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Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia pre-release information
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After its reveal in the Fire Emblem Nintendo Direct, Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia received promotion online and in magazines like Famitsu. The game largely appears as it does after release though early screenshots reveal that the game went through some slight changes, mostly textual, shortly before release.
Pre-release history
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia had one of the shortest pre-release news cycles of any Fire Emblem series game, being announced only three months before the game's Japanese release, and only four months before the game's international release.
Initial reveal (January 18, 2017)
An Echoes: Shadows of Valentia trailer opened the Fire Emblem Nintendo direct.
Leak (Approx. April 3, 2017)
Shortly before Japanese release the game leaked online.
Differences to final
Known differences are minor text changes, both Japanese footage and English footage has some slight differences to final. It seems minor touches were still being made to some menus at the time that certain screenshots and footage were taken.
style="Template:Roundtl; border:none" width="100%" colspan="3"|Screenshot comparisons | ||
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style="Template:Roundtl; border:none; background-color:#222222;" width="50%"| Pre-release | style="Template:Roundtr; border:none; background-color:#222222" width="50%"| Final | |
From Fire Emblem Nintendo Direct footage |
From Chinese localization announcement footage | |
ATK is called ATC in early Japanese footage. This is somewhat notable as many Japanese Fire Emblem games used the ATC abbreviation until this point. Interestingly the change to ATK, and thus as it appears in final, was reflected in footage released very shortly after the direct. | ||
From Fire Emblem Nintendo Direct footage |
From Chinese localization announcement footage | |
The class name for Social Knights (Cavaliers) was written differently. The name "Sナイト", S Knight, is an abbreviation of Social Knight used in Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light and some menus of Mystery of the Emblem. | ||
File:Ss fe15 class change menu.png | ||
Some early English screenshots did not yet have TEC changed to SKILL and LUC to LCK. |
Oddities
The English version of "A Master Class in Strategy" trailer has several oddities compared to the final game; these may be the result of the use of developer tools, such as a debug menu, instead of actual intended differences in the content of the game.
style="background: #222222; padding: 10px; Template:Round; border: 1px solid #b0b0b0; " align="center" | Silque is shown as a Sage, a class she cannot normally become in any final version of the game. | |
style="background: #222222; padding: 10px; Template:Round; border: 1px solid #b0b0b0; " align="center" | Mae is shown casting the spell Excalibur, a spell she cannot learn in any final version of the game. | |
style="background: #222222; padding: 10px; Template:Round; border: 1px solid #b0b0b0; " align="center" | Enemies in one section of the trailer appear to mistakenly use the player faction name, "Alm's army". The selected enemy is also level 20, an unusually high level for this point in the game. |
Gallery
- Main article:
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References
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