The Fire Emblem Discussion

[Dark Jaguar]

Out of curiosity, who here prefers the Advance Wars games over Fire Emblem?

*raises hand because he's Sure*

The Wars series never really grabbed me... I guess I've played too many strategy games, and I'm not even one of those super fans of the genre. Fire Emblem was different though. It was the first of them I played where each unit had an actual life, where I wouldn't want to have to tell the boy's momma back home he "was" a hero. The goal of war, gentlemen, is not to die for your country, but to make those other guys die for THEIR country! So yeah, I prefer Fire Emblem.

It's not really storyline or anything (though I've mentioned before that it seems very strange that the commanders don't seem to care at all about their own soldiers and have occasionally battled each other for "fun"), it's the nice twist of being basically set with fixed units you upgrade and no subunits of any kind that you have to choose to develop in certain ways from battle to battle, who are gone FOREVER when it's done. Advance Wars I can play a million ways on the PC, but not quite so much with Fire Emblem.