Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn
Console: Nintendo Wii
Genre: Strategy
Multiplayer: 1 Player
Wi-Fi: No
Fire Emblem, one of those games that not many people have heard of, one of the untold greatest series of strategy games ever created. Playing Fire Emblem on the hardest difficulty requires a lot of thinking, a lot of planning, and sometimes you need to throw in risk. The way Fire Emblem is played is by advancing through chapters on different levels, you are playing on a grid on that level, many different terrains effect the players, there are usually two teams, which you strategize by moving your characters into position and either attacking through enemies or defending certain places. If any of your characters run out of health, they are out of the game for good, no way of getting them back unless you restart the whole chapter again or start a new file.
At the beginning of the game, you start off by being pursued by an empire known as the Begnion Empire. You are a Daein group of rebels known as the Dawn brigade. You are on a goal to liberate Begnion out of Daein as they are trying to claim Daein for themselves. This is how the first quarter of the game begins. After about halfway through the game, Ike and the Greil Mercenaries appear as the main group, just trying to stick up for the Laguz.
The Laguz are a race of humans that can transform into certain types of animals, such as cats, tigers, lions, ravens, eagles, wolves and dragons. They do not use weaponry and rely on their physical strength. Other humans (known as Beorc) see the Laguz as unequals, they call them sub humans and refuse to live in the same country, thus they live in separate continents, as generations have passed, and they have grown to hate each other more and more.
The weapons you can acquire within the game range from swords, lances and bows to magic tomes and staves. There are weapon triangles within this game, which work like this, if a sword goes against an axe, the sword has more advantage in the weapon triangle so will deal extra damage and has more accuracy of hitting while the axe has been reduced. The basic triangle works like this, swords -> axe -> lance -> swords. You get the idea. Always take this into consideration as there is nothing better to do than to send in a sword master against a big group of warriors as sword masters have high dodge while warriors have low accuaracy and they wield an axe which makes it even easier to be untouched.
Also within the game, you are able to obtain several different skills and equip them to your characters, keep in mind though there is a limit to how many skills you can hold. Some skills increase the amount of experience you receive, while others can increase the amount of attacks you can get in. There are so many skills so experiment with what you can do. As you use your weapons more, that weapon type can increase so you can use stronger weapons, depending on the type. Finally each weapon has a certain amount of hits they can dish out before the weapon breaks. Although there are some weapons that cannot be broken such as Ike's main sword, Ragnell. Also the Laguz have their own weapons such as the cats have their claws and the dragons have their breathe. These are ofcourse unlimited and as their weapon rank increases, their claws/breathe/other can gain more accuracy and more might.
Depending on the class of your characters, you can move a certain amount of space each turn. Between five and ten spaces, some characters are only limited to attacking only one square away too. Mages can obtain tomes that will either hit one to two squares away while others can hit from three to ten spaces. One thing you need to be aware of is that depending on the terrain you and your opponent are standing on as sometimes your attacks won’t reach, or you will be hitting for less damage or your opponent has increased evasion. Sometimes you can find heal bushes too which if you stand on them, you will recover a slight amount each time a turn passes.
The aim to complete each chapter has several methods of winning, you can win by either beating the boss, clear the stage of enemies, survive a certain amount of turns or capture the end of the map. It is usually advised to wipe out all the enemies if possible. With certain characters, you will see an enemy which may be recruitable depending on certain conditions.
The graphics are brilliant but the cut scenes stand out more, I really do think they are cut scenes that you will want to rewatch again every now and then. The music is brilliant, especially the black knight’s theme. This game could last anyone a long time if you want to complete it on every difficulty, for your first few times around, the game will take at least 24 hours to complete, even if you skip all the dialogue, which is needed to know what is going on. The gameplay really is amazing, it is so addicting once you get into the game.
Overall I do love the Fire Emblem series, if you feel like getting a strategy game then this is definitely what game I would recommend. Truly amazing, addicting, and really gets you thinking. Just try completing it on the hardest difficulty. That could take you a while but will be worth it.
Overall score: 95%
Console: Nintendo Wii
Genre: Strategy
Multiplayer: 1 Player
Wi-Fi: No
Fire Emblem, one of those games that not many people have heard of, one of the untold greatest series of strategy games ever created. Playing Fire Emblem on the hardest difficulty requires a lot of thinking, a lot of planning, and sometimes you need to throw in risk. The way Fire Emblem is played is by advancing through chapters on different levels, you are playing on a grid on that level, many different terrains effect the players, there are usually two teams, which you strategize by moving your characters into position and either attacking through enemies or defending certain places. If any of your characters run out of health, they are out of the game for good, no way of getting them back unless you restart the whole chapter again or start a new file.
At the beginning of the game, you start off by being pursued by an empire known as the Begnion Empire. You are a Daein group of rebels known as the Dawn brigade. You are on a goal to liberate Begnion out of Daein as they are trying to claim Daein for themselves. This is how the first quarter of the game begins. After about halfway through the game, Ike and the Greil Mercenaries appear as the main group, just trying to stick up for the Laguz.
The Laguz are a race of humans that can transform into certain types of animals, such as cats, tigers, lions, ravens, eagles, wolves and dragons. They do not use weaponry and rely on their physical strength. Other humans (known as Beorc) see the Laguz as unequals, they call them sub humans and refuse to live in the same country, thus they live in separate continents, as generations have passed, and they have grown to hate each other more and more.
The weapons you can acquire within the game range from swords, lances and bows to magic tomes and staves. There are weapon triangles within this game, which work like this, if a sword goes against an axe, the sword has more advantage in the weapon triangle so will deal extra damage and has more accuracy of hitting while the axe has been reduced. The basic triangle works like this, swords -> axe -> lance -> swords. You get the idea. Always take this into consideration as there is nothing better to do than to send in a sword master against a big group of warriors as sword masters have high dodge while warriors have low accuaracy and they wield an axe which makes it even easier to be untouched.
Also within the game, you are able to obtain several different skills and equip them to your characters, keep in mind though there is a limit to how many skills you can hold. Some skills increase the amount of experience you receive, while others can increase the amount of attacks you can get in. There are so many skills so experiment with what you can do. As you use your weapons more, that weapon type can increase so you can use stronger weapons, depending on the type. Finally each weapon has a certain amount of hits they can dish out before the weapon breaks. Although there are some weapons that cannot be broken such as Ike's main sword, Ragnell. Also the Laguz have their own weapons such as the cats have their claws and the dragons have their breathe. These are ofcourse unlimited and as their weapon rank increases, their claws/breathe/other can gain more accuracy and more might.
Depending on the class of your characters, you can move a certain amount of space each turn. Between five and ten spaces, some characters are only limited to attacking only one square away too. Mages can obtain tomes that will either hit one to two squares away while others can hit from three to ten spaces. One thing you need to be aware of is that depending on the terrain you and your opponent are standing on as sometimes your attacks won’t reach, or you will be hitting for less damage or your opponent has increased evasion. Sometimes you can find heal bushes too which if you stand on them, you will recover a slight amount each time a turn passes.
The aim to complete each chapter has several methods of winning, you can win by either beating the boss, clear the stage of enemies, survive a certain amount of turns or capture the end of the map. It is usually advised to wipe out all the enemies if possible. With certain characters, you will see an enemy which may be recruitable depending on certain conditions.
The graphics are brilliant but the cut scenes stand out more, I really do think they are cut scenes that you will want to rewatch again every now and then. The music is brilliant, especially the black knight’s theme. This game could last anyone a long time if you want to complete it on every difficulty, for your first few times around, the game will take at least 24 hours to complete, even if you skip all the dialogue, which is needed to know what is going on. The gameplay really is amazing, it is so addicting once you get into the game.
Overall I do love the Fire Emblem series, if you feel like getting a strategy game then this is definitely what game I would recommend. Truly amazing, addicting, and really gets you thinking. Just try completing it on the hardest difficulty. That could take you a while but will be worth it.
Overall score: 95%
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