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Fire Emblem Heroes has just dropped some more Limited Hero Battles, starting with a Bound Hero Battle for Alm and Celica. A new battle will appear every day until April 19 at 11:59pm PT, so make sure to deploy your heroes with limited options to get more orbs and divine codes.

Also, the Røkkr Sieges are listed in the events category for pre-register. These start April 15 at 4am PT and can earn players orbs and divine codes for clearing quests.

This month’s issue of Nintendo Dream has a massive Fire Emblem: Three Houses developer interview. Directors Toshiyuki Kusakihara and Genki Yokota addressed a variety of topics, including inspirations, world-building and character writing, depictions of characters, themes, and lore, plus more. As part of this, we get to hear about Byleth and keeping his facial expressions to a minimum as well as Dimitri’s eyepatch.

You can read out full translation of the second half. In case you missed it, we shared a translation of the first half here. Note that the final page contains information related to spoilers, so please keep that in mind before proceeding.

Grand Hero Battle – Iago: Nohr’s Tactician has kicked off in Fire Emblem Heroes as the game’s latest event. Igao uses cruel schemes and malicious magic, but if you defeat him, he’ll become your ally. Look for him in Special Maps.

Summoning Focus: Weekly Revival 5 is also up and running in Fire Emblem Heroes today. 5-star Heroes who appeared before the start of Book II appear as focus Heroes, and the focus lineup changes each week.

We’ll also mention that the 30th Anniversary Grand Hero Battle Revivals have started to return. There will be a series of battles every two days. First up is Julius: Scion of Darkness, along with some limited-time quests. This event will be active until April 13 at 11:59 PM PT / April 14 at 2:59 AM ET.

On our podcast last week, voice actor Joe Zieja was kind enough to stop by and discuss his work on Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Zieja played the part of Claude, leader of the Golden Deer house.

Aside from Claude, Zieja actually auditioned for other potential characters as well, including Dimitri and Dedue. Zieja spoke about his readings for those parts, telling us:

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

This month’s issue of Nintendo Dream has a massive Fire Emblem: Three Houses developer interview. Directors Toshiyuki Kusakihara and Genki Yokota addressed a variety of topics, including Cindered Shadows, user feedback, increasing the amount of save slots, the new outfits, the roles of Nintendo, Intelligent Systems and Koei Tecmo (including Nintendo’s requests), how the team went about creating the houses and students, and plenty more.

Due to the length of the interview – which is more than a dozen pages long – we’ve decided to split up the interview into two parts. We’re publishing the first half today and the second half tomorrow. 

Here’s our full translation of the first half:

Here are the latest events for Fire Emblem Heroes:

  • Mjölnir’s Strike: Shield phase is now active. Weather the enemy’s onslaught for seven turns to protect the Kingdom of Askr. Achieve a high score and raise your Tier to earn rewards like Divine Codes, Midgard Gems, and Dragonflowers.
  • Resplendent Hero Azura: Lady of the Lake is now available to Feh Pass subscribers. In addition, Feh Pass Quests have been updated. These quests are available until Apr. 24, 11:59 PM PT. For further info, please see the Feh Pass website.
  • The next Resplendent Hero, Eliwood: Knight of Lycia, is scheduled to become available Apr. 25, 12:00 AM PT.
  • 0th Anniversary Grand Hero Battle Revivals are now live! There will be a series of battles every two days. Today, Delthea: Tatarrah’s Puppet is back, along with some limited-time quests! Active: Apr. 10, 12:00 AM PT – Apr. 11, 11:59 PM PT.
  • Heroes who have gained new skills are featured as part of a 5★ summoning focus! New weapon skills Inveterate Axe and Candied Dagger, and new weapon to refine Gleipnir are here! Your first summon in this event won’t cost any Orbs!

Fire Emblem Heroes has revealed the third category in its ongoing Voting Jubilee event. This category will be “The Villain You Just Can’t Hate” and it will be available until April 7 at 7:59pm PT.

Make sure to get your votes in on the Fire Emblem Heroes website here.

While the 4.4.1 update hit earlier in the evening, here are the rest of the day’s announcements for Fire Emblem Heroes:

  • The winner of the A Hero Rises 2020 event has been gifted to all players! Have you welcomed Mythic Hero Altina: Dawn’s Trueblade to your roster? Even players who did not vote in the event have until Apr. 10, 11:59 PM PT, to add her to their armies!
  • New maps have been added to Tactics Drills: Skill Studies and Tactics Drills: Grandmaster! Check them out in Story Maps to test your skills! Note: You must complete Book I, Chapter 13 of the main story to challenge Grandmaster maps.

An update has rolled out for Fire Emblem Heroes, bringing the version up to 4.4.1. While patch notes are minor, you can take a look at them below:

  • Patch notes:
  • Issues have been addressed.
  • List of changes:
  • Fixes an issue where incorrect scores were displayed during the Counter phase in “Mjölnir’s Strike”

The first game in the Fire Emblem series, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light, was released 30 years ago in Japan on April 20, 1990. In appreciation of player support, a 30th Anniversary Celebration is being held, with myriad events and content certain to appeal to players. You can take a look at a roundup of all of today’s announcements below:


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