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Rinea makes her Cipher debut in this new card.

It's well earned, the dev team has been really good at steadily improving the game and listening to player feedback. I would say it's easily the best mobile game that Nintendo has released.

If you compare the sales of Awakening compared to previous entries, you can see that word of mouth played a big part in why it was successful. Generally speaking, Fire Emblem games prior to Awakening sold to the core fanbase, but people outside just didn't get on board. Awakening stayed in top 20 sales charts for a few months, whereas previous games would typically only stick around for about 3 weeks. Saying that "Marketing" is responsible for Awakening being successful and the other games bombing only demonstrates a complete lack of understanding, and intellectual laziness.

I would be pretty amused if after the mage sisters were added, Ishtar still didn't make the cut. I was thinking about berserk Ike, and I wonder if he and feral laguz would be a good way to introduce monster units to the green sets?

Having evil heroes isn't new, Series 8 had Risen King Chrom. I'm glad they do this with the lords, because having so many versions of the same character just gets so boring after awhile.

Some interesting cards shown today, the mage sisters from FE4, Excellus, and a chaos infected Ike.

So I'm part way through chapter 2, and I'm really enjoying it so far. So far I think the first couple hours have been stronger than those of the previous 2 games.

I could maybe see a special banner when the Zelda mobile game releases, but not something that would a common occurrence.

And today Lyon makes his Cipher debut.

Probably not that much honestly, a designer from Namco designed some original Blades for the game, so they probably discussed it then.

Shit just got real.

Awesome. Happy Birthday Jingle Jangle!

Kusakihara is also did unit design for Echoes (alongside directing the game itself).

A fancy story trailer to drive up hype before Friday's release.

I don't think it would be a good idea, all 3 FE remake has sold less copies than their original version domestically. Add in the additional costs of HD development, and it just doesn't make business sense. Release them on virtual console, but NCL and IS shouldn't spend resources on remaking them.

Kozaki still killing it with his design work.

They don't, the XB version is only for the west, Japan only gets Switch and PS4.

Amazing that the PC release of VC saved the franchise, but they didn't even announce this for it.

There will be salt regardless, so bring it on I say.

I was actually thinking the same thing.

That's pretty standard attire for this series, you've got women from cold nations like Ilia and Silesia running around in mini skirts and fetish boots since the 90's.

I kind of wish that Surtr and Fjorm were reversed. There are already so many cute girls in Heroes, whereas tough intimidating guys are much more sparse.

It's hard to say, Kozaki is a real celebrity artist compared to the others working on the game, so his schedule is incredibly busy. He used to do a lot of illustrations for Fire Emblem Cipher, but he also rarely contributes to it these days.

The new original characters were all designed and illustrated by Shigeki Maeshima.

Artwork for all 4 original characters via Dengeki.