Opinion on the Fire Emblem direct? The fact that a new game inspired by Gaidan is coming out soon, the Warriors game, Echoes (the mobile game), a new main series game next year? Echoes is just Final Fantasy Exvius- an 'original story' with summoned units from the other games, and Warriors games is the same, but the rest look pretty promising from what we know.
Just gave the Twitch vod a quick look.
The Gaidan re-imagining has me a little worried. I don’t believe Gaidan was a particularly good game, and Intelligent Systems’ recent attempts to remake much older entries in the series (Like Shadow Dragon and New Mystery of the Emblem) have not resulted in terribly good games, at least in my opinion. That being said, the artwork looks pretty nice, and I’d love to see them manage to succeed with a remake. I’d much rather see something of Thracia 776 though, personally.
I’m not much of a Warriors player, but people seemed to enjoy Hyrule Warriors well enough, and I feel Fire Emblem lends itself nicely to that kind of side game.
They didn’t really have much at all to share for the new mainline Switch game coming out in 2018, so I feel like I can’t really comment much on it. Something in the vein of Radiant Dawn would be pretty nice, especially since it’d be a console game while still maintaining the option of playing on a handheld. Could potentially be good stuff, I really wish they had more to share for it.
I actually rather liked the FE: Heroes mobile game they showed. It looks super simple with the tiny mobile phone-sized maps, but being able to collect a bunch of characters that you dig and putting together a team sounds like a really fun little side game. The art quality looks pretty fantastic, made even better given the variety of artists they’re getting to do work on it. I’m especially a fan of how they appear to be pulling in a lot of characters from all throughout the series, and sometimes even villains, too (Narcian!). Voicework for all characters is a cute additional touch. I’m honestly pretty excited to try it out sometime.
Overall it seems like a pretty nice offering, and it feels a little weird to say that I’m most excited for the mobile game, of all things.