As some one whose played the Fire Emblem series. I can say this is my least favorite game for a lot of reasons.
The combat is essentially the same as Path of radiance with a few quirks, namely 3rd tier promotions and an ability to save mid turn aka super robot wars. So you can save scum to victory if you screw up at some point. Your gonna need it the game gets unfairly hard very fast.
The story is a direct sequel to Path of radiance and assumes you've played it. So you might get understandably confused if you have not.
The plot is broken into 4 campaigns you play through: Newcomer Michaia, the new queen Elencia, Main character of the previous game Ike, and the Final story. This is where the game suffers hard. For a game that's known for well written plots, Radiant dawns is all over the place.
Michaia who was hyped up as the main character gets the first 10 chapters and a genuinely interesting plot.
Elencia's story of dealing with civil war in her kingdom was completely pointless as any new character development for the budding queen is quickly tossed out the window so Ike can play spotlight stealing squad to save the day.
Ike gets the longest campaign, making it blatantly obvious who was getting the main meat of the plot.
The last campaign really suffers on a gameplay level making a lot of that one level with re spawning reinforcements and because you had little time in other stories that wasn't Ike's to level other units, It creates a huge gap when the game makes you divy everyone into 3 separate armies making the last few chapters either stupidly easy or stupidly hard.
The last thing is thanks to the decision to make the once interesting support system into something generic. I really don't care about a lot of the new characters the game just ignores golden opportunities to flesh them out. It's a really missed moment.
My final verdict if your into fire emblem or want a good jump in point, skip this one Playing the GCN game is good enough.
Radiant Dawn: Staring at the sun will cause pain.
As some one whose played the Fire Emblem series. I can say this is my least favorite game for a lot of reasons. The combat is essentially the same as Path of radiance with a few quirks, namely 3rd tier promotions and an ability to save mid turn aka super robot wars. So you can save scum to victory if you screw up at some point. Your gonna need it the game gets unfairly hard very fast.
The story is a direct sequel to Path of radiance and assumes you've played it. So you might get understandably confused if you have not. The plot is broken into 4 campaigns you play through: Newcomer Michaia, the new queen Elencia, Main character of the previous game Ike, and the Final story. This is where the game suffers hard. For a game that's known for well written plots, Radiant dawns is all over the place.
Michaia who was hyped up as the main character gets the first 10 chapters and a genuinely interesting plot. Elencia's story of dealing with civil war in her kingdom was completely pointless as any new character development for the budding queen is quickly tossed out the window so Ike can play spotlight stealing squad to save the day. Ike gets the longest campaign, making it blatantly obvious who was getting the main meat of the plot. The last campaign really suffers on a gameplay level making a lot of that one level with re spawning reinforcements and because you had little time in other stories that wasn't Ike's to level other units, It creates a huge gap when the game makes you divy everyone into 3 separate armies making the last few chapters either stupidly easy or stupidly hard.
The last thing is thanks to the decision to make the once interesting support system into something generic. I really don't care about a lot of the new characters the game just ignores golden opportunities to flesh them out. It's a really missed moment.
My final verdict if your into fire emblem or want a good jump in point, skip this one Playing the GCN game is good enough.