A new trailer for Fire Emblem: New Shadow Dragons and the Blade of Light has popped up on the Nintendo Channel in Japan. You can view it above, and watch as it talks about the changes to class advantages introduced in later Fire Emblem games but new to this remake of the original, Wi-Fi modes, etc… I think. I don’t know, I can’t understand Japanese.

There’s also a crazy cool commercial at the end, depicting Fire Emblem as an actual, chess-like board game. If Fire Emblem could actually work as a board game, I’d totally be all over it.

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You think when Nintendo localizes Fire Emblem: NEW Shadow Dragons and the Blade of Light (which they better) for the Nintendo DS, they’ll drop the “New” part? Since, you know, the game’s never been released anywhere outside of Japan… it would make sense.

You can check out some new artwork from the remake after the break. For all you newbie Fire Emblem fans out there, yes, that’s Marth, and this is a remake of his original game. Next to him is Princess Shiida, a Pegasus Knight from Talis, and the bottom row from left to right is Nabarl, Marek, and Minerva.

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