Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

I have payed a lot of money to find this game at a used video game store, then later on played Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for the Wii, and boy that was a much longer challenging game, it was very long tedious game, much more complex than Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.

This is the direct sequel to Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. First of all this game is divided into 4 parts with much more chapters than Path of Radiance.

When you start the game in part 1, you are introduced to the Dawn Brigade group with a light mage named Micaiah with her thief partner Sothe with their allies who fight against Jarod and his army in Daein who oppress people.

In Part 2 you have Queen Elincia and her allies fight against the town rebels in Crimea trying to overthrow Elincia.

Then in Part 3 you finally get to play as Ike and his Greil Mercenaries with the Laguz army who has a feud war against Micaiahs Dawn Brigade army.

Finally in Part 4 you divide your team up into 3 army groups trying to stop the Goddess Ashera in the tall tower.

The gameplay is the same except there is now shop Bargain section selling expensive rare items which drains your money very quickly. Also you can promote your class characters twice instead of once.

My thoughts for this game are, the artwork and CGI scenes with voice acting and the orchestral soundtrack is beautiful. But the gameplay is much longer and more tedious with much more level grinding. This game has 44 chapters whereas Path of Radiance has 29 chapters. This game is harder and more complex. Easy, Normal, Hard would be Normal, Hard and Maniac. I do wish that I could've found a good place to level up my characters and have much more money to buy stuff, otherwise this would be a great game.

If you Fire Emblem fans are planning to buy and play this game, keep in mind this Nintendo Wii game is rare and hard to find, although not as expensive as Path of Radiance. But it's still a pricey game to find even in used condition. Also you'll need to buy and play Path of Radiance in order to understand the sequel to Radiant Dawn.

I only hope that the Nintendo Company will reissue Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn on Wii U or put it on the Wii Virtual Console. Until then you can still play the game on the Wii or Wii U system.

I love this game even if it is completely awful at some points and the difficulty is all over the place but as expected this game takes the story over everything else the feeling of being on the powerless and being on the Edge and being a Freedom fighter is what it's about the complete difference in difficulty kind of feel the appropriate for the story.

I think the biggest problem with the gameplay is it's hard to get into groove usually when I play Fire Emblem I enjoy the feeling of units getting stronger and seeing the little guy getting to the top but in this one. It's mostly about the story because of the many different perspectives. It's very hard to get attached to unit when you never know when you're gonna see them again when you played for the first time and even now when I have played it lots of time it just easier to just go with the flow and take the strongest units and because of the leg of support conversations. It's even more hard to get attached to the unit.

But it is way more strategic than I'm used to from a Fire Emblem game mostly because of you keep going to different perspective you have to just play with the units you have,

But the different perspective really help with the story to get immersed with to seeing the perspective for the lowly freedom fighter to the top army to mercenaries tonight. I just wish they were used to explain script when localizing it, but we have what we have and it's fine.

But my biggest problem with the game and why I'm never gonna play it on real hardware is because of the speed of it. It's so slow. It's insane even when I'm speeding it up. It feels slow. It's so weird. I've just wish there were skipped button like there is in a Awakening but we have what we have.

But the story and difficulty many times in the game feel connected in a way that I don't fill in many Fire Emblem games. It's why I like it even if it means it's not fun all the time. I love how the story of makes me feel weak in gameplay.