The big surprise this week was when Nintendo announced it would be bringing the original game in the Fire Emblem series to the west for the first time ever.
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light is arriving exclusively on the Switch eShop on 4th December and is priced at $5.99 (or your regional equivalent).
Meet Marth and recruit some of the most beloved Fire Emblem characters in their 8-bit glory as you play through all 25 chapters of this classic Famicom tactical role-playing game, localized and released for the first time in North America—for a limited time.
Keep in mind, the 30th Anniversary physical release of the original Fire Emblem on Switch comes with a code instead of a game cartridge - so either way, you'll still have to download this particular release.
You can pre-order Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light right now from the eShop or Nintendo's website.
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I'm a little disappointed that this isn't just a NES online release.
Had added a lot more value to the online subscription.
Should have been a nes online game like it is in Japan!
The game had to be rewritten to make alphabetical text fit.
OOT on the Wii U was 76 MB, most GBA VC games were over 50 MB, it's known that those releases had high quality multi-lang scans of the original manuals that were not hosted online.
A shame there will be no release on cartridge, but at least it's not expensive, so might download it.
Curse you, Nintendo, forcing people to buy a separate memory card.😖😆.
It's crazy how PS5 games are said to be over 100 gigs but back in the Nes days they were so tiny.
Yes, nes fire emblem cartridge is like 400kb.
That way it may be possible to extract and play on an original NES - like the Pacman "Demastered" release.
Got more than enough NES games to play via NSO, many of which haven't even been started.
Having never played a Fire Emblem game before, I was intrigued until I saw the manner in which this is being released, digitally and cartridge-free
But this game being sold as a separate download instead of being included in the online service is really an awful move on nintendo
I really wish we still had virtual console releases so I can buy the NES metroid and not be bothered with going online to play it or to worry about it getting pulled from the online options
It would really suck if they do decide to sell NES games separately, they will all be like this release--hyped, overpackaged and overpriced for a limited time
Kidding aside, there are some big games out there
Is this basically the same game as shadow dragon for ds
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