Fire Emblem’ in that respect – nothing particularly new on display here for series veterans. It was interested to see what were essentially callbacks to the prequel from my perspectives, but were actually the original source of references in the prequel though. Like most of the games in the series, the story is serviceable enough but isn’t the main appeal of the game, and that’s fine by me. Unbeknownst to me at the time though, Fire Emblem was actually Fire Emblem: Rekka No Ken in Japan, and was designed to be a prequel to the previous game in the series – Fuuin No Tsurugi, the first of the GBA games in the series.įuuin No Tsurugi stars Roy, of Smash Bros fame (literally, he was in Melee before this game was actually released), on a quest to defeat the invading army of Bern led by the evil King Zephiel. I’m a big fan of the Fire Emblem series, and the first game in the series I played was Fire Emblem, the GBA release and the first of the franchise to be localised outside of Japan. ![]() Snipperclips Plus: Cut It Out,Together! SwitchĤ1. The Legend of Zelda (starring Zelda) NESĢ2. Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy 3DSĩ.
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