Fire Emblem If Revising the Weapon Balance

[Demon_Skeith]

Fire Emblem If will be the first game since the series' debut to make major revisions to its weapon balancing.

The Japanese magazine Famitsu (via Gematsu) explained the changes. Throughout the series, swords have been strong against axes, axes against lances, and lances against swords. Fire Emblem If will put a wrinkle in it by introducing pairs of weapons that trump other pairs, for a greater variety of weapon types.

Now, swords and magic will beat axes and bows, axes and bows will beat lances and concealed weapons, and lances and concealed weapons will beat swords and magic. Weapon durability is also going to be removed in Fire Emblem If, so only staves will limit you to a certain number of uses.

The magazine also revealed a handful of new characters: Felicia, a maid; Joker, a butler; Gunther, a great butler; Kagerou, a shinobi; Suzukaze, and Saizou. Felicia, Joker, Gunther, and Suzukaze will be allies in both versions, while Saizu and Kagerou are only allies in the White Night Kingdom version. Those job titles are important, as maids, butlers, and shinobi will be the ones to use the new concealed weapons.

Fire Emblem If will be released in two versions: White Kingdom and Black Kingdom. White will be the easier of the two versions, and the two will feature variations on the story, with differing allies and weapons.

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like it needs to be more hectic.

 

[lb]

I'm not familiar with this series... It sounds pretty confusing... Are the two versions of the game sold separately or together?

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I'm not familiar with this series... It sounds pretty confusing... Are the two versions of the game sold separately or together?

First off, this two game thing is new to the series and think of it as Pokemon or megaman network series but unlike those games, these two FE games will have different content and are worth buying both I believe.

 

[Sevrin]

Wow, depending on well-balanced and how diverse they want the strategies to be, this sounds like it's going to be one of the most complex fire emblem games to date. I'm kinda looking forward to it, but at the same time I do like the original system a lot, it's been working for them for so long. Either way, I'm just hyped up for the game(s) in general.