Not a whole lot to say but will at least go into the basics.
FE: Shadow Dragon is a very clear first step into the Fire Emblem franchise. The gameplay is simple but tight, and there is little-to-no fat involved with it. You will get short, to-the-point cutscenes at the start of each map, and occasionally some in between while Marth and his crew lay waste to anyone that thinks to challenge them.
Marth is unfortunately fairly middling compared to some of the other characters, mostly because he doesn't get the option to class change, as nearly all the rest of them do. He's quite strong early on but against the final boss, I actually ended up killing it with another unit, which given that the special weapon does double damage against the boss, is pretty telling.
Keeping everyone alive all the way through requires some careful planning, but only a few resets were needed. I enjoyed the fact that it didn't waste my time with pointless extraneous systems (Looking at you 3H) and if the story had been tighter and the gameplay a bit more diverse would've edged out another half-star, but it's still a great remake with much-needed QoL for the first game in the series.
FE: Shadow Dragon is a very clear first step into the Fire Emblem franchise. The gameplay is simple but tight, and there is little-to-no fat involved with it. You will get short, to-the-point cutscenes at the start of each map, and occasionally some in between while Marth and his crew lay waste to anyone that thinks to challenge them.
Marth is unfortunately fairly middling compared to some of the other characters, mostly because he doesn't get the option to class change, as nearly all the rest of them do. He's quite strong early on but against the final boss, I actually ended up killing it with another unit, which given that the special weapon does double damage against the boss, is pretty telling.
Keeping everyone alive all the way through requires some careful planning, but only a few resets were needed. I enjoyed the fact that it didn't waste my time with pointless extraneous systems (Looking at you 3H) and if the story had been tighter and the gameplay a bit more diverse would've edged out another half-star, but it's still a great remake with much-needed QoL for the first game in the series.