Fire Emblem (?????????? ,Faia Emuburemu?) is a tactical role-playing games franchise developed by Intelligent Systems (specifically Shouzou Kaga), the maker of Advance Wars (which shares some of Fire Emblem's strategic elements), and published by Nintendo Co., Ltd. The Fire Emblem series is well-known for its innovation and for being one of the first tactical role-playing games, with a strong emphasis on Western forms of medieval folklore. The series is also renowned for having deeply developed characters, as well as the fact that most units' deathor defeat in battleis permanent in the game until the end of the playthrough. The series currently spans eleven games, and has been released on the Famicom, Super Famicom, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, Nintendo DS, and Wii. Nintendo announced a Fire Emblem game for the Nintendo DS in October 2007; it is a remake of the first game, Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryu to Hikari no Ken, and is the first Fire Emblem game to have online features.