Fire Emblem If Box Art Confirms amiibo Support and 15 Years and Up Age Rating

1. Buy all the Fire Emblem Amiibo's.
2. Wait for this game to come out.
3. Sell them at inflated prices.
4. Profit!

Would be good if it's existing amiibo as i have most of the FE characters but my bank balance has suffered as a result so wouldn't be getting any dedicated amiibo for this. I say that now but no doubt when they reveal what they look like I'll start throwing money at the screen again...

Ahhhhh this is torture........another 3DS FE and nothing for my big screen TV since Radiant Dawn......Come on Nintendo give me some difficult turn based 40 plus hours on first play through for my big screen tv goodness.

Oh well.....I'll own 3 retail games for my 3DS i guess. FE:A, S.T.E.A.M, and FE: Black

"they'll work on any New Nintendo 3DS, or course, but a portal is still on the way to support original 3DS systems."

How long does it make to mass produce a little white circular piece of plastic?
I wonder if they'll make as many as they did the Gamecube adaptor for Wii U? ie not nearly enough.

I still need to get Lucina amiibo. I'm not interested on Robin.

The age rating is increased because searching for FE amiibo causes physical and emotional pain.

Captain Falcon better be a playable unit.

So is teen the NA equivalent of that rating?

I'm assuming the FE amiibo characters will unlock, taking the place of Awakening's phantoms DLC

So did Fire Emblem Awakening get a 15+ rating in Japan? I mean it's not like Japanese ratings and ESRB work straight across the board. Is it possible that this'll get a T rating by the ESRB?

@ShanaUnite UGH!

I'm looking for the Fire Emblem Amiibo so that I can get more enjoyment out of Codename: Steam

Hopefully that means global restocks of FE amiibo on the way?

Unfortunately the amiibo required will be the hardest to obtain.

In Codename: Steam on my new 3DS XL says I can do amiibo yet in a cruel sick joke I am unable to get the item that is advertised. No Marth or Ike. EBGames already cancelled either Robin or Lucina and no one has heard anything about the Marth restock here in Canada.

The most well supported amiibo I may never get. At this point I cannot see anything Fire Emblem Amiibo as a selling point. While I have never really tried the Fire Emblem Series at this point I refuse to until they can get their amiibo stock act together.

Interesting that this got higher rating than Awakening, perhaps there is more violence or suggestive visual, maybe even better one than that Tharja's shot from the back. I guess Nintendo would try to keep this T in NA, so that means some censorship is on the way.

All this assuming they're not just going to bring out a new wave of FE Amiibos just for this game right?

@DarthNocturnal Thanks, I really hope you're right. I'll play it anyway, but I'm starting to introduce my son to awesome games and he's still pretty young so there's certain content I'm not yet ready to introduce him to. He and I are playing Xenoblade 3D right now and he's LOVING it.

@Gerbwmu
Unfortunately, considering low Wii U sales, the lower attach rate for non-Mario games on Wii U, and the fact that Fire Emblem still isn't that popular in the west, a Wii U FE game would be a huge financial risk for them. They've already said that they would need to sell AT LEAST 700,000 copies to justify the development costs.
I would really love another home console game, like a sequel to Radiant Dawn with even more complexity, but I can't see it happening anytime soon

Rating will most likely be T when it comes over here, so I doubt there's that much more mature content in it.

@Gerbwmu
There's Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem, that's for Wii U.

If more sexual content is the reason it got bumped up to 15+ I will be disappointed. FE is great series due to its awesome gameplay and stories, not bewbs.

@sp_initiate-001 - I know and I'm looking forward to it, but it seems like it maybe more of a standard JRPG then a FE turn based strategy. That's not a bad thing just different.

I don't care about amiibo support for this title. More interested in continued Japanese lessons. I don't need amiibo in Fire Emblem.

@AVahne - I'd even take an HD compilation of PoR and Radiant Dawn. Think there is some room there to extend the story if they wanted to throw in some changes. Especially in between or after Radiant Dawn.

But I think FE is more likely to skip Wii U besides a few VC releases.

@ShanaUnite
1-Buy all Fire Emblem Amiibo's
2-Keep All amiibos
3-....be a fat (optional) and happy nerd

Lol, amiibo support is a joke now, especially since Fire Emblem characters are some of the hardest ones to find.

So it looks like theres a chance this game may be M rated in America. Ace Attorneys Duel Destinies was the first game in that franchise to get a C-15 rating and it ended up turning into an M rating over here. It'll still probably be T but it would be interesting to see Nintendo release an M rated game.

Let's hope characters outside Fire Emblem are compatible. Link, Shulk, and Pit perhaps?

It will be interesting to see the ESRB rating when this gets released here. Whatever it turns out to be I'm still getting this.

@ZenTurtle

Funny enough, Radiant Dawn got an A rating for All-Ages in Japan. It got an E10 here too, so its certainly not one of the more "Mature" titles of the series.

I will be really upset if on top of the already announced likely day 1 DLC, likely more of the overpriced and including pay to win DLC in Awakening, they are going to make amiibo exclusive content too. It'd be DLC gouging consumers to the extreme.

Just watch, as soon as the ESRB's random puritans I MEAN professional raters lay eyes on the sultry, scantily clad adopted sibling fawning in their direction seductively, FE If (at least the Nohr path) will get slapped with an M rating!

FIRE EMBLEM FOREVER!!!

Really excited for this new game(s). I will try to buy everything Fire Emblem related Definitely hope those cover plates come out over here.

And if it is a higher rating hopefully that reflects the difficulty and also the story tone although most Fire Emblems have lots of grizzly story elements in anyway.

@AlbionHero ESRB rater: "Systemic violence, war, racism, rebellion against authority figures, genocide, politics, and death? Eh, it's fine for the kiddies, E10 rating..." (If there were sexual themes): "Wait, WHAT!? It has sex and scantily clad women!? M rating! M rating!!!"

I saw this coming but was helpless to do anything about it all the same. Hopefully by the time If comes out Nintendo will have reprinted the FE Amiibos in some fashion so fans can take advantage of the feature.

I like amiibo support, I don't like finding amiibos. Please Nintendo, make more of them, I don't buy from scalpers. Also, the Fire Emblem amiibo look the best

@AlbionHero
Radiant Dawn was certainly not the most 'mature' (whatever that might mean) game in the series, but FE Awakening was certainly more light hearted. In terms of the rest of the series, the Super Famicom games were the most 'mature', that is true. To be honest, the age ratings are sometimes meaningless when it comes to story for example, and it is looking like FE 'If' will be better than FE Awakening in that respect.

I don't like the idea of having to make the decision of what story to follow BEFORE I own the game. That's not free will, that's following an interactive novel.

However I did buy all 4 FE amiibo with surprising ease so I'm all right Jack!

This all sounds weird for Japanese gamers but I will wait to see exactly what they do for NA-ers. Don't care about amiibo but a third content dlc interests me. I don't know how big each version of "If..." is but it seems to me that if we buy one retail, then we should receive a free code to dl the other and then of course charge us for the third episode dlc. Buying two FE games on the same day at 44.99 each here in Canada is a definite no-no. No way am I spending $100 all at once just b/c I am a fan.

Lol @ RATED M?! mild freak out. Obviously not, there's no sex or drug references and no actual bad language or gore, just fake kind. Tobacco & Alcohol can be T, even E. Harvest Moon is an example of that.

I am in no way sold on the game until they confirm they're packaged together in North America. Otherwise, I may either be out of this one or just get the Hoshido side.

@Dankykong That stuff wasn't wine, it was grape juice! The farmer wasn't getting drunk, they were just dizzy!

@DarthNocturnal
I still find it hilarious that Senran Kagura Burst got an uncensored T rating here despite it getting CERO D in Japan.

@DarthNocturnal Wonderful, even though I'll be 16 by the time it comes to America, I was afraid that I'd have to do some convincing to get my parents to let me have it if it got a M Rating.

@PlywoodStick Yeah I dunno! Haha A New Beggining 3D has E for Use of Alcohol! Someones a little tipsy.

Seeing as Awakening received a Teen rating, I imagine this game will receive a T from the ESRB at the very least and could very well receive a M rating, especially if suggestive/sexual themes are the reason for the upped CERO rating as the ESRB always seems to judge games more harshly for those things than they do for violence. Unfortunately, because we don't have an intermediate rating between T and M (which we sorely need), this increases the likelihood of Nintendo of America censoring the game to keep it at a T (or for no good reason, honestly; they didn't need to censor Tharja's butt in the Summer Scramble DLC but they did so anyway). That's a possibility I've been worried about ever since I saw the trailer.

I'm a little surprised its M, but its not really a big deal.

@KodyDawg

It's technically right in the middle. Teen is 13 and Mature is 17. But CERO C would be considered closer to Teen. CERO D is Mature-level, and CERO Z is Adults Only.

What a world.

@MoonKnight7

I had basically the same thought. It supports figures that cannot be purchased in any store anywhere. I think I saw Marth once before it turned into fanboy/reseller bait, and that was it. I have never seen the others, and I'm pretty sure they don't exist. With this in mind, it's safe to say, I will not be using Amiibos on this game. The figures have to actually exist and be purchasable for that to happen.

Hopefully they don't lock away too much content behind an Amiibo paywall, or I may just skip these, regardless of how much I enjoy the franchise. Still not a big fan of the "two versions" nonsense. I know the 3DS is struggling with growing its library, but this is not the way to pad it out.

@Gerbwmu Hate to break it to you, but Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn nearly killed the franchise because they sold /very/ poorly especially in Japan. Thracia 776, a game that came out on the SNES in /1999/ sold almost as much as both of those games. It's going to be a long while before we see a console FE again, if at all.

@NoNameAtAll

Well, technically, Fire Emblem is coming to consoles next year. It's just got a hefty dose of Persona mixed in.

@KodyDawg

Because half of an anime character's ass is JUST TOO MUCH FOR PATHETIC AMERICAN GAMERS!

@KodyDawg

I don't know. Ask NoA.

Well, I have a Marth amiibo.... And I'm hoping to get my hands on a Lucina, and Robin amiibo. And assuming I do get those I'll just have to spend a few extra dollars on an Ike and I'll be set!

Anyone want to trade a Gold Mario for an Ike? Heh...

@Quorthon

"I had basically the same thought. It supports figures that cannot be purchased in any store anywhere. I think I saw Marth once before it turned into fanboy/reseller bait, and that was it. I have never seen the others, and I'm pretty sure they don't exist."

It's crazy how accurate that statement is. I have never seen any of the Fire Emblem amiibos on a shelf, I don't even recall seeing Marth on the first day, but I was only in one store on day one. I got very lucky with Ike, because I actually was able to pre-order him from GameStop. He is my favorite character in Smash, so this was a priority for me. That said, I narrowly almost didn't get him, because GameStop screwed up, and gave my Ike away to someone else. I don't know what happened. I wasn't angry or anything, because the employees felt really bad about it, plus I don't get mad at people who make minimum wage (or not much better). They told me I would be first on the list if they got more of him. They kept their promise and I got one of the very last Ikes before he disappeared entirely.

I've tried to get Lucina and Robin (my wife is a huge fan of both), but it's been a horrible mess. They sell out in minutes online, and I'll never find them in the store. I'm sure you can relate, we have jobs, and commitments not involving spamming retailer sites looking for amiibos. Apparently a lot of wave 3 never even made it to store shelves, because the pre-orders even took all of the extra stock they received for the launch day. I've pretty much given up at this point. My next real hurtle is Olimar. I love the Pikmin series, and Nintendo is making me dread his release. I'm pretty sure that the closest I'll get to having an Olimar amiibo, is typing it into Google Images.

"Still not a big fan of the "two versions" nonsense. I know the 3DS is struggling with growing its library, but this is not the way to pad it out."

You may hate me for saying this, but I actually don't mind the duel release. My wife will get the easier one, and I'll get the more difficult one. I can understand the concern though, but for me personally, I kind of like the idea of giving the casual audience a game, and the hardcore fans a game.

Gee, I wish America used those gorgeous black 3DS cases on T and M Rated games like Japan does. The dark blue used for older rated WiiU games in Japan would be nice too.

@Quorthon I get what you mean, but remember Atlus is partially footing the bill there. Radiant Dawn and Path of Radiance were developed by Intelligent Systems.

Again, when a game released right at the end of the SNES's lifespan (Super Famicom in this case) sells better than ones that were released while the consoles still had steam in them (Especially in Radiant Dawn's case), something is /very/ wrong.