Archive for April 2022

Merchandise: Three Houses x SuperGroupies “5 Years Later” Range

Fire Emblem collectors, we hope your piggy banks are still in one piece… For the 4th year in a row (and slightly earlier than usual), Super Groupies is teaming up with Three Houses to produce more high-end fashion gear.

This time, they’re releasing themed collaboration bags inspired by various characters during the War Phase (5 years later). The character line up is as follows: Linhardt, Bernadetta, Felix, Sylvain, Lysithea, Hilda and Yuri.

Pre-orders are open until 16th May 2022; orders will be shipped around mid-September 2022.

Linhardt Shoulder Bag – 14,300 Yen (w/ tax)

(More images can be found via the product page.)

Immediately catching the eye is the unique quilted design on the flap.
The wide bag strap and tassel charm are inspired by Linhardt’s clothing.
The striking contrast of black and green brings Linhardt’s outfit to mind.
The roomy main compartment comfortably fits 500mL bottles and long wallets.
Original lining design: motifs include the initials of his name, a book and fishing pole to reflect his love of reading and fishing, his lost item of a feather pillow, and some of his favorite tasty baked treats.
Avoid fussiness and optimize organization with the additional open pocket and zippered pocket inside.
The zipper pull on the internal pocket comes with a charm featuring the Crest of Cethleann.

Product description.

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Heroes: More Genealogy Children Join Alongside Ascended Ishtar!

More characters from Generation 2 of Genealogy of the Holy War will appear in the Fire Emblem Heroes “New Heroes & Ascended Ishtar” summoning event, which starts on 18th April 2022 (UTC).

Note: You can check out the Japanese version of this trailer here.

The featured Heroes are Tine, Arthur (Friege siblings), Scáthach (Larcei’s twin brother) and Ascended Ishtar.

Additionally, Hilda: Queen of Friege will be available from the next Grand Hero Battle.

(By the way, a sprite for Gronnvulture was recently data-mined.)

Please continue for a breakdown of the Heroes from the trailer!

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Three Hopes: Analysis of the “Mysterious Mercenary” Trailer

Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes arrives in 2 month’s time, give or take. Ahead of its release, Nintendo and Koei Tecmo shared a 2nd trailer, which offers new insight on the mysterious purple haired character featured in the key artwork.

Lo and behind, they pulled a fast one on us! Previously thought to be a potential rival and/or antagonist, this character–Shez–is actually the protagonist of the game! Meanwhile, Byleth, only referred to as the “Ashen Demon” (his/her title from Three Houses) is the antagonist (so far).

As promised, I’ll be providing an analysis of the trailer. That said, our resident Warriors expert is currently busy and I’m not very familiar with Warriors gameplay, so I won’t be able to comment much about that.

Firstly, let’s quickly go through what we know about the protagonist, Shez.

In case you missed it, here’s their bio (from here):

A solitary mercenary. They sought to become a famed swordsman, but faced Jeralt’s Mercenaries during a fateful mission. They were defeated by the Ashen Demon. While training to seek revenge for their defeat, they met the Officer’s Academy students in the woods.

Like Byleth in Three Houses, you can choose to play as male or female Shez. As we’ve previously seen, Shez dual wields swords, including that suspicious silver relic-like weapon.

We don’t know the name of their sword, but do know their apparent starting class: Fluegel. The meaning of this seems to be “wing” in German, but I doubt there’s too much significance, because FE likes to borrow fancy names all the time.

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Three Hopes: New “Mysterious Mercenary” Trailer!

Out of nowhere, Nintendo has dropped a new trailer for Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, which releases on 24th June 2022.

A full analysis of the trailer from us will be coming later.

Amusingly, it seems the earlier Amazon Japan screenshots (which were taken down) originate from this trailer. Presumably, those screenshots were meant to be added after the trailer.

Update: Japanese trailer can be viewed here.

Additionally, the Japanese website has been updated with the new information from the trailer.

Besides that, the Japanese Twitter has shared profiles for the protagonist and their Sothis counterpart.

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