From the makers of a Good Game uberfavourite, Advanced Wars, comes Fire Emblem : Shadow Dragon. This is a second remake of the very first Game...if that makes sense?
The Fire Emblem series has always been big in Japan but it took till the turn of the century to make it to the West, and that was largely thanks to Emblem's characters Marth and Roy being powerful to play in Super Smash Bros Melee.
You play as the son of the King, that's Marth who's on a mission to do a whole bunch of stuff.
Yeah, it's pretty convoluted but the gist is you're on a quest to win back your kingdom, and you need a bunch of followers to do it.
Battles are similar to Advance Wars with a lot more classes, levelling and gear collection. Fire Emblem's big difference is that when of your party die that's it...they have ceased to be!
He's shuffled off his mortal coil.
- so you get sad when you lose a team-mate that you've given heaps of gear to, or levelled up nice and high.
Yeah it's a bit depressing, those diagonal attacks always get me Bajo, it's hard to remember to cover your units from a diagonal.
I'm constantly mangled by Diagonalangles Jung. Our main criticism of the wii Fire Emblem version was that the rock paper scissors system might as well not have been there, because your main character Sothe was just so overpowered.
Here, Marth is pretty tough, but definitely vulnerable and you need to keep healers close, and your tanks in the front. This is especially important when you're forced into a bottleneck.
I find the gameplay in general a bit messy Jung. It's not that crystal clear, tactical feel that you get with Advance Wars and it can be tedious moving so many units on a map, one by one - especially as the 'wait' isn't the first menu option after every move - which is just silly - a group move ability would really help this game.
ON the other hand though Baj, there's a certain joy in the role playing side of it, and storming in with your group of merry men is fun, especially for a game that's almost two decades old. On the other other hand though, you are thrown right into the deep end here - the tutorials are still screens that do little to ease a new gamer into the fine details of combat, and classes.
To our knowledge it is the first Fire Emblem of the lot to have an online component. You can battle with friends and there's an online shop for gear and the like. You can also chat with the DS mic online, BUT like some older psp and ds games, the wifi doesn't support all router security types, so if you're not running wep [or a ds accesspoint stick], you might need to jump into your router and change some settings.
Yeah that's a big-time pain Bajo. Almost as much as the weapon deterioration in the game like I always say, there's nothing fun about weapon maintenance!
haha, let it go Jung!
Never! and it's even worse here because once it breaks - the weapon is gone-game over man, game over. It's unnecessary, a time waster and I am over it! At least the rest of the game is good, I'm giving Shadow Dragon 7/10 rubber chickens.