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Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi (2002)

Intelligent Systems, Nintendo R&D1

Game Boy Advance · Wii U

3.65 from 314 ratings

753 members have it in their collection · 33 playing now · 242 backlogged · 153 wish listed

How long? Main story 26h · with extras 30h · 100% 98h (from 8 logged playthroughs)

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 … Read more
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. Read less
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Details

Developers
Intelligent Systems, Nintendo R&D1
Publishers
Nintendo, iQue
Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Tactical, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Themes
Action, Fantasy, Warfare
Franchises
Fire Emblem
Series
Fire Emblem
Event
Nintendo Space World 2001

Release dates

  • Mar 29, 2002 (Full Release) (Japan) Game Boy Advance
  • Sep 02, 2015 (Full Release) (Japan) Wii U
  • TBD (Cancelled) (China) Game Boy Advance
  • TBD (Cancelled) (North_America) Game Boy Advance
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Every Tactics Game I've played, ranked by shinespark · 57 games · 2
Every RPG I've played, ranked by shinespark · 140 games · 0

Rating distribution

5 stars
56
4 stars
124
3 stars
108
2 stars
21
1 star
5
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Community All Reviews Statuses

sam2

Status sam2 Jun 4, 2022

Initial thoughts:

  • The hit rates in this game are sickeningly low
  • Bosses are unreasonably hard to kill
  • Roy is actually good
  • Nothing about the characters/story/supports/maps is really grabbing my interest, it's a slog so far

Not sure if I'll make it to the end at this rate. Definitely on track to be the worst FE game.

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shinespark

Status shinespark Nov 12, 2021

Vanilla Fire Emblem 6 isn't super great. Most maps are overlong slogs, clumsy character balance limits your teambuilding options, and the story is exceptionally dull.

That said, I've slowly been playing through the "Project Ember" rebalance mod and I can't recommend it highly enough!

It doesn't fix the awful story, but just about everything else has been changed for the …

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Vanilla Fire Emblem 6 isn't super great. Most maps are overlong slogs, clumsy character balance limits your teambuilding options, and the story is exceptionally dull.

That said, I've slowly been playing through the "Project Ember" rebalance mod and I can't recommend it highly enough!

It doesn't fix the awful story, but just about everything else has been changed for the better. Maps have been altered to resolve a few turns faster and have seen most of their bullshit ambushes removed. Roy, armor knights, and all the other useless characters have been made viable and given unique niches, so there are actual decisions to make when it comes to teambuilding. Archers have 3 attack range by default and are great for sniping mages. Just a bunch of smart little changes all around, which take a tepid game and turn it into one of the more enjoyable titles in the series.

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Dallen

Status Dallen Mar 17, 2019

This game is ppaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnffffffffful

enemies popping out of nowhere and moving the same turn behind enemy lines with no warning, bosses on thrones that can only be hit 1/3 times even with overpowered units. Fates was obnoxious because it gave you a million options but made only 1 strategy viable. This is just tedious...

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