![]() Considering the limitations of the NES system hardware, it’s remarkable that FE1 contains over fifty unique characters who can be recruited to your army. While this formula will be wearily familiar to modern gamers, such tactical flexibility was a relative novelty thirty years ago, and it meant FE1 was an unusually deep and involving experience.įire Emblem games are known for their large casts of unique characters, and longtime series aficionados will be pleased to see characters such as Marth, Caeda, Tiki, Ogma, and Navarre make their debuts. Each unit belongs to a different class (archer, mage, cavalier, etc), each of which has strengths and weaknesses and different weapons also come with their advantages and disadvantages, the greater power of axes being traded off against their lower accuracy, for example. When units are close to an enemy, they can engage in melee or ranged combat, using a variety of traditional weapons or magical tomes. The player and computer take turns to move their units around a map, the player usually being tasked with defeating a ‘boss’ unit and capturing a strategic point, such as a castle or throne. The straightforward plot delivers few surprises, providing little more than a simple narrative structure for the twenty-five missions that constitute the campaign.įE1 established the template for the turn-based tactical combat which made the series famous. The events of FE1 are therefore likely to be more familiar than its ostensibly obscurity would suggest, particularly as most who would consider playing a thirty-year old NES Fire Emblem will be diehard enthusiasts. Marth is perhaps best-known to Western gamers from his regular appearances in Smash Bros., but the setting and major characters of FE1 have also appeared in other popular games, from Fire Emblem Awakening and Fire Emblem Heroes to Tokyo Mirage Sessions. (True to their word, Nintendo duly delisted the game from sale at the end of March 2021, meaning it is no longer available.)įE1 follows the adventures of Marth, the youthful prince of Altea, during his quest to save his kingdom from the threat posed by Medeus, the titular Shadow Dragon. ![]() ![]() In light of the recent global success of the series, and to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary, Nintendo decided to localize the original version for Western audiences, making a digital edition available for purchase on the Nintendo Switch e-shop during a three-month window which started in December last year. Despite finding success within Japan, FE1 was never released internationally, though it was remade for the Nintendo DS in 2008. The first Fire Emblem game (known by fans as FE1), it launched what would become a popular and successful series while also helping shape a wider genre of Japanese tactical RPGs inspired by European medieval fantasy. ![]() Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light was first released in Japan in 1990. ![]()
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