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Fire Emblem
In celebration of the newest installment of Fire Emblem being released in Japan last month, I decided to make a long-overdue thread about the series itself. For those of you who are either interested or don't know, the new game that came out was a remake of the 1st game in the series, starring Marth.
What is your opinion of the series and games (If you've played a majority of them which is unlikely)? If you have one, which main character is your favorite? Which game in particular is your favorite (regarding story and characters)? If you're a veteran player, which class do you particularly like the most? If you don't have a sole favorite class, than name your top five.
Personally, I frickin' love Fire Emblem to death and I've played all the games at least once (mostly by pirating them and using IPS translation patches).
Personally, it's very difficult to choose a favorite main character as many of the games (especially in the Super Famicom days) sported multiple main characters at once. But to answer the question, I'd have to say it's a three-way tie between Sigurd (FIre Emblem 4: Geneaology of the Holy War), Hector (Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword), and Ike ( Who was both in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn).
As for my favorite game, it's again difficult to choose as the game formula constantly changes every now and then. I'd have to say that it's tie between Blazing Sword and Radiant Dawn. As a veteran player, I would have to say that my top 5 favorite classes are the following: Sage, Druid, Swordmaster, Warrior, and Assassin.
EDIT: As a side note, my favorite gameplay aspect of the series is being able to convince a supposed enemy character to your side.
What is your opinion of the series and games (If you've played a majority of them which is unlikely)? If you have one, which main character is your favorite? Which game in particular is your favorite (regarding story and characters)? If you're a veteran player, which class do you particularly like the most? If you don't have a sole favorite class, than name your top five.
Personally, I frickin' love Fire Emblem to death and I've played all the games at least once (mostly by pirating them and using IPS translation patches).
Personally, it's very difficult to choose a favorite main character as many of the games (especially in the Super Famicom days) sported multiple main characters at once. But to answer the question, I'd have to say it's a three-way tie between Sigurd (FIre Emblem 4: Geneaology of the Holy War), Hector (Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword), and Ike ( Who was both in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn).
As for my favorite game, it's again difficult to choose as the game formula constantly changes every now and then. I'd have to say that it's tie between Blazing Sword and Radiant Dawn. As a veteran player, I would have to say that my top 5 favorite classes are the following: Sage, Druid, Swordmaster, Warrior, and Assassin.
EDIT: As a side note, my favorite gameplay aspect of the series is being able to convince a supposed enemy character to your side.
Comments
Fire Emblem - awesome. Played the hell out of it. Got me hooked on the series.
Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones- less awesome, but not bad. Some characters were totally worthless and some were outright broken. It just wasn't as fun or difficult (which IMO added to the fun of the game).
Fire Emblem: Path of Radience- shitty. Music (which was one thing I really loved about the first game, and somewhat of the second game) was awful, story wasn't worth shit, graphics didn't impress me much (I prefer 2d RPGs over 3d almost 99% of the time), gameplay was kinda weak
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn- didn't play. After the flop (IMO) of the GC one, and how this one is a sequel, I decided to not give a shit.
Japan:
FE6- I played the first like 6 or so chapters with a translated rom and while I really like it, it's hard as fuck...so I got stuck and never really did much about it.
Now, even though the quality of the US games has been going down, I'm really looking forward to FE:DS, since it's going back on handheld...and I love the DS.
I plan to get the DS Fire Emblem when it comes out in the US.
-Bishops, (Lucius was completely hax in seven, seriously,)
-Berserker
-Archers. Sniper was great, didn't get enough time to experiment with Nomad before I gave the game back to the friend who lent it to me.
-Cavalier. The flying classes are good too; FE7's pegasus knights were great, but on the whole, I like the stat layout of Cavaliers better, not to mention I managed to create a Kent that could actually contribute to killing the dragon boss, proving his epic.
The GBA games are awesome, though. I hope the DS game is closer to those than it is to the 3D ones.
On the topic of Path of Radiance itself, it's my personal belief that Nintendo tried to introduce gamers who for whatever reason don't like handheld games and therefore missed out on Fire Emblems past. That belief also goes for the fact that they switched the game formula back to the Super Famicom days (whether it was to relive the glory days or do something different is beyond me). Being that I've already played Thracia 776 and Genealogy of the Holy War, I thought it was cool that Nintendo revived the old formula.
I've played FE7 (the first one on GBA) and Path of Radiance all the way through. (Both Hector's and Eliwood's stories in FE7, but not on Hard.) I like the art style in FE7 much better, and I think the use of 3D really ruined some of the things they did with designs, especially in the combat. Also, I dislike Path of Radiance because it did not have Shamans, and Ike was powerful to the point of being broken.
As for my favorite character, I firmly believe that Canas is the best character ever. (Although closely followed by Lucius, who, as previously stated, is ridiculously powerful)
Ray = Shaman (surprisingly he's pretty fast for a shaman)
Lilina = Mage (she's basically a rocket when it comes to increasing stats per level up)
Lugh = Mage (he dodges many physical attacks quite easily and is pretty damn quick)
Unlike Scott's counterpart, Rym's counterpart is far from evil. He created a band of mercenaries known as the Black Fang which is basically a Robin Hood-esque group except with ten times as more members. However, Nergal (the main baddie of Fire Emblem 7) secretly gained control of the Black Fang by placing a Morph (soulless clones of real people) named Sonia to fall in love with and eventually marry Brendan. What I meant by "secretly" gaining control is that Sonia (with her powers of persuasion) convinces Brendan that he is still in charge, when in fact he isn't. Sadly after his two sons Linus and Lloyd are killed by Sonia, he finally figures everything out but is killed by her before he can do anything about it.