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Nintendo has announced that the marriage system will be returning to the Fire Emblem series in Awakening. This is the first time marriage has been integrated since Fire Emblem Seisen no Keifu.
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The article says you can marry any of your units, so hopefully that mean same sex marriage will be available as well. That would be quite a progressive step for Nintendo. (Edit #2: Though now it's looking like it will be restricted to straight pairings only, sadly.)
The full Ask Iwata article is here. If anyone can find some more information on this, that would be great.
Edit: A new trailer featuring the marriage system can be seen here. (It's at the very end of the trailer.)
The second Iwata Asks column for Fire Emblem Awakening reveals that this original 3DS entry in the series has love elements
Genki Yokota, the game's director on Nintendo's side, explained that one of the major themes for the new game is love of the characters, so he really wanted to add a marriage system to the game. Producer Hitoshi Yamagami felt the same way, saying that the marriage elements from Super Famicom's Fire Emblem Seisen no Keifu, the first time such elements appeared in the series, left a great impression in him.
For Awakening's marriage system, they increased the variation of the possible couple combinations. You can marry any of your allies, and your My Unit characters too.
The development staff created special graphics for proposals. Some on the team even suggested that they make kiss faces for all the characters.
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The article says you can marry any of your units, so hopefully that mean same sex marriage will be available as well. That would be quite a progressive step for Nintendo. (Edit #2: Though now it's looking like it will be restricted to straight pairings only, sadly.)
The full Ask Iwata article is here. If anyone can find some more information on this, that would be great.
Edit: A new trailer featuring the marriage system can be seen here. (It's at the very end of the trailer.)