![]() This led to some pretty amusing scenarios, especially between the mouthy Mae and her bestie Boey. (Highlights include using boarding planks to bottleneck pirates so my mages could throw fireballs at them and having a Pegasus Knight wing over stone ramparts to open the gates of an enemy’s castle.) And though wedding bells weren't in most characters' immediate future, I could still enjoy the unfolding camaraderie between heroes by placing allied units near each other in battle. I felt especially clever whenever I managed to subvert enemy maneuvers by using a few tricks of my own. There’s a simple joy to the cerebral gymnastics involved in intensely studying an opponent’s stats and movements. There’s no rock-paper-scissors weapons mechanic to help dictate which units counter which, adjacent allies don’t doubleteam enemies or shield each other from attack, enemies and maps offer very little variation, and my dreams of hooking up devil-may-care mercenary Saber with pious priestess Celica were dashed because there’s no marriage system.Īs time went on, however, I came to fully embrace the more straightforward style. At first I was disappointed by the lack of features. That means that combat -even with a few modern tweaks-isn’t nearly as deep or nuanced as it is in modern Fire Emblems. Since doing just about anything related to special abilities – from drawing a bow to throwing a fireball – drains HP and increases fatigue (a sort of inverted stamina bar), I had to keep an eye on both armies’ limited inventory as they quaffed nourishing wines and nibbled cheeses to replenish themselves.Īlthough Echoes is a fully tinseled remake of a 25-year-old game, its roots are still firmly grounded in the past. Fights with enemy soldiers and their monstrous minions, known as Terrors, broke out everywhere and often. The teens have two different missions on opposite sides of Valentia, which meant I spent most of the 30ish-hour adventure shuffling their respective armies between battlefields on the world map. The ensuing drama is even better when fortified by the addition of well-made animated cutscenes and strong voice acting. A hackneyed premise? Yup, but it still makes for a good soap opera, one that wildly oscillates between joy and sorrow as the heroes slowly unspool the truth behind the unending war. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.War and tactics are the backbone of any Fire Emblem, and – surprise! – the story is all about guiding not one but two armies led by a pair star-crossed teens named Alm and Celica against an evil empire attempting to conquer the continent of Valentia (because there is always an evil empire). Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. ![]() Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does. ![]() Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests.
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