WillyFourEyes/Waltzoid's Journal

The "official" release of Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes is just hours away, but lots of people (including myself) have reported receiving their retail copies early. The excitement of jumping into the full game after playing the demo is tempting, but I'm going to exercise restraint and wait until tomorrow morning, along with blocking out any and all Fire Emblem-related social media for at least a week until I make significant progress in the story.

You want to know what I've noticed that doesn't really have anything to do with what's in the game itself? How FE seems to have this "one-two" thing going on with The Legend of Zelda in the Warriors spinoff space. First came Hyrule Warriors in 2015, and then two years later, Fire Emblem Warriors came out. Then in 2020, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity came out, with a much narrower focus on the world of the best-selling The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. And now here we are with Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, a game with an alternate take on the best-selling (in the franchise) Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Crazy, isn't it?