Nintendo's New ‘Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave’ Reveal Just Completely Changed the Game

Multiple paths, a time jump, and time travel Today's Nintendo Direct made it clear that the publisher has been withholding details about a lot about Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. What has until now seemed to be a relatively simple story of heroes fighting in a competition to gain a single wish is now much more complex. In recent months, Nintendo and developer Intelligent Systems have been showing off the four main heroes of Fortune's Weave. Ostensibly, the game's pitch has been that players would follow one of these paths to its completion in an anime-inspired tournament arc called the Heroic Games. Today's Direct threw a wrench in that, revealing there is a grander narrative happening. Near the end of the show, it was announced that there would be a Three Houses-style five-year time jump that sees the world of Fortune's Weave in ruins. The god Sothis, who players will know from Three Houses, summons Fortune's Weave's true protagonist to defeat the demon god Balor. With the help of the time goddess Fortuna, players will travel back in time to the Heroic Games to change fate and ally with the four heroes Nintendo has previously revealed. This drastically changes the type of game For