Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem (or FE3) was a natural evolution of the first two games. Gameplay was a lot more polished in terms of stats, item management, and the flow of battle. Battle animations are a lot more lively as they look like paintings in action. Music (in terms of Book 2) is great all around and the core experience was still fun to experience. Despite those important evolutions, FE3 still felt slow to play in some aspects. The enemy turns took long and some animation of specific units does drag on. Another problem I had was the difference of polish between Books I and II. While Book I is a straight up remake of FE1, Book II is the actual FE3 experience. Due to it being FE1, Book I felt sluggish to play despite the upgraded hardware. It doesn't help that it only had one map theme for most of the scenario and it got really repetitive overtime. Book II on the other hand felt a lot more quicker and fun, though the sluggishness still occurred on some specific maps. It also doesn't help that Book II had a lot more map themes and thus the usual slow gameplay is elevated by a really great OST. If FE3 was just only Book II with a bit more polish, then I'll give it a higher rating. However, because development had to focus on remaking FE1, Book II doesn't reaches its full evolution of the gameplay until the next game succeeds that aspect. For that, the game is just average as Book I simply drags down Book II and thus the experience of the whole game. Despite my gripes, it still is an important game in the series due to its quality of life features and I'll still recommended to any Fire Emblem fan who is trying out the Famicom games (though just play Book II).