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Fire Emblem Fates: Special Edition

Fire Emblem Fates - Special Edition was a limited time bundle containing both base stories, Birthright and Conquest, and gave access to DLC for the 3rd story, Revelation, when it became available. The games…

87 19 February 2016

Fire Emblem Fates: Special Edition is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Intelligent Systems, released 19 February 2016 on Nintendo 3DS.

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What Fire Emblem Fates: Special Edition is

Fire Emblem Fates: Special Edition is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Intelligent Systems and released in 2016. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Fire Emblem Fates is a tactical role-playing video game for the Nintendo 3DS handheld video game console, developed by Intelligent Systems and Nintendo SPD and published by Nintendo. It was released in June 2015 in Japan, then released internationally in 2016. It is the fourteenth installment in the Fire Emblem series and the second to be developed for Nintendo 3DS after Fire Emblem Awakening. Unlike previous titles, Fates was released in three versions, each following a different storyline centered on the same characters: Birthright and Conquest as physical releases, and Revelation as downloadable content.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are drama and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Fire Emblem series

Fire Emblem Fates: Special Edition is the 37th of 66 entries we hold in the Fire Emblem series. The next entry was Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation - Heirs of Fate in 2016. Its critic score of 87 is 7 points above the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.

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How it was received

Fire Emblem Fates: Special Edition holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 87% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 19 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Fire Emblem Fates: Special Edition launched on 19 February 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Stardew Valley, Firewatch and SuperHot. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Stardew Valley, Firewatch, SuperHot.

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When did Fire Emblem Fates: Special Edition come out?
Fire Emblem Fates: Special Edition was released on 19 February 2016 for Nintendo 3DS.

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