The New Fire Emblem Lets You Skip A Massive Chunk Of Fire Emblem

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is a massive game that can easily last well over 100 hours. But you can actually make it a little less massive with the surprising ability to skip over a whole swath of the game, as players are starting to discover. Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave consists of four story arcs starring separate protagonists, the four Flame Lords: Cai, Dietrich, Theodora, and Leda. You can play these in any order (though we have some recommendations) and by themselves each of these campaigns can last around 10-20 hours. Each one comes to its own resolution, of sorts. But after you've completed any one of them, you can move onto the next story arc, which starts to tie all the threads together. The fortunes start to weave, you might say. And if you want, you can just skip that part entirely. Ultimately you're all coming together to defeat the Demon King under the leadership of Eshmel, a sort of futuristic warrior construct made to bring together these legendary heroes under their banner. You know from the very start that's where all this is going. The second arc starts to develop the coming war, and ramps up the difficulty with much larger maps and more formidable armies than …