It's been two decades, you would think they would at least try to translate Binding Blade for Switch Online. Of course, they didn't translate the Jugdral Games for SNES online, so I'm not surprised.
Maybe within two or three years, but I wouldn't really get my hopes up for it. The series isn't exactly as enthusiastic as Game Freak is when it comes to producing remakes
That still gets me. Nearly a decade of Fire Emblem games never came stateside, and yet they still can't be assed to actively remake them or even localize them for emulation services. It's wasted opportunities, I say, especially in comparison to remaking a Pokemon game that had worldwide release, even if it's old.
The same person who leaked Engage also said an FE4 remake was on the works, so if they aren't wrong about that then hopefully the game will not come out right as the switch's successor releases like it happened with Echoes (then again, i can hardly feel excited for an FE4 remake when i know full well it's going to be censored to hell and back if we take Engage as an example)
If I'm right, the series was more or less an dying franchise before it even hit the states.
Well, localization shouldn't take anything more than an few months if you exclude the voice acting. But they're also been kind of inactive, lately; so who knows what's going on with IntSys
Yeah, I keep hearing this rumor ever since Engage was announced. As great as it would be to see Sigurd getting burnt to an crisp and the recent trend of Nintendo's franchises celebrating the past; it's something that I don't actually believe in.
Fire Emblem has always been really bad about this. Thracia 776 released on the Super Famicon three years into the lifetime of the Nintendo 64, Fire Emblem 64 was outright cancelled and reworked into Binding Blade on the GBA, Sacred Stones was released in Japan not even a month before the worldwide release of the DS and then it took half a year to release Stateside (JP Release was October 2004, DS released in November, and the NA release wasn't until May 2005), and of course Shadows of Valentia being made in the last year of the 3DS. I'd be shocked if the hypothetical Genealogy remake didn't release at the ass-end of the Switch's lifespan
They outsourced BDSP to a mobile game developer.
Full honesty, I'd rather play 3H than Engage.
It was a fun game, but I really didn't like what it did with Claude. I understand that people felt he lacked any real ethical shortcomings, but turning him into a tyrant who decides to join Edelgard, even after the Empire's unprovoked invasion, specifically to kill Rhea for basically existing, felt really wrong to me.
Considering his prior position was Open Borders and Decentralization I think they just never had a clear idea of why Claude should even be there. With Dimitri and Edelgard you have Good Kingdom versus Evil Empire but also the Empire has a good argument, but Claude? I don’t even know, besides some pretense to being unaligned.
That whole route and the second half of Azure Gleam felt weird. Scarlet Blaze was the decent one out of the three, even though that has shortcomings.
Honestly, I didn't think Azure Gleam was that bad compared to how people reacted to it. I wish there was a battle against Hegemon Edelgard, but the idea of the Agarthans actively seizing control of Adrestia when given the opportunity and reason wasn't that farfetched to me, especially compared to the original game basically handwaving away Edie's alliance with them with a basic "and then Edelgard killed her principal benefactors without major issue after the war." Aside from the plot points, I also found it really cathartic to beat Thales to a pulp with Dimitri and let Bernie kill her horrendous excuse of a father.
Really, how so? I thought it had a strong first half but fell apart once Thales controls Edelgard.
Edelgard is not a good person, but a big part of her backstory was that the Agarthans were using her as a plaything. The idea of Thales taking actions to resume that structure with force at Arianrhod wasn't that offensive to me, and I consider the ending scene of Dimitri simply leaving Edelgard in the Chapel to actually have a purpose of showing him unwilling to kill her but also being unable to bring himself to forgive her and return things to where they were. I also just accept that Fire Emblem is an anime, so you have to accept regular anime conventions of storytelling and remember that Kaga really loved his mind control plots and the idea of people's consciences being trapped while the body was the plaything of something else is nothing new, so the Secret Chapter wasn't too offensive to me.
