Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light
The official localization for the original Fire Emblem. Includes new features, such as save states, rewinding, and fast-forwarding.
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Intelligent Systems, released 3 December 2020 on Nintendo Switch.
What Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light is
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Intelligent Systems and released in 2020. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Marth is prince of Altea and a direct descendant of Anri, the warrior who slew the shadow dragon Medeus. However, after an attack from the neighboring kingdom of Dolhr, Marth is forced to become an exile in the neighboring nation of Talis. His sister Ellis is taken hostage after his father is killed battling the evil priest Gharnef. With the help of the Altean knight Jagen, the Talisian Princess Caeda, and others, Marth embarks on a quest to find the sacred sword known as Falchion and the Fire Emblem that will allow him to wield it. Only then will he be able to confront Gharnef and the resurrected Medeus, win the kingdom of Altea back, and rescue his sister.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Fire Emblem series
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light is the 54th of 66 entries we hold in the Fire Emblem series. It arrived 10 months after Fire Emblem: Three Houses - Cindered Shadows. The next entry was Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light - 30th Anniversary Edition in 2020. Its critic score of 55 is 25 points below the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.
How it was received
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 9% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 18 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light launched on 3 December 2020, within three weeks of Cyberpunk 2077, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Astro's Playroom. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Cyberpunk 2077, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Astro's Playroom.
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