Nintendo’s Newest Fire Emblem Is a Sprawling Book of Stories
OK, so I’ve never been much of a Fire Emblem guy. Nintendo’s long-running fantasy strategy game series first came out around the same time as Advance Wars (2003). On the old Game Boy Advance, I liked its similar turn-based style but fuzzed out on the fantasy drama. But Fortune’s Weave, the newest in a long series of Fire Emblem games coming out this week as a Switch 2 exclusive, has a story I actually got into. Four, actually.
I’ve come in and out of the series over time, peeking in on the last few games that arrived on the Switch. Fire Emblem: Three Houses impressed me with its extended story flow, and it was critically acclaimed, but it was too academy-focused for me. Fire Emblem Engage, a more recent one, was more about the battles. But I lost interest in that, too.
Fortune’s Weave goes back to epic story,...
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