Collection essentials #607-#608: Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (DS) and Fire Emblem: Fire Emblem: Shin Monshou no Nazo - Hikari to Kage no Eiyuu (DS)

After the success of Fire Emblem on the Game Boy Advance, it was to be expected that we’d get more Fire Emblem on the popular new DS. But instead of sequels, Nintendo and Intelligent Systems decided to go the route of remakes. They started by remaking the very first game in the series, the one that basically introduced the strategy RPG genre as we know it. One motivation for doing so was that the…