If Binding Blade isn't going to get localized, re-releasing the game that jump-started Fire Emblem's popularity in the west would make just as much sense.

However, Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade strikes a serviceable balance between gameplay aspects that defined the old-school Fire Emblem games, while incorporating many of the features that would become mainstays in future entries. This game doesn't have a whole lot of bells and whistles that improve many of the later entries in the series. In a lot of ways, Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade emphasizes both the best of old-school Fire Emblem, and arguably when the whole franchise was at its best.įire Emblem: The Blazing Blade is a game for purists, a strategy game built upon a medieval setting, narrative, and character cast. Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon is a tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS.It is the eleventh installment in the Fire Emblem series and a remake of the Famicom title Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, the first entry in the series. Using skill, tactical battle-planning and no small amount of magic, players must embark on a quest to destroy the resurrected dark dragon Medeus in Fire. Known to western audiences simply as Fire Emblem, the prequel to Roy's adventure was released as a result of Marth and Roy's surprising popularity in Super Smash Bros. Alternatively, the Fire Emblem game that did directly contribute to the series' popularity in the west, Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, could use a re-release.

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