Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance is a tactical role-playing video game developed by Intelligent Systems and Nintendo SPD, and published by Nintendo for the GameCube home console in 2005. It is the ninth main…
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Intelligent Systems, released 20 April 2005 on Nintendo GameCube. The main story takes about 39.5 hrs to finish.
What Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance is
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Intelligent Systems and released in 2005. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
War has engulfed the land of Tellius, where human beorc and half-human laguz view each other with mistrust. When a surprise invasion triggers a worldwide conflict, a sinister force emerges from the shadows and pits the two against one another. Only a young mercenary named Ike and his small band of soldiers-for-hire stand between Tellius and madness.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Fire Emblem series
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance is the 11th of 66 entries we hold in the Fire Emblem series. It arrived 6 months after Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. The next entry was Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn in 2007. Its critic score of 80 is almost exactly the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.
How it was received
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 125 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 39.5 hrs.
What it launched against
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance launched on 20 April 2005, within three weeks of Psychonauts, SWAT 4, Guild Wars and LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Psychonauts, SWAT 4, Guild Wars, LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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