Grids of Radiance

Just started Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, and rigth off the bat it's like the Fire Emblem games I played on the GBA (which I never finished but were fun) with 3D graphics.

I only got past the fist mission and so far plot wise it seems to centered on Ike (from Brawl), who is being trained by his father to be a mercenary along with his brother. Judging from the pre-rendered cut-scene Ike's mom is either dead or lost as part of the plot.

An odd thing that occurred to me when watching the cut-scenes was that if this was on 360 or PS3 the whole thing could have been in real time and the in-game characters could look that good and cel-shaded. Nintendo says that HD isn't important to them, but they sure like using that quality of imagery.

So tomorrow it's on to mission 2 where I'll probably get more character development and hopefully avoid permanent death of any units.