This resulted in the series' near-cancellation until the unprecedented critical and commercial success of Fire Emblem Awakening (2012). Many games in the series sold well, although sales suffered a decline during the late 2000s. Melee as playable characters is also cited as a reason (with Roy's inclusion in Melee meaning he was in Smash before his own Fire Emblem game). The inclusion of Marth and Roy in the 2001 fighting game Super Smash Bros. According to the game's director, this was because of the international success of the similarly turn-based Advance Wars. The series debuted in the West with the seventh game The Blazing Blade in 2003, under the title Fire Emblem. He went on to found his own game studio, Tirnanog, who developed Tear Ring Saga. Kaga headed the development of each entry until the release of Thracia 776, when he left Intelligent Systems. The development of the first game began as a dōjin project by Shouzou Kaga and three other developers, and its success prompted the development of further games in the series. The series' title refers to the 'Fire Emblem', a recurring element usually portrayed as a royal weapon or shield representing the power of war and dragons. A notable aspect of gameplay is the permanent death of characters in battle, rendering them unusable upon being defeated, although this aspect of the game can be turned off starting from Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem onwards. The games also feature a story and characters similar to traditional role-playing video games, and occasionally social simulation aspects as well. The player and enemy each take turns moving their characters across the map and having them perform combat-based actions.

The core gameplay revolves around discrete battles between the player's team of characters and enemy non-player characters across grid-based maps. First produced and published for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990, the series currently consists of seventeen core entries and five spinoffs. Fire Emblem is a Japanese fantasy tactical role-playing game franchise developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo.

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