Fire Emblem Heroes
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Fire Emblem Heroes (Japanese: ファイアーエムブレム ヒーローズ Fire Emblem Heroes) is a game in the Fire Emblem series released for iOS and Android smartphone devices. The game is sold under a "free-to-start" business model, where the base game itself is free but numerous purchases are made in the game itself to obtain orbs, which can be used to summon characters or be exchanged for useful items.
Plot
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Heroes is set in a world divided between the Kingdom of Askr and its enemy, the Emblian Empire. The player assumes the role of a summoner who is able to summon legendary heroes from other Fire Emblem worlds to defend Askr from the Emblians. The princess of the Emblians, Veronica, is also a summoner and aims to use these heroes to destroy Askr.[1]
Gameplay
The gameplay of Heroes is a simplified version of the standard Fire Emblem gameplay. All battles are set on small battlefields, 8 spaces tall and 6 spaces wide, designed to fit entirely in the screen sizes of mobile devices, and pit a squad of up to four units chosen by the player against four enemy units.
In addition to regular units featuring characters unique to Heroes, the player also collects Heroes, or characters from prior Fire Emblem games, to use in battle. The primary method of obtaining heroes is through the use of orbs, which are collected by completing maps or by purchasing them. On the summoning menu, five summoning stones are randomly generated, each with a color type, and the player can select to spend orbs on a stone to obtain one unit of that color type. Heroes can also be obtained in special limited-time events where the player enters a battle against that Hero, and obtains them as a unit if they win.
Unlike in other games, units have only five major stats: HP, attack, speed, defense, and resistance. Due to the small size of the maps, movement ranges are much lower than in other Fire Emblem games. In addition to accumulating experience in battle, units also accumulate skill points, which can be spent to obtain new skills to equip onto the unit. Classes as they are usually understood in other Fire Emblem games do not exist in Heroes, and there are only unit types: infantry, flying, and cavalry, with each individual unit having a personal weapon type.
Units can equip a maximum of three skills at a time. Skills are divided into three categories: weapon skills, the equivalent to weapons in other Fire Emblem games, equip a weapon which that unit will always use to attack; assist skills, which have non-combat effects which support allies; and special skills, which allow the unit to unleash one powerful attack at will after charging up their special gauge. New skills can be obtained for individual heroes by spending skill points. It is common for certain units to have skills which are entirely unique to them and which cannot be obtained for any other unit.
Units do not die when their HP is depleted to zero, and instead vanish until the map is over. They do, however, lose all experience and level ups accrued during their time on the map before they were defeated.
The game uses a variation of the traditional weapon triangle, which comes in the form of color types. Red (swords and red tomes) has an advantage over green (axes and green tomes), green has an advantage over blue (lances and blue tomes), and blue has an advantage over red. Bows, daggers, and staves are categorized as colorless and are not part of the weapon triangle.[1] Manaketes and similar characters who use breaths to attack can belong to any of the three color types.
A hero's stats and skills are randomly generated when they are summoned, and are measured in star ratings; heroes with higher star ratings are increasingly rare. Heroes can be enhanced and can have their star ratings upgraded by either spending certain collected items, or by merging them with duplicates of the same hero.
Characters
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List of characters in Fire Emblem Heroes - See also: List of summoning events in Fire Emblem Heroes
In addition to the three main characters - Alfonse, Sharena, and Anna - the game revolves around collecting heroes, or characters from past Fire Emblem games, and using these heroes in battle. These heroes can be obtained at random by spending orbs, or by clearing Hero Battles. All such heroes feature voice acting and new art by a guest artist, and in many cases Heroes is the first voice-acted appearance of the characters. Currently, five games are represented in Heroes: Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, The Binding Blade, Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, Awakening, and Fates. More heroes will be added in future updates.[2]
Choose Your Legends
In the weeks prior to the game's release, specifically Wednesday, January 18th to Tuesday, 31st January 2017, Nintendo and Intelligent Systems held a voting campaign known as Choose Your Legends. Visitors to the campaign's site were allowed to vote for their favourite characters, with the two highest-polling characters of each gender being selected to receive special playable versions of themselves wearing unique outfits. The development of these special outfits will be shared through official Nintendo channels. The top ten ranked characters of each gender will also feature in a series of 2017 calendar images, which will be released each month throughout the year.
The candidates for voting included every playable character in the entire series, as well as significant bosses and non-player characters. Visitors could submit one vote per day, and voting with a My Nintendo account also awarded them 200 platinum points for the My Nintendo service.
Midterm poll results
On January 25/26th 2017 Nintendo released the status of the poll halfway through the voting period. The twenty highest male and female character rankings were revealed. The standings provided at the time were as follows:[3]
Overall results
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Fire Emblem Heroes/Choose Your Legends results
The overall results were revealed on February 9th, 2017.[4] The highest rankings remained largely unchanged from the midterm results, with Ike and Roy topping the male poll, and Lyn and Lucina topping the female poll. As a show of gratitude for the large number of votes cast, it was announced that in addition to the poll winners, as was originally announced, the second-place male and female characters would also receive special costumes, while the top ten characters of each gender would receive special calendar images.
style="Template:Roundt; border:none" width="100%" colspan="5"|Overall Results (top 20) | ||
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style="Template:Roundtl; border:none; background-color:#222222;" width="10%"| Placement | Males | style="Template:Roundtr; border:none; background-color:#222222" width="45%"| Females |
First | Ike Path of Radiance 33,871 votes |
Lyn The Blazing Blade 49,917 votes |
Second | Roy The Binding Blade 28,982 votes |
Lucina Awakening 42,875 votes |
Third | Hector The Blazing Blade 26,557 votes |
Tharja Awakening 29,540 votes |
Fourth | Chrom Awakening 23,803 votes |
Camilla Fates 25,766 votes |
Fifth | Ike (Radiant Dawn) 17,684 votes |
File:Portrait avatar f-default fe14.png Corrin (female) Fates 19,599 votes |
Sixth | Marth (Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light/Shadow Dragon) 15,877 votes |
Eirika The Sacred Stones 16,423 votes |
Seventh | Ephraim The Sacred Stones 14,908 votes |
Cordelia Awakening 14,362 votes |
Eighth | File:Portrait my unit 1 fe13.png Robin (male) (Awakening) 14,149 votes |
Azura Fates 14,198 votes |
Ninth | Takumi Fates 12,662 votes |
Micaiah Radiant Dawn 13,491 votes |
Tenth | Leo Fates 12,175 votes |
Nowi Awakening 10,571 votes |
Eleventh | Henry Awakening 12,131 votes |
File:Small portrait avatar f-default fe13.png Robin (female) Awakening 10,387 votes |
Twelfth | Dorcas The Blazing Blade 12,083 votes |
Tiki Awakening 9,794 votes |
Thirteenth | Donnel Awakening 10,479 votes |
Lute The Sacred Stones 9,176 votes |
Fourteenth | Lon'qu Awakening 10,002 votes |
Felicia Fates 9,121 votes |
Fifteenth | Gaius Awakening 9,465 votes |
Elise Fates 8,962 votes |
Sixteenth | Niles Fates 8,703 votes |
Mia Radiant Dawn 8,946 votes |
Seventeenth | Marth Mystery of the Emblem/New Mystery of the Emblem 8,670 votes |
Anna Awakening 8,431 votes |
Eighteenth | Joshua The Sacred Stones 8,623 votes |
Nephenee Path of Radiance 7,916 votes |
Nineteenth | Eliwood The Blazing Blade 8,393 votes |
Nino The Blazing Blade 7,825 votes |
style="border:none; background-color:#222222; Template:Roundbl;"| Twentieth | Owain Awakening 8,383 votes |
style="border:none; background-color:#222222; Template:Roundbr;"| Sakura Fates 7,782 votes |
Development
The development of Fire Emblem Heroes - then known only as "a mobile Fire Emblem game" - was first announced on the 27th of April 2016, along with a mobile adaptation of the Animal Crossing series, as one of Nintendo's next mobile games after the releases of Miitomo and Pokémon Go.[5] The game was originally planned for release in the fall season of 2016,[6] but was later pushed back to the ambiguous date of "March 2017 or before".[7] Compared to Miitomo it was pitched as a "pure-game app"[7] and as a more accessible adaptation of the series.[6]
Heroes was properly revealed on the "Fire Emblem Direct" broadcast on February 18th 2017, at which time the "Choose Your Legends" campaign was also launched.
Trivia
- Before the release of Heroes, assets relating to the game were found in the data of Miitomo.[8]
Gallery
Icon used on the Google Play Store.
Banner used on the game's official site.[1]
Screenshots
Screenshot used to promote the game on the Google Play Store, featuring Alfonse.
Screenshot featuring Sakura.
Screenshot featuring Ryoma.
Etymology and other languages
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Fire Emblem Heroes, Nintendo, Published: 2017-1-18, Retrieved: 2017-1-18
- ↑ "Also, free and timely updates will continue to add new Hero characters, content, and other surprises to keep you engrossed with hours of additional gameplay." — Fire Emblem Heroes - Android Apps on Google Play, Google Play, Retrieved: 2 February 2017
- ↑ https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/824421860142092289
- ↑ https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/829525247875543040
- ↑ NoA's Twitter
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Nintendo of Europe has now fully verified this news; both are targeting an Autumn / Fall release." — Thomas Whitehead, Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing Franchises Are Heading to Smart Devices, Nintendo Life, Published: 2016-4-27, Retrieved: 2016-9-8
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Mochizuki, Takashi, Nintendo to Make Next Two Mobile Games Free, The Wall Street Journal, Published: 2016-5-11, Retrieved: 2016-9-8
- ↑ Miitomo, The Cutting Room Floor, Retrieved: 2017-1-1
External links
- Fire Emblem Heroes official website
- Google Play Store page
- Apple App Store page
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