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Fire Emblem Warriors Free Trial for Japanese and Hong Kong Switch Online Members 1/20 through 1/26

Fire Emblem fans who have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription for a Japanese or Hong Kong region account have the opportunity to trial run Fire Emblem Warriors between 20th and 26th January 2020.

Here’s the Japanese trailer announcing the game trial.

Nintendo Hong Kong also shared an article with the same offer for their region.

Similar to the game trials for Mario Tennis Aces in the West and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker in Japan, fans can download the full game and play it within the specified dates. Afterwards, they must purchase the game if they wish to continue playing.

To qualify for the game trial, you must have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription active on a Japanese or Hong Kong region account. You can’t simply cheat by switching accounts (like for the Famicom apps).

That said, if you have a family plan with a spare slot, you could add a Japanese or Hong Kong region account to it. Alternatively, you could purchase a Nintendo Switch Online 7 day free trial for 100 Platinum Coins from the Japanese My Nintendo website (Nintendo states that this will work).

Once the game trial period is active, there will be a separate download link near the top of the game’s eShop product page (where the blue arrow is).

As a note from someone who has played both the Japanese and English versions of this game, the Japanese version does not have English language support unlike say Dynasty Warriors 9.

Additionally, between 20th January and 2nd February, both the game itself as well as the season pass (which contains all three DLC packs) will be discounted by 40%. This deal will only be available via the Japanese and Hong Kong eShops.

Each DLC pack comes with 3 history maps, 3 playable characters and several new weapon additions (including abilities and skills). As well as several new mission types sprinkled all over. Basically, there’s lots of contents for you to challenge.

To see a brief demonstration of the three DLC packs, please check these links:

If you’re interested to know my initial thoughts on the game back in 2017, when it first launched, you can read my review of the Japanese version.

Team FE Presents Extra Life: Day 2, Nov. 10 11a – 11p PT

If you were able to tune in on November 3rd for Extra Life’s official Game Day event, you may recall the charity livestream featuring shenanigans from well known Fire Emblem players such as KirbymastaH and Gwimpage. With generous support, we were able to raise $1765 $1865! on our first day, which is absolutely amazing!

Day 2 is planned to start in about 15 minutes, can be viewed at our collaborative Twitch Channel, rFireEmblemHeroes, and will feature quite a lot of activity, including double the Voice Actor appearance and even more games.

If you have any interest in joining, then you’ll see some exciting participation as we’re joined by the following Voice Actors:

Additionally, our player roster leads off with the infamous Abdallah, starting things off with Fire Emblem Awakening, and will also feature our very own Raven, General Horace, and even Kyle McCarley himself.

If you’d like to be eligible to win a prize, feel free to donate to our cause, which of course, benefits Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals in the US. Prizes will be displayed in a slideshow during the stream, so check em out. Spoilers…one of the prizes is artwork created and donated by FE Heroes character artist Soeda Ippei!

The above image has our full timeline schedule, so join when you can and say hello!

For more details:

  • You can find more about Extra Life here
  • You can read the first post about this year’s event here
  • You can find Reddit’s first blogpost about the event here
  • For links on Prizes and donation logic, and other event details through Reddit, you can find it all here

Fire Emblem Warriors: Final Interview with Nintendo Dream

We have ourselves yet another Nintendo Dream article to decode!

In this “final interview” from the June issue of Nintendo Dream released on April 21st 2018, we have a behind the scenes look following the release of the third and final DLC pack.

Translation by VincentASM. Special thanks to Christian Ponte/@TheTanooki for providing the images!

Warning: There are spoilers for the endgame!

Left: Hiroya Usuda — Team NINJA brand senior leader. Director for Hyrule Warriors 3DS and Fire Emblem Warriors.
Right: Yosuke Hayshi — Koei Tecmo’s Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer, Team NINJA brand leader. Involved with Hyrule Warriors 3DS and Fire Emblem Warriors.

Nintendo Dream: What are your thoughts now that you’ve finished development of the DLC?

Usuda: “It’s over; that was long” is what I’m honestly thinking. At the very beginning, we were working with the 3DS version of Hyrule Warriors as a base, and we had Link running around in this very early, rough version. Roughly half a year has passed since the game’s launch and we’ve created many DLC characters for everyone to use. We received opinions via Twitter and enjoyed reading fans’ reactions after the release. In addition, we progressed onto the DLC, where we enjoyed communicating with fans, while thinking of what to do next.

Hayashi: I’m very grateful for all the fans who praised the game and affirmed our expectations. Also, now that the DLC is over, I feel like there’s finally a great variety of weapons.

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Fire Emblem Warriors Ships 1 Million Copies, Plus SF and Reddit Q/A Giveaways

As of last Thursday, Koei Tecmo’s last financial report has something quite interesting to note: the fact that Fire Emblem Warriors has shipped over 1 million copies worldwide (this is counting both the Switch and N3DS versions together).

Art by Kyra Walker

Using some old data from ZhugeEx, who was comparing the then new Hyrule Warriors sales to that of Dynasty Warriors of the time, we can see where we stand in comparison somewhat Warriors game sales tend to be erratic as it’s a fairly niche market. We’ve got some numbers from the same financial report about Dynasty Warriors 9 and Attack on Titan 2 (even if that differs in the gameplay department to my knowledge). Read more