Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones: Difference between revisions

|title=The Sacred Stones

|caption=American boxart and logo.

|released='''Game Boy Advance'''<br>{{JP}}October 7, 2004<ref name="feworld">http://www.nintendo.co.jp/fe/few_series.html#08</ref><br>{{NA}}May 23, 2005<ref name="nindbrelease">http://www.nindb.net/game/fire-emblem-tss.html</ref><br>{{EU}}November 4, 2005<ref name="nindbrelease" /><br>'''Nintendo 3DS'''<br>{{WW}}December 16, 2011<ref name=''ign''>http://ds.ign.com/articles/121/1214743p1.html</ref><br/>'''Wii U'''<br/>{{JP}}August 6, 2014<br/>{{EU}}January 1, 2015<br>{{NA}}June 18, 2015

|rating={{Rating|ESRB=E|PEGI=7+|OFLC=G8+|CERO=A|USK=0}}

|platforms=[[Game Boy Advance]]<br>[[Nintendo 3DS]] <small>_{(Ambassador Program)}</small><br/>[[Wii U]] <small>([[Virtual Console]])</small>

|successor={{title|Path of Radiance}}

In 2011, ''The Sacred Stones'' was given a free limited reissue to early adopters of the [[Nintendo 3DS]], under the Nintendo 3DS Ambassador Program. As with the other Game Boy Advance titles reissued under the program, Nintendo has stated that there are currently no plans to give them a wider release as a full Virtual Console set of titles. The game was, however, released for the [[Wii U]] Virtual Console, in Japan in 2014, and internationally in 2015.

{{main|:Category:Scripts of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones}}

In the castle of [[Renais]], troops from [[Grado (country)|Grado]] have breached the castle. Fearing the safety of his daughter [[Eirika]], [[Fado|King Fado]] sends his paladin [[Seth]] to take Eirika to safety. On his way out, they are attacked by [[Valter]], a Grado soldier, and several bandits. Soon they meet [[Franz]] and [[Gilliam]] at Mulan, a border town of Renais and Frelia, and rescue Princess [[Tana]] of Frelia. In Frelia they meet [[Hayden|King Hayden]], who sends his vassals Gilliam, [[Vanessa]], and [[Moulder]] to help. Eirika decides to go to Grado and help her brother, despite Hayden's advice to stay safe.

As they travel past the village of [[Ide]], where they meet retired war General [[Garcia (The Sacred Stones)|Garcia]] and his ambitious son [[Ross]], Eirika's bracelet is stolen, and Seth insists that they recover it. She retrieves it from [[Colm]], a snide young thief, with the help of his childhood friend, a tearful archer named [[Neimi]]. Colm had gone to the hideout of the Bandits of [name] to steal from them. With the help of Neimi, Eirika and her companions located the hideout and eliminated the bandits. Meanwhile, Generals [[Duessel]], [[Selena (The Sacred Stones)|Selena]], and [[Glen]] of Grado talk about the strange behavior of [[Vigarde]], the king of Grado. Normally, Grado would never attack Renais, a longtime ally. Vigarde introduces three new generals to help in the conquest of the continent: [[Riev]], [[Caellach]], and [[Valter]].

Ephraim presses on, when a Frelian messenger arrives telling him that Carcino has broken their alliance, but Eirika has gone to help Princes Innes. Meanwhile, Selena finds Duessel and tells him to begin the attack on Ephraim; when he refuses, she turns against him and mobilizes the troops against both him and Ephraim. She tells Cormag that if he is a true soldier of Grado, he will also attack Duessel. However, right after the battle starts, Valter comes to Selena and tells her that the emperor has declared her untrustworthy and she must go back to the capital. She returns to the capital to speak with Vigarde herself.  

* When Ephraim arrives at Jehanna Hall, of course most of the army is with him. After he arrives, Eirika exits the palace with Saleh and Innes.

A turn-based strategy game as with the rest of the series, ''The Sacred Stones'' is built on the same engine as {{FE7}} and {{title|The Binding Blade}}, but features a number of unique features which have only been seen before in {{FE2}} and since in {{FE13}}.

In this game, all units except for the lords have two choices for changing their class. For example, a [[myrmidon]] can change class to either an [[assassin]] or a [[swordmaster]]. In addition to these branched promotions, there are also "[[trainee]]" classes, which start out with low stats and are in a stage even lower than normal units. However, they gain experience quickly and after reaching level ten, they can become normal units at the beginning of the next chapter. For example, Ewan starts out as a [[pupil]], but after reaching level 10 he can become a [[mage]] or a [[shaman]].

Since the Sacred Stones are being destroyed, [[monster]]s have appeared in Magvel. There are many types of monsters, and they usually have inferior stats. All are only enemies. There are promoted forms of other monster classes, although no monster class changes are seen; for example, a [[wight]] is a promoted form of a [[bonewalker]]. Monsters appear in some chapters, rarely alongside human fighters. Some can use regular weapons, but others use special monster weapons. Some of these monster weapons appear as items but seem to be some innate ability of the monster, such as [[Rotten Claw]]. Others are affiliated with dark magic, such as [[Evil Eye]] or [[Stone (tome)|Stone]].

In this game, like in {{FE2}}, the game's world map is manually traversible by the player. Sometimes monsters will appear in certain locations; traveling to these locations will result in a [[skirmish]], a brief battle with monsters. The player can retreat at any time, ending the battle. In addition to skirmishes, the lord can go to armories and shops in towns and buy weapons and supplies. However, [[secret shop]]s and [[arena]]s cannot be accessed from the world map. The next chapter's location is marked by a flag; after the chapter is cleared, another new point appears.

{{main|List of chapters in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones}}

{{main|List of characters in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones}}

==Support Conversations==

{{main|List of supports in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones}}

{{main|Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones pre-release information}}

===Prototype builds===

{{main|Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones prototype}}

A prototype build of the Japanese version of ''The Sacred Stones'' was leaked to the public in 2008 and is available in patch form [[:File:The Sacred Stones prototype 0513 Patch.zip|here]]. The prototype is dated at five months before the Japanese retail release of the game, and compared to the leaked {{FE7}} prototypes, it is vastly incomplete and prototypical. At this stage in development, the game is largely unmodified from ''Fire Emblem'' with most of that game's graphics and music. Only the first eight chapters are even remotely started on, with only the barest infrastructure existing for the rest of the game, and only a handful of characters have portraits, some of which are vastly different from the finished release.

* This game was released in Europe on the same day as {{FE9}} - November 4, 2005.

* The Japanese and US manuals for ''The Sacred Stones'' uses [[Ephraim]] and [[Myrrh]]'s [[Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones prototype|prototype]] portraits in one section.<ref>[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/data/software/manual/man_PBBJ_00.pdf]; see page 49</ref><ref>[http://media.nintendo.com/nintendo/bin/hEdz6QCdBMbBoGW9NNCPXH25oCbd4rt3/mSxVebfnU-p96pOI-Il7-f8tOIkQ4bQD.pdf]; see page 51</ref>

* The example link arena teams in the game's English manual are amusingly named "Noodle" and "The Dude".<ref>[http://media.nintendo.com/nintendo/bin/hEdz6QCdBMbBoGW9NNCPXH25oCbd4rt3/mSxVebfnU-p96pOI-Il7-f8tOIkQ4bQD.pdf]; see page 44</ref>

|jap-name={{hover|ファイアーエムブレム 聖魔の光石|Faiā Emuburemu Seima no Kōseki}}

|jap-mean=Roughly "''Fire Emblem: Light Stones of Saints [and] Demons''". Alternatively "''Fire Emblem: Light Stones of the Holy Demon''", but that seems unlikely, as it would be an oxymoron.

Ba australia fe08.jpg|Australian boxart