The first Fire Emblem game back on the NES is finally seeing international release in the form of a remake on the Nintendo DS, entitled Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon. In a new interview, Masayuki Horikawa, Director at Intelligent Systems, had been asked why those chose to remake the very first Fire Emblem game. “”We thought that more people should experience software from the days of the NES, such as the “”Fire Emblem”” games released on the 8-bit system. Also, we wanted to have customers in Europe and North America to enjoy the rejuvenated story of Marth for the first time.”” More inside Horikawa stated that some of the new features include a “”mid-map save-point where you can save the game once, and only once, during a particular map. With this function players can avoid risks of tragedy and having to press reset if Marth is slain. Another thing is that you can “”re-class”” characters – changing the class of almost every unit. One predictable tragedy is that a novice player loses all his/her monks and has no healing unit. Even in that case, as s/he changes the class of one character into a monk, s/he can avoid the situation where a specific class is gone completely.””

Horikawa also revealed that Shadow Dragon will be Wi-Fi enabled. “”Both in wireless multiplayer and in Wi-Fi, players can battle each others units or even rent some of their units. These battles take place in exclusive maps. Players choose five of the best units from their own corps. A player is victorious when s/he slays all his/her opponent’s units or conquers the castle in the centre of the map. The North American and European versions will have more of these type of maps made available than in the Japanese one!””

No Australian release date for the game has been set, but we have received all the other game, so it’s a good bet that we’ll get it eventually.

Source: Cubed3