Today: Fire Emblem Gaiden, Ch. 1: Zofia Castle.
It’s been too long since I fiddled around with colors on a map. Let me fix that as we wrap the first act of Gaiden. The concomitant thematic discussion is incoming, as is at least some mention of the musical score.
Today: Fire Emblem Gaiden, Ch. 1: Southern Zofia to the Deliverance Hideout.
My attempt to stretch the tiniest section of Gaiden over as many blog entries as possible continues. There are just so many design choices to nail down at the beginning of this one! Up for discussion this time are world maps and spooky, scary monsters.
Today: Fire Emblem Gaiden, Ch. 1: Thieves’ Shrine to the Southern Outpost.
This one’s about Gaiden downsizing, villager upsizing, and recruitment more-or-less-lateral-sizing. Gaiden, it seems, is a game of sizing.
Today: Fire Emblem Gaiden, Ch. 1: Ram Village to Ram Woods.
Gaiden is a Fire Emblem that needs a little bit of context in a different storytelling background, because its use of that background is a bit unusual among games in the series. Here’s that context. I hope you like comparative mythology.
Today: We begin Fire Emblem Gaiden.
First off, we’re taking a brief pit stop to put the game in the context of its publication, or at least what little we know of it. And then I bet you’re just dying to know what a gaiden is, too.
The View from Airsrock 