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Fire Emblem: Archanea Saga (partially lost original Satellaview version of Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem bonus content; 1997)

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Title Screen

Status: Partially Lost

Fire Emblem: Archanea Saga (Japanese: BS ファイアーエムブレム アカネイア戦記編 BS Faiā Emuburemu Akaneia Senkihen), also referred as BS Fire Emblem by fans, is a four-episode BS-X game consisting of original maps that serve as a prequel to Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light. It originally aired from September 28th, 1997 to October 25th, 1997[1], and saw two reruns; the first one occurred one month after its initial airing, and another in 1999. It is notable for being the earliest game in the franchise to utilize voice acting, predating Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance by 8 years.

Episodes

Title First Broadcast Summary Status
Episode 1: The Capital Falls (Japanese: 第1話・パレス陥落 Daiichiwa・ Paresu Kanraku) September 28, 1997 Focuses on Nyna. The Dolhr army, lead by the recently-awakened Medeus, has invaded the palace of Archanea. As the soldiers surrounded the palace, the king has no choice, but to request an order to Boah. When Nyna and her fellow knights try to escape, they were surrounded by Dolhr Soldiers... Found (Game ROM only) / Lost (ROM with livestream audio/cutscenes/music)
Episode 2: Red Dragoon (Japanese: 第2話・赤い竜騎士 Dainiwa: Akai Ryū Kishi) October 5, 1997 Focuses on Minerva Found (Game ROM only) / Lost (ROM with livestream audio/cutscenes/music)
Episode 3: Righteous Thieves (Japanese: 第3話・正義の盗賊団 Daisanwa: seigi no tōzoku-dan) October 12, 1997 Focuses on Rickard Found (Game ROM only) / Lost (ROM with livestream audio/cutscenes/music)
Episode 4: The Beginning (Japanese: 第4話・始まりのとき Daishiwa: Hajimari no toki) October 19, 1997 Focuses on Nyna and Camus. Found (Game ROM only) / Lost (ROM with livestream audio/cutscenes/music)

Gameplay

The game uses the same engine that Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem used, but each episode focuses on characters other than Marth himself, with at least one of them serving as the "lord" of the episode they appear in. The "lord" of every episode has their own item storage, and as per usual with the mainline games, the "lord's" death is an automatic game over, and the map starts over from the beginning. Battle animations are permanently turned off, and most of the dialogue is only spoken through voice-acting. Each episode also has a different set of playable characters, with Nyna being playable twice.

Unlike other Fire Emblem games, whose chapters must be completed through various means like seizing a throne/castle or routing the enemy, the only way to clear an episode is to survive the entire broadcast, as well as collecting points. Defeating the boss of each chapter does not end the broadcast, but the chapter can still spawn more enemies for the rest of it. The player obtains points through fighting enemies, opening chests, and visiting villages. Units in this game are recruited differently; depending on how much time passed throughout the broadcast; at least one or two characters automatically join the player's army[2].

After a broadcast has ended, the player is given a password based on their score that they must send to St. GiGA through a postcard before a set due date[3]. It is unknown as what purpose these passwords have, or if they have any use at all.

Oddly, the Event Plaza icon for the game uses the castle sprite from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, despite taking place in Archanea not Jugdral.

Availability

Since the discontinuation of the Satellaview at the turn of the millennium, as with all other BS-X games, the game fell into obscurity. However, in 2010, it was remade as bonus content included with Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem under the title New Archanea Saga (Japanese: 新・アカネイア戦記 Shin akaneia senki), albeit without the voice acting, making this the only time a BS-X game was rereleased in any form other than the Super Famicom.

It was never released outside Japan, though the character Malice, who first debuted in the original version, still managed to show up in Fire Emblem Awakening as a Spotpass unit.

The original BS-X version can still be played albeit through a complicated setup, but because the game was recorded live, the ROMs for all the episodes that included the voice-acting, music, and cutscenes remained completely lost, though all of these managed to survive through video footage (And, in the case of the cutscenes, standalone images) that were originally uploaded to Nico Nico Douga, and later uploaded by kiddocabbusses on YouTube in 2013.

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