Nintendo has officially announced the Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Expansion Pass. While it comes with an uncharacteristically high price, the new DLC may actually complete the original vision for the game, which Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave developer Intelligent Systems had to abandon.
The latest entry in the long-running strategy RPG series launched exclusively for the Nintendo Switch 2 on September 17. Fortune's Weave earned widespread critical acclaim, with its 90 average score on OpenCritic making it one of the highest-rated Fire Emblem games to date. One of its defining features is a campaign structured around four playable protagonists—Cai, Dietrich, Theodora, and Leda—whose individual stories intersect over the course of the game. However, Intelligent Systems previously revealed that Fortune's Weave was originally designed around eight protagonist perspectives. The developer ultimately halved that number after determining that such an arrangement made the game excessively complicated.
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave crosses a major sales milestone just days after its release, quickly becoming a smash hit with fans.
The newly announced Fortune's Weave Expansion Pass now appears poised to revisit that abandoned concept. Its third and most substantial wave will introduce new stories featuring Bertrand, Talimun, Orchel, and Anatolia, four other prominent...
