A New Fire Emblem game titled Fire Emblem IF for the Nintendo 3DS was announced during the Nintendo Direct session on Wednesday. It’s being developed by Intelligent Systems with character designs by Yusuke Kozaki, and also features a story by Shin Kibayashi, the author who provided the original idea for the Kindaichi Case Files manga. The Fire Emblem series is Nintendo’s big strategy-RPG series that has captivated fans with its epic stories and lovable characters.
A trailer featuring gameplay and CG animation was also revealed:
Fire Emblem is a fantasy tactical role-playing video game franchise developed by Nintendo’s Intelligent Systems division and published by Nintendo as a first-party title, first appearing on the Famicom. The Fire Emblem series is well known for its innovation and for being one of the first Eastern style tactical role-playing games, with a strong emphasis on Western forms of medieval fantasy. The series is also renowned for having deeply developed characters, as well as the fact that most units’ death or defeat in battle is permanent in the game until the end of the play-through. The series currently spans thirteen games, and has been released on the Family Computer, Super Famicom, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Wii and Nintendo 3DS.
All games in the series were exclusive to Japan until 2003, when the seventh game in the series was released internationally under the title Fire Emblem, largely due to the popularity of Fire Emblem characters Marth and Roy in Super Smash Bros. Melee. Fire Emblem was designed specifically with newcomers to the series in mind, and the first ten chapters were structured in a manner that eased newcomers into the gameplay. All Fire Emblem games produced since have also been released internationally, except for Fire Emblem: Shin Monshou no Nazo: Hikari to Kage no Eiyuu on the Nintendo DS.
