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Hi there everyone of FEF! Boy oh boy has it been a really long time since I made a thread. I've been thinking about this topic for awhile now and thought it would alright to post about it, since I'm not really sure if there was a previous thread for it or anything?

In any case, I had heard about this title called Tear Ring Saga from a friend of mine that he discovered through the mighty powers of the internet. xD Back then I had only knew very few fire emblem titles on the GBA, or Path of Radiance on the Gamecube. It was WAY before I knew about any of the previous games before FE7. So I wasn't really aware of another series similar to it. I mean, the only other strategy RPG game I played at that point was shining force but then again that's a different game altogether.(Though, I've gone on and on about how much I enjoyed those games. lol )

From my understanding it seemed to be the first game for the Playstation 1 that Shouzou Kaga supposely was involved with after he left Intelligent Systems. I believe it some years after Thracia 776 was made. And there's this whole story about how he somehow ended up getting into a lawsuit or something like that much later.( I'm not really sure too much on the details) It never did end up getting a U.S release or anything... There's also a sequel to Tear Ring Saga called Berwick Saga and that didn't get released either. Although, there is actually an English patch out there for the first game. I'm not sure if there's one for the sequel.. A PS2 emulator would require a really good computer to run it and so forth.

So anyways, I was actually wondering if anyone around here ever heard of or played Tear Ring Saga just out of curiosity? Or might be thinking of trying out the game at some point? As for me, I've managed to try out a little of the PS1 game and to be honest I found some of it to be very interesting. There's also some really nice soundtracks here and there. It really reminds me of how FE Gaiden was on the NES but so much different in a way. And ya know, I've been thinking lately about how Awakening and Sacred stones more or so has the map exploration element from FE gaiden. So I'm wondering what kind of style everyone here prefers? Like how most of the games were by chapter by chapter? Or more exploration on the maps but moving on through each chapter?

I heard about Tear Ring Saga from Serenes Forest. However, I never play that game. >>;