Fire Emblem Echoes is a sparkling remake without much variety or strategy to scratch beneath the surface. Try it.
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia2017
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
2017 Nintendo82Great
Playtime
LongIt typically takes about 50 hours to finish the game.
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Details
- Launch
- April 20, 2017
- Developer
- Intelligent Systems
- Publisher
- Nintendo
Overview
In 1992, the second game in the Fire Emblem series, Fire Emblem Gaiden, launched exclusively in Japan. Now, for the first time, fans outside of Japan will get a taste of this classic game on the Nintendo 3DS family of systems. Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia is inspired by the 1992 original, reimagined on a grander scale. Every aspect of the Fire Emblem Gaiden game's presentation has been updated, along with the game being fully voiced. Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia recreates classic Fire Emblem gameplay with a modern twist, mixing in exploration of dungeons crawling with enemies."
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Reception
Press82
Great- Metacritic81from 79 reviews
- OpenCritic84from 73 reviews
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, by no means a flawless entry in the nearly three decade-old franchise, may well be the closest the series has gotten to somehow finding a happy medium between past legacy and contemporary appeal.
But how should you take all of this? If you are a regular Fire Emblem fan and have previously experienced the other Nitnendo 3DS adventures, you are going to have an absolute blast with Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. However, without the high bar of quality we've seen in the previous two games, Echoes may not hook newcomers the same way.
More Fire Emblem you say? I won't argue.
Shadows of Valentia commits to its dated systems, for better and worse
