| Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon | 
| From: Nintendo
Department: Electronics
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,432
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5.4 x 0.6
Multi-Cartridge Multiplayer
Voice Support
MPN: NTR P YFEE
Model: NTR P YFEE
UPC: 045496740054
EAN: 0045496740047
ASIN: B001O1PAMC
Publication Date: February 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Easy-to-follow tutorial chapters | | • | Take the battle online and clash with players around the world | | • | Choose from dozens of characters with unique spells and abilities | | • | "Fire Emblem" returns to its roots with a total overhaul of an NES classic never before released in America | | • | Touch-screen controls and multiple save options |
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Product Description
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon DS
Amazon.com Product Description
Fire Emblem returns to its roots with a total overhaul of an NES™ classic never before released in America. New features include touch-screen controls, multiple save options and easy-to-follow tutorial chapters that shed new light on Marth's story. New players can jump into the action, even if they've never played a Fire Emblem game before.
Take the battle online and clash with players around the world over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. You can also borrow units to use in your army, talk with friends using the built-in Nintendo DS microphone and even buy rare and powerful items from the Online Shop using in-game currency.
You are the general: Shape your army to suit your strategy by selecting from dozens of characters with unique spells and abilities. But guide your army wisely, because if a character falls on the battlefield, he's lost forever.
Game storyline: Medeus, the king of the dragonkin, has been revived and is forming an alliance with a fearsome sorcerer named Gharnef. Together, they threaten to the throw the entire continent of Archanea back to an age of chaos and war. Now, it's up to young Prince Marth and his small band of loyal followers to rise up and rally all those left in the land to make one last desperate push to free Archanea from the tyranny of the Shadow Dragon.
How to progress through the game: Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy setting. Players alternate turns with opponents, moving their pieces (units) and attacking enemy units on the battlefield. There are dozens of units and different weapons and magic spells, each with its own strategic benefits-high-flying Pegasus knights move effortlessly over varied terrain, fast-moving mounted cavaliers can use swords and lances, unarmed curates use healing staves to mend the wounds of other units and so on.
Characters: Many groups play a part in a story but undoubtedly the story's protagonist, Prince Marth, will be the focus for most. Marth has been featured in the Super Smash Bros. series and has been extremely popular within those games, but this is his first time starring in a Fire Emblem game in the United States. At Marth's side is a support of fearless fighters, including the brave Caeda, a princess of the Talys kingdom. Other major characters include the evil sorcerer Gharnef and the sole surviving descendant of the royal House Archanea, Princess Nyna.
Special Features:
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon is the first to offer players a chance to test their skills against other players in combat. Using your broadband connection, Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and wireless play modes, players are able to send units they've trained into battle against those of another player. Collect optional cards to give your team a unique tactical bonus that can help you clench victory. During Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection matches, friends can talk to each other using the built-in Nintendo DS microphone.
Touch-screen controls, multiple save options and an easy-to-follow tutorial allow novice players to jump into the action, even if they've never played a Fire Emblem game before.
Borrow units wirelessly or through Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and use them in your own battles with the Loan Unit feature.
Six levels of difficulty ensure that even seasoned players can find a challenge in this new entry into the Fire Emblem series.
Purchase rare and powerful items using the gold you've acquired during your single-player campaign with the Online Shop feature. You never know what items you might come across, because new items rotate in and out of the armory on a daily basis.
Play through the events that brought Marth to the beginning of his quest through a new set of prologue chapters that were specially added to the game for its Nintendo DS release.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 38
 if you like the previous version u will love this one July 4, 2010
Kesly Jean (miami, fl)
great game but very tactical. this is the most tactical game I've ever played and am still playing because of the difficulty that varies for stage to stage. just enjoy the game and ps you will have to let the weaker players dies to succeed in this game
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, Nintendo DSi May 17, 2010
The DSi Critic (Sacramento, California)
Did NES games ever have this much text? Sable and Nathan could never recall enduring dialogues of this fortitude from old 80's cartridges. Whatever, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon is an excellent RPG that deserves mention. Its gameplay involves a chess-stylized world where a long attention span is required, and patience comes with plenty of rewards. Control the blue ant army of Marth, the prince of Altea, and protect your people from harm. Enemy after enemy will keep watch, and do not swear that they will duck beneath the shadows in fear. These swordsmen are ruthless, and once a soldier of your army has been killed, it is a permanent change of pace. Strategy is the key here, as it is that motif that make the strong live long enough to witness the weak suffer. Beg many a pardon if this sounds intimidating, but back in this Medieval period of time, life must have been hard for these kingdom dwellers! The lesson here is simple: try your best, no matter what. Build your own army inventory from the aquirement of weaponry, magic, and rations; and do please, use as many checkpoints as you can. As far as the visuals go, objects are presented in multiple forms, with each map representing a sweet simplicity of the Medieval world. The weapons tend to be difficult to make out however, and the fortress spaces look identical to those of the armory spaces. Confusing at the first dozen glances, but your learning curve will prevail. Control with the Digital Stylus is dead on; slashing away at the screen with precision is joyful. Honestly though, utilizing more buttons would have been a good idea. Reading menu after menu can be intimidating, and purchasing lethal inventory from the armory gets tricky since you cannot view your inventory while shopping. Despite these minimal gripes, I like the idea of slaying knights and seizing armies through the method of puzzle-solving. Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon may be traditional, but that is something to be appreciated.
go Marth March 3, 2010
Jared Myers
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i love it so much. wish i could play the origanal but this will have to do, the game is alot harder then i thought it would have been but thats what makes fire emblem games so fub. they make you think
Decent first foray... February 17, 2010
Justin A. Kumfer (Grafton, WI)
This is a nice Fire Emblem game. It integrates the characters we've seen in the Nintendo Wii's Smash Bros. games. It's not as great to get you to truly care about the characters like the Wii Fire Emblem game did but its still a nice game.
Fun but simple February 15, 2010
Andrew Happel
When i purchased this game i expected a high quality TBS and it delivered, the only drawback of this game is in the genre not the making of. TBS is a incomplete form of strategy and therefore once you figure out the rather simple tricks the missions become a breeze, but i would not hold that against the game if this is something you enjoy.
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