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Fire Emblem Sacred Stones

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If you liked Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon but felt it was a bit short, try getting your hands on a copy of this, or the earlier GBA iteration. There's the downside of (slightly, mind you) worse graphics, and not having the extra screen to share the load; but the core gameplay is the same, + the support feature (characters can be paired and end up boosting eachother's stats), and a more engrossing story. I haven't quite finished up the campaign, but this game is already shaping up to be better than the newer DS iteration.

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones is a strategy RPG, in this game you first start out commanding the forces of a princess. Her country has just been attacked and defeated by a neibouring country that was a friend once. The war continues with the princess trying to find her brother and discovering the reason for the attacks, in the process the entire continent gets caught up in the war and battles are fought on many fronts.

Game play is standard for a SRPG, your army moves across a battlefield made up of a grid and you try to seize a certain location or kill an enemy commander. The battlefield back grounds are quite numerous, sometimes you fight in the country side and sometimes you fight in a town or a castle. One thing that is original about Fire Emblem games is that if one of your team members dies the death is permanent. Once a character reaches the 10th level, that character can get promoted to a greater class if you have a special item.

Graphics are very good for a GBA game, the colours are some what limited but this might be normal for GBA games.

The sound is ok but I had it muted all the time so I can't really tell you any details.

The value of this game is high; I will probably play thru this game twice because about one third of the game you can play as the princess and on a different play thru you can play as the prince. This only applies to the middle part of the game. But you get different battle in the princes section of the game.

To sum things up, this game like all fire emblem games is great. The store line is good and provides a lot of interest in what and why the characters are doing.

Game play: 9/10
Graphics: 8/10
Sound: 8/10
Value: 9/10

Overall: 8.5/10