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Of all the characters I expected to be added to the mobile gacha game Fire Emblem Heroes, the Gatekeeper from Fire Emblem: Three Houses was not the first person who came to mind.
To be fair, Nintendo probably didn’t either. FEH has a regular popularity poll called Choose Your Legends, in which members of the community can vote on which Fire Emblem characters will be added to the upcoming summoning pool. The unnamed gatekeeper known for his charming status reports had completely swept the vote this February, with almost twice as many players voting for him than any of the runners-up.
Who is this mysterious gatekeeper? He’s a Three Houses NPC who greets players by the gates of Garreg Mach monastery. He’s chipper, and he has an infectious can-do attitude. He almost seems out of place next to legendary protagonists such as Marth and Eirika, or the compellingly tragic Marianne. He’s out of place next to previous winners, who have always been the royal protagonists of their respective games. Aside from not being a playable character in Three Houses, he doesn’t even have a name! So what compelled voters to send him to the very top? Considering that FEH has over 17 million downloads, the results of the poll seemed a little much for memery. But now that he’s actually in FEH six months later, I booted up the game and decided to see what this was about.
Though obtaining characters in FEH typically involves gambling with free or paid currency, players can select one Choose Your Legends character for free. So you can either grab him immediately, or you can choose him after forty summons if you had your eye on someone else. While I was grinding quests for summoning orbs, I noticed that Gatekeeper was featured in the Forging Bonds event.
Read the full article on Kotaku
