Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon for Nintendo DS Reviews by Gamers

O.K., confession time. Going into this game, I had my suspicions. You see, although I enjoy the other games from Intellegent Systems, I had my suspicions about this turn-based strategy game. Then I played it. I was instantly sucked into the story and the characters. The music is amazing. The gameplay is great. And overall this game is amazing and is worth the rent. And if you like it enough(like I did), buy it.

Ok so this is the newest installation of the Fire Emblem series, which being my favorite game of all time you know i was expecting something from this game. This game finally features Marth!!! That was really exciting and he is really good, until the ending, he starts getting bad, but in most of the Fire Emblem series, there is always better then your lords. The one fact that most people forget to mention is this was the ORIGINAL Fire Emblem. So of coarse the storyline isnt as in depth, the game play isnt as long, and some of the newer things that you see in the older versions (weird huh?) arent included. They tried to keep it as close as possible to the real version. You cant rescue, there are a lot of characters (i mean a LOT), you can change just about all your characters classes (say a social knight to a fighter or something along those lines). One of the aspects i liked was that they have a in map save feature during a mission, as well as the suspension mode. If you have played all of the Fire Emblems before this then i suggest playing this for the storyline, but if you havent then definantly pick up the 2 on GBA first, much much better then any of them. The Wi-Fi version is AWESOME, its like an actual map and you go head to head with the person on the other end. Super cool. There is usually fog on the map so it adds to the mystery of your opponent. I know i had fun with it. That is basically all of the game. If your a tactic/Fire Emblem fan, pick it up without a doubt.