Roster
Differences Between Fire Emblem Warriors and Hyrule Warriors
Obviously, the roster is a big deal in games like Hyrule and Fire Emblem Warriors, and while both games feature a sizable amount of characters, there’s certainly a difference in variety. Fire Emblem Warriors basically features characters from three games; Awakening, Fates, and Shadow Dragon. There are a couple others thrown in as well as the original characters, but by and large, the bulk of the roster comes from these three, two of which are from the newer generation of Fire Emblem games. Even looking at the upcoming DLC for Fire Emblem Warriors, we’re still getting more characters from these three games.
When you compare that to Hyrule Warriors, Koei Tecmo’s previous game just seemed to have more variety. Hyrule Warriors featured characters from Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, and a new version of Impa. The DLC introduced a large variety of characters that expanded to more games from the franchise with new characters from Majora’s Mask, Wind Waker, Link’s Awakening, and Link Between Worlds. This put some serious variety into the game once all the DLC was released, giving you a wide breadth of Zelda characters to choose from.
This isn’t to say the roster of Fire Emblem Warriors is bad, just different. With Hyrule Warriors Koei Tecmo tried to give fans their favorite characters from across the series. Of course, Fire Emblem has tons of units in every game, meaning the potential list of characters is much larger than Zelda was. For Fire Emblem Warriors Koei Tecmo decided to hone in on some of the more popular titles and characters, rather than go for an all-time greatest of the series.
