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Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon | 
| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $12.48
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Seller: treylite, inc
Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 1175
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5.4 x 0.6
Multi-Cartridge Multiplayer
Voice Support
MPN: NTR P YFEE
Model: NTR P YFEE
UPC: 045496740054
EAN: 0045496740047
ASIN: B001O1PAMC
Publication Date: February 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Easy-to-follow tutorial chapters | | • | Take the battle online and clash with players around the world | | • | Choose from dozens of characters with unique spells and abilities | | • | "Fire Emblem" returns to its roots with a total overhaul of an NES classic never before released in America | | • | Touch-screen controls and multiple save options |
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Product Description
Medeus, the king of the dragonkin, has been revived and is forming an alliance with a fearsome sorcerer named Gharnef. Together, they threaten to the throw the entire continent of Archanea back to an age of chaos and war. Now, it's up to young Prince Marth and his small band of loyal followers to rise up and rally all those left in the land to make one last desperate push to free Archanea from the tyranny of the Shadow Dragon.
Amazon.com Product Description
Fire Emblem returns to its roots with a total overhaul of an NES™ classic never before released in America. New features include touch-screen controls, multiple save options and easy-to-follow tutorial chapters that shed new light on Marth's story. New players can jump into the action, even if they've never played a Fire Emblem game before.
Take the battle online and clash with players around the world over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. You can also borrow units to use in your army, talk with friends using the built-in Nintendo DS microphone and even buy rare and powerful items from the Online Shop using in-game currency.
You are the general: Shape your army to suit your strategy by selecting from dozens of characters with unique spells and abilities. But guide your army wisely, because if a character falls on the battlefield, he's lost forever.
Game storyline: Medeus, the king of the dragonkin, has been revived and is forming an alliance with a fearsome sorcerer named Gharnef. Together, they threaten to the throw the entire continent of Archanea back to an age of chaos and war. Now, it's up to young Prince Marth and his small band of loyal followers to rise up and rally all those left in the land to make one last desperate push to free Archanea from the tyranny of the Shadow Dragon.
How to progress through the game: Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy setting. Players alternate turns with opponents, moving their pieces (units) and attacking enemy units on the battlefield. There are dozens of units and different weapons and magic spells, each with its own strategic benefits-high-flying Pegasus knights move effortlessly over varied terrain, fast-moving mounted cavaliers can use swords and lances, unarmed curates use healing staves to mend the wounds of other units and so on.
Characters: Many groups play a part in a story but undoubtedly the story's protagonist, Prince Marth, will be the focus for most. Marth has been featured in the Super Smash Bros. series and has been extremely popular within those games, but this is his first time starring in a Fire Emblem game in the United States. At Marth's side is a support of fearless fighters, including the brave Caeda, a princess of the Talys kingdom. Other major characters include the evil sorcerer Gharnef and the sole surviving descendant of the royal House Archanea, Princess Nyna.
Special Features:
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon is the first to offer players a chance to test their skills against other players in combat. Using your broadband connection, Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and wireless play modes, players are able to send units they've trained into battle against those of another player. Collect optional cards to give your team a unique tactical bonus that can help you clench victory. During Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection matches, friends can talk to each other using the built-in Nintendo DS microphone.
Touch-screen controls, multiple save options and an easy-to-follow tutorial allow novice players to jump into the action, even if they've never played a Fire Emblem game before.
Borrow units wirelessly or through Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and use them in your own battles with the Loan Unit feature.
Six levels of difficulty ensure that even seasoned players can find a challenge in this new entry into the Fire Emblem series.
Purchase rare and powerful items using the gold you've acquired during your single-player campaign with the Online Shop feature. You never know what items you might come across, because new items rotate in and out of the armory on a daily basis.
Play through the events that brought Marth to the beginning of his quest through a new set of prologue chapters that were specially added to the game for its Nintendo DS release.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 36
 go Marth March 3, 2010
Jared Myers
i love it so much. wish i could play the origanal but this will have to do, the game is alot harder then i thought it would have been but thats what makes fire emblem games so fub. they make you think
Decent first foray... February 17, 2010
Justin A. Kumfer (Grafton, WI)
This is a nice Fire Emblem game. It integrates the characters we've seen in the Nintendo Wii's Smash Bros. games. It's not as great to get you to truly care about the characters like the Wii Fire Emblem game did but its still a nice game.
Fun but simple February 15, 2010
Andrew Happel
When i purchased this game i expected a high quality TBS and it delivered, the only drawback of this game is in the genre not the making of. TBS is a incomplete form of strategy and therefore once you figure out the rather simple tricks the missions become a breeze, but i would not hold that against the game if this is something you enjoy.
Satisfying RPG February 12, 2010
B. Foster (Toronto, Canada)
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon is an RPG that's long on strategy, short on story. But, for the DS, that may not such a bad thing.
The storyline traces the travails of young Prince Marth, orphaned when his home is invaded by the forces of the titular Shadow Dragon. Marth must rebuild from an almost friendless youth to a young warrior who can liberate not only his own country, but those of his allies as well.
The gameplay will be familiar to those who have played previous FE games; you take turns attacking the enemy, while trying to recruit new members for your ragtag army who have been forced or tricked to fight for the bad guys. Unfortunately, if any of your party members die, they're dead for good - a remarkably realistic concept for an RPG! So, planning your attack, based on your strengths and weaknesses, is essential in getting your party through in one piece.
It sounds simple, but I found it easy to lose oneself in the tactical and logistical planning required. While not full of some of the twists and character interplay of the console games, it's a satisfying brain teaser with just enough personality to keep it from being an entirely intellectual pleasure. Definitely worth a buy if you like strategy games.
Good game! January 26, 2010
Khang Nguyen (St.Louis, MO, USA)
This is a good TBS game. As a fan of Fire Emblem you will love this game. Really good for relaxing!
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