Fire Emblem

[Proto DUDE]

Did Nintendo pick a worse time to release this game or what? I doubt people will have finished Tactics Advance by now, and this is a really good game.

 

[TacoHunter]

I just finished FFTA. And I'll buy Fire Emblem just as soon as I get the cash, which will hopefully be in a few days. I think it was pretty good timing. Between Mario Kart and Rebel Strike.

 

[Znath]

I think about now is nintendo's wave of some of their big guns and right in time for the holidays (and my b-day)

Fire emblem I think is probably gonna be a bit better than those tactics games. I never much cared for their wierd terrain. Fire Emblem is more like Advance wars which I liked alot. don't know if it has a map editor or stuff like that though.

The worst time to release a game is like during the release of another system's popular series. Eg. the PS2 release of their copycat go kart game during the exact time as the release of mariokart the origional "kart" game.

 

[Proto DUDE]

I think about now is nintendo's wave of some of their big guns and right in time for the holidays (and my b-day)

Fire emblem I think is probably gonna be a bit better than those tactics games. I never much cared for their wierd terrain. Fire Emblem is more like Advance wars which I liked alot. don't know if it has a map editor or stuff like that though.

The worst time to release a game is like during the release of another system's popular series. Eg. the PS2 release of their copycat go kart game during the exact time as the release of mariokart the origional "kart" game.

Fire Emblem is just a single player campaign, and a "pit your fighters against a friend's" multiplayer.

 

[InsaneZero]

Fire Emblem's not the type of game for multiplayer map or map editor - the type of stuff you see on Advance Wars.

The reason? Character Stats.

The stats for one character may be different from the same character from a different person's game, since the stat growth is not set. Instead, the chance of getting a stat growth is set. (EX: 40% Str. = a 40% chance the strength stat will rise.) Thus, we only have this 5 vs 5 vs 5 vs 5 multiplayer thing only.

But enough talk, go get this game!

 

[hyprlynx]

Quick question,

I thought the Fire Emblem series was an RPG based one and not strategy, or is it more like a Suikoden?

 

[Proto DUDE]

I've never played Suikoden, but Fire Emblem would be the child of Advance Wars and an RPG. In other words, it is a tactical strategy RPG.

 

[DemonKrowno]

/me wants fire emblem

 

[Jundaunted]

Yeah. Fire Emblem is not only a strategy RPG (or more appropiately, Simulation RPG), it was also the first of it's kind (long before Tactics This, Tactics That and Shining Force). This is simply the first game in the series released in America. The original was released in 1990 for the 8-bit Famicom, in which Nintendo coined the term "Simulation RPG" (although the same team also made Famicom Wars a few years before).

I haven't picked up this installment yet, but I owned the first four games released in Japan (actual cartridges, not ROMs).