The best Fire Emblem game launched 30 years ago, saving the series

If you’ve kept up with Fire Emblem over the past decade, you’re probably familiar with the tale of its downfall and rebirth, or at least one version of it. Intelligent Systems and Nintendo decided North American consumers were finally capable of purchasing strategy games and published the seventh Fire Emblem game, The Blazing Blade, called simply Fire Emblem for international audiences in 2003. Thus began a roller coaster of successes and failures.