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Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem(JP) is a game for the Super Famicom and both a sequel to and a remake of Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light. The game is comprised of two books, the first one being a slightly stripped-down remake of the original game and the second one being more or less a direct sequel to it.

Gameplay[]

Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem is a tactical role-playing video game where players take control of Marth's army and Marth himself, the main protagonist of Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, across story-driven missions on the continent of Archanea. In between battles, characters engage in conversations with each other in cutscenes, which advances the story.

Battles are turn-based and take place on grid-based maps. Victory is achieved when an enemy base is captured (“Defeat the Boss”, “Seize the Castle/Throne”) or all enemies are defeated (“Rout the Enemy”). Each character holds four weapons and four items, and each has an assigned character class, which affects their movement range, damage and what weapons can be used. Mounted units also have the option to dismount, which changes their abilities and stats while reducing movement range.

When combat is initiated, a separate screen shows the battle play out: attack power is based on the strength of weapons and their units, while damage is calculated based on both the type of attack used and the opposing unit's physical and magical defense. Critical hits triple the damage of normal attacks. Each battle awards experience points, which raise a unit's experience level: their level and statistics cap at 20. When a character changes class, their experience level returns to 1 while their stats increase slightly. Unit abilities can be influenced through a Support system: when two characters have a story-based relationship such as being lovers or friends, they boost stats such as attack power or dodging ability.

Anime[]

Main article: Fire Emblem (anime)

Mystery of the Emblem was adapted into an original video animation (OVA): two episodes were released in 1996, but no further episodes have been produced following poor sales, leaving the OVA series unfinished. Marth's Japanese voice actor, Hikaru Midorikawa, would go on to voice the character in later games. These episodes were dubbed into English and released in North America in 1997, six years before The Blazing Blade was localized. The localization was supervised by A.D. Vision.

Remake[]

Mystery of the Emblem was remade and released in 2010 for the Nintendo DS titled Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem, it was built upon the gameplay systems of the first game's DS remake Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, and incorporated a customizable avatar as the main character alongside Marth. The story content of BS Fire Emblem was eventually re-released as additional content for New Mystery of the Emblem, dubbed "New Archanea Chronicles". This is the first time a Satellaview title has been re-released in any form by Nintendo. Unlike Shadow Dragon, New Mystery of the Emblem was unreleased outside Japan, and was not rereleased on Wii U Virtual Console, even in Japan.

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