Nintendo has supposing some new sum on a subsequent mobile game, a smartphone take on a long-running plan array Fire Emblem. The diversion — dubbed Fire Emblem: Heroes — is described as a tactical purpose personification game. According to Nintendo, a diversion will underline a code new story about dual warring kingdoms, and it facilities a same anime anticipation impression as a rest of a array along with characters pulled from past games. Maps are designed to fit on a smartphone screen, and we can use a touchscreen to drag units around.
The diversion will be free-to-play with discretionary in-app purchases, as we can buy things like orbs to serve specific characters. Heroes is rising on Feb 2nd on iOS and Android.
Though not Nintendo’s biggest franchise, Fire Emblem has been around for some time. The strange game, dubbed Shadow Dragon and a Blade of Light, was usually accessible in Japan, and launched on a Famicom in 1990. More recently, a array strike a Nintendo 3DS with the beginner-friendly Fire Emblem Fates final year.
The new chronicle of Fire Emblem was first announced final April, alongside a mobile chronicle of cutesy life sim Animal Crossing. Prior to today, Nintendo has remained still on both games given that initial announcement. In a meantime, a association expelled a initial correct smartphone diversion with Super Mario Run on iPhone and iPad, an involuntary curtain starring a company’s many famous character, that was downloaded a record 40 million times in a initial 4 days of availability.
In further to mobile, a Fire Emblem array is also entrance to a Nintendo 3DS in a form of Fire Emblem: Echoes – Shadows of Valentia, a new pretension desirous by a Famicom-exclusive second diversion in a series. There are also dual games entrance to Nintendo’s new Switch console: Fire Emblem Warriors, an action-heavy spinoff similar to Hyrule Warriors entrance this Fall, and a now untitled categorical entrance in a array due out in 2018. Last week Nintendo suggested that a Switch will launch on Mar 3rd for $299.99.
Update, 10.30PM ET: Added iOS recover date.