However, it is somewhat similar to the Final Fantasy series in that it is not often that games in the series are set in the same fictional worlds and universes as each other. 9.1 Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Lightįire Emblem is a long-running series of tactical role-playing games developed by Intelligent Systems, with fourteen instalments released thus far.9 Games with elements from or in the Super Smash Bros.8 Game Representation in the Super Smash Bros.7 Lord Representation in the Super Smash Bros.2 List of games in Fire Emblem franchise.
for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, including Chrom and Byleth in Super Smash Bros. They would eventually be joined by three more heroes from the series' most recent games, Fire Emblem Awakening & Fire Emblem Fates in the form of Robin, Lucina and Corrin in Super Smash Bros. Since then, a more recent protagonist, Ike, has received a similar starring role in Super Smash Bros. Melee sparked enough global interest that the series began international distribution. The long-running series was primarily a Japan-only series that Nintendo declined to localize abroad until the appearances of two of the series' stars, Marth and Roy, as playable characters in 2001's Super Smash Bros. series' collection of characters, stages and properties that hail from Nintendo's and Intelligent System's Fire Emblem series of fantasy tactical role-playing games. įates is followed by Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, a remake of Fire Emblem Gaiden, also released on Nintendo 3DS.The Fire Emblem universe ( ファイアーエムブレム, Fire Emblem) refers to the Smash Bros. The official preliminary website for the game(s) can be found here (English). Ultimate.įire Emblem Fates was released on Jin Japan, Februin North America, and in Europe.
for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U as the penultimate downloadable fighter and again as an unlockable character in Super Smash Bros.
Meanwhile, Corrin themself appears in Super Smash Bros. The game features support for amiibo, allowing players to use the Fire Emblem figures from the Super Smash Bros. The general mechanics of Fates are similar to Fire Emblem Awakening, though there are some balance changes: the secondary unit of a Pair Up is no longer able to attack or defend at the same time, but whether they are able to do either is no longer determined by randomness reclassing has been altered to be more straightforward, but at the same time it is also more limited the influence that the Weapon Triangle has on combat has been increased, and it now includes magic and bows as a part of the system Breakable Weapons have largely been done away with, but stronger weapons now incur debuffs to the user. Born among Hoshido nobility, the protagonist was raised by the Nohr royal family and, on the brink of war between the two kingdoms, must choose between allying with their Hoshido or Nohr families. Unlike previous entries, the Avatar takes the role of the main protagonist of the story rather than a faceless tactician or a deuteragonist. Like other Fire Emblem installments, Fates begins with the creation of a custom Avatar, who has the default name of Kamui in Japan and Corrin in the West. Said story revolves around the choices made by the player, split between two kingdoms - the "peace-loving" Hoshido, and the "glory-seeking" Nohr. The story was penned by notable manga author Shin Kibayashi, writer of series such as Get Backers, The Drops of God and Psycho Busters. The game was revealed in a Nintendo Direct on January 14th, 2015, exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS, featuring the same graphical and art style as Awakening. It was created by the same team that worked on the previous game, Fire Emblem Awakening. Fire Emblem Fates ( Fire Emblem if in Japan) is the fourteenth installment in Nintendo's Fire Emblem series of Strategy RPG games, developed by Intelligent Systems.