"Why do people emulate our games? It doesnt make any sense!"
delists the only possible means to legally play the first game in a well known series
What was the goal here? Was this decision made by people who dont play video games? Not a single coherent thought was had during the release of this.
delists the only possible means to legally play the first game in a well known series
What was the goal here? Was this decision made by people who dont play video games? Not a single coherent thought was had during the release of this.
It was super ambitious for its time and an interesting replay for series enthusiasts, but I can't recommend it to anyone outside enormous Fire Emblem nerds
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light (of FE1 for short) is the definite victim of first-game syndrome. The basics of the core Fire Emblem experience is here: the grid-based movement, combat by initiation, permadeath, varied maps, a tons of units to use, and the ever-so-lovable enemy ai and all their jank. Despite the important foundation for the series's future success, FE1 is a game I don't want to recommend to really anyone. The game is so slow and even with the Switch version's built in speed up, it is still slow. Item management is cumbersome and trading takes up an action of a turn. The battle animations - while oddly charming, drags the already slow game down. The characters and npcs portraits are ugly (though funny to look at) and the music is charming, but repetitive. Overall, the game is simply bad, even by NES standards of first games. Thankfully, this game was remade through FE3 Book 1 and Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon on DS so if want to see the events of the War of Shadows, go play those instead. I don't recommend ever playing this game and only bother to play the game if you value the historical impact of this game. While I do still value this game for ultimately creating one of my favorite series, I don't value it for how bad it plays now.