Late in this war, mankind forged nine powerful dragon-slaying weapons, the Divine Weapons and the Binding Blade, and gave them to eight powerful fighters who became known as the Eight Legends to use to finish the war. The game takes place on the fictional continent of Elibe, set twenty years after its prequel, Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, and stars the son of protagonist Eliwood, Roy.ġ,000 years before the events of the game, the land of Elibe was the scene of The Scouring, a brutal war between humans and dragons over the control of the land. Due to differences in development and scheduling, Melee released ahead of The Binding Blade, resulting in the quirk of Roy first being playable in a title other than his origin game.

It was decided that Roy, the protagonist of The Binding Blade, should be included as a new fighter to promote the game, and was developed as a gameplay clone of Marth. Only two characters originally created for Ankoku no Miko, Roy and Karel, survived the transition into The Binding Blade, though not without significant rewrites and revised designs.ĭevelopment of The Binding Blade coincided with the development of the GameCube title Super Smash Bros. A whole new setting was also devised for the game, separating it from the world and continuity of the original five entries. Nearly all work on Ankoku no Miko was scrapped as development was rebooted and the project was moved from the N64 to the Game Boy Advance. This followed internal drama that began the previous year when Shouzou Kaga, creator of the franchise and a principle creative figure in its development since its inception, left Intelligent Systems to found an independent game studio of his own. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii Uįire Emblem: The Binding Blade was the end result of a rocky development cycle that began with the development of the Nintendo 64 project Fire Emblem: Ankoku no Miko, which was cancelled in 2000.

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