I dunno, it still looks pretty bad.

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Considering the intensive amount of time one has to spend playing Fire Emblem, I'd rather have it on the handheld. I remember taking the GBA Fire Emblems to the park and playing there..no better way to waste a summer day.

The Gamecube version was pretty good, but I think having it on a console caused me to become a pasty-faced otaku...where as before I was just an otaku who got a lot more sun.

Anyway, these new scans do look a lot better. Better the real test will be seeing some video. I'm thinking that the animation must be pretty smooth, being on the DS now. The GBA animations were pretty good, so it can only get better.

I wonder why they decided they do away with facial features on the sprites? This makes them seem somewhat anonymous. Although, I'm sure it'll be just as painful when a character dies...

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I don't mind the redesigned portraits so much, but, even with this small set of new images, the sprites are still ugly. They all kind of look like they're made out of Play-Doh.

I'm biased in favor of handheld FEs only because I had zero knowledge of the franchise before Melee, so the original Fire Emblem (aka FE7: Rekka no Ken) for the GBA was my first, and my favorite in the series. I've actually beaten it more times than I have any other game. The Gamecube version was acceptable, but it had stiff character animations, useless new gameplay elements like weapon forging and biorhythm, potential game-breakers like the BEXP exploit, and an all-around weak story (I just couldn't bring myself to like the Laguz element.) Path of Radiance for the Wii was a little better, but the segmentation of the story was disruptive and the intense difficulty likely scared away potential new fans. Graphical quirks aside, Shin Ankoku Ryu to Hikari no Tsurugi looks like it's going to be largely a return to form, for which I'm glad.

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I read the title, all I have to say is a comment about captain obvious.

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I loved the handheld versions. The Gamecube version just didn't fit, when I look at a TV, I expect action and something well paced. I'm not saying that FE games are not like that, they are very well paced (still hoping for no time limits). After the Gamecube being somewhat of a dud, I never even game the Wii version any thought.

It started as a GBA RPG (in America) so that's what I got into, the console version does not feel right.

In my opinion, the graphics look more appealing to me in this style. Fire Emblem seemed like the kind of game that still wanted to be a game, as much of a game without flat-out breaking the fourth wall. If they make a step up graphically (looking nicer), it seems like cutting some area of graphics down would keep it feeling like a game and less of a war simulation.

I don't know if that came out right.

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I'll say what I said before: As long as the gameplay's as goos as it's been before, I don't especially care about the graphics.

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I don't care on what platform a Fire Emblem game is on. None of them feel right or wrong. It's not like Zelda where the platform dictates the game mechanics. All of the Fire Emblem games feel distinctly Fire Emblem, and I enjoy playing them.

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New Dark Dragon? Sword of Light?

Man, I'm really aching for a new Shining Force...

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Oh yeah, Fire Emblem on DS just makes too much sense. I mean, I haven't even finished Radiant Dawn yet, because it requires me to stay glued to the TV for at least an hour at a time, and I'm just not disciplined enough to do that (anymore). By contrast, I've completely played through The Sacred Stones two times at 60 hours apiece, because I can play anywhere around (or out of) the house, including in bed!

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Being a long time fan, I'm used to seeing it on consoles (back with FE4). Though I'd have to say, playing it on a console, you tend to play less at a time (or at least for me). On a handheld, I'll play through many resets (I'm a slight perfectionist, I can't stand losing ANYBODY) whereas, using FE9, for an example, I'm less likely to retry a battle in a sitting.

In the end, it's still Fire Emblem, and it's still awesome.

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I think that the graphics look fine. I mean, it flows nicely. I read something at serenesforest.net and it said that somebody has to die in the prologue disguising as marth to lure away enemies. Does anybody know if this is true?

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