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I lost my copy of Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for the Wii. This saddens me

Epignosis wrote:I have never had anything to do with Fire Emblem outside of Smash Bros.

What am I missing?

It's an RPG with a zillion characters, level ups, kind of Final Fantasy ish I guess? Many of the character can switch between human and animal form - they are vulnerable and weak as humans, very strong as animals, a neat risk/reward thing.

I guess I love the game because there are some missions where you need to pick like 18 characters to enter a level, and you've got 25 to pick from, let's say. If you always use the same guys, they will level up a lot and get really strong but in later levels were you are forced to bring the weaker people into missions, those characters will die and weaken your overall team. But, if you spread the levelling up too smoothly around the characters your group will be too weak at endgame.

Lots of long term and short term strategy in character choices.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

timmer wrote:

Epignosis wrote:I have never had anything to do with Fire Emblem outside of Smash Bros.

What am I missing?

It's an RPG with a zillion characters, level ups, kind of Final Fantasy ish I guess? Many of the character can switch between human and animal form - they are vulnerable and weak as humans, very strong as animals, a neat risk/reward thing.

I guess I love the game because there are some missions where you need to pick like 18 characters to enter a level, and you've got 25 to pick from, let's say. If you always use the same guys, they will level up a lot and get really strong but in later levels were you are forced to bring the weaker people into missions, those characters will die and weaken your overall team. But, if you spread the levelling up too smoothly around the characters your group will be too weak at endgame.

Lots of long term and short term strategy in character choices.

Sounds like my kind of game.

Same here.

There is also further strategizing. There are different classes of characters; sword masters, armoured knights, different types of magic users (lightning, fire, light, etc.), thieves. You can choose from the entire group of living characters to decide who comes into the final section of the game, but you will want a varied group, not all swords masters and archers, for instance. So in each CLASS, you also want to choose early on which will be the representative to bring into the endgame. So you don't want to be levelling up too many armoured knights, for instance, if you will only bring in one, etc.

Also, within specific challenges you have to physically balance your players based on strengths and weaknesses. If your light magic user, who wears no armour, is standing too far in front of the armoured characters, when the enemy takes it turn it will head straight for the weak link and slaughter them. Position on the map is paramount, and paying attention to how far various enemy characters can move per turn is crucial.

I think you guys will like it!

Anyone with a game cube can track down Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance as well, which is the precursor to Radiant Dawn. Same characters, and you can port your levelled up characters from the cube to the wii !

I'm so crack addicted to Pokemon Go.

I suck at slitherio, but I blame my crappy mountain wifi.

Has anyone played Civ 6? Any cool changes from 5?