Feature: How A Chinese Studio Has Revived Fire Emblem's Biggest Rival, Langrisser

And there's the chance it could come to Switch.

While Nintendo's Fire Emblem series is world famous, Masaya's Langrisser franchise (you might know it better as Warsong, the western name given to the original Mega Drive / Genesis game) is less well known; its origins line in a series of turn-based strategy titles on the PC Engine, and during the early '90s it became a solid rival for Fire Emblem, with instalments on the Mega Drive, Super Famicom, PlayStation, Saturn, Wonderswan and even the ill-fated PC-FX.

However, when Career Soft – the team within Masaya responsible for the series – was spun off as an independent studio, it marked the beginning of the end for the 'classic' era of the franchise, during which Career Soft would provide the finely-honed gameplay, Noriyuki Iwadare would compose the epic tunes and Satoshi Urushihara would supply a cast of impeccably-detailed characters – including more than a few doe-eyed female protagonists. 1999's Langrisser V: The End of Legend really lived up to its name; Career Soft parted ways with Masaya and started the Growlancer series at Atlus, and would later work on the Shin Megami Tensei sub-series Devil Survivor before being totally absorbed into the company in 2012.

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