However, like a mounting number of RPG fans these days, we've recently found ourselves increasingly jaded about the underlying mechanics of such things. And of course the snapshot-of-a-tale above is not all that dissimilar from the meandering yarns of a hundred other RPGs old and new, and we dare say the manner of that sort of Japanese fantasy storytelling won't grow to become obsolete any time soon either. We've long harboured a fondness for Japanese RPG stories around here. With their help, the battle is won, and 'Lyn's Legion' grows to benefit from the duo's magical prowess and the amusing juxtaposition of mild-mannered fire-wielder and tempestuous healer returns to tickle us from time to time in manga-style static image cut sequences from thenceforth. All of a sudden, the group is thrust into a battle on the edge of a forest, at which point a pair of young sorcerers appear - the quiet, dedicated Erk and his rather dotty charge, Serra - and offer their services. A few hours in to Fire Emblem, apprentice tactician SirMugs (that's your humble reviewer right there) and his saviour Lyn, an orphaned warrior-in-the-making from the Sacae Plains, have joined forces with a pair of knights, the chivalrous Kent and his headstrong brother in arms Sain, and they're all on their way to Caelin - one of the several kingdoms of Lycia.
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