Thanks, Nintendo: How Fire Emblem Fates Messed Up A Landmark Female Character
For those of you who aren't familiar with it, Fire Emblem is a Nintendo strategy game series comprised of twelve "original" games and three remakes; however, only five of these have been released outside of Japan (at least officially). Each game more or less follows the same premise: you control the main character (usually male) and protect the land with a ragtag band of soldiers against an evil nation who are ultimately controlled by a divine dragon. Promotional art for the 14th entry in the series, "Fire Emblem: Fates" Aside from the morphing classes such as, in the case of the most recent games, Taguels, Manaketes, Wolfskin, and Kitsune, classes in Fire Emblem are based on weapon types rather than race. However, some of these classes are gender exclusive: for every game except Fates, the Pegasus Knight class has been female-exclusive, and the Fighter class has been male-exclusive. And while in some ways it can be viewed as a triumph that Fates remo...