A Nintendo Direct for Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave has fleshed out what its gameplay loop looks like and revealed it has more in common with Three Houses than expected.
While there’s far more excitement for the remake of The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time, any updates on that are being kept back for now, as Nintendo is focused on promoting its next big Switch 2 exclusive, in the form of Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave.
Earlier today, Nintendo aired a dedicated Fire Emblem showcase. It was about 22 minutes long and provided the first real details about the game, beyond what the brief trailers showed.
This includes a substantial plot twist in the game’s story, revealing that the initially advertised premise has been something of a deliberate misdirect.
Fortune’s Weave features four distinct protagonists with their own individual story lines, all of which revolve around a gladiatorial event called the Heroic Games, where the winner can have one wish granted.
Most of the Direct was spent on detailing Fortune’s Weave’s tactical gameplay and the various activities you can undertake outside of battle, which will be immediately familiar to any Fire Emblem fan, especially if you’ve played the last two games: Three Houses and Engage.
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Towards the end of the Direct, Nintendo dropped the bombshell that there will be a time skip of five years, where the world is suddenly being invaded by a demon god and its forces.
With the four main protagonists absent, you swap control to ‘the story’s true protagonist;’ a nameless white-haired individual who is summoned to save the world.
What’s more, Nintendo has confirmed what fans already assumed, that the mysterious green-haired woman seen in the initial trailers is an older Sothis, one of the main characters from Three Houses.