1st February 2003, 1:51 AM
Dude, I've played ALL OF THE FIRE EMBLEMS. You don't need to show me what it looks like. This game series is MUCH HARDER than Advanced Wars. It is 20 times as involved its subject matter and gameplay is targetted for more mature audience.
Whats wrong with death and dying and not selling ? Well apparently not a whole lot in other games because it doesn't really affect your gameplay, but in Fire Emblem, it does.
Its not a clone and conquer game like Advanced Wars and its not a typical Square RPG where Pheonix Down revives your fallen comrades. It might resemble Advanced Wars superficially, but when you start to realize that some of your main characters die and don't come back, or your weapons break and you're fucked in combat, or you can't complete a mission because you've screwed up so much in the past missions that you simply don't have enough men anymore, you'll see what kind of audience it carries.
The game doesn't really involve capturing much except for taking POWs, and the rest is about killing the enemy in single combat between your characters and grunts and their characters and grunts. Who survives and who doesn't affects the story line.
Advanced Wars meets FF my ass... this is Advanced Wars look but hard core Ogre Battle Tactics style. At least in OBT your main characters come back if they are defeated in the mission so you could say its even more hardcore.
And I don't know if I just got the bad ending to the game or something, but Marth is supposed to be DEAD in the story line by the time you get to Fire Emblem 4.
Whats wrong with death and dying and not selling ? Well apparently not a whole lot in other games because it doesn't really affect your gameplay, but in Fire Emblem, it does.
Its not a clone and conquer game like Advanced Wars and its not a typical Square RPG where Pheonix Down revives your fallen comrades. It might resemble Advanced Wars superficially, but when you start to realize that some of your main characters die and don't come back, or your weapons break and you're fucked in combat, or you can't complete a mission because you've screwed up so much in the past missions that you simply don't have enough men anymore, you'll see what kind of audience it carries.
The game doesn't really involve capturing much except for taking POWs, and the rest is about killing the enemy in single combat between your characters and grunts and their characters and grunts. Who survives and who doesn't affects the story line.
Advanced Wars meets FF my ass... this is Advanced Wars look but hard core Ogre Battle Tactics style. At least in OBT your main characters come back if they are defeated in the mission so you could say its even more hardcore.
And I don't know if I just got the bad ending to the game or something, but Marth is supposed to be DEAD in the story line by the time you get to Fire Emblem 4.