Enter a world where you command a band of mercenaries that have only one life to live. Dragon riders, pegasus knights, spellcasters, warriors, thieves, paladins, and more stand ready to attack at your order.
This is the intense tactical RPG gameplay that made this game popular in Japan. Fire Emblem's immense Japanese popularity led Marth to be an unlockable character in Super Smash Bros. Melee and later in its sequel, SSB Brawl.
Americans are only truly familiar with the spiky-haired protagonist Ike (also an SSB character), who was featured in the first Fire Emblem game released in America for a home console system with Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. Ike was also featured in a Wii sequel, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. Two more games, not featuring Ike, were earlier released for the Gameboy Advance: Fire Emblem and Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. None of these featured Prince Marth.
Today, a DS remake of the original Fire Emblem game will be released for the Nintendo DS entitled Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon. The remake will include the addition of the weapons triangle, a system of weapon hierarchy that states lances beat sword, swords beat axes, and axes beat lances. This was not included in the original. The remake will also have greatly improved graphics.
Fire Emblem games tend to be very familiar because little comes in the way of radical new gameplay. However, the basic formula has held all of these years, and Shadow Dragon will be no exception.
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