Tuesday, July 1, 2008

New Fire Emblem

Well, I recently found out that Fire Emblem DS will be hitting Japanese shelves August 7 this year. So I don't know when WE will get to see this amazing game. This new Fire Emblem is a remake of the first Fire Emblem, Shadow Dragons and the Blade of Light. However, the title that is being shown in Japan is currently directly translated into Fire Emblem: New Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light. Info on US name has not yet been announced seeing that we are still so far away from the JAPANESE launch date. The Wi-Fi capability will be a little different than what I was expecting. You will take 5 players from your single player game and have them fight with another player in a special vs. map. This means that the players who have beaten the game in Japan will probably WHIP the guys here once we get the game! Uh, oh. That's not good!
Another fact I found interesting is the fact that the game will cost 4,800 yen. My first thought was, "WHAT ON EARTH!!! I THOUGHT THAT 9-10 YEN MADE UP A US DOLLAR!! THIS PRICE IS, LIKE, 500 BUCKS ON OUR PART!!!!!" Well, turns out that I was very wrong. Yuan, Chinese currency, is 1/8 of a dollar each, while yen, Japanese currency, is about 1/104 of a dollar. WHOA!! 104 YEN TO MAKE A DOLLAR??!! Anyway, it would probably be in the end cheaper in Japan. Because that price totals out to about 26 dollars. DS games don't START that way here, especially not monster franchises or big games! So, we will probably have to buy it more expensive, and later. But hey! It's the next Fire Emblem! Or, is it the oldest one??....

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