Nintendo brings us the perfect tactical role-playing game and I'm talking about the ninth title in the Fire Emblem series. You'll be exploring a continent called Tellius and keep in mind that the plot is not linked in any way to the previous games. Our hero's name is Ike, a new member of the Greil Mercenaries, an organization that has to protect the borders of Crimea from potential attackers. There are a few cool new features in the game, like transformations into powerful animals and skill gauges that grant you lots of abilities, when they're charged to the max. Here's what you can unlock while playing the game:

Unlockables

Bands
After you complete the game once and start a new file, some characters will have bands. These bands increase some stat growths to the characters who equip them. You can only equip one band per character. The characters that carry each band and the stat growth bonus of each one is:

Archer band (+5% SPD, +5% SKL) - Shinon carries it.

Fighter band (+5% HP, +5% STR) - Boyd carries it.

Knight band (+5% STR, +5% DEF) - Gatrie carries it.

Mage band (+10% MAG) - Defeat the boss in Chapter 7.

Paladin band (+5% HP, +5% SPD) - Oscar carries it.

Pegasus band (+5% LUCK, +5% RES) - Marcia carries it.

Priest band (+5% LUCK, +5% RES) - Rhys carries it.

Soldier band (+5% HP, +5% DEF) - Defeat the boss in Chapter 8.

Sword band (+5% SKL, +5% LUCK) - Mia carries it.

Thief band (+5% SPD, +5% SKL) - Defeat the boss in Chapter 3.

Wyvern band (+5% STR, +5% DEF) - Jill carries it.

Display Bonus EXP
After beating the game on any difficulty setting, go to the options menu upon starting a new game, once again it doesn't matter which difficulty. At the very bottom it says "Bonus EXP Display." This means that after every map, before you save your cleared data for that particular map it will display an additional screen with a chart that adds up your gained B.Exp for that level. Not only is this a good way to see what you could have gotten but it tells you what they were worth.

Bonus EXP Display - Beat the game Once on Any Difficulty

Faster Unit Movement
After beating the game once, hold down the A button to cause units to move faster.

Faster Movement Speed - Beat Game Once

Fixed growth mode
Beat the game once on any difficulty. Then start a new game. As soon as you start one, you will be able to play Fixed growths mode, so your growths are fixed. That means that your growths will go up by a certain amount, not random like before.

Fixed growths mode - Beat the game once.

Getting illustrations
By beating the game, you can get some illustrations

FE: The Sacred Stones illustrations - Connect GBA with The Sacred Stones game pack

Fire Emblem illustrations - Connect GBA with the FE game pack in it

Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi Illustrations (Japanese game only) - Connect GBA with Fuuin no Tsurugi game pack

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance illustrations Complete the game

Occult Scrolls
Occult Scrolls are items that grant characters certain skills depending on their class and ONLY to promoted units. For example: An Occult used on a General or Hallberbier will give you Luna and on a Sniper you'll get Deadeye. There are only 4 so be careful on who you use it on.

Occult Scroll 1 Chapter 13: The top left chest on the Map.

Occult Scroll 2 Chapter 16: Talk to Stefan on the INFO at Base if you recruited him.

Occult Scroll 3 Chapter 21: Recruit Tauroneo or Steal it from him.

Occult Scroll 4 Chapter 27: Beat the boss.


Rotating character's sprites
When you press Y on any unit and bring up their status screen, you can rotate their sprite using the C-stick. This works on all types of units, even enemies. This can only be done after beating the game once on any difficulty.

Rotate character's sprite - Beat the game once on any difficulty

Sound Room and theater
The sound room holds the songs that you heard during the game and shows art work with each composition.

The theater shows all of the cinematics that you saw during the game.

Sound Room - Complete Story mode

Theater - Complete Story mode

Trial Maps
To play the Trial Maps, you must beat the game and then select the "Epilouge" File. You can use the characters at the level you left them at with the weapons they had after the Final Chapter (Endgame:Repatriation).

Map 1- Hillside Battle Clear Story Mode on any difficulty

Map 2-Lonely Isle Clear Story Mode on Normal or Difficult

Map 3-Strange Turn Clear Story Mode on Difficult

Map 4-Desperation Connect GBA with an English FE game inserted

Map 5-Escape Connect GBA with the American Fire Emblem game inserted

Map 6-Trapped Connect GBA with Sacred Stones inserted

Unlock characters.
These characters can only be played on trial maps.

Ashanard - Beat the game fifteen times

Bryce - Beat the game ten times

Oliver - Beat the game three times

Petrine - Beat the game seven times

Shihiram - Beat the game five times

Unlockable Characters
Characters that join automatically will not be listed.

Astrid(13) - Speak to her with Ike

Calill(20) - Read the Conversation before Chapter 20

Devdon(16) - Speak with Soren, Mist, Rolf, Tormod, or Sothe

Ena(28) - Joins if Dark Knight is not killed in Chapter 27

Gatrie(13) - Speak to him with Astrid

Geoffrey(25) - Must survive in chapter 24

Haar(23) - Speak with Jill

Ilyana(8) - Speak to her with Ike

Jill(12) - Let her speak to Ike

Kieran(11) - Free him and speak to him with Oscar in Chapter 10

Largo(25) - Read the conversation before Chapter 25

Lethe and Mordecai(10) - They will join if they survive in Chapter 9

Makalov(14) - Speak to him with Marcia

Marcia(9) - Speak to her with Ike

Mia(7) - Speak to her with Ike

Muarim(16) - Finish Chapter 15

Nasir(28) - Joins if Dark Knight is killed in Chapter 27

Nephenee and Brom(11) - Free them and speak to them with Ike in Chapter 10

Reyson(18) - Read the Conversation before Chapter 18, Finish Chapter 17, the accept his help in Chapter 18

Shinon(18) - Speak to him with Rolf, then kill him with Ike.

Sothe(12) - Read the conversation before the Chapter

Stefan(15) - Move Lethe or Mordecai to the upper right area on the map

Tauroneo(21) - Speak with Ike

Tormod(16) - Finish Chapter 15

Volke(10) - Joins if you hire him at the start of Chapter 10

Zihark(11) - Speak to him with Lethe or Mordecai

Some of us play games, just to see beautiful cutscenes. We spare you of this effort, so check out the game's cutscenes below:



Secrets

Get Ashera Staff
The Ashera staff is an S level staff that heals all HP to all allied units. On the level with the priests, don't kill any and the priest will give you the staff.

Get Stefan
Stefan is a secret swordmaster. You can unlock him on Feral Frontier. To get Stefan, you need to move Lethe or Mordecai to a square in the in the top-right corner. Starting from the top-right corner, move 2 squares to the left and one down. If you move there, Stefan will appear. If you move there with one of your two laguz, he will join your party. If you move there with any Beorc, then he will appear and give you his S-Level Sword called the Vague Katti. If you recruit him, he comes with the sword.

How to obtain Rex Aura
In the final chapter, a Bishop has Rex Aura equipped which you cannot obtain in the game, but these 4 steps will help you obtain this item.

1) Silence the Bishop.

2) Wound the Bishop, until his HP is at least under half.

3) The Bishop should use an Elixir to heal himself (if not, try weakening him further).

4) By now, he should have de-equipped the Rex Aura, so you can steal it with a Thief.

Knight Ring
On level 19, you can get a secret item called the knight ring. To get it, do not kill the crows. First have one of the hawks talk to the crow king and then the crow will talk to Reyson. After he talks to the hawks, he will not attack your units. If you didn't kill any crows, then he will give you a knight ring and then he will order the crows to retreat. If you did kill a crow he will not give you the knight ring but the crows will still retreat. The knight ring is an equip item that gives a unit extra movement like a knight.