There is just something about Fire Emblem that keeps me coming back, even when the stages seem absurdly difficult.
It's the bit of crack that Intelligent Systems sprinkles on every Fire Emblem cartridge and disc they create.
Perhaps someday they'll make an online Fire Emblem, with character creation options. That would be delicious.
Ever since the first FE they released for the GBA, I've always hoped they would include a multiplayer mode with a create a character option. Something along the lines of Baseball Simulator (SNES) team creation mode with a point system. It would go something like this:
-Create a team of 10 characters.
-Assign a class to each character (mage, fighter, swordsman, knight, ect.) *Each team can only have a total of 2 horseback units (flying or ground)*
-Promote one character to the leader of the group. The Leader would be promoted and get stat bonuses and could choose a special ability from a list.
-Everyone has a base set of stats that you can add points to from a large pool that the entire team shares. Certain classes have caps on stats just like in the game. The stats would include HP, all attributes, and Weapon Mastery.
-To make your team unique, players get to add 2 bonuses to the team like "Super Strength", "Health Nuts" or "Filthy Rich" which would increase the amount of points you start with in those categories.
-Next would be purchasing weapons and items.
-Finally, name all of your characters and give them a team name with a symbol/logo.
The game would be playable online and teams would earn experience for victories and losses. After so much experience is gathered, the team would go up in rank. Teams would start at "E" rank and can promote up to "S" rank. Each new rank would add a small amount of points to distribute to the entire team again.
Once your team reaches "C" rank, you could promote a different team member to his/her next class. You could promote another member at "A" rank and your original hero promotes to his/her final class when your team reaches "S" rank. The rank system would only allow ranks to compete against one rank higher or lower than the team rank. "C" ranked teams could challenge "D", "C", or "B" ranked teams only. "S" ranks could only fight other "S" ranked teams. Players should be allowed to save up to 5-6 different teams.
Maps can be fought on randomly chosen balanced maps or user created maps. The game should allow for players to trade maps with friend codes or download them from a hub site.
If done right, the game would have almost unlimited replay value and create a competitive online scene. By making players spend points from a pool, they can create a variety of different teams to suit their own personal tastes. Even if you create a mage heavy team the way you distribute your points could be completely different from the way I did.
It will so never happen, but a man can dream can't he?
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