{"id":113221,"date":"2020-05-21T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/famitsu_poll_reveals_readers_favourite_fire_emblem_games"},"modified":"2020-05-21T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T17:00:00","slug":"famitsu-poll-reveals-readers-favourite-fire-emblem-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/21\/famitsu-poll-reveals-readers-favourite-fire-emblem-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Famitsu Poll Reveals Readers&#8217; Favourite Fire Emblem Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0f18d2a6523c7\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0f18d2a6523c7\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Fire Emblem Three Houses\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0f18d2a6523c7\/fire-emblem-three-houses.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0f18d2a6523c7\/fire-emblem-three-houses.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Fire Emblem Three Houses\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/fire-emblem\">Fire Emblem<\/a><\/strong> series celebrated its 30th anniversary in April and in honour of the milestone Japanese gaming publication Famitsu polled its readers on their favourite games from Nintendo&#8217;s celebrated strategy RPG series.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Japan has received several entries in the franchise that we never got over here in the West&#8211;we didn&#8217;t get our hands on an official release until 2003 when <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gba\/fire_emblem\">The Blazing Blade<\/a><\/strong> on GBA was localised&#8211;so a couple of entries in the top 5 (as posted to Twitter by <a data-focusable=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HDKirin\" role=\"link\">@HDKirin<\/a>) might be unfamiliar unless you&#8217;re a die-hard fan. Here they are:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" readability=\"3.9622641509434\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" readability=\"2.7243816254417\">As part of its 30th Anniversary Fire Emblem feature, Famitsu ran a survey asking people what their favorite Fire Emblem game was. The results are as follows.<\/p>\n<p>1) Genealogy of the Holy War<br \/>2) Three Houses<br \/>3) Awakening<br \/>4) The Blazing Blade<br \/>5) Mystery of the Emblem <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ybf4TuWLTi\">pic.twitter.com\/ybf4TuWLTi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 HDKirin (@HDKirin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HDKirin\/status\/1263128684300402688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Hardcore followers of the series will no doubt be copying-and-pasting their finest <a class=\"enlarge\" href=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/1Z02vuppxP1Pa\/giphy.gif\">&#8216;Thank-You!&#8217; gifs<\/a> when they see <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/fire_emblem_geneology_of_the_holy_war\">Genealogy of the Holy War<\/a><\/strong> in the number one spot. Geneology is the second game from Intelligent Systems&#8217; series developed for Super Famicom (with the first being the game at number five on the list, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/fire_emblem_mystery_of_the_emblem\">Mystery of the Emblem<\/a><\/strong>) and none of the SFC entries have been officially localised for the West&#8230; yet!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we&#8217;re ever hopeful that one of these days we&#8217;ll get a re-release or remake, especially in light of how well <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fire_emblem_three_houses\">Fire Emblem: Three Houses<\/a><\/strong> has performed on Switch. We&#8217;d jump at the chance to sample the Super Famicom games in any official capacity, and we&#8217;re sure we&#8217;re not alone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/feature_best_fire_emblem_games_of_all_time\">Team NL&#8217;s personal ranking<\/a> of the games (the ones that released round these parts, that is) tended towards the portable entries, and we also surveyed you lovely people for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/poll_vote_for_your_favourite_fire_emblem_games\">your own ranking of Fire Emblem games<\/a>. The result? <em>Most Fire Emblem games are damn good &#8211; that&#8217;s the result!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How does Famitsu readers&#8217; top 5 compare to yours? 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Of course, Japan has received several entries in the franchise that we never got over here in the West&#8211;we didn&#8217;t get our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}