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Fire Emblem’s Remarkable Comeback

Fire Emblem’s Remarkable Comeback https://ift.tt/7qwgX1M Though it may not be a sales juggernaut on the scale of Mario or The Legend of Zelda, Fire Emblem is one of Nintendo's preeminent franchises. Like so many of its vaunted stablemates, the series is almost as old as Nintendo's gaming ambitions, debuting on the Famicom and appearing on nearly every home and handheld console since. Given this prominence, it's almost difficult to believe that Fire Emblem's future was ever in jeopardy, but such was indeed once the case; there was a point in time when the series was very much on the verge of cancellation, and it took a dramatic shakeup to reverse its fortunes. To fully contextualize this rocky period in Fire Emblem's history, we need to look back at its trajectory in the wake of its belated international debut. Unlike Nintendo's other marquee properties, Fire Emblem took a circuitous route to Western markets. Though the series began in 1990, its first severa...
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Here's Almost 15 Minutes Of Super Mario Bros. Wonder Gameplay

Here's Almost 15 Minutes Of Super Mario Bros. Wonder Gameplay https://ift.tt/lKCiJt1

Between Nintendo's latest Direct and gameplay demos popping up at recent events, we're starting to get a better look at how Super Mario Bros. Wonder is going to play. A hefty chunk of footage has been posted by Giant Bomb from a convention demo, showing the first few levels, a few bonus levels, and a handful of the game's titular Wonder effects.

The demo footage shows a four-player co-op game, starting from the very first level of Mario Wonder. The players very quickly pick up the game's popular elephant power-up, while also showing off some gameplay with Yoshi as a playable character--other characters can still ride the little dinosaur, sharing some of his bonuses when they do so.

The second half of the demo shows the players progressing into one of the game's free-roam areas, where players can choose which courses they take on instead of progressing through a linear path. These include a Badge Challenge--in this case, a course that earns the players a wall jump Badge.

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