Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken-GAME REVIEW

I love tactical RPG’s, the very first such genre I have been able to play was Final Fantasy V Anthology, and I just remembered that I have not been able to play that game for a long long time. I remember playing it when I was just in high school, yeeesh.. that was so long ago, just kidding, I am not that old..haha. Anyway, let’s go back to the Fire Emblem review. So, I was looking for a good old GBA rpg game and came across this title. I did not actually know that this was a tactical RPG when I decided to play it, and I was a bit hesitant at first to play this game, since I had a few tactical RPG’s for gba that I have played and did not like unfortunately, so the hesitation came from there. But I continued on with it, and decided that I actually love it. I really love the gameplay, and also the fact that you can have this secret characters recruited base on a situations in the game (reminds me of Suikoden in a way) and have this support sequences in the game, which is also actually a way for characters to interact and have conversations and build relationships. And I have been actually reading about tactical rpg game history and it turns out that Fire Emblem was one of the first to incorporate this kind of gameplay that is still being used in modern day tactical RPG genre games today. I also love the storyline, currently on the Eliwood mode. The story is so far keeping me interested and I am racing to get to the next chapter to know what the deal is. But I actually restarted my game, because I was having such a hard time doing Chapter 27, and I kind of cheated and read some on this game and it turns out I have missed a whole bunch of potential recruits, so I was bummed and decided to delete my progress and start fresh. And now I’m almost at Chapter 27 again and I actually thought that redoing everything would bore me and ultimately lead to me not finishing the game (which is a thing I far too often do), but I actually am learning new things while redoing the chapters and it’s fun still.So if you have a thirst for a good old tactical rpg, I suggest you play this. It would really challenge you, especially on the chapters where there are new recruits to be obtained, and most of the time there are. And the story is really good, I actually love the playful bantering of the characters and also the blossoming love stories in the plot.

And after I think 6 months, (yes 6 long months), I was able to finish this game. I actually had to restart the game for I think atleast 3 times before I was finally able to get to the last chapter because I was not able to get some of the crucial items in the game like the member card. It a bittersweet ending for me and the game. I kind of got used to playing it during my commute to work that it feels weird not to. But I am proud of my accomplishment in finishing this game since I was not able to finish any game for a while now. I have a game just sitting on my laptop, and I am like 3 bosses away from getting it finish but I can't seem to find the energy to finish it now. I currently got Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones and will do a review for that after I get to atleast half of the chapters. But so far I am enjoying it, very close to what Rekka no Ken was so it was fairly easy to follow and play.

I want to write more about Rekka no Ken and some of the strategies that I really think would be helpful for people who want to play this game some time later. But for now I will just say that this is one of the best tactical rpg's I have played and is a must play.