A portable Fire Emblem is long overdue. Originally released on NES and later the SNES, this addictive strategy game series would have been perfect on Game Boy or Game Boy Color, but for whatever reason, it just never happened. While Intelligent Systems' Team Emblem kept on delivering a steady flow of Fire Emblem titles for the Japanese Super Famicom (SNES), the closest thing Game Boy owners got to play was Game Boy Wars, the predecessor to Advance Wars. Well, the wait is over: Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi hit Japan on March 29, and it's already sold more than 140,000 copies in just over a week. In case you're wondering, Maiden of the Dark was just a working title announced at last year's Spaceworld. The game's final name in Japan translates to "The Sword of the Seal" (as in emblem -- not the animal).
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The fourth installment in the popular strategy series, set in the continent of Jugdral, southeast of Akaneia. The game's first fifth chapters follow the Prince of Chalphy, Sigurd -- from there, his son Celis becomes the protagonist. The game uses the same turn-based strategy gameplay as its predecessors, but changes up the promotion system by making it entirely level-based, adds RPG-style status effects, and introduces the concept of the weapons triangle, in that a sword is strong against an axe, spear against the sword, and axe against the spear. Seisen no Keifu also featured much larger maps than previous titles (though a lower number of them -- 12 in all) and a handful of new units, such as the Troubadour, Dragon Master, and Falcon Knight. The game was released late in the Super Famicom's lifecycle in Japan and never published internationally.
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