Fire Emblem Wii is my first one, in the last chapter now and loving it. It's very hard but you can battle save every turn so you don't necessarily lose that much, puts a lot of emphasis on difficult strategy without being overly punishing about it.

Game reminded me a lot of Final Fantasy Tactics though obviously there are a lot of differences.

cheers for the comments everyone, i'm loving the fact theres a difficulty setting aswell, i loves me a game thats rich and satisfying that i can come back to and play again on a harder more rewarding setting.

I loved Path of Radience, beat without too much trouble(I consider myself a very good SRPG gamer) very nice story, deep custization and gameplay options, best SRPG series imo.

whatever said: Fire Emblem is definitely NOT a kiddie game. Its a strategy game that requires you to use the right units in the right situations and at the right time. The enemy AI is really good at exploiting ANY weakness you have. You need to pay attention to how many sections both your units and your enemy units can move and whether they have ranged attacks or not. You also have to choose which units to use/train and how to equip them. How to spread experience around, and how to spend gold on weapons/spells. There are really so many different aspects to this game, its really hard to summarize. Just know that winning battles and completing the game is very satisfying. Then you get to do it again on "hard" mode.

 and if you do it 20 times you get a boss character in the "special modes!"

I always wondered who actually was beating FE 20-40 times to get those guys. 

I've beaten the 2 US released gba games and played most of the GC one. The thing you need to know before entering into the series is there will be battles, especially later where one poor move will result in an important character dieing (characters that die can never be used again) and you'll need to restart the battle. Sometimes you'll need to restart a battle multiple times, now if this doesn't bother you then Fire Emblem is one of the best strategy RPGs on the market.

I'm almost done Radiant Dawn... its my first Fire emblem and its freaking awesome!

Love the story line, the characters, and basically everything about it...

Anyone know when the next one is coming out??

Hard mode in Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn is actually challenging (compared to the others) because you cannot battle save on every turn to see if something bad happens after you move your characters and then reload to stop it.

And the music isn't that bad.

 Oh yeah, the comparison with FFT reminded me of one of my favourite things about Fire Emblem: No grinding!

You can't grind. It's not an option, and therefore not a requirement. You fight every battle once and no more, so they all stay important and you can't just fight the same battle forever to level up weaklings. They either earn their XP in the deep end or get leveled with bonus XP later.

 The tedium of grinding was a major problem for me in Disgaea.

 I believe the DS is supposed to get one later this year.....most likely only in Japan though. 

It's a great series, but be prepared for a challenge; they are hard as hell, especially the one on the Wii. Though I liked the GBA game better (the first one released in America), this is still a fine addition to your game library.