Today Nintendo announced that eShop support for Wii U and 3DS platforms will be discontinued as of March 2023. This will have a ripple effect throughout all Nintendo properties, but for Fire Emblem it will have several unfortunate consequences.
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Thanks to Twitter user @GC1_5, for catching this; As of May 23, 2022, You will not be able to add funds using your credit or debit cards to your Nintendo eShop account for the Wii U or 3DS. Additionally, as of August 29, 2022, you will not be able to add funds using Nintendo eShop Cards to your Nintendo eShop account for the Wii U or 3DS.
As for everything specifically that will be lost to time, read below:
These brave souls will clash in a special Voting Gauntlet from 26th February 2022. Like previous years, the winner of the gauntlet will be gifted to all players. Meanwhile, the Top 4 will be featured in a summoning event later.
Also, in case you missed them, we’ve compiled the various voting illustrations posted on social media.
The next Resplendent Hero to drop will be Lukas: Sharp Soldier.
This Emblian-themed version of Lukas will be available for Feh Pass subscribers from 25th February 2022 (UTC). You can check out his artwork (by Ito Misei) and voice samples here.
In addition, the event calendar covering mid February through mid March is here.
Key happenings include New Heroes from 18th February (UTC), the next Legendary Hero on 28th February (UTC) and more Special Heroes on 8th March.
Besides that, the “A Hero Rises” Voting Gauntlet starts on 26th February (UTC).
Please continue for the text version of the calendar.
In today’s Nintendo Direct, we started with a bombshell: Fire Emblem is getting a second Musou (Warriors) game. Seeing as Koei Tecmo did assist with making Three Houses, it’ll be quite the graceful spin from Fire Emblem fare to Warriors fare.
With Age of Calamity‘s massive success for Zelda, not to mention modest success for the original Fire Emblem Warriors, KT and Nintendo saw fit to give us a Three Houses Warriors in a similar vein.
The game weighs at 15.6 GB. Various text languages are included* and there will be English and Japanese dual audio. There is 2 player multi-player (requires 1 Joy-Con each). The Switch Pro Controller is supported.
* German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional). Some languages aren’t available in the physical release (maybe they need to be downloaded?).
Digital editions of the game come with an “Owl Perch” bonus. An owl will appear in your personal quarters; talking to it will give you an Owl Feather, used for gaining support points with allies. This is not included with the physical edition, but may be offered for purchase later on (as DLC).
Japan and Europe, at least, will be receiving limited edition bundles. Both include the game itself, an artbook, tapestry map, set of 5 acrylic figures and a character postcard set.
More details on the Japanese side of things can be found on the game’s official website.
