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COOL!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game, Fire Emblem, is a fantastic game with its art work, story plot, and characters. I've been playing this and I really like the plot and art work of the game. It reminds me of Golden Sun a little but much different.
Basically, you act as a tactition (spelled incorrect) for the game. You battle bandits, confront other characters, fight to stop the dragons from coming to the world, and basically KICK BUTT! What you do is move your characters to attack and what-not. Sometimes this game can be very frustrating because when a character dies, you can't use that character EVER AGAIN! It's best to not put your characters out into the battle field all willy-nilly. You might need that character in further chapters in the game.

It's about freakin time.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

For those of you who aren't game savvy, we got our first taste of Fire Emblem in Super Smash Bros Melee, with two hidden characters, Roy and Marth. But when some of us looked into it further, we discovered that Fire Emblem had been around for about six or seven games from the SNES days. When some of us saw how cool Roy and Marth were, we wanted to see the actual game. So the newly announced GBA game was brought to US shores. And it was good.

The US version of Fire Emblem takes place in "Roy's storyline" but Roy isn't really in the game. Instead it revolves around Eliwood, his father and Prince of Pherae, his good friend Hector, Brother of Marquess Ostia, and a new friend Lyn, granddaughter of Marquess Cailen. A dark power in the form of the Black Fang rises, kidnapping Eliwood's father. Eliwood sets out with his friends too find his father and stop the Black Fang.

The gameplay is technically RPG based but is tactial strategy. In your turn you select your characters to move to certain locations based on the map. When your turn is over, your opponents do the same thing on their turn. It repeats until the mission goal is achieved. Leveling up is in the form of battling your enemies.

The gameplay is fun and the storyline is wonderful. There are several challenges for the advanced gamers, like support conversations and fully leveling up, or if you're pretty straight forward, that works too. The game's graphics are good and cinematic sequences are shown in artistic format, which is very effective for the storytelling game.

Overall, if you're an RPG fan, this is a must have game. It is the best game I played that came out in 2003. I reccomend it to anyone with a GBA/SP.

The best FE game in the US is also the first...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Fire Emblem (subtitle Blazing Sword in Japan) is one of the best tactical/strategy RPG's on the GBA...even today, several years after it was released.

Yes, I am aware that a newer game, Sacred Stones, has been released here. Yes, I am aware the Path of Radiance was just released. I have played both of them, and I am here to tell you that the original is also the best.

Why is it the best, you ask? For starters, the story is excellent, as it is in all FE games. This one involves the return of dragons to the land after a thousand year absence...and they aren't happy to have been kept out. Or are they really? First as Lyndis, nomad and secret heir of a Lycian territory, then Eliwood, a young noble who lost his father, and Hector, a headstrong man trying to prove himself to his brother.
This game is the best one of those released so far in NA because of the characters. This game has some of the most memorable characters, and a heartfelt story with moments of levity.

The combat is turn-based, yes, and it takes place on a grid, sure, but it is vastly different from, say FFTA. In the game, as other reviewers may have told you, combat is based on a rock-paper-scissors system (substitute sword-axe-lance in there and you have the idea). There is a magical triangle that works the same way (elemental-light-dark), and bows and staves that work differently. There are weapons that revers the triangle or ignore it entirely, but these weapons only appear after you get the hang of the system. Some may find this kind of system limiting in terms of options, but I find it more rewarding than the glorified hack-and-slash of FFTA, which has weapon types out the wazoo.

Much of the strategy comes from using, choosing, and placing characters correctly. If a character dies, they are gone forever, and once you get attached to a character (and yes, it will happen, whether you like it or not), it is impossible to let them die. So, you restart the entire mission over. (You can save at any time by using the "suspend" option during battle, and you can save after every chapter.) If you do something stupid in the game, it is no one's fault but your own. By making the system simple, it places the burden of strategy on the player--and it is a burden. Several chapters will require repeated playthroughs due to trickiness or sheer number of enemies, and some bonus chapters should be avoided altogether (chapter 27x, Night of Farewells, comes to mind...I HATE BRIDGES!) Ahem...

Replay value is high, as you unlock a new scenario after completing the main game. In addition, there a few chapters that have different versions depending on the levels of some units. Also, you may want to replay the game simply to raise different characters.

Overall, this is my favorite game in the series, and one of the best games for the GBA. If you are contemplating buying a FE game, make it this one!

(Path of Radiance for Gamecube is pretty good too, but Sacred Stones...)

What is fire emblem?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Huh? You dont know what Fire Emblem is? Fire Emblem is the most fun and excellerating game in the universe! Fun,fun,fun,fun,fun, fun. Believe me, I should know because I own this game. Buy it! I guarantee that you will like it. Especialy if you like strategy and role playing games. Also if you like swords.

An interesting strategy game with a storyline.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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.

A one-of-a-kind RPG, an important GBA title

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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.

Best RPG ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I think that this one of the best GBA games ever. 1000 times better than advanced wars 1 and 2. In this game if you lose a character it's gone forever. The storyline is very good too.
(spoilers ahead!)
You're a strategest that was found uncouinsous by a young girl named lyn. Eventually you find out that she is the grandaughter of the ruer of Caelin.
I won't spoil anything else.
The only thing that is bad is that you can't explore or anything because the only thing you do is lead wars.The whole game is conected to the story amd you can only do things that are happening in the story. Other than that the game is really good.(very realistic).

Fun but ...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Your experience with this game all depends on how well balanced your character level up. If you make the mistake I did (leveling 1 character to the maximum) near the start of the game, you may be in for some serious difficulty later in the game.

Also unfortunate is the lack of a true game save option. You have 3 save slots but can only save your progress on a particular level once. If you want to continue from a key point in a level (for example, before a character of yours dies) you can't! You have to restart the whole level. I must have played Chapter 26x at least 20 times already. Once a character dies, they remain that way unless you restart the level. It's so hard to let a leveled up character die towards the end of the game... the solution? Keep playing the level over and over again. Ugh.

Best Game Ever!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Fire Emblem is an incredible game. It is in fact, the best game I have ever played. U have an army at your command and you battle an evil organization called the Black Fang. It doesn't get very repetitive because you get new characters in many levels, each with their own special ability. It is very much like Advance Wars except when a person dies he/she never comes back. Which can get annoying at times, but makes the game more realistic. You start out with only a small army,but it gradually grows. This is a spectacular game and I would reccomend getting it if you alredy haven't!!!! If you haven't played this game you have to get it!!!!

amazing!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is amazing!!! You start off in a tutorial that has its own story and is 10 chapters long. Then you have the rest of the game which is arouns 31 chapters. You are a tactician of a small group. There are many types of characters such as mages, pirates, nomads, clerics, pegasus knights, cavaliers(horsemen), nomads, and much more. You can get more people to join your team. You get to see your fortune so you can plan out your startegy ahead of time. The main story revolves around a guy named Eliwood. He looks like an older roy from super smash bros melee, but i heard somewhere that its his father. Hector is eliwoods friend and greatly resembles an older marth. Together eliwood, hector, lyndis, and many many more search out for eliwoods father and eventuyally find more adventures. there is even a versus mode where you create you own team of 5! But you can only use people from the chapter your own. So lets say you have 2 horseman, 3 lords, 1 pegasus knight, a nomad, 2 mages , and an archer( they all have actual names by the way), you can only pick 5 out of them to make a team. But they let you make lik 10 teams so it doesnt matter. Well what are you waiting for you lazy bum get this game and become a lazy bum with a cause. TO BEAT FIRE EMBLEM!!!!!!!

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