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The thirteenth ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' game, the first original title (as in, not a remake) since ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius|Radiant Dawn]]'' in 2007, and set nearly 2000 years after [[Fire Emblem Akaneia|the third game and its remake]]. It stars Chrom, [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|yet another blue haired swordsman]] and the prince of the Iris Kingdom who leads a vigilante force, and a player-created custom character who acts as both a strategist and part of his force who he finds with amnesia at the start of the game.
 
The game brings back the world map system of ''Gaiden'' and ''The Sacred Stones'', and reintroduces the Skills system in a form reminiscent of its Tellius incarnation, allowing you to freely swap skills between characters. It sports a graphical style reminiscent of the Tellius games with a more cartoonish bent, sporting a [[Two Point Five D]] map and 3D fights. The character design and portrait art style - the work of [[No More Heroes|Yusuke Kozaki]] - looks like it belongs in a [[Shonen]] anime. A new feature introduced allows units to gang up on enemies when next to an attacking ally (Thethe exact mechanics of this are unknown). It received notoriety as the first first-party Nintendo title to feature paid [[Downloadable Content]], mainly in the form of "episodes" comprising map packs telling side-stories, not unlike ''[[Fire Emblem Akaneia|BS Fire Emblem: Akaneia War Chronicles]]''.
 
After ''[[Fire Emblem Akaneia|New Mystery of the Emblem]]'' failed to make the translation leap, some fans initially feared the possibility of [[No Export for You]]; a European release was confirmed in the February 2012 instalment of Nintendo Direct and as of E3, a North American localization has been confirmed by Reggie Fils-Aime after the Nintendo 3DS Software Showcase event, with no release date given. It was eventually revealed that it would be first (and thus far only) game in the series to use a straight translation of its Japanese name, ''Fire Emblem: Kakusei'', which it was universally known as before this announcement (though given [[No Export for You|this series' history]], that's really nothing new), after Nintendo of America has registered a domain for it (though initially just redirects to NOA's main Web site). While the translation did not go to the sheer incompressible level of the next game, the quality is low. Several sections are cut for translation cost, and several scenes were replaced with entirely made up dialog.
 
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* [[Accidental Pervert]]: In their B support, Chrom walks in on a female MUMy Unit naked, and she returns the favor in their A support.
* [[Adorkable]]: Enforced with the "Confessions" scenes the [[Audience Surrogate|MUMy Unit]] gets with his/her spouse.
* [[Ambidextrous Sprite]]: Averted with Chrom, who has [http://www.serenesforest.net/fe13/img/15022012C.jpg two different portraits]{{Dead link}} for when he faces left or right.
* [[Anime Hair]]: Present, but nowhere ''near'' the level of what was previously feared by some. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131107055839/http://serenesforest.net/fe13/character.html Out of all the characters revealed so far], only LizLissa's hairstyle is truly implausible;, and, even then, it's not that bad to begin with.
* [[Art Shift]]: The new art style for this game is a radical departure from previous games.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Anna, the [[Plucky Girl|plucky]] [[Series Mascot|mascot]] of ''Fire Emblem'' who has only made [[One-Scene Wonder|walk-on appearances]] in every game so far, is ''finally'' recruitable.
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* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Most mixed physical/magic units have lower caps for their offensive stats than most pure classes and few characters have the growth rates to use both well.
* [[Badass Family]]: Due to the second generation, you can have one.
* {{spoiler|[[Bad Future]]}}: {{spoiler|Lucina hails from one, where [[Player Character|MUMy Unit]] [[Grand Theft Me|was killed and possessed by GimleGrima]], killed Chrom, and [[Omnicidal Maniac|GimleGrima]] as well as [[Zombie Apocalypse|the corpse soldiers]] [[Earthshattering Kaboom|killed everything]].}}.
* [[Black and White Morality]]: Seemingly, the issue between Iris and Perezia. Iris worships the benevolent [[Light Is Good|Divine Dragon]] [[God Is Good|Naga]], ruled by the kind and just [[Reasonable Authority Figure|Emelina]], and minus the Vigilance Force, is mainly peaceful. Perezia, on the other hand, worships the monstrous [[Dark Is Evil|Dark Dragon]] [[God of Evil|GimleGrima]], ruled by the cruel [[The Caligula|Gangrel]], and at least a portion of it's people are Barbarians who like to [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]]. Even the [[Token Heroic Orc]]s, [[Black Magician Girl|SariyaTharja]] and [[Sociopathic Hero|Henry]], don't even seem to be that heroic.
* [[Bribing Your Way to Victory]]: A few DLC chapters seem to smell strongly of this, such as one in which enemies drop enormous amounts of gold, one consisting entirely of Entombed (pathetically weak undead enemies that give [[Level Grinding|huge amounts of exp]]) and, perhaps most egrigiouslyegregiously "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Infinite]] [[Infinity+1 Sword|Divine Weapons]]". Of course, it's not quite as bad as some other games, as here you actually have to play the chapters to reap the rewards, which could be pretty painful on higher difficulties. And it seems some of them contain nasty traps for those who blindly rush them for farming purposes, such as {{spoiler|Level 30 Entombed with Counter}}...
* [[Bucket Helmet]]: Villager class is badly equipped, and wears these.
* {{spoiler|[[Came Back Wrong]]: [[Damaged Soul|Of the Damaged Soul Variety in the case of]] EmelinaEmmeryn who is resurrected in a late/post game spotpass-sidequest... tragically, she has amnesia so bad, she can't even talk right. [[Bittersweet Ending|Her condition is stated to never improve, but ends up living a simple happy life.]]}}.
* [[The Cameo]]: Characters from past ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' games will show up in some downloadable chapters. So far, [[Fire Emblem Akaneia|Claire from ''Gaiden'']], [[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Ira from ''Genealogy of the Holy War'']], and [[Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones|Innes from ''The Sacred Stones'']] have been announced.
** [[Marth Debuted in Smash Bros]]: Likely going to be the case, seeing as half the games weren't released outside of Japan
* [[Canon Welding]]: {{spoiler|My Unit's child will be a tactician named MarkMarc, sharing the same outfit and default name as the player avatar from [[Fire Emblem Elibe|the 7thseventh game]], and the game already has dimension hopping. The best ranking in the Japanese version of ''Fire Emblem 7'' also gives MarkMarc the same "Grandmaster" title as promoted My Unit. The English translation erases these allusions by naming the character "Morgan" instead.}}.
** The continent ''Gaiden'' took place on appears later in the story.
** The Holy Weapons from [[Fire Emblem Jugdral|the Jugdral games]] make an appearenceappearance (and anyone with the appropriate weapon rank can use them now) as do {{spoiler|The 12 Dark Warlords, some of whom are in possession of said Holy Weapons.}}.
** Donny and Olivia's supports {{spoiler|reference Naesala and Leanne}}!
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: From Serenes Forest's page on forging: "There is an overall limit of 8 intervals that can be raised per weapon. For example, you can raise Might by 5 intervals and Critical by 3 intervals, but no more than that. [...] Enemies on higher difficulties can have weapons that exceed the 8 interval limit." That should tell you enough. And then there's the enemy-exclusive Skills for Lunatic Mode, which include one that ''always'' makes them hit, regardless of stats and [[Oh Crap|a Luna that ALWAYS activates.]].
* [[Contemptible Cover]]: The cover of the manual shows nothing but a pitcurepicture of [[Evil Is Sexy|Inverse.Aversa]].
* [[Cult]]: The ''entire nation'' of Perezia is a theocracy dedicated to the worship of the ''[[Obviously Evil|Evil Dragon]]'' GimleGrima.
** [[Religion of Evil]]
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: The ''Developers themselves'', when designing the "Entombed Heaven" [[Downloadable Content|DLC]] chapter. Its very existance shows they know full well that players love to exploit Entombed for easy EXP, but made sure if you just blindly rush in and started beating them up, you'll be met with a nasty surprise... {{spoiler|Level 30 Entombed with Counter. Given that Entombed have massive HP, but abysmal Defence, that's an awful lot of damage coming right back at you...}}
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