'Fire Emblem Warriors' DLC Release Date: Koei Tecmo Details Post-Launch Plans for Game
Days before the release of "Fire Emblem Warriors" in Japan, Koei Tecmo detailed the post-launch support that fans can expect in the coming months.
The game will get three downloadable content (DLC) packs this year and the next and the expansions will be based on previous iterations of the video game series.
By the end of the year, "Fire Emblem Warriors" will get a "Fire Emblem Fates" add-on. The twelfth game in the franchise, this tactical role-playing video game was released in 2015.
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"Fire Emblem Fates" follows an avatar created by players forced to choose a side in a battle between their birth home or their adopted home, both of which they came to know and love.
This will be followed by a "Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon" DLC, which will be out winter next year — it should drop either on January or February.
In this, fans will likely get the chance to go back to the earlier days of the franchise. The game happens to be the 2008 spinoff of the 1990 classic "Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light."
It retells the original's story, which featured Marth, prince of Altea, exiled from his own kingdom after evil wizard Gharnef and resurrected Dark Dragon Medeus seizes control of the continent.
The third DLC, which is coming to "Fire Emblem Warriors" spring next year, will be based on "Fire Emblem Awakening," the game released just before "Fire Emblem Fates."
This 2013 installment is set 2000 years after the events of the original "Fire Emblem" game and "Fire Emblem Gaiden" and centers on a group of soldiers from the kingdom of Ylisse.
Priced at 1,400 Yen each, the "Fire Emblem Warriors" DLCs will add playable characters and weapons. Fans can go for a set that bundles all three along with a bonus bride costume for Lucina for 3,000 yen.
"Fire Emblem Warriors" is coming to the Nintendo Switch and 3DS on Sept. 28 in Japan and on Oct. 20 in North America and Europe.
