Let me begin this article with an introduction not to the game, but to myself. I’ve never played a FE game before. Ever. I’ve played SRPG’s before such as Disgaea, FFTA (and the even more awesome FFTA2) and so on, but I’ve never actually played a Fire Emblem game. This is mainly because I jumped out of the Ninty camp after my Wii collected dust. I have also only completed one mission in this entire game so far, and I have been playing it for 24 hours hit the jump to find out why.

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The latest installment of of the Fire Emblem series does exactly what we’d like of it – give us the same exact thing that we’ve come to love and know and put it on a portable. Swords still beat axes, axes still beat spears and spears of course topple swords. With the various items that reverse the combat-triangle scattered around the game world (I’m still not sure how a ‘Lance Reaver’ works, and how it’s different from a regular sword, but hey let’s just go with it.)

There is some wonderful nitty gritty to this adaptation of the Fire Emblem saga though; your characters can change classes. Yeah that’s right; the useless cavalier that you have 15 of? Pow, turn him into a backup healer. Now you can’t have more of a class than the game would normally have given you, plus one, so obviously you can’t turn all your footmen into cavaliers and have an entire horseback army, but you can come mighty close. Obviously heroes are an exception to this rule as well.

Your story is cliche and typical for a Fire Emblem. There is a bad guy, in this case a giant Dragon, who was stopped by one of your ancestors and of course has resurfaced with the intent to take over the world once again. As the last remaining descendant of said slayer of dragon, you must take up arms and kick some tuckus. Also your family has been murdered and you must rally the nations and old allies to your side.
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