The Path to a great series!!

Fire Emblem is one of the most creative franchises I ever witnessesed yet. The first thing you'll notice in the game is the incredible graphics in cutscenes. Cel-shaded and detailed. It's almost like the game broke through the Gamecube's boundaries. Now let's talk about the gameplay. You gather your troops and travel to a gridded battlefield. Your foe's army and your army take turns moving torwards each other. Now when two opposing troops encounter each other, a battle begins. The actual battle displays the troops who are fighting, and the one who charged at the other attacks first. Each troop does about one to three attacks,usually 1, and once they're done, the battle is over and the game goes on. However, the attacks are automatic. Which means, random attacks. Yes, sometimes you do a regular move. But then sometimes you use a really cool move,that instantly kills the foe. But you better use your army wisely, otherwise(here's the trouble) a soldier who dies is dead for the rest of the game. Yes that's right, dead. Which pretty much causes you to reset your game right when the guy dies. What a bunch of bull. I know they're sort of being realistic, but that was a bit too far. The controls are supposed to be simple, since it's an RPG, not some button-mashing game, but the controls are odd becuase... some of the commands are sorta misplaced. Overall, this game is a definate buy. One more problem though; long speaches. The other type of cutscenes don't have voice acting, but text bubbles. And they are quite too long. This game is still a fun game. This should really keep you busy for the next game Goddess of Dawn.