As you may remember, we reported about a week ago on the upcoming Legend of Zelda Symphony of the Goddesses: Master Quest tour line-up. Promising orchestral covers of a plethora of music pieces spanning the series' rich history, the symphonic experience is something to look forward to for many fans of the franchise. Perhaps related to this and in a rather surprising move, Nintendo and Intelligent Systems are backing another symphony that will celebrate one of its beloved franchises.
Announced via a teaser site yesterday, it's been revealed that there'll be a concert to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Fire Emblem taking place at Tokyo Dome City Hall on the 24th and 25th of July, but it appears that the event is going to be Japan only. Considering that the series has several entries that remained exclusive to Japan, it's no real surprise that Nintendo has opted to keep it there. Still, with the recent increase in western popularity due to the sublime Fire Emblem: Awakening and with a brand new Fire Emblem title on the horizon, it's rather disappointing that Nintendo doesn't appear to have plans to capitalize on this resurgence in relevance.
Perhaps, if we're lucky, we'll be seeing concerts covering more Nintendo franchises in the future. We'll keep you posted on any developments if Nintendo does intend to bring this westward.
What do you think? Would you go to a Fire Emblem concert if it came to a city near you? Sound off in the comments below.
[source fe25thevent.com, via nintendo.co.jp]
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I would love to have a Fire Emblem anthology, with all of the games up to Fire Emblem 10 (as well as Heroes of Light and Shadow), or at least individual releases of the non-English titles. Perhaps when the timer counts down to the 13th of March, there could be some sort of surprise?
I would love to go to a Smash Bros concert
What, are they gonna book out a classroom for all the UK FE fans to watch it... Genuinely though, it could only fill like one show in London and maybe one in Glasgow.
A 25th Anniversary Collect.....oh a symphony......and with that my brief glimmer of hope turned to apathy.....
@PvtOttobot Best comment ever
Man, I'd be ready to go to Japan to watch this! Symphonies are always a good time and I'm sure this would be just as good as the zelda symphony. I went to that in Chicago a few years ago, would definitely recommend.
FE still isn't nearly popular enough in the west to go through the trouble of arranging an Orchestra here.
Besides most of the new fans of the series have only ever played Awakening, which is more anime than it is Fire Emblem.
Still more than Metroid got.
If this comes anywhere near the east coast of America I'm going. ...Somehow.
Wow, 25 years already.
But yeah this will never come to America. Fire Emblem is not remotely popular enough. I'm still waiting for the Pokemon Symphony to announce tour dates already.
Well I was wondering if they were going to do anything for the 25th anniversary. Who knows, maybe we'll get a special edition of Fire Emblem If. It'll come with a CD. Just like with Skyward Sword.
@Klunk23 I would love that so much. Why did you come up with this idea? Now I will be disappointed if this doesn't happen.
25th! I'm happy for Fire Emblem, always number 1 franchise in my heart. Here's hoping for the next 25 years.
Oh, that also makes me sad, as there's no way for me to go to see the concert.
While i'm not very interested in seeing the Zelda shows, i could hardly resist one of these.
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