Fire Emblem: Fates is a family tiff on an epic — and pricey — scale

Corrin has some choices ahead of them.

The customizable protagonist for Fire Emblem: Fates, Corrin is thrust into the middle of a brewing family conflict.The decisions you make will guide how you play through the most recent entry in the grid-based tactical-role-playing Fire Emblem series when it releases February 19 for $40 for the Nintendo 3DS (of course, you very well could end up paying $100 for the entire — as I’ll explain shortly). I played it at last week’s Nintendo RPG Showcase in San Francisco, and I also watched a break-out session that went over some other details that the demo didn’t cover.