by David Rasmussen

Created on: April 21, 2009

Is it me or is the Wii taking a really long time to get up to speed on cranking out RPGs.

Right now I can only think of a slim handful of titles I'd want to play right now on the Wii that is an RPG (Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles is one, the other being Rune Factory's first foray onto the Wii after it's successful run on the DS). That and one more game comes to mind right now that I did play on the Wii, which I hope you pick up as well (Fire Emblem : Radiant Dawn).

Yes, Fire Emblem, one of the franchises that makes owning a GBA, a Nintendo DS (what with the new Fire Emblem game out on it now which I so must review), and a Nintendo GameCube worth it as all these systems have had the pleasure of hosting the franchise from it's humble GBA beginnings to now. Briefly though about this release... now is it me or whenever I see a Wii game with the ability to use either the "retro" Wii controller or the GameCube controller (mostly the GameCube controller is a good indication of the game's possible origins) then I automatically think the game once was slated for the GameCube? Seems to me since this game falls into that category (compatibility with the GameCube controller) then it must have started it's life in Japan as a GameCube game unless it was formerly meant for another system... anyway that's moot now since Nintendo is digging back into it's GameCube titles and revitalizing them as Wii titles with new game control mechanics (the recently re-released Pikman and Mario Tennis being two examples of this). Anyway to make a long story short (too late) this game has ZERO Wiimote function. Throughout the game (even if you don't use the classic Wii controller or GameCube controller) you'll be flipping the Wiimote on it's side and using it like an old NES controller so, really, you might as well use the classic controller for this game since there's more to grip onto (and no need for the strap since I don't think you'll go wild playing this game).

OK. Here's the setup for this outing of Fire Emblem. A couple of years ago (and no doubt a GameCube game ago) the country you are now in once was the bad guys. The country they oppressed fought back and soon the evil was vanquished. Usually that is the end of the game and you never ever think of the country you just ransacked in the name of good until now. Now, suddenly, you are controlling the heroes/heroines of the country you once fought, and find that (in the aftermath of the battle against evil) the country is now itself oppressed

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