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22. Fire Emblem (GBA)

For a strategy RPG, strategy isn't as prevalent as one would hope. I think that, along with its too-often-frustrating RNG is why I think I probably stopped playing the games, but some of them were still pretty great.

The excellent strategy game series by Intelligent Systems named Advance Wars use a wide variety of scenario setups, but the my favorites tend to be those that have fixed units that force you to think three moves ahead instead of trying to overpower your opponent. H

ow that ties into Fire Emblem is that Intelligent Systems also made those games, and the series predates Advance Wars. You can see shades of the excellence that was to come to Advance Wars in the fantasy RPG Fire Emblem games. Some, rather most missions, are not quite fixed battles as the opposing side will often gain reinforcements, but the few missions that are true fixed battles are something else and make it worth playing through.

The overall lack of difficulty may have prevented it from reaching the heights that were totally attainable, but the first game to reach the US likely was the best at exemplifying the S in SRPG.
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