Hello everyone, my name is Eri and this is my first game review. Today I am gonna review a classic game. The game is "Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones". Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones is a tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems, and published by Nintendo for Game Boy Advance in 2004 for Japan and 2005 in the West. Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones is the eighth entry in the Fire Emblem series, and the last title developed for the game boy advance after fire emblem and fire emblem the binding blade.
The story itself takes place on the fictional continent of Magvel, which divided into five nations, each built around a magical stone said to be linked to the imprisonment of an ancient demon. When one of the five nations, the Grado Empire, invades its neighbors and begins destroying the stones, protagonists Eirika and Ephraim of the royal family of Renais set out to gather allies and halt Grado's conquest, while also trying to uncover the reasons for the war. In this game the player take the role of royal siblings Eirika and Ephraim during separate campaigns as they fight hostile forces invading their homeland, along with allies acquired on their journey.
Fire Emblem the sacred stones is a turn-based game, where the player will command limited number of unit to complete an objective. The mechanic on this game is unique, first of all if your unit dies on battle it dies permanently and can’t be used on the next chapter. The weapon has level requirement, and can break example the iron sword minimum level is D and can use 46 times, after 46 times the sword will broken.
There is hidden character where you can get if you use certain character to talk to him/her. You can choose to continue the story or you can train your unit first. Many unit can evolve to another class using specific item, fire emblem the sacred stones is the first fire emblem that let you choose which class you want for your unit example knight can evolve into general or great knight.
The last thing is a special conversation where it can change the ending of the character example if Eirika and Seth special conversation is A, they will married in the credit. The conversation is well-written for each character.
Overall, the game has a well-written story. It’s fun game to play, you can try to get all the character, evolve every unit, see all the special conversation, or see all ending. For the gameplay, this game is quite easy to play but if you make mistake you can lose your unit forever so be prepared. It’s highly recommended for people who like fire emblem franchise, turn-based rpg, and strategy games.