Nintendo has just published the latest English Iwata Asks segment which is focussed solely on Fire Emblem Awakening. One of the interesting excerpts from the article is the development team initially starting proposing that the game should take place on Mars. This idea was obviously discarded, but it didn’t stop the developers chuckling about it. Here’s what they had to say.
Iwata: What kind of proposals were you making?
Yamagami: (laughs) A game called Fire Emblem 2011.
Iwata: 2011?
Higuchi: Yeah. (laughs) We made proposals that were a complete departure from the medieval worldview so far—like Fire Emblem completely in the modern world or the one which has the sense of an fairy tale. But they were too far out, so we couldn’t get started. (laughs)
Iwata: Maeda-san, do you remember what the other suggestions were like?
Maeda: One idea that came up within the team was, well, it was Mars.
Iwata: Mars?!
Maeda: Yeah. Fighting on Mars.
Iwata: Fighting on Mars?!
Kusakihara: Now I know why Yamagami-san was like, “That’s too much!”
Everyone: (laughs loudly)
Well…Maybe the next F-Zero should take place on various planets, with different gravitational pulls, so your jumps would never quite be the same?
Now, that’s an idea!
I would love to see that happening.
You sir have a good brain. F-zero GX Remake a la winwaker reborn please. Off screen play and online !
Why do you want a remake rather than a new game?
I want both. But if Nintendo is being too gay to make a new game , I’ll take an F-zero GX remake or Virtual console release.
F-Zero GX with an online 32 player multiplayer like every fan has been asking for since the release of the game XD
This!
I’d like a continuation more just to build on the series. Who knows? It’s always a possibility!
Lets sega am2 do it.
That’s an idea for a good spin-off right there though…
Or advance wars.
Damn, I forgot that these guys work on that franchise too…Advance Wars might be another system seller for the 3DS…
Sure is hope is 1 of the new 3ds games Nintendo is making.
Huh… LOL?
Got the game today, I’m glad that idea was discarded LOL
The idea may not work for fire emblem but a advance wars would be great. All the nations united against space invaders and some sweet units using the fire emblem engine.
there heads would of blew up
I’m glad they didn’t put that idea to use. Fire Emblem on Mars would be ridiculous.
That could’ve been odd. Maybe they’ll recycle it for SMT X Fire Emblem?
O_0
Shin Megami X Fire Emblem, put it on Mars
I dunno, SMT is more about the super natural rather than space cyberpunk
Well Fire Emblem isnt in space xD
I read the original Megami Tensei novels based off the Famicom game recently and… I guess I could see cyberpunk in the novels since they have digital elements? I guess it could work if it was done well :D
Mars is a good idea. It’s a game so they it can take place on any planet.
[continued laughter]
Dont trow the idea away it can work in a advance wars game.
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Well, this was unexpected. Sort of glad they didn’t do this though, it’d be a bit like making a futuristic Zelda game.
That would be so awful! xD
Link gets a bow like Hawkeye’s from the Marvel Universe, grenades instead of bombs, lightsaber-like sword, motorcycle instead of Epona XDDDD
They should have set it on Mars just to see everyone’s reaction to it.
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OMG I would LOVE a modern Fire Emblem!!! It could have a futuristic, cyberpunk, look! That would be AMAAAZZZIIINNNGGGGG!~
They said this last years and it was intended as a joke.
At first, I thought the title meant Fire Emblem will be release at the month Mars…:P