I’d love to hear what you enjoyed about FE: Engage, if you cared to talk about it! I loved the older games (Awakening was so fun! The primary plot device is one of my fav tropes) but never enjoyed the pacing or boarding school setting of 3H enough to get into it so I’d kind of fallen out of touch with the fandom. I’ve been thinking of trying to find a copy of Engage, though! I miss the way FE does battles and making the silly little characters have their silly little heart-to-hearts. You think it’s worth it?
it is definitely worth it!
you see, fire emblem engage got so many critiques BECAUSE they decided to go back to classic fire emblem and leave behind the fire emblem 3 houses gameplay
i personally also didn't like fe3h's approach and i struggled playing that game, even if i do understand why people like it!
Fire Emblem Engage is an anniversary game, so as to celebrate the game's entire franchise there's a plot device called EMBLEM RINGS, if you wear an emblem ring you can summon the ghost version of another world's hero (aka the protag of another fe game) to help you and give you abilities during battle
these ghosts are called emblems! the emblem rings available to use and the old ghost characters you can summon are
1. marth (fire emblem shadow dragon)
2. celica (fire emblem gaiden)
3. sigurd (fire emblem genealogy of the holy war)
4. leif (fire emblem thracia 776)
5. lyn (fire emblem blazing blade)
6. roy (fire emblem binding blade)
7. eirika + ephraim (fire emblem sacred stones)
8. ike (fire emblem path of radiance)
9. micaiah (fire emblem radiant dawn)
10. lucina (fire emblem awakening)
11. corrin (fire emblem fates)
12. byleth (fire emblem 3 houses)
if you engage with an emblem, your souls merges with the ghost and for a couple turns you get the unique attacks from the fe protag you engaged with
here's a small gameplay clip!
you can see someone fighting with a marth ghost by their side, marth in that form gives you a boost stat but that's it
but like right after a character called celine engages with celica's ghost and they both combine into one and now celine has celica's tome from fire emblem gaiden and also now has a new ability which is to transport around the map!
ANYWAY the academy mechanic doesn't happen here, the plot is very simple, a fell dragon is back, it stole all the emblem rings BUT marth's so you start with one one, so you kinda have to find all the rings so the fell dragon won't do evil stuff
also, the avatar is a dragon themselves lmao so you play as a divine dragon!
anyway, the maps ????? and the gameplay??? EXCELLENT, i personally believe it's THE BEST in the franchise so far!
just don't expect political intrigue and betrayals and nuanced characters like in fire emblem 3 houses, this game is fun! this game is camp! and it knows it! the plot is very simple but it does the job!
people keep trying to compare it to fe3h when it's not, it's a whimsy fun anniversary game WITH AMAZING gameplay, not fe3h 2!
