UPDATE [7/19] Fire Emblem: Awakening DLC characters

[GODZILLA]

She wields her staff in remembrance of Lyon.

Also yay Eltshan~ SpotPass got a lot of the FE4 characters I like.

[Hitaki]

I'm more curious about who it is exactly that she's marrying. Poor Lyon.

[Nalgor]

I'm more curious about who it is exactly that she's marrying. Poor Lyon.

Groom class confirmed.

[Zid]

Unrelated update [June 1st, 2012]

A large promotion of the game by Nintendo today, even though it's been out for over a month and has DLCs already.

Just when I thought Nintendo might slow down with their promoting of Awakening, they've decided to attack on two fronts.

Fire Emblem World, the official Japanese Fire Emblem site, has updated with a special background section dedicated to the game, which includes information on the game's world and story, Anna's walkthrough of the game chapters and wallpaper downloads. In particular, the world and story section features new artwork for Vake and Mariabel and a host of pretty interesting takes on the English character names.

Additionally, N.O.M, Nintendo's online magazine, has a special feature on the game, which is mostly a play report, but also includes concept sketches for the in-game CG movies.

Fire Emblem official website

Nintendo Online Magazine

Here are the English names, in bold. Spoiler tag for those who don't want to be spoiled:

 Spoiler:

Krom - Chrom
Fauder - Fauder
Liz - Liz
Frederick - Frederik
Marth - Marth
Emelina - Emerina
Mariabel - Mariabell
Vake - Wyck
Sumia - Smia

Be warned though. One of those wallpapers (The one with the question mark on the preview) reveals a huge spoiler for the game.

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Update [June 14th, 2012]

Cellica (Gaiden):



Another Story: Light versus Dark (Dark Side)
Light--It protects people, guiding them towards peace. Darkness--It opposses light and enters conflict with it. These two forces continue their never-ending war in the Other-world. Krom decides to lend a hand to the agents of darkness to defeat the warriors of light.

Reward: Saint Cellica's talisman (allows players to recruit "Cellica from Another World")
Difficulty: 4 star, Price: 350 Yen
Artist: Masatsugu Saitou

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This new DLC is throwing off some predictions of a new DLC class and selected DLC character release, alongside if there might be a new DLC map set or not.

By the way, Bride class's description: "A woman blessed by the goddess of good fortune. Can wield lances, bows and staves."

Finally, Nintendo of America finally confirmed that Fire Emblem: Awakening will be released in NA.

[GODZILLA]

Finally, Nintendo of America finally confirmed that Fire Emblem: Awakening will be released in NA.

Did they give an estimate of when?

[Zid]

Did they give an estimate of when?

Not yet. They actually were supposed to release more details after that announcement.

Stay tuned.

[Kendoza]

Not yet. They actually were supposed to release more details after that announcement.

Stay tuned.

My guess? Probably the holiday season. I swear I'll be swimming in games and debt this december ;~;

[Ninjam]

Would pay for Florina, for some reason she was always one of my favorite characters from fire emblem.
Also Lute, her superiority still sticks into my head despite not playing the gba ones since a few years ago.

Other than the gba ones, i have only gotten to play path of radiance and am about halfway through shadow dragon on the ds, other than this one does anyone have any good ones they would recommend? I haven't kept up with the series as much as I would have liked to.

[GODZILLA]

Would pay for Florina, for some reason she was always one of my favorite characters from fire emblem.
Also Lute, her superiority still sticks into my head despite not playing the gba ones since a few years ago.

Other than the gba ones, i have only gotten to play path of radiance and am about halfway through shadow dragon on the ds, other than this one does anyone have any good ones they would recommend? I haven't kept up with the series as much as I would have liked to.

Well it was never released outside of Japan, but Seisen no Keifu is my favorite of all time, and has been fan translated to near completion.

It's sequel Thracia 776 is possibly the hardest game in the series, also not released outside Japan.

Also, if you liked Rekka no Ken a.k.a the one with Florina, you'll most likely like Fūin no Tsurugi. It's a prequel about Eliwood's son Roy and his battle against the tyrannical king Zephiel.

All these games you would need to emulate.

[Zid]

I don't think this news warrants a thread, but...

Fire Emblem: Awakening will come to North America in 2013.

Yeah, I'm disappointed the date's that far away too.