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Echoes: English Series 2 & 3 DLC Out Now!

May 25, 2017 FE Echoes, News 4 comments

The second wave of DLC for Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia is now live in NA and PAL regions! You can now download both Pack 2 “Undaunted Heroes” and Pack 3 “Lost Altars”. All players can also download “Mila’s Bounty 2” for free!

Pack 2 contains three high level grinding maps where players can earn goodies.”Wealth Before Health” rewards players with Silver and Gold Marks. The “Inner Sanctum” map contains Starshards that can be combined into a Starsphere that gives massive growth boosts. Finally, “Lords of the Grave” has monsters that give loads of experience!

Pack 3 consists of ten special shrines with altars that enable characters to promote into their Overclass. VincentASM already wrote up a detailed description of the Overclass benefits in this article here. The English names for the Overclasses are Skogul, Spartan, Harrier, Enchantress, Exemplar, Yasha, Oliphantier, Guru, Rigain, and Conqueror.

Lastly, Mila’s Bounty 2 contains a Pitchfork item (Villager’s Fork in Japanese) that allows you to reclass any non-Lord character into a Villager.This gives you access to more reclassing opportunities for your characters.

The English release of the next DLC pack, “Rise of the Deliverance”, falls next week on June 1st. Pack 5 does not have a finalized international release date as of yet, but the Japanese release date is June 22nd.

Heroes & Echoes: Rite of Shadows Banner Revealed + Free Echoes DLC!

May 12, 2017 FE Heroes, News 11 comments

Nintendo Mobile’s YouTube channel just released a new trailer for Fire Emblem Heroes! The trailer reveals the new characters that will be available in next week’s new banner: Rite of Shadows. It also gives a sneak peak at the accompanying Story Mode chapters. Check it out below! The new banner and chapters will go live on 15 May at 8:00am UTC.

As expected, the banner will focus on characters from Fire Emblem Echoes, this time from Celica’s army. The four new heroes are Celica, Boey, Mae, and Genny, three tome-users and one staff-user. Each comes with at least one new weapon or skill, as well. Detailed descriptions can be found below.

Additionally, @FireEmblemJP announced a surprise gift today for Echoes players! As a celebration of tomorrow’s Fire Emblem Cipher livestream, “Gift from the Goddess 4” can now be downloaded for free on Japanese copies of the game. The DLC includes a Villager’s Fork item, which allows you to reclass non-Lord units into Villagers.

The Cipher livestream will include some further information about the Cipher collaboration DLC that will be available for Echoes. In addition to the datamined crossover DLC featuring the Cipher mascot characters, some DLC will also be included as a bonus in the Series 9 structured deck, which features cards of Echoes characters.

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Echoes: Free DLC + Dengeki Staff Interview

April 27, 2017 FE Echoes, News 8 comments

Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia has been out for a week in Japan now. Starting today, players can download “Gift from the Goddess 2”, which grants a rare Villager’s Fork item, but only once per save.

When equipped with this item (which cannot be found in-game), any character who isn’t Alm or Celica can Class Change to a Villager at a Mila Shrine, allowing them to explore other class paths and gain more Levels.

In related news, Kirokan has kindly translated a rather lengthy interview with the Echoes development staff from the June 2016 issue of Dengeki, which came out recently. You can read it on Kirokan’s website, or over on our forums.

You may have already seen an out-of-context quote from this interview posted on various gaming sites; if so, we definitely recommend reading the entire interview (or at least the relevant parts) to see what the developers really meant.

Besides that, the interview provides a lot of insight not just for Echoes, but for the well-being and future of the series. There’s even a sneaky mention of the abandoned real-time Fire Emblem game.

A special thanks to Kirie for sharing the interview!