Nintendo has relaunched its Japanese portal site for the Fire Emblem franchise, giving fans of the series a chance to look over its entire history, and giving us more reason to believe that some fresh new info for upcoming projects is surely on the horizon.
You can check out the site for yourself here if you're interested; you'll find write-ups for some of the franchise's most famous characters, a blog section which gets updated with news, and a gorgeous timeline of Fire Emblem's history complete with high-quality artwork and trailers for each game (similar to the recently-launched Castlevania website from Konami).
Of course, just last week, Nintendo also annouced a brand new Fire Emblem Expo event set to take place in Japan next summer. With Fire Emblem: Three Houses still scheduled to arrive on Switch in spring 2019, and Nintendo clearly driving the brand forward with these new areas, the signs are certainly pointing towards a tasty reveal or two over the coming weeks or months - perhaps we'll soon get a solid release date?
Are you excited to experience your next Fire Emblem adventure on Switch? Do you hope that Nintendo's recent interest in the franchise means that good things are on the way? Tell us below.
[source nintendo.co.jp, via nintendoeverything.com]
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Good things to come in 2019. Here we go!
The website only exists to teach you about each FE character in Smash.
Where's Advance Wars?
Now if only Nintendo will date FE Three Houses. Its the main reason I bought a Switch
Not that it would bother me, but I'd be amazed if there isn't a competitive online in Fire Emblem this time. That would warrant a new website and a fan con, and take the game to a new level and audience.
@NewAdvent
I'd give Fates another look if price was your only concern. Each game is, on its own, as long as any other FE game, and the other path costs half as much to download. I personally dislike the third path, Revelation, and wouldn't recommend the game for its story, but in terms of price per content, you're actually getting a better deal in Fates.
I do hope that Nintendo would eventually release the Fire Emblem games that never been released the west in original release Mystery of the Emblem, Genealogy of the Holy War, Thracia 776, and The Binding Blade.
Yes. I'm very much looking forward to this.
@newadvent It's not as good as echoes or awakening but all three fates came together really well and I felt worth the price.
Would be cool to release a compilation on Switch...
Really hoping for a collections series and maybe a rerelease of radiant dawn and radiance maybe as a set.
I suspect we'll hear more on Three Houses soon enough. That reminds me, I still have a couple of backlogged FE games (Sacred Stones on VC and Echoes) to play through.
@Nomorestalker: I've only played the Conquest route of Fates so far and am thinking of picking up Birthright at some point. I enjoyed the former for its maps and characters, but the story was admittedly kind of meh. I've heard mixed things about Revelation and am not sure if it's worth my time.
Fire Emblem Expo Event. Oh my God chills!
Fire Emblem is my favorite franchise since Blazing Blade (GBA), and I did bought every game since, even a lot of collector's editions, amiibo, toys, etc etc!
I can not believe that I live in this timeline! o/
Anime is coming!
@tyranexx Absolutely play echoes first. It's a fantastic game from start to finish. It's an absolute gem.
Three Houses and FE:Heroes news is obvious enough, but I can't help but hope that there may be another remake at some point. Echoes, while suffering from dated map design and possibly needing a bit more work on the dungeons, was a wonderful experience. A great blend of old and new FE (thankfully more old than new) and I'd love to see some other old titles get a similar treatment.
Other than that, I'm stumped. Yeah, possible FE character for Smash is an obvious guess, but I'm under the assumption that it'll be announced some time after Piranha Plant is released-probably in the Summer to sync up with Three Houses if it does happen.
@Nomorestalker: I was considering playing Sacred Stones next, but now I'm more eager to play Echoes thanks to your input. 😁
I hope Three Houses has a nice collector's edition.
Mmmmm... the sweet, sweet aroma of Fire Emblem roasting in the kiln...
It'll be ready soon, boys and girls. Set the silverware on the table
There was never any question of my getting Fire Emblem on Switch. Day 1 no doubt.
I'd love to see more FE stuff. Only got into the series recently, and so far I've only played Awakening, Fates (beaten Birthright and Conquest, started Revelations), and Shadows of Valentia (which I'm at the final dungeon of, IIRC, should finish that up). It'd be great to see more Echoes remakes. Or maybe Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn together as an HD package, I'd buy that in a heartbeat.
@NewAdvent
Same, I really hope they release a single game this time. With a name like "Three Houses", I'm immediately concerned it's going to be another lame DLC infested cash grab. If you never played Echoes though, you should really give it a try. It ended up being one of my favorite FE games and I've played the entire franchise.
@alpha5099
Oh, definitely. I was fortunate to have bought PoR before it got expensive, but with both PoR and RD being a bit hard to find right now, this would be a wonderful idea. Last I checked, PoR is like a 70 dollar game. Although I own both, I'd gladly buy a compilation of the two for Switch.
As far as remakes go, I would say I would like a FE4 remake, but that game was so dark and hardcore, it would no doubt be censored into oblivion. At this point I think I'd be happy just to see a regular FE game be released with no gimmicks. No crazy amount of DLC, no split up games, no face touching controversy, just an FE game.
I just hope that Fire Emblem: Three Houses does'nt end up becoming Fire Emblem: Three Seperate Purchases.
My body is ready.
@BLD I bought the special/limited edition because it had all three paths. Never got round to playing the third one! I'll get to it at some point possibly.
@Tyranexx You won't regret it. Sacred stones is dragging for me but when I first picked it up when the switch was about to release. I played them as Awakening, echoes, then fates/conquest
Just last night I was lookingat awakening and echoes deciding which to go through first on hardest difficulty/permadeath. Landed on awakening since it's been the longest since i've played it.
@Nomorestalker: I need to revisit Awakening as well. I don't think I've touched that game for almost four years now. XD That one got me into the series, and I liked it enough to try out some of the older entries.
@Tyranexx agreed it got me into the series. I had bought it digitally initially because I couldn't find it physical around me. Just last week I realized it's a possibility I lose that at some point and picked up a physical on ebay.
@Nomorestalker: It never hurts to have a backup!
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