Pface says: First console installment of the strategy-RPG series since the SNES days. Previously released on Famicom (Japan-only), Super Famicom (Japan-only), and Game Boy Advance, Fire Emblem leaves the 2D overhead maps of old behind to serve up 3D villages, fields, and caves, and polygonal battle sequences. The continent of Tellius is divided into humans and half-man/half-beast demi-humans. These two races have battled for centuries and only recently established an uneasy peace. Now, a new force threatens to tear apart the seven kingdoms and reignite the flames of war. Joining the Fire Emblem ranks are new units, such as such as the shape-shifting laguz who transform into beasts to attack their foes. Additionally, characters can now learn unique skills as they gain experience, giving players even more ways to customize their strategy.

(, 03:03 AM) DPockets Wrote: also where you using the NTSC version of Radiant Dawn? As I'm currently using the PAL version as i live in the UK No. I use PAL version too.

Sheras rates this game: 5/5 This is one of my all time favorite games. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance is the lone GameCube installment of the Fire Emblem series.

It is a tactical based turn by turn strategy game, much like Advance Wars, Final Fantasy Tactics, or Tactics Ogre. In FE: Path of Radiance, you now have a more 3D view of the battlefield, rather than the traditional 2D top down view that is used in the previous games.

The main character of the game is Ike, a member of the Greil Mercenaries, his father's company. Ike is also featured in the Wii version of Super Smash Brothers, taking the place of Roy from the GameCube version (a Fire Emblem character but not in this game, along with Marth (another Fire Emblem character but not from this game). Several improvements in the general gameplay to the Fire Emblem series were also made in this version.

The first one worthy of note is how you can rank up your characters. Like previous Fire Emblem games, the max level of a character is 20, and then you can use a special item, unique to certain classes to promote the unit to a stronger class, resetting their level to 1, but keeping their stats, allowing them to raise 20 more levels to improve. In Path of Radiance, you are not forced to wait to find those items to promote your units, upon hitting level 20, they can still gain experience, and upon hitting level 21, they will be promoted to the next class, and go back to level 1. The second great improvement is the addition of Bonus XP.