Archive for August 2016

Cipher Summer Livestream: S6 Cards, New Artwork, & S8 Announcement!

August 28, 2016 FE Cipher, Headliners, News 2 comments

On Saturday, August 27th, the Fire Emblem Cipher team hosted the Summer Cipher Livestream on NicoNico. The stream focused on showing off some cards from the upcoming Series 6 and talking about the recent Cipher Caravan events, but it also showed off some new artwork for Series 7 and made a formal announcement for Series 8.

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The stream was hosted by Cipher producer Ryoto Kawade, and he was joined by Eri Suzuki (Soleil’s Japanese VA) and Young (with Intelligent Systems). After some opening banter, Kawade formally announced that Genealogy of the Holy War would soon be released on the new Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console in Japan.

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In fact, not long after the stream aired, Genealogy was swiftly added to the Virtual Console, joining the ranks of Dark Dragon and Sword of Light, Gaiden and Mystery of the Emblem as other retro Fire Emblems available to play on Japanese 3DS systems (the latter, being a Super Famicom title, is likewise exclusive to the new 3DS).

Afterward, discussion then turned to the Cipher Caravan events that had just finished up the previous weekend. Many photos were shared, and the final winning colours for the Caravan Derby were announced. The events seemed to be a great success! Hopefully we will see more special Cipher events held in the future.

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Cipher S6 Weekly Recap: First Daily Reveals & Other New Cards

August 26, 2016 FE Cipher, News No comments

Now that the Caravan Events have come to a close, the Fire Emblem Cipher team has turned its attention to the upcoming Series 6 release. The @fecipher twitter account has been active all week sharing new cards, starting with the Series’ headliner Lords: Sigurd from Genealogy of the Holy War and Xander from Fire Emblem Fates.

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Sigurd’s artwork has been shown off a lot in promotional materials, but the card’s official release confirms that this card will be an exclusive to the S6 Structured Deck.

Xander’s card is completely new and it has some interesting text, including a reference to “Face-Up Orbs”. As this is not something that exists in the game’s current state, it is likely hinting at a new game mechanic, possibly related to the Dragon Vein mechanic that was teased in a recent interview with the Cipher producers.

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Cipher: Japanese Code Giveaway Round 1 Results

August 23, 2016 News No comments

We have a few updates regarding our FE Cipher Japanese Code Giveaway, including the winners of the first round.

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Following Bernie_man123, a number of very generous users donated their unwanted Cipher codes to the prize pool. A big thanks to wobblinghood, Kirie, DancingDanny and geozeldadude!

Originally we had 5 codes to hand out, but now we have 14 (and at least 2 of each unique code), which is a lot more than we could’ve expected!

Because there are so many codes, and to improve the odds of entrants winning at least one code, there will be at least two draws–the first of which already took place yesterday.

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Vestaria Saga Official Website

August 21, 2016 Headliners, News, Vestaria Saga 14 comments

Today, Shouzou Kaga unveiled the official website for Vestaria Saga, ahead of its release in exactly a month’s time.

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Note: All images belong to Shouzou Kaga.

Like the game itself, the website isn’t exactly the most pretty thing ever, since Kaga developed it in his spare time for free. However it does its job well, providing helpful information about the game.

Now, there’s a lot to digest, so to save time (and my sanity), I’ll merely summarise the pages and point out the key details.

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