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

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How it feels

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

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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.

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