Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

In Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, you must help protect the nation of Renais from the invading Grado Empire. Plan your strategy, choose your units, and then lead your soldiers in to battle. The more…

76 7 October 2004

Role-playing (RPG) Strategy Tactical Turn-based strategy (TBS) Fantasy

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Intelligent Systems, released 7 October 2004 on Nintendo 3DS, Wii U and Game Boy Advance. The main story takes about 15 hrs to finish.

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What Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones is

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Intelligent Systems and released in 2004. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Wii U and Game Boy Advance.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones is a tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems, and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance handheld video game console in 2004 for Japan and 2005 in the West. It is the eighth entry in the Fire Emblem series, the second to be released outside Japan, and the third and final title to be developed for the Game Boy Advance after The Binding Blade and its prequel The Blazing Blade.

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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. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Fire Emblem series

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones is the tenth of 66 entries we hold in the Fire Emblem series. It arrived a year after Fire Emblem. The next entry was Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance in 2005. Its critic score of 76 is 4 points below the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.

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How it was received

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 51% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Players rate it 83, 7 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 15 hrs.

What it launched against

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones launched on 7 October 2004, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War and Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald.

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