You know, I wasn’t planning to write this post.

When I posted about the upcoming Direct on Monday, I thought that would cover it. I’d tune in, get a better idea of the game, and leave it at that.

But the Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Direct actually got me much more excited than I was before, so I decided to cover it after all. Be sure to check out the full Direct if you want all the details, since I’ll be covering the highlights for me.

(And if you want to go into the game completely unspoiled, stop reading now.)

First off, we got a much better idea of the game’s structure… although there are still some unclear aspects.

Up until now, it was a little confusing, because they showed that you could pick one of the four lords’ stories and that you’d play directly as the lord, but what appeared to be an avatar character had also been spotted. Now it’s a bit clearer. The player’s character, Eshmel, exists five years in the future and is facing a climactic battle. They then travel back in time to change the fates of the four lords.

It’s still not certain if you’ll play as the lords first, then get a timeskip, and then go back to change things as Eshmel, or if you’ll actually start the game in the future and head back into the past to experience each story.

Either way, another interesting thing revealed in the Direct is that you can switch between the lords’ stories whenever you want and even play them in parallel! That’ll do a lot toward getting me to actually see them all this time…

Now, Free Time is the main thing I wanted to learn about, and we got a lot of new information. In addition to things like the arena and recruiting characters, you can also travel across the world map to visit towns and dungeons, with movement costing time that passes in between battles. The most unexpected part is that dungeons feature turn-based combat like in a JRPG, instead of the usual strategy RPG combat used in the rest of the game.

I still have questions about the game’s structure and how the parallel playthroughs work, but I’m excited. I’m more interested than ever in Fortune’s Weave, and I’m looking forward to playing it next month!

Be sure to check out the full Direct for the rest of the new information shared. What are you looking forward to the most from Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave?