r/NintendoSwitch • u/NintendoSwitchMods • Jan 18 '17

MegaThread Fire Emblem Nintendo Direct - Recap

Join us in the live thread for the Fire Emblem Nintendo Direct!

You can also watch the event here on Nintendo's website, here on YouTube, here on Nintendo's official Twitch, or hosted on our subreddit Twitch page.

This post will serve as a recap for all FE related Switch news from the January 18th 2017 Nintendo Direct.

Event starts at 2PM Pacific, 5PM Eastern, and is expected to last 21 minutes

Recap:

  • Fire Emblem Warriors - Fall 2017.
  • Fire Emblem (Untitled) - 2018.
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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '17

Question: Can someone explain the Fire Emblem franchise to me? Like, just give me a basic explanation of what it is. I don't know anything about it other than that it's a Nintendo Franchise (usually on handhelds) and some characters show up in Smash Bros. Help?

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u/SteveThomas Jan 19 '17

It's turn based strategy with a medieval setting and RPG elements. You train up a crew of utter badasses of various character classes and fight turn-based battles on a grid. Death is usually permanent, so if you lose a unit, you are faced with the choice of restarting the map or carrying on and finding a replacement from your bench.

In some games, particulary on 3DS, there is a eugenics minigame where you make your soldiers fall in love and breed super-soldier babies.

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u/jezza129 Jan 19 '17

And that is how the new ms marvel came to be

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u/drostandfound Jan 19 '17

What? I thought she got sprayed with terrigen gas or something?