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In my time on the internet I have seen many amazing and incredible Fire Emblem
collections. Mine is neither one of those things but I do have some interesting
stuff and I thought it'd be fun today to show you guys what I have in my
collection and I'd also really like to know what you have in your collection
so either drop me a comment in the comment section below or join us on our
discord which I'll link to in the description and share pictures of your
collection in our fire emblem chat channel. So my name is Stevie, welcome to
another episode of Lucky Crit, and today we're gonna be talking all about Fire Emblem
collections and without further adieu let's get started in chronological order
the earliest thing in my Fire Emblem collection does indeed happen to be Fire
Emblem 7 the original fire emblem that we got here in the West I do have some
Nintendo Power magazines that originally sort of got me interested in Fire Emblem
that's somewhere I didn't really want to dig it up because I have a million old
Nintendo powers but for today I just figured we'd start with this and I don't
actually happen to have the box for this because of the way that I acquired it
I've actually talked about this before I believe on Ghast Station's Podghast that he
had me on a while ago but I'll give you a little brief rundown
about my introduction to the series someday I'll do a full video and
actually like going to detail and everything but basically all you need to
know is that I saw Fire Emblem and Nintendo Power and was really interested
in it and I ended up asking some kids on the school bus and you know after a
couple of days of trying to remind them to bring it to school so they could sell
it to me I did end up purchasing it from somebody on the way to school and the
rest is history. So that's that that's my first piece in
my collection up next is obviously going to be The Sacred Stones which I do
happen to have the box for and a lot of original stuff I actually found
something today that I didn't even remember having and that is this the
official strategy guide for sacred stones back in the day these things are
honestly just always really cool to have in a collection even if you've beaten
the crap out of the game and even know you know potentially more than some of
the people who made it but it's just really cool it's a nice piece of
promotional material or art at the very least and they tend to have a lot of the
you know more high-quality character art inside of them too which is really
really nice yeah so I don't even remember having this but apparently I do
apparently I had it from a long time ago so moving along the next piece in the
collection is going to be this. This happens to be you know one of the older
Nintendo powers that I was able to dig up featuring Path of Radiance you know
the time that it was supposed to come out which is really cool either this
Nintendo Power or another one did end up featuring Path of Radiance and actually
coming with if I can open this here a legit Fire Emblem Path of Radiance map of
Tellius which i think is really really cool someday that's gonna go on a wall
maybe be framed even so we'll see what happens with that but yeah that's really
cool I'm glad I dug that up as well and of course I am thankful to own Fire Emblem
Path of Radiance for the Gamecube because this game is incredibly rare at
this point and incredibly expensive. If you are looking to get this game or the
sequel Radiant Dawn I would recommend that you kind of wait a little bit
obviously the prices are going to continue to rise as time moves forward
but I do have a feeling that there is a possibility that we could see either
Path of Radiance or Radiant Dawn or both come to a Switch Virtual Console someday
obviously there is no Switch Virtual Console right now I don't know why
that's not a thing get on that Nintendo please but I do feel like these games
have a lot of potential to end up on a Switch Virtual Console or something like
that in the future so do stay tuned for that if you're interested in these games
the next thing I have in the collection is of course going to be the sequel Fire
Emblem Radiant Dawn for the Wii I'm really grateful to own this one as well
because this is expensive now too and at the time I was excited for a sequel to
Path of Radiance but when I bought this I actually still hadn't finished Path of
Radiance I got pretty far but I don't know back in the day for some reason I
just wasn't into sticking with stuff until I finished it so I actually played
this before I even beat Path of Radiance interestingly enough and it does have a
pretty cool mechanic where you can actually get some I think base stat
boosts on some of your characters if you have the maxed and Path of Radiance and
you sort of transfer the save file to Radiant Dawn so that's really cool the
next piece in the collection moving even more forward happens to be Fire Emblem
Shadow Dragon, another really rare title at this point pretty expensive you can
get it on some of the Virtual Consoles and such so it's not impossible to find
or get or get your hands on this one's a little bit more of a divisive game
because a lot of people didn't really appreciate it when it first came out
though I do see a lot more love for it these days and a lot of people are
praising some of the new refinements and quality of life improvements that it did
bring even though it didn't have a lot of the stuff that a lot of us really
liked like you know support conversations or
things like the rescue system and stuff so moving forward obviously as you can
see so far I don't have too much of the actual memorabilia type of stuff but I
do have some of it so we will get to it but I'm moving forward in chronological
order the next piece of my collection does indeed happen to be the next game
in the series which is Fire Emblem thirteen, Fire Emblem Awakening for the
Nintendo 3ds, and alongside this game I did manage to get what I think was a
pre-order bonus at the time from Gamestop this is a Fire Emblem Awakening
art book I'll try to flip through it really quick for you guys here but it
was a pretty cool thing that they did decide to give away I think it was
limited to only the people that pre-ordered it from Gamestop and
obviously while supplies last and everything but I'm pretty happy that I
managed to get this this was sitting above my desk at college for the longest
time and I do like the artwork of Yusuke Kozaki so I was pretty inspired
by this when I first got it which is really cool I'd imagine that's probably
one of the more rare pieces of my collection at this point the next piece
of my collection happens to be the Fire Emblem Fates Special edition thankfully
these were incredibly hard to come by back in the day they were incredibly
rare when it first went out and pre-order it sold out very very quickly
a lot of people started to scalp it on sites like eBay for hundreds and
hundreds of dollars more than it was originally worth it was $80 retail but I
mean it was going over like 200 I even saw other youtubers and people like
Etika buying his for like 300 something I think it was ridiculous it was really
really bad it was an awful time to be a fan and just want some extra stuff along
with the game it came with a copy of the game that happened to have all three of
the paths on it so you didn't have to actually download anything to the 3ds
internal memory and waste space in there so that was nice by default and it also
came with this nice artbook which I'll flip through really quickly here yeah
it's just really bad scalpers are really scummy Nintendo's had a problem with it
for years because you know they don't release that many of their products they
don't tend to over saturate things and so people you know abuse that and take
advantage of that and it ends up costing a lot of Nintendo fans a lot of money
just to get the stuff that they want which is really really bad scalpers are
just incredibly scummy awful people yeah it's a nice little art book showcases
pretty much everything throughout the game aside from like super heavy spoiler
stuff also a nice little Fire Emblem timeline there which is cool too it also
came with this 3ds bag which I don't think I've ever used but it's just kind
of nice and kind of cool to have in your collection and I also
know that with a lot of the Fire Emblem Fates Special Editions anybody that got
to Gamestop early enough did in fact get some Fire Emblem Fates keychains so
those were really cool obviously with the way that I got it I didn't end up
getting any of those but it's okay but I did see them being sold on places like
Craigslist and other things too I even saw people locally on Craigslist trying
to scalp the game and the keychains and stuff so yeah it was it was just crazy
yeah actually so this particular copy of the Special Edition I remember looking
for it everywhere I was even looking on eBay
went to all of my local Gamestops I literally made phone calls to everywhere
in my state like every single GameStop in the state trying to figure out if
they had a copy of this I was super excited to get my hands on it but it was
like so daunting to try to find a copy and find a copy that wasn't scalped
either so I ended up not finding anything it was a couple of weeks I
think after the release of this and I ended up settling and paying a hundred
and eighty dollars for it on eBay so a hundred dollars over the original price
which is not good so I paid a scalper I got scalped for this game however
during my search I actually went to a local Gamestop and one of the employees
there like knew that I was like looking for it and actually ended up writing
down my name in case they got any other copies of it in the future and what
ended up happening interestingly enough is that they did get another copy I
don't know if it's from somebody that didn't end up picking it up or whatever
the case happened to be but they got another copy and this female employee at
Gamestop actually gave me a call and told me that they had it and they had it
for me they were holding it for me if I still wanted it and I was like, "Oh my god
yes," it was incredible so I actually went and got it and so obviously that was
another 80 but there is the actual real price that I was supposed to pay for it
but anyway long story short I ended up giving that copy to my good friend
Cameron who happens to be the other co-host on the Fireside Emblem podcast
so if you're interested in hearing that you can check it out up here we'll
definitely be doing more of that in the future at some point and I also made as
the first ever Fire Emblem video on this channel and unboxing and review of the
Fire Emblem Fates Special Edition so if you want to watch that kind of cringey old
not as good as today's videos video you can also check that out up here if you
if you're interested in seeing that but it's just kind of an interesting piece
of trivia that this was the first thing I did a Fire Emblem video on on this channel
now moving even more forward than that I ended up picking up some Fire Emblem
Amiibo I still need to get more I would like to have the whole collection I
would definitely like to have like Alm and Celica and even Chrom and stuff so
I need to work on that but for now for the time being or the ones that I do
have are Marth and Ike and I talked about it a little bit on the livestream
but this Ike kinda has some derpy eyes so I think at some point I'll probably
wanna get another Ike one too because I think between the different printing
runs I think they actually made Ike's Amiibo worse quality with the second run
of them so if I could find an earlier one that probably better but yeah his
eyes are a little a little off-center here but anyway yeah so I have those and
I also did manage to get as another sort of weird piece of memorabilia in this
collection this Chara-Forme figure of Chrom his head's a little bit wobbly but once
I saw this online I was like alright I got a have that like it's just so
cool-looking I like the sort of chibi-fied effect of
it but it still looks really really awesome
Chrom is probably one of my favorite blue haired Lords in Fire Emblem so I just
had to have it I really like his design and this is one of the weirder pieces
that I have in my collection I would really like to own that figure of Tharja
or Thar-ya who's like leaning over the bookshelf or the stack of books on like
a chair or something like that that figure is really really cool for
multiple reasons but you know aside from the fanservice stuff I just think it'd
be really cool to have like on a shelf or like as a bookend or something like
that just a nice little piece of art I also like the Cordelia one too but I
think I'd rather have the Tharja one for sure
so at some point someday I'll probably end up buying one of those because I
really like that but yes moving forward we also have once again thankfully I
happen to own the Fire Emblem Echoes Limited Edition this was another close
call type of situation because I ended up having to run to GameStop like the
second that it was announced the data that was announced I was actually making
videos for this channel at this point on Echoes and when it was announced I
literally ran I stopped what I was doing ran to GameStop pre-ordered this and
then came back home and finished what I was doing and actually made an episode a
brief little video news video discussing this Special Edition or Limited
Edition in this case and telling people to go to their GameStop and pre-order
it because the GameStop website at the time was not taking anymore pre-orders
but I managed to go there in person and get my pre-order so that's really really
cool uh this came with a number of things and one of the
pre-order bonuses from Gamestop it's a little bit dusty happens to be this sort
of little map of Mila versus Duma and on the backside it's got this sort of
reflective version of it it's probably like really blinding and bad in the
camera but really kind of interesting this was pretty limited you had to be
lucky to get one of these because they didn't have too many to give away to the
people who pre-ordered but I got there early enough and I was able to get it
thankfully it also came with the artbook and sound selection CD which you
can see back there I'll go get it in a moment and also these cool little pins
of Marth, Alm and Celica that someday I'll probably end up doing something
with putting them somewhere but I thought this was really cool when I saw
these I was I was hyped I like that I like that a lot these are put really
nice little pins the artbook is actually really nice too
this is like the first full artbook that actually came with one of the Fire
Emblem games which I thought was really interesting unfortunately it doesn't
have like as much in here as I was kind of hoping for but it does go through you
know a lot of the characters it has some artwork that we've kind of never seen
before of some of these characters and the really unfortunate thing is that we
never ended up getting like the full collection of Echoes artwork either of
some of you know especially some of these later characters like Sonya we
don't have this full piece of artwork of Sonya or anybody like that at this point
which is kind of crappy but they always tend to do that with Fire Emblem I
noticed that with Awakening other stuff too even though there's full artwork of
the entire cast because obviously they had to make it and plan it out
we never get it even in the art books which is just weird I can understand
them not wanting to like spoil stuff in the art books but eventually I would
imagine they'd release it somehow but anyway this is cool it shows you know a
lot of the designs the revamps of everything from Gaiden and there's also
I believe a really cool page and here's gonna show you - here's all the monsters
and stuff which is interesting to see some of which I was interested in
figuring out because you know the Bone Walker here happens to have this weird
sort of almost mammoth skull shield that I was kind of wondering about in the
game there is actually a like an axe or a cleaver stuck in the head of the
zombie I was wondering that because the sprite in the world map has a weird you
know cleaver on its head yeah just just cool to see just cool
piece to have in the collection as well the actual game case itself for Fire
Emblem Echoes - Shadows of Valentia also does include
this sort of reversible cover which happens to have the original Gaiden
artwork on it which is really really cool to see I'm not sure if the normal
version comes with it but I know for sure the Special Edition does I happen
to like it so I switched it but really really cool and that's gonna bring us to
the end of this video that's actually everything that I have in the collection
not too huge of a collection I'm really fortunate to have some of the more rare
stuff at this point like limited editions but I don't actually have you
know a lot of the Japan exclusive stuff any of the history books or anything
like that so I would definitely love to see what you guys have be sure to let me
know in the comment section or on discord where you can share images of
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