Fire Emblem

It is the seventh game of the Fire Emblem series, the second game in the series to be released for the Game Boy Advance, and the first to be released in both North America and Europe. It features a prologue…

90 25 April 2003

Role-playing (RPG) Strategy Tactical Turn-based strategy (TBS) Fantasy Historical Warfare

Fire Emblem is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Intelligent Systems, released 25 April 2003 on Wii U and Game Boy Advance. The main story takes about 39.7 hrs to finish.

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What Fire Emblem is

Fire Emblem is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Intelligent Systems and released in 2003. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Game Boy Advance.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, also known simply as Fire Emblem, is a 2003 tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. It is the seventh installment in the Fire Emblem series, the second to be released for the platform after Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade, and the first to be localized for international audiences. It was released in Japan and North America in 2003, and in Europe and Australia in 2004.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Fire Emblem series

Fire Emblem is the ninth of 66 entries we hold in the Fire Emblem series. It arrived a year after Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi. The next entry was Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones in 2004. Its critic score of 90 is 10 points above the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.

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How it was received

Fire Emblem holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 88, across 146 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 39.7 hrs.

What it launched against

Fire Emblem launched on 25 April 2003, within three weeks of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, NBA Street Vol. 2, Eve Online and Midnight Club II. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, NBA Street Vol. 2, Eve Online, Midnight Club II.

Cheats and codes

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