Fire Emblem The Heroes We Deserve Portable Hardware Until

A major difference is Echoes doesnt have the monastery, which gets repetitive very quickly.

If you disagree with our personal ranking, our reader poll of the best Fire Emblem games might make for an interesting comparison.

Enjoy.

With so many entries and nary a low point among them, its high time we attempted to wrangle them into a ranked list.

As you can see below, we have done just that and landed upon our personal ranking of the best Fire Emblem games available to humanity.

You see, we havent included Japan-only Fire Emblem games that never officially left their homeland.

That means you wont find the Super Famicom trio Mystery of the Emblem (in its original or New form), nor Genealogy of the Holy War, Thracia 776, The Binding Blade on GBA or the ephemeral BS Fire Emblem for the Satellaview.

Weve got our fingers crossed for rereleasesremakes of those Japan-only treasures, but in the meantime well have to make do with the little lot below.

Fire Emblem Warriors might be Musou in Fire Emblem clothing, but its got plenty of that clothing, no.

If theres one thing thats clear from the selection below, its that the overall quality of this series rivals the Mario and Zelda franchises in terms of consistency.

Fans will get a kick out of it, and the new features introduced make it less of a grind than it might be, but all but the most devoted FE aficionados will find it difficult to enjoy this one after thirty years of iteration and improvement.

The fact that Fire Emblem Heroes costs nothing to try is certainly a positive, although the mobile games trademark timed mechanics and mixture of currencies will no doubt rub series veterans the wrong way.

Zelda fans have Hyrule Warriors and Fire Emblem enthusiasts have their predictably named crossover, too.

Consequently, you get a Fire Emblem-style feeling for the entire battlefield, in addition to the balletic third-person button-play youd expect from a Warriors title.

Throw in luscious visuals, loads of characters and a dusting of mechanics borrowed from Nintendos series and youre left with a compelling hack-and-slash that even Musou sceptics would do well to investigate if theyve got an ounce of Fire Emblem fandom in their veins.

The game was the first in the series to feature fully 3D graphics and as a first attempt it does a good job.

By modern standards its lacking somewhat when it comes to presentation, but as we said at the outset, there really arent any bad Fire Emblem games - just ones lacking refinements andor favourite characters.

It was well worth doing, too, as Radiant Dawn was noted for its high difficulty and any advantage was welcome.

Fire Emblem The Heroes We Deserve Portable Hardware Until

Despite having their fans, the GameCube and Wii entries represented a low point in sales that pushed the developers back towards portable hardware until the series came to Switch 12 years later.

Nintendo has a reputation for top-notch remakes and this is no exception, with a localisation courtesy of 8-4 Ltd.

He lives in Spain (the plain-y bit where the rain mainly falls) and his love for Banjo-Kazooie borders on the unhealthy.

Portable Fire Emblem games are just so smooth and easy to pick up.

Echoes should be much higher, and PoRRD, and Blazing SwordSacred Stones.

They have a lot in common including combat arts, full voice acting, and (at least a few) characters who can class into anything you want.