Development
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon is a remake of the Famicom (known in the Western world as the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES for short) video game Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Tsurugi, the original game in the Fire Emblem series. It is the first Nintendo DS video game in the series, three years after the debut of the DS. Producer Toru Narihiro attributes this to the team being preoccupied by the Nintendo GameCube and Wii titles, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, up until Shadow Dragon. He also explains that they chose to remake Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Ken due to it being the 25th anniversary of the Famicom. Narihiro wanted to draw from the script as much as he could, attempting to shy away from the increased volume of content and script lines of recent titles in the series. Unlike Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Ken, a mid-battle save point feature was included to make the game easier for beginning players. Another attempt to improve the game for beginning players was to allow them to change the classes of their characters, allowing them to recover from losing defensive characters such as knights by converting another character into a knight.
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