Fire Emblem

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When Marth and Roy turned up in Super Smash Bros. Melee, plenty of Western players had no idea who those sword-wielding newcomers were. The game simply called Fire Emblem was the answer they had been waiting for: the first entry in Intelligent Systems' tactics series released in North America and Europe, arriving on the Game Boy Advance in 2003 and introducing a whole new audience to permadeath, the weapon triangle and the particular agony of losing a favorite unit to one unlucky critical hit.

The story is a prequel to the Japan-only Binding Blade, set twenty years earlier on the continent of Elibe, and Roy's father Eliwood is one of its leads. It opens with Lyn, a young swordswoman from the plains of Sacae, whose chapters double as a gently paced tutorial. From there the focus shifts to Eliwood, heir to the house of Pherae, and his hot-headed friend Hector of Ostia as they follow the trail of Eliwood's missing father into a conspiracy run by the sorcerer Nergal and the assassins of the Black Fang. You don't play as any of them: the game casts you as their tactician, a character the cast speaks to directly, which makes their trust in your orders feel personal.

Battles play out on grid maps where terrain, range and weapon matchups decide everything. Swords beat axes, axes beat lances, lances beat swords, and magic follows its own triangle of anima, light and dark. Units grow as they fight, promote into stronger classes and build relationships through support conversations that reward pairing the same characters on the battlefield. The pegasus knight Florina, the cavalier duo of Kent and Sain, the thief Matthew and the cleric Serra give the army a lively, bickering personality, and a fallen ally stays fallen, so every turn carries weight.

Finish Eliwood's story and Hector Mode unlocks, retelling the campaign from Hector's side with tougher maps and extra chapters. That depth is a big reason many fans still rank it the best of the Game Boy Advance entries, and Lyn, Eliwood and Hector have since become regulars in Fire Emblem Heroes, where the game now carries its official name, The Blazing Blade. The original cartridge is how the West first met this series, and it still makes a superb introduction.

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Released
2003
Publisher
Nintendo
Developer
Intelligent Systems
Players
Single player
About the game

It is the seventh game of the Fire Emblem series, the second game in the series to be released for the Game Boy Advance, and the first to be released in both North America and Europe. It features a prologue storyline designed to introduce newcomers to Fire Emblem gameplay and tactical basics. The overall narrative is a prequel to the events of the previous game, Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade, which is set twenty years later. The game was first released under the localized title "Fire Emblem" in the West, but it was later rebranded as "Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade" when Fire Emblem Heroes was released.

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