Nintendo’s biggest video game of 2026 is doubling in size next year

Nintendo has announced an expansion pass for Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave, that will deliver on its original concept of having eight main characters.

If there’s one thing you can’t accuse Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave of, it’s a lack of content. Between its four different character routes, it can easily take over 100 hours to see everything, making it easily one of the biggest video games of the year.

HowLongToBeat estimates that it would take 161 hours to see absolutely everything in the game, which very few people will have had a chance to do by now, and yet Nintendo has announced that it’s adding even more content to the game.

In the middle of the night, Nintendo dropped a trailer for a DLC expansion pass, with the biggest highlight being no less than four additional story routes for the game’s sub-lords: Bertrand, Talimun, Anatolia, and Orchel.

This will bring Fortune’s Weave’s tally of main characters up to eight and while Nintendo hasn’t specified if these new story routes will be as long as the original four, the expansion pass’ store listing does mention ‘new allies, unit classes and more’ will be included.

There’s every reason to believe the story content will be substantial, though, since Fortune’s Weave was originally going to feature eight main characters to start with.

Director Toshiyuki Kusakihara and producer Genki Yokota revealed this in one of Nintendo’s Ask the Developer interviews, ahead of the game’s launch, but said it proved too difficult to implement.

‘With eight protagonists, there was almost too much we could do… It seemed like players would have a lot to keep track of, which could make the game feel complicated. So, we decided to put the focus on four of those protagonists instead,’ said Yokota.

It’s not clear if the four new characters are the ones that were originally intended, and it seems unlikely that their paths would be quite as long as the ones currently in the game, but given how enormous Fortune’s Weave is already it’s hard to count anything out.

The new story content won’t come out until an unspecified date in 2027. However, the expansion pass will add two waves of smaller content updates before that.

Firstly, four weapons based on the Heroes’ Relics from Fire Emblem: Three Houses are already available, with each of the four leads – Cai, Dietrich, Theodora, and Leda – receiving one by completing new side quests.

The second wave is scheduled for this winter and will not only add new outfits for the four leads and their allies, but also three new units to take into battle – the gods Aurora, Smyrnos, and Jurah.

You’ll need to complete new quests to recruit them, though, and it sounds like they’ll only be available during the final act of the game.

The expansion pass is available for purchase right now for £29.99. Considering the base game is already £58.99 digitally and £66.99 physically, that’s a lot to spend on Fire Emblem, but you’re certainly getting your money’s worth.

Nintendo is also offering a digital bundle for newcomers that contains both the base game and the expansion pass, but at £88.98, it’s no cheaper than buying a digital copy of the game and the DLC separately.

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