What is the best Fire Emblem game? Check out the JV rankings after the release of Engage

Game News What is the best Fire Emblem game? Check out the JV rankings after the release of Engage

Published on 01/28/2023 at 09:05

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For more than 30 years and its creation in 1990, the Fire Emblem saga continues to delight fans of turn-based tactical role-playing games. We had to wait until 2003 to see it land in Europe with even greater success since it almost never fails to disappoint thanks to the expert work carried out by Intelligent System. Fire Emblem Engage, the last iteration released this year, has it shaken up the hierarchy? Answer with the best games in the series according to JV.

Summary

Fire Emblem Engage, the new kid on the block
Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones, consecration for Europe
Fire Emblem Awakening brings the series out of its demise
Fire Emblem Fates, one of the best 3DS games
Fire Emblem: Three Houses, a more than successful transition to Nintendo Switch
Other Fire Emblem games

Fire Emblem Engage, the new kid on the block

Fire Emblem: Engage was released on January 20 and manages to rise in this ranking of the best Fire Emblem games with a score of 17/20. Despite a scenario more interventionist than its predecessor and a sometimes poor staging, the last title of the saga manages to charm on several aspects. First of all, there is the nostalgic fiber of some players who must vibrate at the sight of the return of former protagonists of the franchise, but it is above all thanks to the system of emblems that Engage draws its quality since it allows you to bring a lot of depth to the fights. Finally, it is also by its technical and graphic quality that it constitutes an excellent Fire Emblem, and an excellent title for the Nintendo Switch.

Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones, consecration for Europe

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones is the second opus to be marketed in Europe and was released in Europe on Game Boy Advance on November 4, 2005. It attracted the spotlight (a bit more than the Gamecube opus which was released on the same day ) by taking up the qualities of its predecessor while adding new content: you can move around a world map and the Tower of Valni and the Ruins of Lagdou are excellent ways to train your characters before a chapter a little Corsica. The story, still as epic as ever, is divided into two branches favoring replayability and Intelligent Systems publishes, in short, another excellent episode since JV gives it a score of 17/20.

Fire Emblem Awakening brings the series out of its demise

After the excellent GBA opuses, the future of Fire Emblem is tarnished. The episodes released on Gamecube and Wii are slightly below expectations and the enthusiasm for the series in Europe is less. Evidenced by the publication, only in japan, from Fire Emblem: Shin Monshō no Nazo – Hikari to Kage no Eiyū. It is then necessary to wait until April 19, 2013 to review the license in Europe with Fire Emblem: Awakening on 3DS: it is a real hit (92/100 on metacritic) for the press and also on JV which notes it 18/20. The fights are still the strong points of the title which puts the support mechanics more than ever before: the units which are placed next to the battlefield benefit from additional statistics and can have a child if their relationship is sufficiently advanced. Enough to play with the descendants of his characters, all with a very successful 3D rendering.

Fire Emblem Fates, one of the best 3DS games

Like Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, Fire Emblem Fates extends the experience of its predecessor, Awakening, with improvements at almost every level. Functionality My Castle allows you to have buildings to have specific advantages in combat while the duo/support system is even more advanced for combat. In addition, Intelligent Systems decides to play it Pokémon by offering two versions of its title with Conquest and Legacy. Playing both titles allows you to have both an in-depth knowledge of the story and different ways of playing since one is deliberately easier than the other. Enough material to consider, according to JV, this Fire Emblem as “one of the best 3DS games, if not the best” with the score of 18/20.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses, a more than successful transition to Nintendo Switch

With the two episodes released on 3DS, the Fire Emblem saga is therefore definitely relaunched but must pass a new test: that of the first episode on Nintendo’s new console, the Nintendo Switch. It is Fire Emblem: Three Houses which carries this weight on its shoulders and like Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken on GBA (first episode published in France), it brilliantly assumes the expectations of amateurs but also neophytes. It differs from its predecessors with three lines of scenarios, each worth forty hours of play. The player embodies a teacher of a class, of which he must manage the schedules and the private lessons. The unit promotion system gives the player unprecedented freedom, while almost all characters benefit from personalized writing. What deserve the score of 18/20, and offer, a posterioria rather different experience from Fire Emblem: Engage but equally excellent on Nintendo Switch.