I looked at Fire Emblem Engage Leaks So You Don't Have To
This is a thread of vague statements to answer questions, these basically are just answers to questions I had before looking at leaks I figured others might have too.
The game has a few surprise characters left
The game has more then one potentially ehh to a marginalized group characters
The game seems to have a lot less VA work than 3H
The game does seem to be doing things to keep the difficulty up even in normal mode.
Enemy recruits are back in some compacity.
The pace of get units is more spread out then in Three Houses.
Emblem Rings get a little more spotlight then their debut.
I've been avoiding story spoilers where I can but it seems like there is a tiny bit more to it then evil dragon bad but like it seems like it is mostly that. Don't expect PoR/RD/ or Fodlan levels of engaging their worlds politics. It's probably under New Mystery TBH.
S ranks are back despite what previews said they simply aren't in the Support Menu. Like in three houses you get a ring and can give that ring.
You can S rank anyone regardless of gender but some are explicitly platonic in English likely to avoid minor characters from having implications with Alear. Apparently in Japanese they are basically all explicitly romantic no matter what, every singe character even characters in pre established relationships. The ring is apparently like a promise ring so it's not a getting married now thing but a promise of romantic love in the future thing at least on the JP end.
I will put under a read more the list of sapphic s ranks I personally find romantic or not based on the English side of things, I do not read Japanese or i'd also score that.
Main story is about as long as awakening but with less paralogues.
The DLC emblems are in the games code, these could be just wave 2 but are likely all the DLC, we'll have to see. Spoilers I guess but not really: Hector, Veronica, Soren, Camilla and Chrom. We simply won't know until they announce wave 2.
That's all I have for now, if you want to know something in these kind of vague terms, I can try and answer but I am not really going into numbers or looking to find out every plot point, I do want a tiny bit of surprise when I play.
