History VideoGame / FireEmblemAkaneia

* MayflyDecemberFriendship: The manaketes Gotoh, Xane, Bantu, and Tiki all befriend Marth. Needless to say, they all outlive him--the first three even outlived Marth's ancestor Anri. In a conversation with Xane, he mentions this as a reason why he has trouble connecting with humans.

-->'''Malledus:''' ''"Sire... You must live. Drink deeply now of these injustices; sip on these slights they serve. Remember them!"''

* GrayAndGrayMorality: The first trailer for Echoes showcases this between Rigel and Zofia. Both nations follow their god's strengths, but both nations have done so to excess, leaving neither one morally superior.

* ''Fire Emblem Gaiden'' (Famicom, 1992) is the second game, taking place in the same world as the first game but on the fairly distant continent of Valentia, and its plot has minimal relation to that of the first game. [[OddballInTheSeries It's the odd duck of the series]], playing quite differently and featuring a lot of unique gameplay elements that haven't been seen outside the rare [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual successors]] like ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'', ''VideoGame/TearRingSaga'', and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''. A FanTranslation was completed in November 2009.

* UnbuiltTrope: Surprisingly, several elements of ''Gaiden's'' plot look like radical deconstructions or subversions of typical Fire Emblem cliches, but the game was only the ''second'' in the series.
** Rigel and Zofia deconstruct the [[BlackAndWhiteMorality small, peaceful nation is invaded by warmongering evil empire]] convention, before it became fully established in the series. While Rigel is militaristic, [[GreyAndGreyMorality Zofia isn't squeaky-clean either]]: their peaceful, prosperous lifestyle led to them becoming [[TheHedonist decadent and corrupt]]. You end up fighting antagonists from both countries, and if anything the Zofian villains come off worse.
** Rudolph was the first TinTyrant in the series. To people who's played later games, it comes as a major shock that [[spoiler: he's actually an AntiVillain and AFatherToHisMen, whose villainy was a ZeroApprovalGambit to create a hero who would unite the world by killing him.]] Similarly, Duma, the series first true GodOfEvil [[spoiler: isn't really all that evil. He [[GracefulLoser accepts his defeat by the heroes gracefully]] and wishes them luck for the future, imploring them to not make the same mistakes he did.]]

* UnbuiltTrope: Surprisingly, several elements of ''Gaiden's'' plot look like radical deconstructions or subversions of typical Fire Emblem cliches, but the game was only the ''second'' in the series.
** Rigel and Zofia deconstruct the [[BlackAndWhiteMorality small, peaceful nation is invaded by warmongering evil empire]] convention, before it became fully established in the series. While Rigel is militaristic, [[GreyAndGreyMorality Zofia isn't squeaky-clean either]]: their peaceful, prosperous lifestyle led to them becoming [[TheHedonist decadent and corrupt]]. You end up fighting antagonists from both countries, and if anything the Zofian villains come off worse.
** Rudolph was the first TinTyrant in the series. To people who's played later games, it comes as a major shock that [[spoiler: he's actually an AntiVillain and AFatherToHisMen, whose villainy was a ZeroApprovalGambit to create a hero who would unite the world by killing him.]] Similarly, Duma, the series first true GodOfEvil [[spoiler: isn't really all that evil. He [[GracefulLoser accepts his defeat by the heroes gracefully]] and wishes them luck for the future, imploring them to not make the same mistakes he did.]]

* ''Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia'' (UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, 2017) is a semi-[[VideoGameRemake remake]]/reimagining of ''Fire Emblem Gaiden'' being developed in the ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Awakening]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Fates]]'' engine.

* ''Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia'' (UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, 2017) is a semi-[[VideoGameRemake remake]] of ''Fire Emblem Gaiden''.

* ''Fire Emblem Gaiden'' (Famicom, 1992) is the second game, taking place in the same world as the first game but on the fairly distant continent of Valentia, and its plot has minimal relation to that of the first game. [[OddballInTheSeries It's the odd duck of the series]], playing quite differently and featuring a lot of unique gameplay elements that haven't been seen outside the rare [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual successors]] like ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'', ''VideoGame/TearRingSaga'', and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''. A FanTranslation was completed in November 2009. A 3DS remake was announced as the first game in the Echoes sunseries.

* ''Fire Emblem Gaiden'' (Famicom, 1992) is the second game, taking place in the same world as the first game but on the fairly distant continent of Valentia, and its plot has minimal relation to that of the first game. [[OddballInTheSeries It's the odd duck of the series]], playing quite differently and featuring a lot of unique gameplay elements that haven't been seen outside the rare [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual successors]] like ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'', ''VideoGame/TearRingSaga'', and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''. A FanTranslation was completed in November 2009.

The original ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' timeline, and by far the one most prolific in the franchise, sporting a respectable three main games, two remakes, four UsefulNotes/{{Satellaview}} maps, an {{OVA}} and countless manga adaptations. [[MarthDebutedInSmashBros Yes, these are the ones with Marth]].

* ''Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem, Heroes of Light and Shadow'' (UsefulNotes/NintendoDS, 2010), generally counted as the twelfth title, is a remake of Book 2 of ''Mystery of the Emblem''. Unlike ''Shadow Dragon'', it is far less of a direct redo; it reincorporates characters left out of the original ''Mystery'', introduces those from the Satellaview chapters and ''Shadow Dragon'', alters the story slightly and implements a completely new subplot, as well as the inclusion of a [[HelloInsertNameHere player-created]] [[PlayerCharacter character]] (a feature which would be carried over to the next two entries in the series, ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Awakening]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Fates]]''). It includes remakes of the four ''BS Fire Emblem'' chapters as bonus content, as well as all-new bonus chapters as downloadable content. For reasons unknown, [[NoExportForYou it didn't receive an English release]], but as of November 2012, there is a [[http://www.heroesofshadow.net/2012/11/complete-translation-patch-released.html complete fan translation]].
* ''Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows Of Valentia'' (UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, May 19, 2017) is a semi-[[VideoGameRemake remake]] of ''Fire Emblem Gaiden''.

Also present in the Archanea canon are countless manga retellings, as well as a two-episode anime {{OVA}} adaptation of ''Mystery of the Emblem''. It actually ''was'' dubbed and released in the US by Creator/ADVFilms, long before ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' happened, but remains quite obscure.

* AdaptationExpansion: The Nintendo DS remakes to the original Famicom games, but ''New Mystery of the Emblem'' in particular.

** ''Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valencia'' is [[VideoGameRemake an HD remake]] for the Nintendo [=3DS=].

* ''Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows Of Valentia'' (UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, May 19, 2017) is a semi-remake of ''Fire Emblem Gaiden''.

11 years onward, the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS saw two remakes of Marth's adventures. 7 years later, another remake would come, this time telling Alm and Celica's adventure:

* ''Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows Of Valentia'' (UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, May 19, 2017) is a remake of ''Fire Emblem Gaiden''.

11 years onward, the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS saw two remakes of Marth's adventures:

* LostForever: The Falchion in ''Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light'' and ''Mystery of the Emblem''. [[EleventhHourSuperpower You know, the sword that is pretty much the only way to win the game]]? ''Shadow Dragon'' fixes that by giving you a weaker version if you fail to get the actual Falchion and let Tiki (the other primary way to beat the final boss) die, though in the remake the Falchion isn't necessary to beat the boss. If, for example, Marth was barely used throughout the game and thus still of a low level, it's still possible to complete the final chapter with said low-level Marth sitting on a fort to prevent reinforcements spawning while others take down the boss. Even in the original, it was possible to [[DeathOfAThousandCuts cut him]] [[CherryTapping to death]].

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: But Manaketes aren't really any better.
* JustAKid: Samson, [[spoiler:Michalis, and Hardin]] all dismiss Marth this way at some point in ''Mystery of the Emblem''.

* VendorTrash: In the DS remakes, there are items called 'Bullion' which serve only as this with three different values depending on its size.
** In ''Mystery of the Emblem'' Book 2, you can obtain three silver axes over the course of the whole campaign; however, there are NO units that can actually equip them, thus rendering them little more than free gold. Towards the tail-end of Chapter 20 you obtain the Gradivus, the strongest lance in the game -- when the next chapter is the only place the player can effectively use it before the final chapter. Normally, knights, and cavaliers (and their promoted classes) can equip the Gradivus assuming they have sufficient weapon skill. Unfortunately, Cavaliers can only wield lances when mounted, and they are forced to dismount indoors and fight with swords, and to make things worse, the final chapter is ''entirely indoors''. This leaves the two knights (Draug and Sheema), who are unfortunately very subpar units and not worth using in the last level. This often results in players either using the Gradivus exclusively in Chapter 21 and/or selling it so they can buy the higher quality swords, tomes, and [[RareCandy stat-boosting]] items.
* YouMonster: Marth calls Gharneff a monster in chapter 23 [[spoiler: when the latter congratulates him for killing Camus and Michalis]].

** Some classes in Dark Dragon and the Sword of Light couldn't promote, even ones that had an obvious class that they would promote into already in the game. Fighters, Pirates, and Thieves simply had nothing to promote into, while Knights and Hunters were unable to promote despite Generals and Horsemen already existing in the game. Remakes have since fixed this, however, by implementing proper promotions for Knights, Hunters, Fighters, and Pirates, and allowing Thieves and other classes without promoted forms to reach level 30 as compensation.

** Some classes in Dark Dragon and the Sword of Light couldn't promote, even ones that had an obvious class that they would promote into already in the game. Fighters, Pirates, and Thieves simply had nothing to promote into, while Knights and Hunters were unable to promote despite Generals and Horsemen already existing in the game. Remakes have since changed this, however.

** [[NoExperiencePointsForMedic Using healing staves didn't yield EXP in the original]]; instead, healers could only gain [=EXP=] and level up by ''surviving being attacked''. On the upside, the [=EXP=] yield per battle survived is equivalent to having ''killed'' the enemy that attacked them, which leads to an unintentional PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling of sorts for your healers in Chapter 3, by abusing a Thief standing adjacent to a fortress, allowing you to quickly—and relatively safely—boost your healers all the way up to the level cap of 20 very early in the game.

* LostForever: The Falchion in ''Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light'' and ''Mystery of the Emblem''. [[EleventhHourSuperpower You know, the sword that is pretty much the only way to win the game]]? ''Shadow Dragon'' fixes that by giving you a weaker version if you fail to get the actual Falchion and let Tiki (the other primary way to beat the final boss) die, though in the remake the Falchion isn't necessary to beat the boss. If, for example, Marth was barely used throughout the game and thus still of a low level, it's still possible to complete the final chapter with said low-level Marth sitting on a fort to prevent reinforcements spawning while others take down the boss. Even in the original, it was possible to [[DeathOfAThousandCuts cut]] [[CherryTapping him to death]].

** Using healing staves didn't yield [=EXP=] in the original; instead, healers could only gain [=EXP=] and level up by ''surviving being attacked''. On the upside, the [=EXP=] yield per battle survived is equivalent to having ''killed'' the enemy that attacked them, which leads to an unintentional PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling of sorts for your healers in Chapter 3, by abusing a Thief standing adjacent to a fortress, allowing you to quickly—and relatively safely—boost your healers all the way up to the level cap of 20 very early in the game.

** [[RareCandy Stat boosters]] were a lot more potent than their future counterparts, which made them downright excessive when combined with Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light's much smaller stat scale. Most stat boosters give in the ballpark of +4 to +7 to their respective stats, with the outlying Dracoshield (+3 Defense) and Seraph Robe (+9 Max HP). The most egregious, however, despite falling inside the general range, is the Boots, which give a whopping ''+4 Movement'', which, in practice, is a ''much'' bigger improvement than an additional four points in any other stat. Shadow Dragon, of course, syncs the stat boosters up with their modern counterparts, making them significantly more balanced.

** [[RareCandy Stat boosters]] were a lot more potent than their future counterparts, which made them downright excessive when combined with Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light's much smaller stat scale. Most stat boosters give in the ballpark of +4 to +7 to their respective stats, with the outlying Dracoshield (+3 Defense) and Seraph Robe (+9 Max HP). The most egregious, however, despite falling inside the general range, is the Boots, which give a whopping ''+4 Movement'', which, in practice, is a ''much'' bigger impact than an additional four points in any other stat.

** Stat boosters were a lot more potent than their future counterparts, which made them downright excessive when combined with Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light's much smaller stat scale. Most stat boosters give in the ballpark of +4 to +7 to their respective stats, with the outlying Dracoshield (+3 Defense) and Seraph Robe (+9 Max HP). The most egregious, however, despite falling inside the general range, is the Boots, which give a whopping ''+4 Movement'', which, in practice, is a ''much'' bigger impact than an additional four points in any other stat.