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The game's playable roster focuses on {{title|Shadow Dragon}}, {{title|Awakening}}, and {{title|Fates}}, with ''Awakening'' and ''Fates'' having the most representation. The developers decided on this focus due to the fact that "everyone would be using a sword" if they included all protagonists.<ref>{{Cite web| quote= The reason all the protagonists from the Fire Emblem games are not being included is because if they did that, everyone would be using a sword.| published= May 30th 2017 | retrieved = December 24th 2017 | url=http://gematsu.com/2017/05/fire-emblem-warriors-adds-twin-original-protagonists-marth-chrom | title= Fire Emblem Warriors adds twin original protagonists, Marth, and Chrom | The game's playable roster focuses on {{title|Shadow Dragon}}, {{title|Awakening}}, and {{title|Fates}}, with ''Awakening'' and ''Fates'' having the most representation. The developers decided on this focus due to the fact that "everyone would be using a sword" if they included all protagonists.<ref>{{Cite web| quote= The reason all the protagonists from the Fire Emblem games are not being included is because if they did that, everyone would be using a sword.| published= May 30th 2017 | retrieved = December 24th 2017 | url=http://gematsu.com/2017/05/fire-emblem-warriors-adds-twin-original-protagonists-marth-chrom | title= Fire Emblem Warriors adds twin original protagonists, Marth, and Chrom <nowiki>[</nowiki>Update 2<nowiki>]</nowiki>| site=gematsu.com }}</ref> [[Lyn]] and [[Celica]] are also playable. Both characters were included at the recommendation of Intelligent Systems.<ref>{{Cite web| quote= Yes. While we were in a meeting deciding characters with Nintendo and Intelligent Systems, there were talks of “Please put in Lyn”. However, for the GBA-era characters, we wanted to create them properly including their stories, so this time we’re only adding Lyn, and if this [title] has a future, we hope we can feature them with including stories.| published= October 21th 2017 | retrieved = December 24th 2017 | url=http://nintendoeverything.com/fire-emblem-warriors-devs-on-characters-and-handling-of-reveals-designs-story-systems-modes/ | title= Fire Emblem Warriors devs on characters and handling of reveals, designs, story, systems, modes| site=http://nintendoeverything.com}}</ref> Celica was to specifically promote {{FE15}}.<ref>{{Cite web| quote= Hayashi mentions that Koei Tecmo added her because she was from the newest Fire Emblem game (since Echoes came out in April of this year), and that Nintendo and Koei Tecmo were respectively working on Echoes and Fire Emblem Warriors at the same time. Intelligent Systems showed Koei Tecmo the designs from when Celica/Echoes was in production. Higuchi mentions that they were trying to promote Celica with all three things they were working on at the time (Echoes, Warriors, and Heroes). | published= September 24th 2017 | retrieved = December 24th 2017 | url=https://www.reddit.com/r/fireemblem/comments/71h0zz/tgs_warriors_stream_day_1/dnfg3oc/ | title= TGS Warriors Stream Day 1 | site=http://reddit.com}}</ref> Lyn's reason for inclusion wasn't explicitly stated in interviews though Intelligent Systems staff have acknowledged her surprising performance in [[Fire_Emblem_Heroes#Choose_Your_Legends|Choose Your Legends popularity poll]] in other interviews.<ref>{{Cite web| quote=We did not expect Lyn to get first place. We knew that Lucina was very popular, but we never expected Lucina to lose to Lyn. One other thing we noticed is that characters from the Game Boy Advance era tended to be popular, and that was a little unexpected. Also, because the final results were a little unexpected, it also meant that development for the Choose Your Legends characters took a bit more time than expected. | published=September 4th 2017 | retrieved =December 24th 2017 | url=http://toucharcade.com/2017/09/04/an-interview-with-the-directors-of-fire-emblem-heroes-on-events-design-challenges-and-the-possibility-of-advance-wars-on-mobile/ | title=An Interview with the Directors of 'Fire Emblem Heroes': On Events, Design Challenges, and the Possibility of 'Advance Wars' on Mobile | site=toucharcade.com}}</ref> | ||
[[Niles]], [[Navarre]], and [[Owain]] appear in the game as unplayable NPCs but can be played as if the player purchases their corresponding DLC package. | [[Niles]], [[Navarre]], and [[Owain]] appear in the game as unplayable NPCs but can be played as if the player purchases their corresponding DLC package. | ||
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Fire Emblem Warriors (Japanese: ファイアーエムブレム 無双 Fire Emblem Unrivaled) is a Fire Emblem series crossover with the Dynasty Warriors Series. It is Nintendo's second crossover title with Dynasty Warriors, with the first being Hyrule Warriors. It was released on both the Nintendo Switch and the New Nintendo 3DS systems in Fall 2017.
This crossover features a cast of Fire Emblem characters in the gameplay style of Dynasty Warriors.
Plot
The story stars the protagonists Rowan and Lianna, the twin children of queen Yelena of Aytolis. At the start of the story Darios, the prince of Gristonne visits the twins to spar and study. During Darios's visits monsters appear from strange portals and attack the castle. The twins and Darios flee the castle, having to leave Yelena behind.
Rowan, Lianna, and Darios, having escaped with the Shield of Flames, decide to gather Gleamstones to implant into the Shield and defeat the invading monsters and their source, Velezark. The trio travels the continent searching for the Gleamstone-bearers, heroes from other worlds, Chrom, Ryoma, Xander, Marth. During this Darios and the Shield of Flames is captured when the group is retreating from a failed siege on a Gristonne fortress.
After regrouping and gathering more heroes Rowan and Lianna assault the fortress again and rescue Darios. This respite is short lived as Darios, possessed by a dark force lurking in the fortress at their initial arrival, turns on the twins. Darios steals Shield of Flames and retreats to the Aytolis capital.
The twins are crushed by Darios's betrayal and return to Aytolis to take it back from Gristonne and the monsters. At Aytolis they find the possessed Darios and his father, Oskar. Oskar intends to sacrifice Yelena to revive and control Velezark. However, the plan goes awry when Rowan and Lianna rescue Yelena before she can be sacrificed. Oskar, frustrated with his son's failure in the plan, asks him how he intends to rectify the situation in their favor. Darios reassures Oskar that he has another plan, and then impales him with his sword, offering Oskar's blood in place of Yelena's.
With the reformation of Velezark's body Darios is able to break free of Velezark's control and return the Shield of Flames to the twins before falling to his death in a chasm that Velezark's formation created. Rowan and Lianna then journey out to obtain Enliron and Facinna, two swords made from the fangs of a Divine Dragon that defended Aytolis from Velezark long ago. After obtaining the swords they strike down Velezark and return peace to the land and the summoned heroes to their homeworlds.
Gameplay
This game is a Dynasty Warriors spin-off similar to Hyrule Warriors. Warriors games feature hack and slash gameplay of a single player against many enemy units at once in real time. Generally, routing the enemy is not the goal, and win conditions are often things like capturing a number of enemy fortresses or defeating one or more enemy commanders, among other objectives.
Characters
- Main article:
List of characters in Fire Emblem Warriors
Fire Emblem series characters
The game's playable roster focuses on Shadow Dragon, Awakening, and Fates, with Awakening and Fates having the most representation. The developers decided on this focus due to the fact that "everyone would be using a sword" if they included all protagonists.[3] Lyn and Celica are also playable. Both characters were included at the recommendation of Intelligent Systems.[4] Celica was to specifically promote Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.[5] Lyn's reason for inclusion wasn't explicitly stated in interviews though Intelligent Systems staff have acknowledged her surprising performance in Choose Your Legends popularity poll in other interviews.[6]
Niles, Navarre, and Owain appear in the game as unplayable NPCs but can be played as if the player purchases their corresponding DLC package.
Downloadable content adds several more characters, weapons, and costumes, with the Fates focused pack adding Azura, Oboro, and Niles, the Shadow Dragon pack adding Linde, Minerva, and Navarre, and the Awakening pack adding Owain, Tharja, and Olivia.
Original characters
The game features two playable original characters, Rowan and Lianna, who are also the protagonists of the story.
Several original non-playable characters also appear, Yelena, Darios, Oskar, and Velezark.
Development
The game was first announced at Nintendo's Switch live stream on January 12th/13th, 2017. Accompanying the announcement was a very short teaser trailer. The teaser shown teased Chrom from Fire Emblem Awakening, as well as weapons from Fire Emblem Fates including Yato, Siegfried, Raijinto, and both Chrom- and Marth-era Falchion. The teaser also features a redesigned Shield of Seals.
During the Treehouse stream the day after an unprecedented, special Fire Emblem Direct was announced to occur on the 18th of January 2017 at 2PM PT/5PM ET. Nintendo of America's twitter also mentioned the Direct after its reveal on the stream. The day before the Direct both Nintendo of Japan and Nintendo of Europe officially announced the Fire Emblem Direct as well, confirming the Direct as a simultaneous international Direct. The Treehouse stream confirmed that Fire Emblem Warriors would be present in the Direct. Nintendo of Japan also confirmed that the Direct would feature information on the Fire Emblem Heroes.
Fire Emblem Warriors was shown along with Fire Emblem Heroes and Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia in the Direct. Very little was shown, with the footage shown only being a short extension of the teaser shown in the Switch livestream. Some gameplay of Chrom fighting enemies was shown.
In the 2017-06-15 edition of the Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, Rowan, Lianna, and Marth were revealed to be playable, along with new screenshots featuring the characters.[7]
On June 28th 2017 Famitsu revealed the box art of the limited edition, accidentally revealing Lissa, Robin, and Lucina on the game's box art.[8] Shortly afterwards the box art image was removed from Famitsu's website. These three characters, with the addition of Frederick were officially revealed shortly afterwards on July 5th 2017.[9]
On August 1st the official Famitsu website previewed the coverage of Cordelia and the female version of Robin as playable characters.[10]
Etymology and other languages
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Fire Emblem Warriors |
Follows consistent crossover naming practice with the Dynasty Warriors series, which is usually "(Series) Warriors". Some parts of the English Warriors fandom also refers to these games colloquially as "(Series) Muso", taking from the Japanese name. |
Gallery
English logo.
Japanese logo.
American box art for the Nintendo Switch version.
American box art for the New Nintendo 3DS version.
Japanese box art for the Nintendo Switch version.
Japanese box art for the New Nintendo 3DS version.
Image of the Shield of Flames (presumably the Shield of Seals) from the teaser trailer.
Image of Chrom.
Image of Rowan.
Image of Lianna.
Image of Darios.
Image of Yelena.
Marth's confirmation as being playable in the Famitsu magazine.
My Nintendo desktop wallpaper showing the Shield of Flames
My Nintendo smartphone wallpaper showing the Shield of Flames
My Nintendo desktop wallpaper showing the heroes
My Nintendo smartphone wallpaper showing the heroes
References
- ↑ "#FireEmblemWarriors Special Edition includes 3 CDs, a dual-sided poster & 25 character art cards! Available Oct. 20th for #NintendoSwitch." — NintendoAmerica, NintendoAmerica on Twitter, twitter.com, Published: August 28, 2017, Retrieved: August 28, 2017
- ↑ "Available 20th October" — Nintendo UK, Fire Emblem Warriors - A Twist of Fate (Nintendo Switch), youtube.com, Published: August 22, 2017, Retrieved: August 22, 2017
- ↑ "The reason all the protagonists from the Fire Emblem games are not being included is because if they did that, everyone would be using a sword." — Fire Emblem Warriors adds twin original protagonists, Marth, and Chrom [Update 2], gematsu.com, Published: May 30th 2017, Retrieved: December 24th 2017
- ↑ "Yes. While we were in a meeting deciding characters with Nintendo and Intelligent Systems, there were talks of “Please put in Lyn”. However, for the GBA-era characters, we wanted to create them properly including their stories, so this time we’re only adding Lyn, and if this [title] has a future, we hope we can feature them with including stories." — Fire Emblem Warriors devs on characters and handling of reveals, designs, story, systems, modes, http://nintendoeverything.com, Published: October 21th 2017, Retrieved: December 24th 2017
- ↑ "Hayashi mentions that Koei Tecmo added her because she was from the newest Fire Emblem game (since Echoes came out in April of this year), and that Nintendo and Koei Tecmo were respectively working on Echoes and Fire Emblem Warriors at the same time. Intelligent Systems showed Koei Tecmo the designs from when Celica/Echoes was in production. Higuchi mentions that they were trying to promote Celica with all three things they were working on at the time (Echoes, Warriors, and Heroes)." — TGS Warriors Stream Day 1, http://reddit.com, Published: September 24th 2017, Retrieved: December 24th 2017
- ↑ "We did not expect Lyn to get first place. We knew that Lucina was very popular, but we never expected Lucina to lose to Lyn. One other thing we noticed is that characters from the Game Boy Advance era tended to be popular, and that was a little unexpected. Also, because the final results were a little unexpected, it also meant that development for the Choose Your Legends characters took a bit more time than expected." — An Interview with the Directors of 'Fire Emblem Heroes': On Events, Design Challenges, and the Possibility of 'Advance Wars' on Mobile, toucharcade.com, Published: September 4th 2017, Retrieved: December 24th 2017
- ↑ Famitsu, 『ファイアーエムブレム無双』双子のオリジナルキャラクターとマルス、クロムが公開！【先出し週刊ファミ通】, famitsu.com, Published: 2017-05-30, Retrieved: 2017-05-30
- ↑ Male Robin & Lissa potentially confirmed
- ↑ Warriors' Awakening
- ↑ VincentASM, Warriors: Famitsu Reveals Cordelia and female Robin, teases Casual/Classic, serenesforest.net, Published: 2017-08-01, Retrieved: 2017-08-17
External links
- Teaser trailer
- ファイアーエムブレム無双 official Japanese website
- 「ファイアーエムブレム無双」公式 official japanese twitter accoumt.
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