Family Fire Emblem-y love is in the air

Ah Valentine's Day. What a lovely day of loving loveable people. Except for those of us who don't have a significant other to spoil in that romantic kind of way. Like me! For us, there's only one way to celebrate this most commercial day of love: Playing Fire Emblem Heroes. Naturally. Greil — Heroic Exemplar …

Arrival of the Brave 2: Electric Boogaloo

When Fire Emblem Heroes first came out, the biggest draw to the game was the fact that characters from every game in the series would be available in one place. To prove their commitment to that ideal, Intelligent Systems posed a contest. Everyone who enjoyed Fire Emblem could vote on their favorite heroes from any …

Hector’s Here in Heroes (again)

I see your game, Intelligent Systems. First you drop the new summer units banner. Then you release an intriguing Death Blow skill-focused banner. Then you re-release last year's two summer banners at the same time. Just a few days later, you drop this on us. A brand new Legendary Hero banner. Following the Legendary Ryoma …

Legendary Lyn and the Lime-colored Longbow

Everybody here likes alliteration, right? Time to ring the bell, as once again we have a brand new Legendary Hero to usher in on Fire Emblem Heroes. However like with Grima before her, this legend brings a brand new mechanic to shake up the game. Lyn — Lady of the Wind The very first green-colored …

Ephraim: Our Sacred Legendary Hero

Man, Intelligent Systems has been relentless with their updates for Fire Emblem Heroes lately. Not that I can necessarily complain about new content coming so frequently, but a lot of it has been serious enough for me to bring onto the blog. Which is something I told myself I would be doing less of to …

A Legendary Banner for a miniature Tempest Trial

This likely won't be a substantial post (he says hopefully before getting into the actual writing portion of things), but I felt enough happened in Fire Emblem Heroes today to warrant something before the inevitable one year anniversary celebration. Coming soon. First and foremost, there was a new Feh Channel released yesterday that updated everyone …

Ike’s Tempest Trials: Too par for the course?

After a week of being checked out in terms of blogging, I have to say it feels like a nice little personal accomplishment to have something video game-y around here two days in a row. Sure it's pretty general Pokémon news followed by yet another Tempest Trials post, but just getting myself to do it …

The Heroes we chose, the Power we crave

Before Fire Emblem Heroes hit mobile app stores, there was a promotional "Choose Your Legends" event that had fans of the Fire Emblem series vote on heroes they were interested in seeing in a game which had only just recently been teased at a token Nintendo Direct for the series. When the voting period ended …

The Fire Emblem Heroes mid-April trilogy: Starter Support, Version 1.6 and the upcoming Tempest Trials (take three)

As promised, here we go again with the Fire Emblems. Because of all the work I've got slated this week between DT orientation and my Gladeo internship, I decided to make this a larger overarching post regarding lots of stuff that's going on in the game right now. It'll be easier for me that way, …