I love Fire Emblem, Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones, and FE Path of Radiance...but this is just way too disappointing.

User Rating: 7 | Fire Emblem: Shin Ankoku Ryuu to Hikari no Ken DS
Ever since my brother got my Fire Emblem for my birthday, I've loved the heck out of the Fire Emblem games. They're strategic, challenging and have great stories. I'm going to be completely honest here, I never finished the game. But I should have enough to write a review.

In Shadow Dragon, the main character is Marth, which I always wanted to see him in Fire Emblem games, but he was only in the Japanese Fire Emblems. In other words, I was pretty excited. The graphics looked better, the gameplay, pretty much everything.

The game isn't necessarily bad...it's just not exactly the best Fire Emblem...
The graphics to me just weren't very good when I played it, just a regular 2D would have been better in my opinion. The gameplay was fun, but it wasn't as satisfying due to the animations were pretty bland. It pretty much went like this, run and slash, jump and slash, walk slowly and stab with a spear...and so on.
Some of the animations were cool though.

In the previous Fire Emblem games, it's been pretty text heavy, mostly from the story, but also from talking to your very cool characters. In Shadow Dragon, it's almost just as if your comrades are just...there. You don't ever talk to them except when you recruit them. If they die, they just die, No pity, no emotion, no nothing. I was severely disappointed since I couldn't get close to them.

At least it wasn't as text heavy.
I don't really hate the game, but I'm just disappointed with how it turned out. It doesn't seem as challenging, and none of the characters really seem strong in combat or interesting in conversations.

If your a fan of the other Fire Emblems, then you can certainly check it out, if your not, then check it out if your interested in it.
I think you'll find that it really isn't anything compared to the other Fire Emblems, at least in my opinion.

Hope this review helped you....I love you.