Makes you wanna claw your eyes out... in a good way
I picked up a copy of the new Fire Emblem the other day... Since i had lost my copy of the old one without finishing it (I loaned to to a friend who I used to go to college with but I don't go there anymore) I've felt a serious need to pick up this one and finish it.
But I had forgetten one thing about Fire Emblem that I had learned in the old one....
It's a hard game, with no margin for error. It's a turn based stratedgy game that begs you not to let a single unit die. Each one is a unique character with a name and a back story and when you finsh the game you get to find out all about what becomes of them... but if you let them die... they never come back, your forces are then lacking that unique addition and you don't get to have the full ending...
The game features some advanced saving capabilities... if you turn off your game you can resume a battle from exactly where it left off... to the point that you can watch the same unit die 300 times... And if you get hit with a critical hit (a rare occurance that deals tripple damage and kills pretty much anyone in 1 hit) you can watch the same critcal hit for those 300 times. There is only one hope to save the lives of your team and that is to start the whole mission over... which happens ALOT.
The Fire Emblem series has existed since the NES days... but they decided that america wasn't ready for it. The truth is that I'm gonna agree with them on that one. Probably the only game that never came to this country that I can say we just couldn't have heandled it... I don't think I'd be quite right in the head if I grew up with this game... Playing it is like torture at times. It's the most frustrating thing on the planet.
In this one mission there is fog so you can't see the enemies... and on the other side of the map are pesants about to be attacked by a giant spider. You have to hurry to save them... so I rushed in with a guy on a horse... oh but what is this? The gaurd next to the pesants is using a horse slaying lance.... BAM! 1 hit kill.... reset after 20 minutes of battle.......
I'll admit it... I cried....
But I had forgetten one thing about Fire Emblem that I had learned in the old one....
It's a hard game, with no margin for error. It's a turn based stratedgy game that begs you not to let a single unit die. Each one is a unique character with a name and a back story and when you finsh the game you get to find out all about what becomes of them... but if you let them die... they never come back, your forces are then lacking that unique addition and you don't get to have the full ending...
The game features some advanced saving capabilities... if you turn off your game you can resume a battle from exactly where it left off... to the point that you can watch the same unit die 300 times... And if you get hit with a critical hit (a rare occurance that deals tripple damage and kills pretty much anyone in 1 hit) you can watch the same critcal hit for those 300 times. There is only one hope to save the lives of your team and that is to start the whole mission over... which happens ALOT.
The Fire Emblem series has existed since the NES days... but they decided that america wasn't ready for it. The truth is that I'm gonna agree with them on that one. Probably the only game that never came to this country that I can say we just couldn't have heandled it... I don't think I'd be quite right in the head if I grew up with this game... Playing it is like torture at times. It's the most frustrating thing on the planet.
In this one mission there is fog so you can't see the enemies... and on the other side of the map are pesants about to be attacked by a giant spider. You have to hurry to save them... so I rushed in with a guy on a horse... oh but what is this? The gaurd next to the pesants is using a horse slaying lance.... BAM! 1 hit kill.... reset after 20 minutes of battle.......
I'll admit it... I cried....
posted by Degulus at 1:00 PM
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