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Like Gaiden, this game was also delayed from its original plan to be released within 1993, so the year on the title screen and in the copyright notice is "1990-1993" (1990 is the release year of the 1st title, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light).
It is the third installment of the Fire Emblem series, and the first to be developed for the Super Famicom.
It also set the best first-week sales for the series until Fire Emblem Awakening in 2012, and with 776,338 units by 2002 was the best-selling title in the series to that date.
While no exact figure is available, Mystery of the Emblem stood as the best first-week debut for the series until the Nintendo 3DS title Fire Emblem Awakening in 2012.
The first episode, "Episode 1: Fall of the Palace", was broadcast on September 28; "Episode 2: Crimson Dragoon Knight" released on October 5; "Episode 3: Thieves of Justice" released on October 12; and the finale, "Episode 4: Time of Beginning", released on October 19.
Mystery of the Emblem was remade and released in 2010 for the Nintendo DS titled Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem, it was built upon the gameplay systems of the first game's DS remake Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, and incorporated a customizable avatar as the main character alongside Marth.
It was the first time a Satellaview title has been re-released in any form by Nintendo.
Fire Emblem: Mystery of the (Fire Emblem Monshou no Nazo) is the 3rd title in the Fire Emblem series, a simulation role-playing game released by Nintendo as Super Famicom software on 1994-1-21.
In the Famitsu Cross Review it scored 9, 8, 9 and 10, 36 out of a maximum of 40.
Like Gaiden, this game was also delayed from its original plan to be released within 1993, so the year on the title screen and in the copyright notice is "1990-1993" (1990 is the release year of the 1st title, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light).
It also set the best first-week sales for the series until Fire Emblem Awakening in 2012, and with 776,338 units by 2002 was the best-selling title in the series to that date.
As of 2002, Mystery of the Emblem had sold 776,338 units.
In an interview with Shozo Kaga relating to Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (around 1999), he said that "if the conditions are right, I have a feeling I would like to make one more story about Marth and the others on the continent of Akaneia" and that "in that one more, I would like to realise everything I have in mind".
Yuki was cast because she was a great game fan and had said in a magazine that her favourite game was Fire Emblem.
The first episode, "Episode 1: Fall of the Palace", was broadcast on September 28; "Episode 2: Crimson Dragoon Knight" released on October 5; "Episode 3: Thieves of Justice" released on October 12; and the finale, "Episode 4: Time of Beginning", released on October 19.
The story content of BS Fire Emblem was eventually re-released as additional content for New Mystery of the Emblem, dubbed "New Archanea Chronicles".
It also set the best first-week sales for the series until Fire Emblem Awakening in 2012, and with 776,338 units by 2002 was the best-selling title in the series to that date.
Nintendo Lifes Gonçalo Lopes praised the general narrative, technical improvements and overall gameplay.
In 1996 an original video animation was released by KSS (cancelled after volume 2).
Vision and released in North America on April 14, 1998, five years before Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade was localized.
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