Well if there ever was an existing series that was crying out for a title on the DS then this was definitely one of them.
Not much news as of yet but it was confirmed last week at the Nintendo conference to be a remake of the first FE title Dark Dragon and Sword of Light with a complete graphics overhaul and a number of minor changes to bring it upto speed with the more recent releases in the series. Whether this will be a remake of the Famicon game version

The story if typical FE fare, as you can see for yourself:


The visuals are nothing to write home about, just a polished version of the GBA graphics- though this isn't neccessarily a bad thing - the only really noticable change being the new style of the cutscenes that cover the majority (if not all) of the story progression within the game. A few images can be found over at Serenes Forest

The key thing to note with this title is WiFi compatible and will feature online play, allowing you to use your own team or rental characters if you find yourself a little under-leveled

Overall really looking forward to this title, hand-held gaming at its best imo, and with the imminent release of Radiant Dawn (though still no EU release confirmed) it seems that Nintendo are giving this series the attention it rightly deserves

This makes me very happy. I was starting to wonder what other games I would want for my DS besides Pokemon and a few other games I’d like (Castlevania, Dragon Warrior, a few other oddballs here and there), so the news of this game is a plus. I loved PoR on the GC, so any Fire Emblem game is fine by me. The graphics don’t look all that bad to me, but they don’t really seem extraordinary as far as they go. Online play would be interesting. I can’t actually use my WiFi (I don’t even have the adapter thing or whatever you need), but the concept of online usage in this game seems helpful, to say the least I suppose.

Anyway, from that info, it looks good. I eagerly await more as it comes out =)

This is the #####.

The graphics look completely different, and in fact, seem a lot better. Though Marth's face portrait makes him look like he's got down syndrome. If I get a DS, this is a game I am most certainly getting. Though everyone knows FE1 had some lame story.

Does it involve Book 2 of FE3 too, though?

Yah I saw some pictures of this the other day. I never played a FE game before, and this one might be a good one to start with (Unless you need to play the other games of the series to understand it.) since it has at least one character I recognoise, Marth.

Generally, Fire Emblem games are connected to one other game in the series. This is a remake of the first one, which was related to the third one (which was a remake and direct sequel), and loosely to the second one (same universe). FE4 and FE5 are connected, with FE5 taking place in between part 1 and part 2 of FE4 being the rarely used midquel. Then FE6 and FE7, the first American Fire Emblem, it's prequel. FE8 has no connections, FE9 and FE10 are connected.

Generally, Hicks, if you pick up any of the game, chances are you should be safe. Except for FE10 which kind of needs its prequel to work right.

Well that wasn't at all confusing.. lol
But since it's a remake of the first one, it should be a good one to start with from the sounds of it. I still don't have a DS though but when I get one I'll probably pick up this game as well.

Good news. I probably won't ever have a Wii, so I won't ever get to play 10, so this is excellent news. Especially since nobody seems interesting in translating a NES ROM of the first one really fast. One more RPG I can pick up for DS.

Let's see... This brings the list of DS must-haves to this, DQIX, Contra 4, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few things... Oh well, we'll see what happens.

Well this is exactly what i was wondering. If it did we'd be looking at for all intense and purposes 2 FE games in one title which would be a pretty sweet deal, but all of the announcements i've read specifically mention it being a remake of The Dragon of Darkness and the Sword of Light (FE1) not Mystery of the Emblem (FE3). Now this might just be a case of misinterpretation on the part of the original source (which i think might have been IGN) - but i've not seen a copy of the announcement by Nintendo yet so i cant really say. Though i had read FE3 was released for the Virtual Console in Japan sometime last year so not sure if we'd see a remake of that so soon after, though i suppose by that logic why make a remake of FE1 in the first place, either way i think we'll just have to wait and see.

Now it seems their open to remaking the earlier games, i wouldn't mind seeing a remake of FE6, as i'm yet to play this one (though not through lack of trying - might look into this one again sometime soon). I think the addition of some extra characters from the sequel and the possibility of transferring character data from the FE7 GBA cartridge would be a nice touch but maybe thats asking too much.


Tbh i think FE 7 would be a good place to start, not because it was the first one to be released in the west but because i think out of the two handheld games it was definitely the better. It also offered more in the way of replay value then any of them released so far due to the increased number of alternate routes that could be taken. But saying that i think the replay value of all of the games in the series is pretty high due to randomness of the stat growth making no two play-throughs alike - you've only got to look at the other topics about the series to see how peoples experiences with various characters differs from person to person.

Well the games just got a confirmed release date of August 7th in Japan, so going off the track record of Nintendo localising this series if they are to bring it over expect something around Q1/2 next year.
And has the tentative title of New Dark Dragon and Sword of Light

SOURCE

The updated artwork has a scary resemblance to those used in Tear Ring Saga series, eep. As opposed to the more recent FEs.

They added the word "new" in the title, sigh. I wonder NoA plans to jumble that up, like they did Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn.

Heard about this yesterday myself, actually. Pretty happy to hear that it will come out soon in Japan, so hopefully it will make its way over to the US as well. Good news indeed. =).

I've been waiting for this game for a long time. Glad Nintendo wise up and started bringing the FE titles over to the U.S. I enjoyed Fire Emblem installments on the GC and Wii. I'm sure I'll enjoy this title once it's released.

Here are some screenshots of the actual game...

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/fe/fet_info.html

Here are some screenshots of the Original NES version...



I'll be looking forward to it, as I am thrilled to see that they have added a new character in the game that weren't in the original games itself.

Even if they remake the games, they will not be like the actual real classic versions which I am sad of that as many Americans will not see the true classics of these games unless that with the use of an emulator & ROM. Also I'm sure that they won't butcher the difficulties either as they haven't with Radient Dawn, hoping that this remake won't be the length of the SNES version as they have freking shortened the game as they took out.....

1.5 Chapters and characters.

2.Shortened the battles in "Starlord Marth" and Mamkute Kingdom" as they put in far less reinforcments than the Original NES version had as that alone is what made the quest shine as with the remakes battles were anticlimax.

3.And Dragonstones don't have infinite uses either, but the dragonstones really sucked in the NES version.

I quite like the SNES remake actually. The chapters and the characters they took out had little impact on the story... plus, the game is pretty long already considering it was released together with the direct sequel in the form of Book 2.

Though I guess it wouldn't hurt if they bring back all the original contents and from there they touch up things for this remake.

I'd like to see stronger references to Barensia as well. Gaiden was full of Akaneia references, so it's only fair this remake return the favour. Maybe a playable Gaiden character or two, heh heh.

I'll stick with FE7 and 8 hacks for GBA emulators, kthx.

Not sure I like the addition of the time limit (could just say how long it takes for a map too...), but I guess it'd add to the challenge of it all.



Don't suppose that bothers anyone else, or is it just me?

Doesn't bother me.

There was a number of time limit missions GC and WII Fire Emblem games.

Time limit for PvP battles only.

Here's the original Famitsu scans that have been floating around for a few day - for those of you who haven't seen them already





Nice to see the gameplay in its entirety - definitely seems to be shaping up nicely. Been hoping to find a translation of these scans but have had no luck as of yet.

Another scan, showing artwork of Marth and Sheeda.
The game should be out in Japan next month. I hope there's an English translation soon.

Either way, serenesforest.net is the best place to get information to this game. Marth does look more manly and he wears pants xD and Sheeda looks more determined. Yay! Finally, Marth is going to go outside of Japan.

dfjklajk;clj FINALLY A FIRE EMBLEM GAME THAT'S COMING TO SOMETHING I OWN. ;o; Effing, Wii and GameCube.


But very very excited for it. I can't say I'm excited about the time limit. :\ If you all ever see me play a strat game, you'll know I'm extremely slow in my decisions and my gameplay. Argh. D:

I haven’t liked the way the game looks (on the map / in battles, not when characters are speaking and you see their faces), but seeing it in action, it doesn’t look too bad...This is just an eleven second clip from DS Fanboy, but it eases my mind a bit on how it'll actually look...

---> http://www.dsfanboy.com/2008/07/10/eleven-...-of-anything-e/

Eh, it's pretty good for a remake. Just wish they put a bit more effort into having support conversations, and make it less of a hassle to access they Gaiden chapters.

The online shop needs to go, too.

I tried the game for a bit. The graphics are pretty un detailed during battle. At least from what I experienced. But I love the fact that it's a very fast paced tactical rpg. I haven't seen that in a long time. Usually there's complicated attack animations and loading times, so this felt like a nice break from that. I got to a mission where a bunch of strong reinforcements appeared, and I wasn't sure what to do, so I lost. But I'll definitely check this out once it gets released in English.

FE : Shadow Dragon will be seeing an European release on the 5th December 2008!!!

SOURCE : Nintendo.co.uk

WTF! Don't get me wrong I'm not complaining in the least, I'll just have to split my time between this and AT2, but since when do we get localised releases first!

Just keep an eye out for a US release date before christmas because this can't be right

Thanks to Serenes Forest for the heads up on this one

No.



It will take a miminum of three playthroughs to use most/all of the characters to know which ones will be good, and that which ones will suck. Knowing of how good they are, or not on serenesforest.net will provide spoilers. By what folks say about them...many do say that it is personnel experience.



Well...

http://wii.ign.com/articles/915/915544p1.html

NOA has actually said this during their press confrence that it will be released in the United States during mid summer in the year 2009 and in December in Europe. Also, Hard Mode LV5 is said to be even more difficult than Thracia. Nintendo also better not butcher the difficulty of this game either.



Yeah, that is if you want to go to some of the gaiden chapters that is as many of them had turn limit requirements.



Really, I have seen no time limit in this game. I've ROMed and played and finished this game two times already, and that I have never seen any time limit in any of the chapters. This might apply to only the higher difficulty settings, as I have played this twice only on the Normal Mode.

Sorry, ther won't be any support convos in this game. But they will have some conversations that weren't in the NES/SNES releases of this game. Like Medeia+Astoria, Marth+Sheeda,Oguma+Sheeda, Linda+Marich, Minerva+Maria, etc. But they will have no effect on the outcome of increasing their support bonuses. The support bonuses will remain +10 in Avoid,hit, and crit, no exceptions.



You would have to give up a character in the fort. Doing this, you won't see that character again. To this latter, pick Jeigan. He is possibly the worst unit in FE history.



Aww shucks..beat me to it. They did also mention this on IGN. But thanks!

Sorry for the double post, but the reply wouldn't fit all of this quoted text.