Quote Originally Posted by Flaming Ice View Post
Marth, roy, and ike made for really good characters in smash bros too. As I recall,I remember reading that marth/roy were included in the game to help advertise #7 before it came out over here too. But it really helps to advertise the games...how many people would have known about fire emblem if not for smash bros?
Well, it's actually had a pretty big cult following among the Tactical RPG community. I heard it from the Shining Force fans long before it was ever localized (which is why I was surprised I was introducing Bolivar to the series). Beyond that, however, it's gotten very little advertising at all, despite having excellent critical reception and good buzz from most who have played the games.

Unfortunately # 6 didn't get released here, which seems odd, considering they could have released it as a sequel instead of a prequel. (would be nice if they could do a POR/RD version for both 6 and 7 and release them together).
The only remakes I've seen from the Fire Emblem series so far is Shadow Dragon (and a few screenshots of Fire Emblem: Shin Monshō no Nazo ~Hikari to Kage no Eiyū~, and it looks to be fairly similar to Shadow Dragon), and I absolutely hated that game.

But if they bring the quality of the other games up to that of Awakening, I would absolutely adore remakes of Blazing Swords, the Jugdrali games. Heck, I'd even take a portable remake of the Tellius games, especially if they straightened out Radiant Dawn's troubles.

Hopefully they'll keep going with the game then, specially since they have some crossover version coming out, might be nice to get it over here depending on what it's like.
Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem is I believe being primarily headed up by Atlus, not Intelligent Systems, and is going to be a standard RPG, not a Tactical RPG. Of course, since I adore Atlus's work, I'm going to buy it, and getting the SMT and Persona fans introduced to the Fire Emblem's characters can only do good things for the series.

And, oddly, despite the totally different settings, I think it's a crossover that has an absolutely insane amount of potential. Both series have excellent storytelling and extremely well developed characters, and the conflicts and themes will even work well together. I am definitely looking forward to how this crossover will play out.

With one exception. I have to buy a Wii U now. Dangit.