Nintendo’s Newest Fire Emblem Is a Sprawling Book of Stories
Tech > Gaming Nintendo’s Newest Fire Emblem Is a Sprawling Book of Stories Fortune’s Weave for Switch 2 is far longer than I have patience for, and yet I appreciate its narrative. Scott Stein Editor at Large I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009.… Read full bio Scott Stein Editor at Large Read full bio September 16, 2026, 8:00 am ET 3 min read Nintendo OK, so I’ve never been much of a Fire Emblem guy. Nintendo’s long-running fantasy strategy game series first came out around the same time as Advance Wars (2003).
- ▪Tech > Gaming Nintendo’s Newest Fire Emblem Is a Sprawling Book of Stories Fortune’s Weave for Switch 2 is far longer than I have patience for, and yet I appreciate its narrative.
- ▪Scott Stein Editor at Large I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009.… Read full bio Scott Stein Editor at Large Read full bio September 16, 2026, 8:00 am ET 3 min read Nintendo OK, so I’ve never been much of a Fire Emblem guy.
- ▪Nintendo’s long-running fantasy strategy game series first came out around the same time as Advance Wars (2003).
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| Canonical URL | https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/nintendos-newest-fire-emblem-is-a-sprawling-book-of-stories/ |
| Publication time | 2026-09-16T12:00:00Z |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-16T12:23:41.276Z |
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| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
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Tech > Gaming Nintendo’s Newest Fire Emblem Is a Sprawling Book of Stories Fortune’s Weave for Switch 2 is far longer than I have patience for, and yet I appreciate its narrative. Scott Stein Editor at Large I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009.… Read full bio Scott Stein Editor at Large Read full bio September 16, 2026, 8:00 am ET 3 min read Nintendo OK, so I’ve never been much of a Fire Emblem guy. Nintendo’s long-running fantasy strategy game series first came out around the same time as Advance Wars (2003). On the old Game Boy Advance, I liked its similar turn-based style but fuzzed out on the fantasy drama. But Fortune’s Weave, the newest in a long series of Fire Emblem games coming out this week as a Switch 2 exclusive, has a story I actually got into. Four, actually.
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