#WAR OF BEACH CHARACTERS SERIES#

These units can earn money by visiting villages before bandits destroy them or by selling valuable items. Staff users or weaker combat units require a little more planning. In each chapter, characters can fight in the arena several times, facing progressively stronger foes and earning more money. You will also have to keep your favored units stocked with an ample supply of gold to spend on all the goodies you want to give them.įor many units, acquiring gold is easy. There will be many occasions where you want to move items around, but limited currency ensures that you think carefully about who gets what. From a gameplay perspective, though, these mechanics create the most interesting inventory management system in the series. If you want an expensive item on one of your soldiers, you need to make sure they have enough money to afford it.įrom a verisimilitude standpoint, it is silly that your army is entirely unwilling to cooperate regarding gold and items. Instead, characters have personal supplies of gold that they will not share. This seems simple at first, but there is no shared gold among your army. Instead, if you want to get an item from one party member to another, you must sell the item to the pawnshop, then buy it on the other unit for twice the price. Unlike most Fire Emblem games, you cannot freely swap items between your party members. The first time you enter a shop, you will notice one of the game’s more unique features: money and inventory management. Castles contain all of Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War’s shops, weapon repair smiths, and the arena. Most maps have you capturing multiple castles.Ĭapturing a castle has a few benefits besides allowing you to progress through each chapter. Having previous saves allows you to experiment and make mistakes without having to replay a map that might take over an hour to complete. Saving during chapters is essential, as maps often throw in new objectives or spawn enemies that will catch new players off guard.

While I expected such huge maps to be frustrating in a game with permadeath (I reset when a unit dies), Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War mitigates this by allowing players to save at the beginning of each turn. Each map is easily three times the size of your average Fire Emblem map.Ĭhapters have several objectives, which usually involve seizing a castle. While this may sound short compared to a typical Fire Emblem game’s 25-30 chapters, maps in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War are massive, country-spanning affairs.

In the second half of the game, you play as an almost entirely new cast of characters, the children of your units in the first half (or replacement characters for any parents that die or aren’t paired up).Įach half of the game is six chapters long, for a total of 12 maps.

The first half of Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War is a tale of political intrigue where you have the opportunity to play matchmaker and pair up your units. While many people think of romance and children as Fire Emblem: Awakening’s contribution to the series, it was actually done first in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War.

While Fire Emblem: Gaidentook us away from Archanea, that felt like more of a detour before returning for Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem. The fourth entry in the series, Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, kicks off a new tale in a brand-new world (powered by fan translation).

#WAR OF BEACH CHARACTERS SERIES#

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy Warfeels like the first step toward Fire Emblem becoming the anthology series it is today.

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