{"id":867,"date":"2025-04-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/?p=867"},"modified":"2025-04-22T16:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T16:08:03","slug":"review-fire-emblem-the-sacred-stones-gba-the-series-second-western-release-still-hits-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/review-fire-emblem-the-sacred-stones-gba-the-series-second-western-release-still-hits-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (GBA) &#8211; The Series&#039; Second Western Release Still Hits Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Worth fighting for.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This review was originally published in March 2015. We&#8217;re updating and republishing it to mark the arrival of the game in the<\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/every-nintendo-switch-online-game-boy-advance-gba-game-ranked\">Nintendo Switch Online Game Boy Advance library<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>While Fire Emblem is a franchise with a long history in Japan, its track record in the West is far more condensed; in fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gba\/fire_emblem_the_sacred_stones\">Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones<\/a> on Game Boy Advance was only the second series entry to arrive in North America and Europe. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gba\/fire_emblem\">The first Western arrival<\/a> is also available via Nintendo Switch Online (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gba\/fire_emblem\">previously on the Wii U eShop<\/a> and on 3DS via the Ambassador Program), meaning that there&#8217;s a useful opportunity to become fully acquainted with the early days of the IP&#8217;s presence outside of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/gba\/fire-emblem-the-sacred-stones\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worth fighting for. This review was originally published in March 2015. We&#8217;re updating and republishing it to mark the arrival of the game in the Nintendo Switch Online Game Boy Advance library. While Fire Emblem is a franchise with a long history in Japan, its track record in the West is far more condensed; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}