Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopesis looking to be one of Nintendo’s most anticipated yet unexpected releases of this year. This game took many by surprise with it not only being a follow-up to 2017’sFire Emblem Warriorsbut also being set in an alternate timeline of 2019’sFire Emblem: Three Houses. More importantly, it features all three of the game’s titular house leaders going on a new adventure without Byleth, the professor andplayable avatar character ofThree Houses.
One of the recenttrailers forFire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopesmakes a point that instead of Byleth becoming a professor at the Garreg Mach monastery, they instead remain a mercenary like at the beginning of the game. In their place, a new purple-haired player character known as “Shez” will be taking up the reigns as the game’s protagonist. They were defeated by Byleth, who has been christened as “The Ashen Demon” with Shez training up and swearing revenge against them. This loss against Byleth in the woods also leads to Shez meeting the three house leaders.
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With Shez’s role as protagonist, they will have their own unique class that they start with. In a tweet on Nintendo’s Japanese Twitter account, it highlights the details of this new class inFire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. According to Twitter user SatsumaFS, this class is exclusive to Shez, and it is known as Flugel. It specializes in using fast and quick attacks, using a dual-wielding sword style.
This class is similar toFire Emblem’s Thief Class, which specializes in quick movement around the battlefield and high-speed attacks. Shez is also described to have a hidden power, much like Byleth and otherFire Emblemprotagonists. It’s possible that this new power is tied to the other newly introduced character Arval, though the tweet states more details about it will be shown later.
The Twitter account also revealed the voice actors for both the male and female versions of Shez, Tasuku Hatanaka (Yuma Tsukumo fromYu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, Gorou fromGenshin Impact), and Miyu Tomita (Riko fromMade in Abyss,Miko Iino fromKaguya-sama: Love is War). Players can also select between male and female versions of both Shez and Byleth at the beginning of the game, meaning that neither character is gender-locked. The player will also be forced to align with one of the three houses right at the start of the game, this choice beingthe branching point ofFire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes' story.
Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopeslaunches for Nintendo Switch on June 24.
