Underplayed Gems

Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi (2002)

Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi cover
Developer
Nintendo R&D1, Intelligent Systems
Publisher
Nintendo, iQue
Platforms
Wii U, Game Boy Advance
Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical
Rating
3.7 of 5, 53 player ratings
Main story
about 30 hours
Completionist
about 46 hours
Where to get it
Nintendo eShop

How it feels

A careful, turn-based fantasy war game demanding deliberate tactical thinking.

tacticalmethodicalstrategicfantasytense

About

Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade is a Japanese tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. The game was released on March 29, 2002 in Japan, is the sixth game in the Fire Emblem series, and the first of three games in the series that have appeared on Nintendo's Game Boy Advance handheld. It was the last Fire Emblem game to be released exclusively in Japan until the release of Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem. The Binding Blade was followed by a prequel, Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, set twenty years earlier.

Trailer

Screenshots

Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi screenshot 1Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi screenshot 2Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi screenshot 3Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi screenshot 4Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi screenshot 5Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi screenshot 6

More games like this

More by Nintendo

This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like playing and it picks from the whole catalog, or browse by platform and genre.