- The European release of Fire Emblem: Awakening was confirmed shortly before the Japanese launch. Nintendo of America kept the suspense AGAIN for a couple of months, but the American release ended up being confirmed as well mid-way through the E3 2012. And via Twitter
after THREE conferences without the announcement showing up. Keeping the suspense indeed, but surely Fire Emblem fans went nuts! - Female Mercenaries and Heroes make appearances. This is the first time they've been seen in an internationally-released game. Celebrations were had.
- The surprisingly early release in the U.S. (now Feb.4th) has had fans fangasming for hours. Some European fans even decided "screw it" and will be getting an American 3DS so they don't have to wait.
- European players got something to rejoice over in the "Luigi Special Nintendo Direct": A Limited Edition Bundle with a 3DS XL! Totes worth the wait!
- We now have videos featuring the English voices of the Awakening cast. They don't suck! Even Chrom's voice. Especially Chrom's voice! WOOHOO!
- And for the people who prefer subs over dubs, the game will have dual audio tracks that you can switch at any time.
- SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI X FIRE EMBLEM!!! CUE A MILLION "HELL YES"S!!
- After two years of nothing, Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem resurfaces! And it looks gorgeous!
- And it's coming to Switch in 2020 with new content!
- NEW FIRE EMBLEM GAME! AND IT HAS FEET!
- After people criticized Fire Emblem Awakening for not having a Gay Option, there are Same Sex marriages allowed in this one.
- Gender restrictions have been lifted from classes. That's right, girls can become axefighters and berserkers while guys can ride pegasi and be troubadours.
- After the success of Hyrule Warriors, Koei Tecmo and Nintendo are teaming up again to make Fire Emblem Warriors!
- And it's been confirmed that it'll be released on both Nintendo Switch AND New Nintendo 3DS Systems!
- There's another on the way, following the world of Three Houses as Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes.
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows Of Valentia
- Man, Fire Emblem Gaiden looks so cool. Too bad that it'll probably never release outside of Japa-wait, THEY'RE REMAKING THE GAME FOR NINTENDO 3DS, IT'S BEING RELEASED ONLY A MONTH AFTER THE JAPANESE RELEASE, AND THEY'RE RELEASING AN AMIIBO DOUBLE PACK OF ALM AND CELICA?! YYYEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
- While the previous Fire Emblem games only had full voice acting during important cutscenes, with the rest of the voice acting being voice clips for various situations, this game features fully voiced dialogue for nearly everything in the game, with only a few minor NPCs going unvoiced.
- Some fans were worried that Echoes intentionally dropping some of the mechanics from later games in the series meant that Support Conversations would be absent like in Shadow Dragon. Fortunately, Support Conversations will be added to the game.
- When it was first annouced that there would be a Fire Emblem game for mobile phones, no one was particularly interested and wrote it off. Then when it was officially shown off in the Fire Emblem Direct, it revealed that it was going to feature all of the characters from the previous games! That means not only will the Smash characters and Chrom appear, but also fan-favorites and more obscure characters get a chance to shine! Suddenly, the game's reception went from "apathetic disinterest" to "frothing demand".
- All of the characters have voiced lines! Additionally, many returning characters from Awakening and Fates have their voice actors reprise their roles, and the game even shows who voices each character.
- After almost 3 months of waiting, with him taunting players on the title screen, Ike is finally summonable!
- The reveal that the Choose Your Legends event would not only introduce new versions of the four most popular heroes in the series, but the player gets to choose one of them and get handed a five-star unit on a silver platter.
- Supports are in the game now! They take the form of animations rather than conversation, and you can only have one character support another at a time, but there no limit to who can support with who! Two different versions of the same character (ex: Xander and Summer Xander)? They can support. Cordelia and Chrom? Sure. Valter and Narcian? Why not? Niles and Lukas? You betcha. The possibilities are limitless, and plus your summoner can support with any unit of your choice!
- The Feh Channel presentation for Book III finally introduces the highly requested beast units, set to appear in January 2019—almost two years since launch! Among the first to appear are Tibarn and Nailah, who appeared in the demonstration for the unit type.
- After nearly three years of not having one and lots of outcry and memes begging IS for one, Anna finally gets an alt in 2020's New Year banner, as a red bow infantry.
- People have been wanting Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE characters in the game for a good while but, due to both the initial response and poor sales in spite of being better received upon release, most were doubtful it'd get any acknowledgment outside of Cipher. Then, just as the release of Encore was approaching, it was announced that Itsuki, Tsubasa, Kiria, Ellie, and Mamori would be added into the Gacha, officially making their home game fairplay! As a bonus, this'll also be the first time they and any other potential future characters from Tokyo Mirage Sessions will be voiced in English!
- Starting with the fifth round of Brave heroes, personal skills are given to runner-ups as well as the winners. Seeing your favorite reach second place does not sting as much now.
- The Winter 2021 trailer saw many players overcome with joy due to two characters having bones thrown their way for once: Mirabilis, who was feared to have been forgotten after her fellow álfar got alts while she didn't, and Ignatz, who finally makes an appearance (thus having all starting Three Houses students finally accounted for) to the relief of Golden Deer fans.
- After being the butt of so many memes regarding his absence for quite a while, Boyd finally completes the Greil Mercenaries by having a child version appearing on April 2022.
- Fans of the Warriors games rejoiced when Monica, Holst, and both versions of Shez, exclusives to Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes become playable, joined by a version of Hilda from the same game. Now there's hope that the original characters from the first Fire Emblem Warriors will follow suit some day.
- Finally, a console iteration of Fire Emblem. The first since Radiant Dawn on Wii (12 years between the two).
- The sense of scale has definitely gone up, as battles now feature troops that fight alongside you.
Other
- Starting with the Fire Emblem Amiibo functionality in Code Name: S.T.E.A.M, Marth has an official English voice actor in the form of Yuri Lowenthal, a choice that carries over to every English-released FE game featuring him in the future. And to top it all off, Super Smash Bros. finally followed suit with their latest release. Needless to say, many fans of the Prince of Altea were ecstatic.
- Fire Emblem is getting its own expo!
- After 30 years of staying in Japan, the very first game, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light, will see an English localization and release on Nintendo Switch.
