Anybody else run to their local shop and pick up a copy yesterday? I'm finding it so far to be less entertaining than the original GBA title, probably because it has an extremely similar style and doesn't improve upon the battle system hardly at all.
It apparently has fewer characters that can join your team, but a greater range of classes that you can upgrade your characters into. It also gives you 'amateur' ranks for some characters, and you then have the ability to level them up more than once. I have a feeling that these characters will be among the most powerful in the game, aside from the two Lords they grant you.
Storywise, the game is basic fare. I haven't found any indication that the game is any kind of direct sequel to the original GBA title, which I find truly annoying, because I was really looking forward to continuing the storyline in the first GBA Fire Emblem.
It also seems much easier than the original, with shorter battle sets and fewer maps that require strategy over bullying your way across the map, or just protecting yourself for so many turns. It lacks the originality the first one had, and I'm disappointed in that respect.
Graphically, it's identical. The battle sprites still look tiny and nondescript, the character portraits are nice, but a slight update in the battle graphics department or maps would have been nice.
Sound is pretty decent. I don't recall actually liking the first one's music, but this one has me humming the tunes on occasion. Don't know why, as a lot of them are the same.
So, anybody else?
Is anyone getting the Cube one that's coming out later this year?
It apparently has fewer characters that can join your team, but a greater range of classes that you can upgrade your characters into. It also gives you 'amateur' ranks for some characters, and you then have the ability to level them up more than once. I have a feeling that these characters will be among the most powerful in the game, aside from the two Lords they grant you.
Storywise, the game is basic fare. I haven't found any indication that the game is any kind of direct sequel to the original GBA title, which I find truly annoying, because I was really looking forward to continuing the storyline in the first GBA Fire Emblem.
It also seems much easier than the original, with shorter battle sets and fewer maps that require strategy over bullying your way across the map, or just protecting yourself for so many turns. It lacks the originality the first one had, and I'm disappointed in that respect.
Graphically, it's identical. The battle sprites still look tiny and nondescript, the character portraits are nice, but a slight update in the battle graphics department or maps would have been nice.
Sound is pretty decent. I don't recall actually liking the first one's music, but this one has me humming the tunes on occasion. Don't know why, as a lot of them are the same.
So, anybody else?
Is anyone getting the Cube one that's coming out later this year?
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