Nintendo Music Adds Fire Emblem: Awakening Soundtrack In New Update

I would KILL for HD remasters of all three of the Fire Emblem 3DS games. Yes—even Fates. While the story and characters are abysmal, the gameplay is some of the best in the series and still hasn’t been topped in some ways. Plus, having all three campaigns and all the DLC in a single game would result in a MASSIVE game with hundreds of hours of content.

Awakening’s music is so pretty and memorable. Its track names, perhaps even more so!

“Agh! Won goph in mah mouph! Blech! Ptooey!”, my beloved.

I hope they'll add 3DS games to the NSO some day. Yes, there would be challenges (like the touch screen controls when docked etc), but there are so many amazing games stuck on 3DS.

Hey Nintendo!

Maybe bring FE Awakening and Fates to Switch?

@Liam_Doolan Completely off topic, but I was wondering what decides the colour scheme for an article, or is it random? I’ve got red for most, purple for this one, and yellow when I open the Pokémon Lego story.

I desperately want Switch ports of Awakening and Fates and have for a long time.

You could also do Echoes I guess, don't care as much, never developed a taste for it.

My favourite, the slow version of conquest, is hidden in the full list.

But what an addition! Part of this games succes must have been the music! 😄🤎

The Awakening soundtrack was the first time I really noticed the effect of music in games. There was a time when I couldn't sleep without "Don't Speak Her Name" playing in the background. Needless to say, I'm very excited by this addition.

Was waiting for this one to be added. I agree with @horizonisland, we need these Fire Emblem titles on Switch (2). They're all great in their own way. But Awakening is iconic because it practically saved Fire Emblem from the grave and ushered in a new era of titles from the series.

One of the all time best Nintendo soundtracks IMO. I thought we'd have to wait forever for them to add this one so I'm over the moon!!

This is by far one of my favourite video game soundtracks, and it holds a really special place in my heart.
Surprised and really happy to have got this one before Three Houses - but I would love to have that one too soon!

Three Houses is still the crown jewel of Fire Embem's soundtrack, but this one comes close. Great addition.

This was the FE game that got a lot of people into the series. Really did have a good soundtrack to boot, gonna listen to it soon,

@horizonisland I want it to happen eventually, though I think they should prioritize remaking/remastering the games that have never had official English releases first. (Still waiting on that rumored Genealogy of the Holy War remake...)

@horizonisland Which, of course, is why they'd never do it. Hundreds of hours spent playing Fire Emblem Ultimate Mega Awesome Edition is hundreds of hours you're not spending money on other Nintendo products.

@Lizuka Honestly I find it quite sad there aren't any FE ports for Switch (2). The system fits perfectly.

Absolute banger, I've wanted this added to Nintendo Music for a while.
Between this and Pilotwings Resort, someone at Nintendo HQ seems to be reading my mind.
Now all I need is DK: Tropical Freeze

Edit: Also whilst I'm making demands, I'd love to see Android auto integration for the app

Nintendo Music is slowly becoming one of my favorite apps!

Has anybody been successful in launching the App on desktop (Mac)? I'd much rather hear that music on speakers than on the phone...

Fire Emblem: Awakening is probably on my top 3 favourite games of all time, thanks in part to THAT soundtrack, would love if it got ported to Switch but for now I'll settle hearing Divine Decree (Ablaze) again

I’ll have to throw this out there.
Advance Wars has better strategic gameplay and it’s the superior franchise, albeit not the most popular one.

So sad it went into obscurity while its sibling became so popular it started to saturate even Smash Bros.

Not saying FE is bad. Just a simpler strategy game. Better music though, and great too.

Very good drop. FEA has excellent music.

Remake when? =p

Seeing the requests for remakes of Awakening, Fates, and what should be Shadows as well, reminds me just how many FE games Nintendo is sitting on that they could be remastering.

Sure, it’s not Final Fantasy and no one wants that oversaturation of re-releases, but Nintendo is really underutilizing that back catalogue. I thought when they made Shadows of Valentia is was a sign they were going to revive older ones but it must not have been successful enough.

FINALLY good music added for once.

But where is Xenoblade!?

Cool. Now provide that fe4 remake. Listen, it had a great story, but it wasn't a good game. It could be a great game though if they rebalance it and actually made the enemies attack your castle. Throw in something like the gambits from 3h and you're golden. In my head an adjusted fe4 plays a lot like a Trpg dynasty warriors and I'm.so hoping it happens. Bundle in fe5 with it and just take all my blood and my money

@Yoshi3 honestly, I've played every one and you're not wrong. The general vibe and stories (recognizing that the stories for all but like 5 of them aren't great) are why I like them. I love three houses. A lot of people do. It's not a good strategy game for reasons you can get in the weeds with, but it does have wonderful characters and a pretty good story. The gameplay of these isn't really what they shine at. Even before they became anime waifu simulators (and toned that back down pretty quickly) the characters have always been the high point of the series and really what the series is about

With the exception of engage. People don't like the story, characters, or art of engage. Sure. Whatever. Engage is one of the best Trpgs made from a gameplay perspective. Like, with just this one is where you're wrong. The gameplay and maps are the best in the series and it's probably at the top of the genre as a strategy game. But, you know, people don't like the rest of it. Which is a shame. And honestly, some of the challenge maps remind me a lot of advanced wars when I think about it. The general vibe of enemy placement and how it throws baddies at you kinda makes it very similar

@OFFICIALMichi Obviously fe 4 and 5 are the main ones and are commonly thought of as the ones with the best story (and kinda 4 maybe the weaker gameplay) so I hope those get the remake treatment the most, but fe 6 (the one with Roy) has also never been localized and it's the only one I've never played. The GBA games weren't particularly deep, but it is missing off the catalogue. Definitely remake genealogy first though lol. Those could definitely be remade as amazing games.

@OFFICIALMichi from what I can find on the web, Shadows of Valentia remake sold about 1 million copies, which is the least from all 3DS FE games. That game was released around the end of the 3DS lifecycle, however, so I guess that didn't help much, either. But it was my 2nd favourite game on 3DS and a hell of a remake.

Conquest Ablaze sets my heart ears ablaze!

This makes me think we are getting an announcement of a remaster on Switch in the September direct. Perhaps the Genealogy remake rumors were simply false? Seems strange to me to both add music to the Nintendo Music app AND add NSO icons for specifically this game. There’s no important anniversary for it as far as I’m aware either so it’s not like it’s an anniversary celebration. If it was just the music getting added I wouldn’t suspect anything, but the icons tells me the game is coming possibly sooner than later. Maybe a shadow drop for the digital version like they did with Pikmin 1 + 2 with a physical release in time for holidays?

Not a Fire Emblem fan by any means, and something about the characters in newer entries doesn't click with me (Echoes being the exception).

With that said, the music in those games is unmatched.

@OFFICIALMichi agreed, Shadows of Valentia was fantastic, probably my favorite of the 3DS games, but I really would rather they focus on the older games first. FE has been at the height of its popularity in the west and get we still have several titles that have yet to get an official release outside of Japan. I know Nintendo likes to keep the NSO classics as faithful to the original releases as possible but if NOJ/IS isn’t willing to do remakes of the SFC games and Binding Blade I wish NOA would at least translate them and put them on NSO with English text.

This is one of my all-time favorite game soundtracks! I listen to it all the time. I actually have this on Apple Music, which I downloaded from YouTube, someone posted there, and I added it to my Apple Music library.

I love this soundtrack. Awakening was my first Fire Emblem and holds a special place in my heart. I've since went back and played the other localized entries that predate it other than the GCN/Wii entries (thanks to crazy prices).

Now please bring over Fates (there are many other great tracks besides "Lost In Thoughts All Alone"), Shadows of Valentia, and Three Houses!

2nd favorite FE soundtrack after Three Houses. Hopefully this means Three Houses soundtrack can drop soon.

Would love for a remake of Awakening/Fates despite some in the FE community hating those games because “it’s everything that went wrong with FE”.

@Liam_Doolan great to see behind the scenes on this stuff. This sounds like it would make a fun "easter egg" or FAQ entry in an about page somewhere. Which colors mean what etc.

@Darthmoogle A port would be awesome, but the icons weren't for Awakening. They were for The Blazing Blade and you have to play Fire Emblem on NSO to unlock them. Still gives me hope that we will see SOMETHING Fire Emblem related announced this month.

One of the best games and soundtracks to ever grace a Nintendo console. Terrific!

For me: All-time Fire Emblem soundtracks ranking:
1. Awakening
2. Path of Radiance
3. Three Houses

I've been really hoping for the Awakening soundtrack to be added. "Don't Speak Her Name!" gives me chills. That chapter with the events that preceded it... Emmeryn

And Divine Decree (Ablaze) too! So Good!

I would love to see Fire Emblem Awakening HD. Such a monumental game in the franchise.

More 3DS era music, please! A Link Between Worlds and Tri-Force Heroes preferably!

Has anyone else been having trouble with the app lately?

Guess I'll take a listen, too bad you can star only so many tracks before you have to make sacrifices. That helps to tell me what soundtracks I've listened to so far.

I can’t wait for some Switch 2 soundtracks, I love listening to Kirby Air Riders special release daily.

I'm not too familiar with Fire Emblem outside just Smash Bros.

@Darthmoogle just like Mother for years and still Mother 3. In my old age I’m not even mad, just intrigued by Nintendo’s decisions lol.

All these Japan-exclusive games people on the internet download and make translation patches for.

And Nintendo is like nah, we make more money suing folks lol.

When they put on Fire emblem fates I’ll never have to change the app again, especially if they have Shigure’s version of lost in thoughts.

I really wish they’d hurry and put on Shadows of Valentia. I started a new job when that game came out and happened to listen to that special edition cd on the drive in back then, and now starting a new job again (same career new location) it’d be a perfect throwback to have that playlist again hehe. (New car has no cd player)

I'd love to be able to play this on the Switch, its one of the few FE games I've ever played and I really enjoyed it.