![]() Thracia 776 is far more claustrophobic than the game it’s an interquel to, taking place largely indoors and on small-scale maps, and it’s the most difficult of all Fire Emblem games: not because of some weird quirk that unbalanced things, but by design. It could use some quality of life changes to spruce it up for the present, but now that there are two different Fire Emblem games ( Heroes and Engage) in North America that feature protagonists Sigurd and Seliph in some way, there is little excuse to not just make those changes and give us the real thing. ![]() It’s tremendous, the source of many of the series’ mainstays like support conversations and romance and the weapon triangle, and it’s also laid out in such a way that its large-scale engagements feel the most like actual war and combat of any of the FE titles. Genealogy of the Holy War has been rumored to be the focus of a remake for a couple of years now, as well it should, considering it was the best Fire Emblem game for literal decades, and was also next in line for a remake with the first three already completed for the Nintendo DS and 3DS. Numbers two and four, respectively, on the inarguably correct ranking of the best mainline Fire Emblem games. So, it’s back to official channels for that sort of thing, even if Falcom can’t seem to stop focusing nearly exclusively on Ys and Trails as of late.įire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War and Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 While there was an unofficial translation of the two action RPGs in the works for some time-even going so far as having voice lines recorded for a dub, with mention of such efforts showing up in mainstream gaming blogs-there hasn’t been an update on those projects in years. And there they stayed: even when ported a couple of console generations later, and then later still released on the Wii Virtual Console, all of that action stayed in Japan. While Falcom was traditionally a developer for Japanese PCs that would let publishers like Hudson or Sega license the titles out for their systems, with these two titles, they built them from the ground up for the PC Engine CD. The first is the eighth and final game in the Dragon Slayer franchise, as it was the last one that Yoshio Kiya worked on before leaving the company. The Legend of Xanadu -and The Legend of Xanadu II -were released for the PC Engine CD. If we trust Falcom to pull that kind of trick off again, then we should very much be pulling for the only mainline Ys title to not leave Japan yet to finally do so. The original Ys III was arguably the weakest of the original bunch to appear on 16-bit consoles, and yet, in its remade form, it’s up there with the very best games in the franchise. It’s very much a bridge game for the long-running franchise.Īnd yet! It’s as salvageable in remake form as Ys III: Wanderers from Ys was, when Falcom brought that into the present day in the form of The Oath in Felghana. The combat system was an early bit of Falcom trying to figure out the move from bump combat to pressing buttons for swinging a sword, and it showed-and that’s somehow all significantly better than its half-baked magic system. The soundtrack was good, but fairly muted for the high-powered, guitar-and-synth-driven Ys. ![]() It had a generic Super Famicom look that didn’t scream Ys, from sprite design to the menus. And once again Mother 3 isn’t listed here since Nintendo will ignore it, anyway, but if you must know how I feel about it in significant detail, you can. Two notes: Quintet’s action RPG masterpiece Terranigma would be listed, but it was already included in a different “re-release this!” feature, so no need to double up. Let’s go over a few of them that we wish would get the same kind of treatment Live A Live et al have received of late. Traditional role-playing games, strategy RPGs, action RPGs, whatever: there are loads of high-quality ones that never made it out of Japan, especially when you look back to the ’90s. It’s not being greedy to ask for even more of the wonderful role-playing games Japan has been holding onto for decades to release elsewhere else. And this March, the sequel to Trails from Zero, Trails to Azure, will leave Japan’s shores as well. ![]() In 2022, role-playing classics Live A Live and The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero finally left Japan through worldwide releases.
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