The original Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light eventually received a proper English localization, and it was released in December 2020 for the Nintendo Switch, as part of Fire Emblem's 30th anniversary. While the game initially remained untranslated, and never released via Virtual Console service for Wii, Wii U or Nintendo 3DS in most regions worldwide, its 2008 remake Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon did receive an international release, consequently bringing the story of Marth to the rest of the world.
Their appearance ultimately resulted in the international release of Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade and all subsequent games with the exception of New Mystery of the Emblem. Along with Mystery of the Emblem and The Binding Blade, it was in a way responsible for sparking international interest in the series, when Marth appeared with Roy in Super Smash Bros.
Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light was, like the following five games, never released outside of Japan in its original run. In a loose sense it also has prequels, in the form of Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776, set on another land in the same world, but thousands of years in the past and referencing some of the events which were happening and characters which existed on Archanea itself at the time. Unlike later Fire Emblem games, it has multiple sequels set in the same world, including Fire Emblem Gaiden, Mystery of the Emblem Book 2 (and by extension New Mystery of the Emblem, its remake), and Fire Emblem Awakening. It has been remade twice, first as the first half of Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem in 1993, then again as Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon in 2008, and the events of the game were adapted into a short-lived anime adaptation. Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light has spawned a large number of sequels and other related works, with its story canon comprised of nine of the sixteen mainline Fire Emblem games. It depicts his quest across Archanea to raise a resistance army to combat the Dolhr Empire, which dominated much of the land, and to find the lost sacred sword Falchion to allow him to follow in the footsteps of his ancestor Anri and slay Medeus, the tyrannical Shadow Dragon.
The game is set on the continent Archanea and follows the story of Marth, the exiled prince of the fallen kingdom of Altea. It is generally accepted to be something of an archetype and progenitor for the strategy role-playing game genre as it exists in Japan, with many other Japanese games of the genre following in its stead. Nintendo Switch (Family Computer - Nintendo Switch Online, standalone)įire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Lightįire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light (Japanese: ファイアーエムブレム 暗黒竜と光の剣 Fire Emblem: Dark Dragon and the Sword of Light) is a turn-based strategy role-playing game originally released only in Japan for Nintendo's Family Computer console in 1990, and is the first game in the Fire Emblem video game series.Wii U ( Virtual Console, Super Smash Bros.
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