'Fire Emblem Heroes' Update, Latest News: 'Blazing Shadows' Adds New Characters, Missions

By Amee Florence Payno, Christian Post Contributor Thursday, March 16, 2017

Nintendo's mobile game "Fire Emblem Heroes" recently received a brand-new update called "Blazing Shadows."

An official launch trailer for "Blazing Shadows" update was also released, introducing several new characters to the "Fire Emblem Heroes" mobile game. These new characters include Karel: Sword Demon, Ninian: Oracle of Destiny, Lucius: The Light, Priscilla: Delicate Princess, Jaffar: Angel of Death and Rebecca: Wildflower from "Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade."

Karel is a red sword unit type, while Ninian is a blue breath unit. Rebecca is a colorless archer unit; Jaffar is a colorless shuriken or dagger unit type; and Priscilla is a colorless staff unit. Lastly, Lucius is a colorless staff unit.

Similar to the previous updates which introduced new characters to the game, "Blazing Shadows" also adds new Paralogue missions, which are meant to help new and old "Fire Emblem" gamers get acquainted with the characters.

There are three new Paralogue missions and each one has three levels of difficulty — normal, hard and lunatic. Completing each mission on all three difficulties yields summon orbs, which means gamers can get a total of nine summon orbs for completing each one.

Aside from the update, Nintendo also announced the winner of the in-game Voting Gauntlet event. After "Fire Emblem Heroes" players battled in the name of their favorite game character, Lucina from "Fire Emblem: Awakening" was the last one standing. Those who supported her character will get free Hero Feathers.

Nintendo also hosted a content drop on its official American account that would reward "Fire Emblem Heroes" gamers with five orbs if their Twitter post, combined with similar posts from the official Japanese and European accounts, was retweeted 50,000 times. According to GameRant, the post was already retweeted more than 70,000 times, and as such, players should expect to receive five free orbs this week.

"Fire Emblem Heroes" is currently available on iOS and Android. Since its launch, the game has made over $5 million.