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The Tatical RPG ive ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am quite fussy about the rpg's i play, but this beats them all. I've played Golden Sun (both), Castlevainnia 3, and Tatics Ogre:Knight of Lodis, which were all great and i thought they were the best. But this beats them all. The more balance between magic and physical damage is better, and it is just all around better. GET THIS GAME, YOU WOn't regret it. My Lord, it was good. if your looking for other games, the ones i mentioned were also awesome.

THIS GAME IS NOT FOR BEGINNERS!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is REALLY hard. So if you don't what you are doing, you might as well give up.Because after chapter 12, things start to get rough. You need to keep your members ALIVE so it'll be much easier. My favorite character is eliwood. I love it when he does a critical hit stab. It's so cool! I also like Hector too. If you just want to play this game to find out where marth or roy are, you are outta luck. Eliwood and Hector are these two( well at least i think, the resemblance is AMAZING) well either way, if you are skilled enough, you'll be ready to take on Fire emblem, but it won't be easy!

fire emblem

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

awsome game. up there with advance was 1&2 and if u liked either of those get this u will like it and if u get this and like it then get advance wars 2. the only donwside of this game is that is really stressing

One of the Best.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off, this game completely rocks. Most of this review will cover the complaints about other people though ^_^

First off, there is text, a LOT of text. If people have fallen to the point where all they care about is kiling things and have become too lazy to read, I guess they won't appreciate this game. Yes, I am addressing all the people that have coplained about reading the scenes.

Secondly, many people claim this is just another Advance Wars. Well, it's similar, but still different. Firstly, the FE series has been around before Advance Wars, so Advance Wars is just a copy of this.

Third, this game WILL get hard, and WILL be unforiving. When somebody dies, they're dead, no questions. Believe me, you WILL feel sad if a character dies (which is why I restart so often O_O;;) For th epeople that complain about this and not having factories....they're just not getting the point. in real life, if someone is dead, they're gone. In real life, people can't be produced because you have a factory. This game (asides from fantasy elements) is very real.

I hope this review was helpful, and I hope that you take these points into consideration before reading other reviews ^_^

very realistic! absolute perfection.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is absolutly wonderful.The story is the best i have seen in a GBA game. The combat animations are fluid and well choreographed and the character models are wonder fuly detailed as well. The most notable thing about this game is that if a character dies they're dead. This can be quite frustrating since you actually develop an emotional connection with them. This game is similar to advance in that it is turn-based strategy but thats where the similarity ends. My only complaints are that the tutorial treats you like you have the brains of a rhesus monkey and that the cutscenes are a little static. Also i'm not 12 just a 15 year old who's too lazy to create an account. ^_^

Go Fire Emblem!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

i'll make things simple by just putting pros and cons lol

Pros: Very fun game, Good graphics, Great music, Will last for a long time until you beat it and then you might want to play it agian

Cons: You can get attached to characters and if they die you can't bring them back unless you want to do the WHOLE battle again, Battles can be VERY frustrating (yep...they're very difficult at times), first 10 chapters are kinda like a tutorial, after that things get better though

So overall this game is Very fun and challenging, and this game will take a long time, because some battles last up to like 30 minutes, and if you dont like games where a character dies and you cant bring him/her back unless you do the whole battle again, then i recommend getting something like Shining Force: The Resurrection of the Dark Dragon.

The stragey game to rule them all

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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

Fire Emblem the Best GBA Strategy Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Fire Emblem is the best strategy game ever. It starts out that you meet Lyn of the Lorca tribe in Sacae.Her parents died in a brutal attack by bandits.
You are a traveling tactiation you help her through many battles.In the first chapter you meet Sain and Kent two cavilaiers they tell you they are in search of the marqueses grandaughter.They figure out it is her and they fight for her.In the second chapter you obtain the ledgendary Mani Katti.The 3rd chapter 2 new characters join your side Florina a pegasus knight and Will an archer.Then in the 4th chapter you meet Dorcas who joins your side.In the 5th chapter Serra a cleric and Erk her escort a mage happen to join you.In the 6th chapter you meet Rath a nomad (a horse back rider who uses arrows and Matthew a theif. The marquess is being poisened by his brother.In the 7th chapter you meet Nils a traveling magician he makes it so that you can move again and Lucious a monk. After you defeat the chapter you meet Ninian Nils sister.PS if you beat the chapter in less then 15 turns you can do a side Quest.From then on your goal is to defeat Ludregen in the 10th chapter.After that Lyns story ends and Eliwoods begins.Im getting bored of typing so for more information type in fire emblem on google and on one of the websites it has over 20 pages saying what to do for every chapter.PS try to keep everyone the same level.

Fantasy, Strategy, and Death

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Those of you looking for a good tactical strategy game have come to the right place. As if it wasn't enough that the GBA/DS has Advance Wars and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, among other great tactical games, they also get this wonderful series, finally brought over from Japan.

For those of you who have played games in the Advanced Wars series, you will find many similarities; similar story system, battle based campiagn with no exploring or overworld, anime styled grapics, etc. For those of you who haven't... well, let's go over what this game has shall we?

GRAPHICS - 5/5
For the most part, I don't think I could ask for better graphics on a handheld system. Reminicent of later SNES games, the sprites are rich and colorful, and the animations are fluid and explosive. Every spell and swordstrike is well animated and the cut scenes leave little to be desired. Every character you control loooks unique and their personalities come across well on the little screen. The only real weaknesses I can think of in the graphics department are the enemies and maps; on occassion, the simple enemy "grunts" and terrain can run into repitition and can get boring. But then, in the end, there's only so much you can do to make endless "stormtrooper" grunts unique, and only so many ways you can show water and forests on a large overhead map.

SOUND - 4/5
The sound in Fire Emblem is as crisp as you can get from the GBA/DS. The makers of the game certainly did not skimp. That said though, the music and sound effects aren't exactly memorable. This isn't to say they aren't well done though and all the sounds and music fit the game and the moods. They're just not revolutionary.

CONTROLS - 5/5
Nothing to complain about for the controls. Everything is simple to understand and do in this game, and is well explained in the earlier parts of the campaign. Nice non-intrusive menus complete with stats and percentages tell you what you need to know and what the results of your actions will most likely be.

STORY - 5/5
The story is very in depth and surprisingly unique; it seems to borrow a little from Record of Lodoss Wars in inspiration among other fantasy worlds, but the story never feels hacked or ripped off from something else. The cutscenes and text do a good job of getting you into the story and I think most people who play this game would agree that you feel like you understand everything that is happening.

CHARACTERS - 5/5
The characters are the best part of Fire Emblem. Every uniot you use is unique and oozes with personality. Everything from the way they speak to their facial expressions to their battle animations makes the characters makes them into 3D people that you actually want to live and are excited to watch grow. Not only that, but Fire Emblem manages to pull this feat off with a roster of dozens and dozens of characters!

GAME MODES - 2/5
Unfortunately, the choices of what you can do in this game leave much to be desired. For the most part there is only one gameplay mode, the campaign. There is no multiplayer mode, no scenarios, no alternate campaigns... So if you're looking for a lot of differnt things to do with this game, you'll be dissapointed.

CAMPAIGN - 2/5
The story and characters are great in the campign mode, but some problems with the game itself make playing it rather shallow and frustrating. First off is something I just mentioned, the fact that there is no alternate campaign. This means that if you don't liek the one campaign's storyline or you're stuck, you;re out of luck. Another problem is the difficulty; many of the earlier missions are quite easy, btu past a certain point you'll run into a lot of frustrations. Some of these frustrations include enemies who can see through the fog off war while you cannot, superbosses who are seemingly immune to almost everything you can throw at them and can one hit kill your characters, and the death and save systems.
-=- A special note needs to be made about these systems. In Fire Emblem, you have the ability to "suspend" your gameplay in the middle of a mission so you can turn off the gameboy and pick up in a mission where you left off. This is emmensly helpful since some of the later missions can take a long time. This would also be helpful in theory since, with the death system in this game, once you lose a character they are gone for good. No getting them back in later missions, no ability to ressurect them in the mission you're on. And with a game with one hit kills, enemy that sometimes appear out of nowhere, and characters you come to care about, this can be a big deal. What ruins this nice feature is the autosave feature of the game; if the gameboy ever runs out of batteries or you turn it off or you quit a mission, the game automatically suspends from that point. This almost single handedly ruins much of the point of the suspend system in the first place. While it is still good for putting the gamboy down during a long mission, I see little point to the feature when it will automatically save it for you when you turn it off or reset. And this also means that if you make a mistake, lose someone, or simply get unlucky, the last time you suspended it is NOT the point where you will pick up when you try the mission again; it will be the point you turned it off or reset. This means every loss or mistake or piece of badluck turns into you having to play the ENTIRE MISSION OVER if you want ot undo it. This is extremely frustrating as this can lead to you getting stuck on a long mission, playing it over and over to learn specific enemy weaknesses or where enemies will pop up from. It is easilly the worst and most frustrating part of the game.

GAMEPLAY - 4/5
Along with the easy controls, the gameplay in Fire Emblem is very easy to understand, but hardly simplistic. The game uses a rock/paper/scissors mentality, with different magic/weapon types being strong or weak against other weapon types. For instance, swords are stong against axes, but weak against lances. And Holy magic is strong against Dark magic but weak against Elemental magic. however, there is a lot more to it than this; unit stats and levels, terrain, and support effect how well your units perform. In addition, there are items that throw a wrench in thsi simplistic idea, with certain weapons reversing the order or specializing against certain unit types. It all works very very well in the end. The only two complaints I have about the gameplay are the item degridation system and the cheating of the computer on occassion. I already mentioned the second one earlier, with the computer able to see through the fog of war and some units, especially bosses, being rediculously powerful. The other feature, the item degridation, isn't especially annoying though; as you battle, your items will degrade and eventually break. This means you need to keep up your stock of weapons and magic for all your characters. Now, this would be better if it were easier to do so, but unfortunately you can only buy items in the middle of missions where you are often already pressed for time, inventory, and movement. There is also no way to "repair" items and you have to simply carry more items if you have items that are going to break. With the dozens of characters you can have in your roster, this can turn into a royal pain, especially when you need to upgrade a lot of different weapons (IE from iron to steel). I really wish they had a place between battles to buy and sell stuff where you could take care of this stuff, or at least a way to repair your items. All told though, it very livable and not too annoying, and for the most part the gameplay is smooth and fun with few hiccups.

REPLAY - 2/5
There is little to no replayablity to Fire emblem. While it can be interesting to get things you missed the first time though the campaign (side missions, missed characters, support combos, etc.) these are mostly small things. And if you didn't miss anything? Well, all you can do is play through the same story and the same missions again.
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I really do like Fire Emblem. It has a wonderful story, amazingly good graphics, solid crisp sound and music, well balanced gameplay, easy controls, and great depth. Unfortunately, it's also extremely frustrating and one dimensional. This game would be simply AMAZING with a little tweaks; the main things being a better save feature, more modes, and a few tweaks here and there to some missions.

Would I recommend Fire Emblem? Yes, if your a fan of strategy and RPGs or don't mind a little frustration; the presentation and gameplay in this game are just so good that despite it's flaws it is worth the recomendation. People who don't aren't strategy fans or who are easilly frustrated though? Save your money and get a different RPG; you probably won't get enough out of this game.

Saved games reset - *sigh*

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: April 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

A fun strategy game overall, but has a major flaw - I can't stand any game that does not let you save anytime you want. I know this game allows you to save at anytime, but the game auto saves for you at the last turn, so that when you die you cannot revert to where you originally saved. I know the designers of Fire Emblem did this so to make the game more challenging or "realistic", so that players can't "cheat" by playing from that save point over and over again, but it actually makes the game more annoying and frustrating. If you character dies, by lets say a way to powerful and out of balanced mini boss attacking you and killing you with one shot, you have to start the whole stupid level over again.

Otherwise, this game would have received 5 stars - trust me, you'll get frustrated and annoyed the 100th time you main character dies, and you are forced to play the level over again.

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