Editing Fire Emblem (game)

{{Game
|name=Fire Emblem
|image=[[Image:Firemblem.jpg|200px]]
|bgcolor=silver
|fgcolor=black
|developer=[[Intelligent Systems]]
|publisher=[[Nintendo]]
|system=[[Game Boy Advance]], [[Wii U Virtual Console]]
|release='''Game Boy Advance'''<br />JP April 25, 2003<br />US November 3, 2003<br />EU July 16, 2004<br />'''Wii U Virtual Console'''<br/ >JP May 14, 2014<br />EU August 21, 2014<br />US December 4, 2014
|gallery=[http://www.gamehiker.com/gallery/index.php?cat=182 GH Gallery]
|rating= ESRB: E
|}}

'''Fire Emblem''' (known in Japan as '''Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken''', which would translate to ''Blazing Sword'') is the seventh game in the ''[[Portal: Fire Emblem|Fire Emblem]]'' series and the second on the [[Game Boy Advance]]. Most notably, it is the first of the ''Fire Emblem'' games to be released internationally and in English, hence the international title simply being ''Fire Emblem''. Storywise, the game acts as a prequel to ''[[Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi]]'', the previous game in the series.

=Story=

Men and dragons once lived at peace long ago until men started a war with the dragons, known as the Scouring. It ended with the dragons being defeated, with the aid of eight mighty heroes. These eight heroes founded the various regions of Elibe.

The game is set 980 years after this Scouring and is divided into three stories:

*Lyn's Story (Chapters 1-10)- The beginner story. This story features [[Lyn]] as she discoveres her birthright and sets off on a quest to save her long-lost grandfather from his evil usurper brother.

*Eliwood's Story (Chapters 11-30)- Set one year after Lyn's story, this story follows [[Eliwood]] as he sets out to find his missing father. Along the way he winds up involved in the schemes of the mysterious organization called the [[Black Fang]], which involve the dragons of the distant past.

*Hector's Story (Chapters 11-32)- A story that runs parallel to Eliwood's. It is told from the point-of-view of [[Hector]], which results in several additional chapters and new characters, as well as more of a focus on Hector and the characters associated with him.

=Gameplay=

The gameplay follows the model of the previous games in that the player controls members of an army (or sometimes even just a single warrior) and moves them like figures on a chessboard in order to overtake enemies. This game also adds some new ingredients to the series formula, such as weather that affects the gameplay. There are also several tutorial levels found in Lyn's story (likely to initiate international newcomers newcomers).

=Legacy=

The success of ''Fire Emblem'' led to almost all subsequent games in the series being translated and released internationally, with the only exception being ''[[Fire Emblem: Shin Monshou no Nazo: Hikari to Kage no Eiyuu]]''. However, the previous games in the series (including the game that this game acts as a prequel to) remain without official translations, aside from a limited release of a localized version of ''[[Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & The Blade of Light|the original NES game]] in 2020.

==Ports/Remakes==

*In 2014, ''Fire Emblem'' was released for download on the [[Wii U]] as part of the [[Wii U Virtual Console]].
*In June 2023, this game was added to the digital library of Game Boy Advance games on the [[Nintendo Switch]] that could be played by subscribers of [[Nintendo Switch Online]]'s Expansion Pack program.

==Sequels==

This is the last game thus far to be set in Elibe. The next game in the series was ''[[Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones]]'', which was the last release for the Game Boy Advance and featured an expanded version of this game's gameplay while set in a new storyline.

{{Fire Emblem Series}}

[[Category: Game Boy Advance Games]] [[Category: Fire Emblem Games]]