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slumberinglabyrinth · 1 year ago

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Found an old issue of Nintendo Power while excavating my bedroom. While it focused more on Sacred Stones since it was coming out sooner, it did have this page previewing Path of Radiance (it might the first time the west got to see it? not too sure).

Struck me as kinda odd that they didn't show off any identifiably non-human characters here despite both this page and the Sacred Stones pages placing some emphasis on each game being completely new worlds (probably to make them seem more accessible to newcomers). The FE8 section even goes out of its way to point out 'hey there's now a playable Manakete isn't that cool' so maybe they didn't want to shift attention too far away from fe8 since it was releasing first?

#Fire Emblem Path of Radiance #fe9 #fe tellius #june 2005 page 91 #there's a somewhat interesting section on localization on page 90 #you can find the full issue online (on the internet archive and probably elsewhere too)#Yes Caineghis is literally Laguz but you cant see his ears so lacking context he's just a guy with long hair #there are several shots later in that cutscene that are more along the lines of 'wow that's new' eyecatching #noa shouldve hired me at the tender age of seven to manage their marketing #are you posting this beca- yes i am posting because mister kitty. who do you think i am #this is actually the only issue i ever got (a visiting relative brought it for me at a drugstore or whatever)#so its a funny coincidence that the character i am capital o obsessed with appears in it

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