Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes Trailer Shows Off Musou Combat

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As part of today’s Nintendo Direct, a trailer for Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes released, showing off a musou combat style for the game. This is a new take on Fire Emblem, which thus far has largely been about strategy and turn-based combat. It seems Nintendo isn’t afraid to branch out and try new things with an old franchise.

This isn’t the first time this has happened, though. Hyrule Warriors launched in 2014, and brought the Legend of Zelda series into the musou world, allowing gamers to take on hordes of enemies as classic Legend of Zelda characters. With its follow-up, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, and 2017's Fire Emblem Warriors, Nintendo now has had multiple forays into musou combat with franchises that traditionally feature a much different gameplay style.

Now, the Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes trailer released by Nintendo shows that Fire Emblem will be getting the musou treatment once again. The trailer features Edelgard, Claude, and Dimitri from Fire Emblem: Three Houses mowing down waves of identical enemies with all the classic hallmarks of a Dynasty Warriors game. While it’s unclear how this will tie into the Three Houses story, it seems like it may be a retelling in a different style. The game releases on June 24, 2022 for the Nintendo Switch, and pre-orders are available now.

As the most recent game in the series, Fire Emblem Three Houses placed the player at the center of three school houses, which were all eventually involved in a war spanning a whole continent. So, there's plenty of opportunity of Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes to be a massive game, with the perfect set-up to allow fans to tear through huge armies as is to be expected with a musou game. The trailer showcases gameplay as