This page details the changes made to the gameplay and writing ofFire Emblem: The Blazing Blade during its localization from Japanese to US English, and later from US English to the five European languages: EU English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.

Name changes

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Japanese to US changes

Text

• New Latin-alphabet fonts were implemented for both gameplay and dialogue, replacing the fixed-width ones already present in the Japanese version; however, the old font's capital A, B, C, D, E, and S were retained and continue to be used to markweapon levels andsupport levels. This also had the side effect of fixing their alignment, as the Japanese Latin fonts capital letters were lower down than lowercase, though this was only ever seen in theSound Room of the Japanese version or ifMark orLink Arena teams were named using Latin letters.

Japanese	US
Mark was named Ｍａｒｋ (in Latin letters) in the Japanese screenshot, and Mark in the US screenshot.

• The allowed length of Mark's and Link Arena team names was expanded from five characters to nine.
• The speed of the text being displayed was changed for international releases, with text speed being slowed down overall. Like many other small adjustments this adjustment is not retained in the localized release ofFire Emblem: The Sacred Stones.^[1]
• In the Japanese version, a unit'saffinity icon has kanji next to it clarifying what type of affinity that unit has, (dark, fire, ice, anima, etc, which can be expressed in one or two Japanese characters) this is presumably not present in any localization due to there not being enough space to name the affinities in text in other languages. This leaves only icons for affinity and not any text explicitly clarifying the type of affinity the unit has outside of the icon itself.

Gameplay changes

• The ability to assignMark a blood type was cut, since blood type is significantly less important in western culture than it is in Japan. Its effect on determining Mark'saffinity was removed and affinity is now decided only by birth month.

Japanese	US
Mark was namedユリアYuria in the Japanese screenshot, andJulia in the US screenshot.

• Theterrain bonuses granted by gates and thrones were reduced.
• Thebonus damage multiplier applied to weaponmight was reduced in most cases.

• In the Japanese version,Lyn as aBlade Lord will erroneously use her normal battle sprites and animations when wielding theSol Katti, due to the animations being assigned toDurandal. The localization corrected this error.

Chapter and boss changes

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• InChapter 27E/29H, the bossesLloyd andLinus both wieldRuneswords in the Japanese version. The localization changed this to give themLight Brands, althoughNils's augury for the chapter ("I sense a dire foe in the battle ahead. The weapon he wields is cursed. A sword that steals life energies and feeds them to its wielder.") was not changed to reflect this.
• Inthe Final Chapter, two doors open at the end of every second turn in the Japanese version, and bothUhai andKenneth's rooms are open at the start of the chapter. The localization changed this to open one door at the end of every turn and to have only Uhai's room open at the start. This was changed so that the player encounters fewer bosses at once.
• Many bosses had their stats slightly lowered (-1 Strength, -2 Skill, -3 Speed, -1 Defense, -1 Resistance;Georg andKaim did not have their Resistance lowered).

Base stats
Character	Lv	HP	S/M	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Con	Weapon Level
Lloyd (Ch 23E/24H)	12	41	19 −1	21 −2	22 −3	16	9 −1	16 −1	6	9	A
Linus (Ch 23E/24H)	12	45	22 −1	20 −2	15 −3	14	15 −1	13 −1	6	14	A, A
Pascal	14	48	18 −1	15 −2	13 −3	11	14 −1	9 −1	8	12	D, B, E
Kenneth	13	41	20 −1	18 −2	16 −3	6	10 −1	22 −1	6	10	A, A
Jerme	13	46	19 −1	20 −2	20 −3	10	11 −1	15 −1	6	6	A
Maxime	11	40	15 −1	14 −2	16 −3	5	10 −1	16 −1	8	11	D, A, E
Sonia	17	44	20 −1	20 −2	21 −3	0	20 −1	24 −1	6	7	A, A
Lloyd (Ch 27E/29H)	18	52	21 −1	25 −2	24 −3	16	16 −1	20 −1	6	9	S
Linus (Ch 27E/29H)	18	58	25 −1	22 −2	18 −3	14	20 −1	16 −1	6	14	S, A
Georg	15	60	28 −1	19 −2	16 −3	0	19 −1	21	6	15	S
Kaim	16	50	21 −1	20 −2	18 −3	0	16 −1	22	6	13	S, A
Denning	19	51	19 −1	20 −2	21 −3	0	15 −1	23 −1	6	8	A
Limstella	20	68	25 −1	22 −2	20 −3	0	25 −1	28 −1	6	7	S, S
Jerme (morph)	20	53	20 −1	30 −2	26 −3	0	20 −1	17 −1	6	6	S
Lloyd (morph)	20	52	22 −1	28 −2	30 −3	0	19 −1	22 −1	6	9	S
Linus (morph)	20	60	25 −1	25 −2	22 −3	0	22 −1	20 −1	6	14	S, A
Brendan (morph)	20	65	30 −1	22 −2	20 −3	0	20 −1	18 −1	6	15	S, S
Uhai (morph)	20	55	23 −1	28 −2	28 −3	0	19 −1	19 −1	8	11	A, S
Ursula (morph)	20	48	25 −1	24 −2	25 −3	0	17 −1	26 −1	8	7	S, A
Kenneth (morph)	20	56	24 −1	21 −2	21 −3	0	15 −1	30 −1	6	10	S, A
Darin (morph)	20	62	24 −1	20 −2	18 −3	0	30 −1	16 −1	5	15	S, A
Brendan (unused)	18	38	16 −1	10 −2	10 −3	2	8 −1	2 −1	6	15	S, A

The table lists the character's base stats in the Japanese version − the adjustment made in the English version.

Dialogue changes

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• Lyn's age was increased by editing one line fromSain inChapter 1, going from 15 years old in the Japanese script to 18 years old in localized scripts. Similarly, her motherMadelyn is said to have abandonedCaelin 19 years prior to the game's events in the localizations, instead of just 16 years prior as in Japanese. However,Wallace andKent's C-rank support conversation was not edited to reflect this, and still claims that Madelyn andHassar eloped 17 years prior to Eliwood/Hector's tale; the correct figure according to the localization should be 20 years prior.
• All references to the characterAenir were the subject of multiple translation errors in the US version. The first of these occurred in the Hector-exclusive side questChapter 19x pt 2, wherea man says:

The line refers to Aenir as if it were a location, when Aenir is actually a person.^[2]

The second error occurred in theFinal Chapter, in the specialNergal death quote which appears only if allKishuna side quests were completed:

In the Japanese version Nergal refers to Aenir instead ofquintessence. The words are similar in the Japanese version, as quintessence is called "Aegir".^[3]

The Binding Blade data transfer

Being thatFire Emblem: The Binding Blade was never localized, the ability to transfer save data from that game intoFire Emblem was removed. The bonuses given by the data transfer were changed as a result:

• Transferring data fromThe Binding Blade allows the player to skip Lyn's tale on their first playthrough of the game and start from Eliwood's tale instead. This feature was cut entirely in localization.
• Two extended epilogue scenes were originally unlocked by either linking withThe Binding Blade, or by clearingFire Emblem a certain number of times.
  • A clearedBinding Blade save file which achieved the bad ending (where the game ended atChapter 22) unlocks the first scene with Eliwood, Hector,Roy, andLilina. This ending can alternatively be obtained by clearing the game nine times.
  • A clearedBinding Blade save file which achieved either of the good endings (where the game ended at theFinal Chapter) unlocks the second scene, whereZephiel is confronted byJahn about awakeningthe demon dragon. This ending can alternatively be obtained by clearing the game eleven times.

Both scenes are in the epilogue by default in the US version and do not require unlocking.

US to European changes

Unless otherwise stated, all changes made between the Japanese and US releases are retained in the European versions, excluding names.

Text

The game's dialogue font was changed for European editions, with the new font being similar but significantly shorter than the font used in US; this edited font was later used in all localizations ofThe Sacred Stones. All other fonts in the game, including the one used in gameplay menus, are unchanged.

US	European

Graphics

• The game's support viewer calls affinities by the abbreviation "ATL" in the Japanese and NTSC-U versions. The PAL version corrected the abbreviation to "AFFIN".
• The banner accompanying a level-up when battle animations are turned on was changed for the European versions, presumably for space reasons due to the need to add more banners for the other localizations. While both the Japanese and US releases have a large banner with a sparkling animation, the European versions reuse the smaller, static graphic displayed when battle animations are turned off, coincidentally matching the style used byThe Binding Blade. This change was not retained forThe Sacred Stones, where the European localizations made their own versions of the full-size Japanese/English graphic for animations-on mode.

Japanese	US	European

• The CGs used during the extended epilogue are inaccessible in the European versions of the game, since it was cut entirely. The only way they can appear in a European game is through emulation; if a US or Japanese save file which has viewed the extended epilogue is imported, or hacking, they will be viewable in theSound Room. This affects six CGs:
  • YoungRoy andLilina running off to play
  • Bern Keep at night
  • Two images of adultZephiel sitting on his throne, one of which hasJahn present
  • Two close-up images of Zephiel's face, one of which has him with a maniacal expression

• All CG images in the European versions feature a colored border four pixels wide, which is absent in the other versions. The images themselves are re-aligned four pixels up and left, in order to accommodate the border without reducing the images' quality; the images are otherwise unchanged.

Japanese/US	European

Dialogue changes

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• The English mode of both European releases adds an unusual error in the world map sequence forChapter 16xE/17xH, where for half of a sentence the script suddenly lapses into Italian, replacing the clauseHeading for the southern coast of Caelin withIn rotta per la costa a sud di Caelin. This appears to be a massive typographical error with the script itself, rather than a matter of mixed-up text pointers, since this even occurs in the "AE7X" European release which does not include an Italian localization at all.
• Several items had their help description text strings revised to fix errors made by the US release.

Item	US	European
Wind Sword	A magic sword capable of striking at a distance.	A long-range magic sword.
Dragon Axe	An axe designed to strike down wyverns.	A wyvern-slaying axe.
Rienfleche	Can strike consecutively.	For experienced units only.

Items

Since no distribution events were ever run for European releases, the following items became completely inaccessible in gameplay. All of them can still be accessed through cheat devices and still function properly.

Items unavailable in EU
	Item	Type
	Dragon axe	Axe
	Wind sword	Sword
	Emblem seal	Item
	Emblem blade	Sword
	Emblem axe	Axe
	Emblem lance	Lance
	Emblem bow	Bow

Music

Three songs are inaccessible in the European release due to their methods of acquisition not being accommodated for. The first of these three is part of the extended epilogue, while the latter two were obtained through special events or adisc that came withMario Kart: Double Dash!!, neither of which have European counterparts. The only way they can appear in theSound Room of a European game is through hacking or the importation of a US or Japanese save file. The affected songs are:

• #98 "Avoided Fate"
• #99 "Legend of the Dragon God", a redone version of a song fromFire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem.
• #100 "Royal Palace of Silezha", a redone version of a song fromFire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War.

Extended epilogue

The game's extended epilogue was cut entirely.

References