Well, that came a little quicker than expected, didn't it" In yesterday's story about the latest update to Nintendo's Fire Emblem Heroes [Free], we brought word that the game would soon be getting a cross-over event with the characters of the upcoming Nintendo 3DS game Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. Surprise! It's here already. Now is your chance to recruit Alm and some of his most trusted warriors to your team.
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia is a ground-up remake of the second game in the Fire Emblem series, the Japan-only Fire Emblem Gaiden. It was once considered the black sheep of the series due to how many ways it deviated from the mechanics of the first game, but it feels like more and more of its "strange" ideas have made their way back into the series over time. Among its many new ideas, the one that is probably going to be relevant to Fire Emblem Heroes is the fact that the game has two main protagonists. Each of them builds up their army and battles separately from each other for the majority of the game, making it feel a bit like two games in one. The remake, Fire Emblem Echoes, will release in Japan on April 20th, with a worldwide release following nearly one month later on May 19th.
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