Fire Emblem Engage One Year Later 

There are a few things you mentioned that I think I can give a little further insight on as someone who did a lot of math with Engage recently. Specifically, the stuff about defining unit viablility by investment. To sum it up: It's not about how much investment a unit needs, but which kind of investment it is, and how many people are competing for it. It's also of note that the early stat-specialists like Lapis for Speed, Louis for Defense or Citrinne for Magic generally work best if you fully commit to that stat instead of reclassing to "fill the gap" in growths. If your unit can hit necessary benchmarks in a stat on their own, fixing the other relevant stats is childsplay, the game provides all the tools you need. Warrior Lapis is an all around great combat unit when using Lyn/Speed+5 to hit doubling thresholds, while Swordmaster Lapis naturally hits the necessary speed benchmarks and can instead use Roy to patch up the Strength gap, either freeing up Lyn for someone who better benefits from engaging her or saving the 2000 SP from the Speed inherit to invest in other skills. In the end though: No matter what you do, you can bring any unit into endgame and will find a use for them. My last run featured General Jade with the Hurricane Axe and Micaiah Staff Utility. Warped allies further ahead and demolished wyvern reinforcements in the process.

One of the biggest issues I have from a visual standpoint is that all of your engaged units look nearly identical. If I have half of my army engaged for a big brawl, finding a particular character that I want to move can be a game of Where's Waldo.

Laura Stahl is such a great voice actress. I'm happy to hear her get some love for the performance she did with Alear.

holding A to accelerate animations helps a lot

It's sad how quickly Engage fell off and has mostly been forgotten about

Man I can't believe its seriously been a year since engage came out. I still remember excitedly downloading it but not being able to play it right away since I had to go to work. While I wouldn't call it my favorite fe I do think its a really solid entry in the series

Perhaps the most interesting thing about FE tier lists is how differently they weigh certain factors depending on the game.

"There is no unit in Engage we can't make good" Meanwhile, Bunet:

I still get jumpscaerd by the opening theme song

Honestly I love this game. Even if the story doesn't stick the landing well, the gameplay, visuals, and music brings me back. While the character designs are maybe not 100% my taste, I also love the bright colors used, and I feel like the brightness is why I'm so keen on returning to the game. Everything feels alive.

Speaking on the DLC I think echoes did it best (outside of it being overpriced) I’d love to see overclasses return as well as a side story like Cindered Shadows. Although it should just be one bundle for all the DLC content and not split it up like echoes did

I agree with most of what you said, but I do love this pastel little fever dream of a game.

Man, I still think Emblem to Emblem conversations would be really funny. Imagine Roy calling Lyn mom, and Lyn being absolutely bewildered.

Excellent video as always!!

Engage cant be my favorite or most played game, but I honestly cannot rate it anything other than peak for its gameplay. Its just so fun to play and try things and I never feel trapped into using certian people every time unlike other games where certian units are just clearly like....Camilla, Seth or Sigurd.

I like you videos! Can you make a video about all the best builds after 1 year of playthroughs? I understand vantage + wrath build or bonded shield support but i still have problems with my team composition in the late game.

Honestly, love this game. My only and main issue is the lack of a new game+. This game was perfect for it, but for some reason they never added it. I would love to see a FE with a Luminous Arc-like NG+ where it gives you access to all your characters from the beginning, even if it doesn't make sense story-wise; it would be so much fun and I just love Veiru so much but she joins late-game 😢

10:00 in chapter 25's defense, it is pretty much the true endgame of Engage. The actual last map of Engage is more of a victory lap than an attempt at challenging the player.

I also dislike the constant reinforcements in Engage’s late game, but after a while I figured that they spam so many reinforcements because you’ll need a way to build engage meter. The final map for both the main story and DLC story are what gave me that idea, because if you disengage and only have the one boss remaining then it limits whether or not you can engage again. At least that’s how I made sense of it in defense of the game.

Great video, a lot of stuff to think about. I especially agree about Chain Attacks. I often found trying to set them up more trouble than it was worth. I think Chain Attacks are a lot more dangerous when done by the enemy. Unless you have a unit set up with Pair Up from Corrin's Emblem Ring.

About the part you mentioned about wanting units to feel a little more different to each other. How would you feel if characters could only access classes with a weapon they had a proficiency in. So for example Lapis could only go into Sword classes and Yunaka could only go into Dagger classes. It would have to be balanced a bit more so that the Sword/Lance/Axe proficient characters can't just get into every almost single class like how the Mage Knight has a Sword/Lance/Axe variant so the following ones would be limited to only using the following: Hero - Sword / Axe Bow Knight - Bow / Sword General - Lance / Axe Great Knight - Lance / Axe Paladin - Sword / Lance Wolf Knight - Dagger / Axe Mage Knight - Tome / Sword Griffin Knight - Lance / Staff Wyvern Knight - Lance / Axe This still allows the characters with the three default weapons to have more general classes and some other characters to be the only ones who can fulfill a specialized niche such as Sage or Sniper. Personally While I believe this does give units a bit more unit identity now that they are tied to their weapon I still believe the balance for the first three weapons class access to be a bit lopsided even with the restrictions, so I'd think the 4 weapon types would need another class like: Dark Flier - A Tomes Grappler - A Arts Adventurer - A Bows / C Staves Assassin - S Daggers / B Swords (+ Thief is now changed to be a base class that promotes into Assassin) Though even with this I think I still prefer the open reclassing Engage currently provides since if you want to stick to their canonish classes you can without the game forcing you to which takes away from people who want to do other stuff like Warrior Clanne, Mage Knight Anna or Levin Swordmaster Ivy, but I can still see where people are coming from where that takes away from more unit specific feel.

Engage is the only game where I enjoy doing the battle preps and would play all day instead of one chapter per day like usual It’s just that good

Great video! Subbed

Oh good lord it’s been a year time is fleeting and my life is spiraling

I think it says a lot about the type of game this is when the video is 25 minutes long and less than 2 minutes of it are spent talking about the story and presentation.

I love this game but they were strict with sp pre well and messing around with emblems and builds felt like too much of a commitment. I think tying a resource to leveling up emblems, having very few skirmishes (maddening) and the lack of availability of the emblem rings took the fun out of messing around and experimenting with builds imo. Love your channel!

honestly not much has changed besides me liking some of the characters more than i did in my first playthrough mainly celine and citrine grew on me a lot but that's about it really for me the stroy is bad, the characters are great, the gameplay is good, i hate that we don't have paired endings, i like the class system and the engage mechanic is really fun i love having a super move.

Its interesting you say customization is high and that units felt same-y, cuz my experience is that everyone felt different which made a lot of them either good or terrible. and customization just didnt exist cuz there wasnt really enough resources to do so. i COULD farm the auxiliary battles and somniel stuff to alleviate that, but Engage was just really easy that I didn't want to farm those and have my characters be even stronger level wise cuz then the game would be even easier and boring. but then that meant i basically missed out on a feature of the game. you do mention the DLC stuff tho which i didnt bother wasting money on so maybe thats why the perspectives are the way they are.

The world is not ready for my lapis build

Just finished a Martial Master Alear /w Dual Support & Avoid +30 (Byleth) absolutely busted. Next run, I want to try Alear on Enchanter. My point is, trying different builds on every run hopefully holds me off until we get the Genealogy and Thracia remakes

Good video, I think something that explains why the gap between weak units and strong units in this game is minimized relative to the previous games is because Engage was practically made with favoritism in mind, seen in stuff like boosts being low commitment. Case in point: Clanne can end up being about as good as Pandreo on his join chapter if you gave him an emblem and some engrave/forge, decisions that don’t carry the same strain on resources as something like perma booster items or high tier weapons in games with durability. As you put it, most of the important combat and support tools are tied up in emblems. And even if your Clanne doesn’t work out because he got Mag cursed, you can just move his investments over to whoever is doing his role better, no loss. It’s weird how as the series pivots towards expecting you to reset/pulse if a unit dies, Engage ended up with many Ironman friendly systems and unit join scenarios.

I thought snipers were bad at first too because the S rank weapons both you get way too late and the S rank bow is not very good. But if you see snipers as the ultimate crit class and place a high dex growth unit on it, then they are really strong, plus you can use claude's S rank ring on it for the +1 range and that is really, really good and it will always guarantee the sniper crit passive. And have doubling avoid tile bonus is surprisingly really useful. Snipers are also insanely accurate for fliers unlike warriors. Thieves are kinda of bad in Engage since they have less dex than snipers, so less crit, and they do not have the crit passive of snipers, and killer daggers are all 1 range while killer bow is 2 range or 3 range with claude's ring. Do not use lyn on sniper though, you want lyn on a character strength growth of 40% or higher so that astral storm can one shot targets, especially an annoying mage. Radiant bow on sniper Anna will one shot every flier on maddening.

Wolf Knight Lapis, Micaiah engraved silver dagger, with Lucina Ring (bonded shield is banned) makes for the ultimate avoid tank and chain attacks with daggers will apply poison stacks as well. This will help your army deal even more damage.

Engage was definitely one of the Fire Emblem games of all time

Yeah Backup was one of those things people really hyped up early on that I always thought was "not THAT good". I was really wrong about Lucina though, I thought that ring was terrible (to be fair Bond Shield failed the 80% roll like 4x in a row at first so I didn't know what the ability even did for a while)

Female Alear, Framme, Anna, Lapis, Louis, Celine, Veyle, Rafal, Nel, Madeline, Citrinne, Etie, Vander, Merrin, etc. have great visual designs personally.

The prologue will always be incredible to play through. They give you enough rings to experiment with while the maps have a good amount of space and trees or castles to hide with. I hate the level curve system where enemies grow as you do. It makes grinding honestly worthless and I just raised everyone aside the mc to beat the dlc early to get those rings. Dlc siblings and units like zelestia and co. I like them and glad we could get them early but wish it was automatic to every story like 3 houses where you only need to beat it once to get those units. That's a massive negative. Story I don't care for much. It has good ideas that could have worked if used better. Class system wise. Hate how the lords get the special classes or at least the Luna sol etc skills. That was a negative. Healer being a fighter is meh. Felicia is probably the best early healer being an evo class to start and daggers to lower enemy stats is broken. Make a magic healer Fe games. Overall. I had a good enough time playing this game

The bulk of the cast looking like pulls from a gacha idol game is one thing, but the plot quality really isn't something I can get myself to overlook. Any game taking such a significant time investment just can't hold my attention. As a JRPG fan I'm no stranger to characters looking silly, but competent storytelling is one of the reasons I fell in love with the franchise as a kid on the GBA.

Only thing that killed me is not being able to take weapons from your completed play through to a new game plus hate waiting for end game gear to use for limited content and it’s over I feel like it adds a level of replay ability at least for me.

yeah like i wasnt sold at first with how heavily the game uses multiple health bars but it's grown on me a lot enemy phasing in engage is neat because i feel like what the game is telling you there is that yeah you do wanna be aggressive playerphase but you usually dont want to neglect the enemy phase entirely-- they're really punishing if you don't manage them well! warp skips _are_ a valid answer there but lbr you're not intended (or even able? not sure of the math there) to do that every map

I think gameplay wise Engage was really fun especially the Emblem customization even if it feels like too much of it runs through that mechanic, it’s so sick to have the FE lords be Jojo stands and play a major role for every persons’ development in the army both narratively and mechanically Only criticism I have is the story is very FE generic which usually isn’t a complaint except when it’s closer to a Fates narrative where the main character feels like the center of the universe instead of a complimentary piece of the story Still a great game 👏

For the piece about the Emblem characters feeling tacked on, while I more or less agree, I do actually think of that in a more positive way. I personally had been really worried that this game was going to ride its plot and characterization almost entirely on the previous games' lords at the expense of making this game's cast insignificant, and I think that the way they implemented the rings as having some bits and pieces of conversation/characterization while still being largely in the background to the new characters was a good, if perhaps not perfect, balance to strike. On an related(?) note, one thing I liked about this game was it gave me a chance to reevaluate some of the lords that I didn't really like by giving me a glimpse of their character that was somewhat independent of their game. For a low-hanging fruit example, I'm not exactly a big fan of Corrin in Fates, but I really like Corrin's Engage incarnation.

Byleth dragon dance/instruct is really strong, you can pull off alear as a pure support unit with byleth the whole game and move byleth over to veyle when you get her later. With DLC, lyn is really good for Rafal, both to get him doubling consistently and he has high strength for astral storm, has long range astral storm, and creates a 5th clone can be surprisingly useful.

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engage is neither player nor enemy phased focus bonded shield specifically is just an enemy phase strategy

i agree with the gist of what you were saying, the Well update was a huge nerf to Backup attacks. Just not necessary when you can make any unit one-round 99% of things. I really appreciate that every playthrough can be vastly different than the one before if you're creative enough. My only real critique with the game is lack of New Game+ or even just a support log, I think whacky emblem combinations would be even more incentivized if you knew the conversation would be saved after the playthrough (like Citrinne/Ike or Boucheron/Celica), and of course dlc characters being locked out if you don't play through the Xenologue every playthrough is just terrible.

As far as Dragon bonuses are concerned, I do still like Veyle with Celica for the 3 range Echo and Warp Ragnarok. Not as good on Alear but still was fun to mess with early on to trigger lots of chain attacks from a safe distance.

I remember pretty much nothing of engage and I’ve played the game twice. I played just the edelgard route of TH once and i still remember most of the storybeats,characters and some of the maps

I played with dlc 1st time whole game once. Just finished last night after got in April/24 I was disappointed you didn't get the new game plus just left end on repeat. Was used to 3H. Bond and support caps needed more effort for me faster. Didn't use the base as efficiently before chapt 16. Lol didn't even know why I should get woken up until I got turned into an emblem 13.

Laura did such a good job with Alear, I used to be obsessed with Genshin (especially when Engage came out) so my genuine reaction was “Wait wait wait, Female Alear’e VA is BARBARA?!”

Regarding gameplay, I feel like one thing that really missed the mark was the personal skills for each character. Some are very impactful, like Hortensia's, Alear's, and Alcryst's, but others are weirdly lacking or nearly useless, such as Etie's, all of the "When using Wait, gain +X to a stat.", and plenty of other skills. I feel like they really should have given a bit more power budget to the personal skills so that each unit could really feel like they're unique and even if you have two Sages for example, you can have one that maybe has something like Soren's Anima Focus as a skill, while another gets +1 range with weapons that have at least 2 range if their build exceeds their weapon weight by a certain value, something like that.

12:54 lyn emblem only give +15 speed tho 5 from max lv emblem and 10 from speedtaker

I didn’t buy it initially despite wanting to get into fire emblem because of the character designs and one note anime type characterisations, but after embracing that I’ve been playing it the last two months and I love it, the animations, the depth to the gameplay and the customisability of the units are all amazing and tbh most of the cringe stuff is in the early game and the Somniel and Firene supports

Hell yea engage video!

For Alear I went Male all my campaigns but I feel Alear could have other skills and the same for the Royals Veyle in their unique classes. Also for Alear I feel he should have been like Cecil Harvey of Final Fantasy 4 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2YdrZxdQvH0.html with another promotion So Divine Dragon and Fell Dragon think the Emblem of the Sacred Night and Day The Divine Dragon Class Alear Sword, Fist and Staff proficiencies Brave Assist of the Hero class, Diffuse Healer of the Martial Master and Self Healing High Priest skills The Fell Dragon class Sword, Tomes and Daggers. Chaos Style of the Mage Knight, Spell Harmony of the Sage and Hobble of the Wolf Knight classes skills With 2 personal Skills for him in those classes His Divinely Inspiring and Nel's Protective Skill but for All units for both him and his Party for the Divine Dragon class. For the Fell Dragon class Veyles and Rafals personal skills What do you think?

i dont like how stat growth and engages work except for that i like the game

only the second last map has infinite reinforcements (technically last map has too) third last map is a turn limit fourth last map doesn't have infinite reinforcements

I wish there was less homebase activities, I feel like the story and dialogue would have been much better if the extra time and resources had been dedicated to the writing.

I just could never get over the character design. I hope they remake Radiant Dawn/PoR

Never mind repeated playthroughs, I skipped the cutscenes on the first playthrough. Unbearable levels of cringe. I also hated all the mini games and running around at the home base. The maps were pretty good though.

i banned bonded shield

Personally while I think this game had a lot of problems, it is still a decent Fire Emblem Game. I recently went back and started playing through Fates again because I happen to find my old 3ds and while I enjoy engage, I think Awakening an Fates did some stuff better. A big thing for me in terms of enjoying a Fire Emblem Game is the story and characters and just does the game feel good to play. Engage made everyone be able to do everything and it's just like well whats the point of recuriting all these characters then? It was a similar problem I had with 3 houses. If everyone can do everything then whats the point of using these characters. Where with Awakening and Fates (Even if Fates story is really bad) I have to make a actual choice of what characters to use! Getting only your core classes and some extra classes (and DLC classes) makes it so each character actually feels like they matter to the army more, making the gameplay more enjoyable. So I don't think Engage is the worst of the worst, but it just lost a lot of what I enjoy in Fire Emblem, Granted there are characters I got super attached to and I do really like them, but with everyone being able to do everything it was basically just use whoever and get the job done.

Very curious to hear your thoughts on why Timerra is meh; her reputation with certain other players is incredibly high. Speaking personally, I have always loved the Soldier archetype so I make sure to use it just for that.

I'm on the tale end of my third playthrough right now and couldn't agree more. The early and mid-game are an absolute joy to play, but the late game can be a bit of a slog at some points.

i still dont know how i feel about just how drastically this game changed through updates and dlc. when in the context of everyone's first playthrough - when there was no well, no dlc, no silver weapon free updates, and lots of learning about just exactly how the all the mechanics worked and what was good and what wasn't - all of this led to a completely different experience compared to when you play the game now. i truly enjoyed this game when i first played it, but now all of this added stuff makes it a completely different experience and i'm not quite sure it was ever planned out thoroughly. pre well the game had a strict sp system, one that punished you for experimenting but also was somewhat rewarding. maybe it could've been better, but the well just flips it on its head and essentially makes sp unlimited resource, which im not sure was the correct 'solution'. the dlc in general does not feel fun to utilize after the initial novelty because it completely trivializes what is essentially the entire early and mid game. you also can't even turn off the rewards upon new playthroughs even as an option. the fell xenolouge, while having some interesting ideas, admittingly was not good, and leaves you wondering just who exactly it was made for. All of my disconnect with the added in content, while combined with some of my issues with just the base game (somniel, rather boring map design, same feeling units, etc) sort of leaves me more lukewarm on this game the longer time goes on. i think i have it somewhere in the middle of my fe tierlist.

My copy is still sealed 💀 i bought it on release. Should I open it?

18:35 I am curious to know why Clanne moved up to "has a niche I like".

my summary is good class balance outside of rings, i liked break, story was ass, and dlc was handled awfully.

I'm getting to the tail end of my first playthrough, and the gameplay is fun... so long as you have emblem rings. The descision to take half of them away for a not insignificant portion of the game feels thoroughly boneheaded, and makes the game's price-gouging in terms of dlc all the more egregious. Aside from that, I like a lot of the characters too, and I really am pleased with the presentation. Feels like IS has cracked HD development after a rocky performance in three houses.

For anyone curious, it runs pretty much perfectly on Steam Deck now!

Nobody is going to believe me when I tell them an actual lizard is amazing at playing Fire Emblem... But I'll try my best.

Engage has one of the worst animation-off.. animations in a fire emblem game and by far the worst menu navigation of any game I have ever touched. It's just really fucking annoying to do anything in this game. It's similar to how FE1 is unplayable by someone with modern sensibilities, Engage is also unplayable to me who is especially sensitive to game feel, something that has never mattered even to me in a strategy/turn based game before engage.

I think of Engage kind of like Fates in that, it's a game that has good gameplay but terrible writing. The main issue is that the dichotomy between the two was extremely apparent in Fate which made it stick out even more and thus stayed in the mind and you had hints in the game that the story could have been so much more but there were rewrites in the way (which was later on confirmed). Meanwhile Engage just ..... did not. The gameplay is fun but imo I don't think it creates quite the same contrast that highlights both like Fate did, and the game also doesn't encourage repeat playthroughs either. That is how you end up with two games that zhare some big traits (the game that had to follow the biggest game of the series so far and thus had a lot of heavy lifting to do to make the new fans stick and focused more on gameplay with a very lackluster story) but one ends up being pretty well engrained in the community whilst the other is very much ..... forgotten after it's arrival, seriously, I never see anyone even mention that game anymore (one of my friend outright banned any mentions of it in the group chat with how much he disliked it, that might play a role though) Sorry for all of that, I just wanted to share my observation on the similarities between these games and how their differences led to such different outcomes

300 plus hours in I don't ever need to play it again, the terrible DLC was the last straw

Yes the story of engage is not very good BUT I’ve never laughed as much with an fe games as i did in the prologue

Engage was my first FE game so the gameplay is what I’m comparing everything to. I’m nearly done with my first three houses playthrough after getting sucked into the series. Engage feel better in a lot of little things to me, like auto equipping being good and keeping vulenary and such in account. I also have to love that you can S rank same sex characters, because I needed to get with Boucheron, my giant axe wielding dumbass with a heart of gold.

LET'S FUCKING GO UPLOADED 10 MINUTES AGO

I absolutely despise alear's female voice but male alear's is awesome

Im yet to beat this game 😔 I feel like theoretically i should love it but i returned to my save file a month ago and i just cant get through it.

At this time last year, I was excited for Engages DLC to come out. I changed my mind about that.

Just finished my 4th playthrough of the game, going from a (really) early Run of it (Basically no DLC, no Heroes Stuff, no Well), a Hard Run, Hard Run while trying to set everyone to Level 20/20 (a BIG mistake in terms of time) , and the most recent one, Hard Run with early promotion. And yeah, easily top 3 for me. Just behind Radiant Dawn and Genealogy. And the Soundtrack... Oh my God the Soundtrack. It kinda cheats since a good portion of music are remixes for past games, HOWEVER, the OG tracks are 100/10 (Bloom in the Breeze has been living the entire year inside my head pls help me)

In fire emblem descendants Alear(female), Vander, Framme, Clanne, Alfred, Celine, Etie, Louis, Chloe, Diamant, Alcryst, Lapis, Citrinne, Ivy, Hortensia, Zelkov, Kagetsu, Rosado, Goldmary, Timerra, Fogado, Merrin, Bunet, Pandreo, Seadall, Veyle and Mauvier appears to have been pulled after the start of Retreat but before the sentinels to The Fell & the Divine

The story and dialogs and outlandish designs made me physically cringe so hard I couldn't even finish it. I mean, I lloved the new entries in awakening, fates and 3 houses but this one gets a nope from me. I don't know if to feel scared or excited for the next one.

I loved engage but i wouldn't call its story amazing. It had fun characters, amazing animations, it was well paced, and the side stuff at the hub was mostly optional unlike three houses that burries you in it. I especially liked the pacing changes because every time i tried to do a run of three houses I felt totally burnt out of it before the halfway point.

I think Engage is a very fun FE game to play, hard to believe it’s already been a year since it came out.

I hate the late games story aspects. Those last 5 or so chapters are the most ridiculous, melodramatic nonsense I’ve ever played through in FE. But gameplay is fantastic. Emblem rings are a fantastic edition allowing for many interesting builds and synergies. Most fun I’ve had in FE. The music and animations are great too. I just kind of tune out in with the story though.

I'd play Engage more on its presentarion and in-map gameplay alone, but the game has become stale for me after picking it up again after not touching it since DLC 2 came out. It doesn't really matter what actual units I use because I can't help but find myself leaning towards the same strategies anyway because not doing so just feels so unoptimal, mainly Vantage Wrath, Qi Bond Shield, etc. And with how Engage structures things, any unit can fulfill any role and the differences boil down to meger base stat differences. Idk. For as open as Engage is, it feels shallow to play, especially to replay, imo.

Engage is a great game but IMO it scales pretty horribly into higher difficulties At least it isnt unplayable garbage like Lunatic+ but it does feel like you have to plan 15 steps ahead to succeed before you even start a chapter

U can solo the entire game with thief class on maddening....its a joke!

Oh, nice, I'm early

While there’s definitely some shaky things about this entry like the story and the looking threat and end boss baddie being so lame, the DLC is probably my biggest complaint- its implementation, and overall bad gamefeel of the chapters are glaring errors. Its not a FUN side story either like the Ashen Wolves. Anyway, it does so many things right or better than previous entries. The animations are incredible for a 3D FE game. Three Houses had some good animations but they were so SLOW and stuttered compared to how fast and fluid Engage is. Engage doesnt have better music than 3H (imo) but has a very solid soundtrack, ESPECIALLY the sandstorm tracks. Engage makes all classes particularly viable again, especially with help from bond rings and inherited skills. I made Louis one of the fastest characters in the game with speed skills and Lyn. Wyverns are good, but a lot of other classes have their chance to shine in some way or another, including with engraved weapons. Making your sword unit near unkillable because they simply dodge everything is fantastic. Every unit can be fixed up no matter how bad their growths are. Its so refreshing. Even three houses couldnt always do that, and it was so close. All in all, an extremely solid game once you learn the new systems in place, and figuring it out isnt too hard anyway.

I agree with basically everything here, so I'll just mention the two points where I disagree a bit. First one is pretty simple: I really like the story. Not much else to add there, but I think it does a lot for my enjoyment of the game overall. The second point is Alear being a dragon unit, specifically having the Corrin ring. Using that combo on my second playthrough has been absolutely incredible, and I think only using the fire vein is more about your personal playstyle than anything. I've personally used multiple different ones, and being able to do so every single turn has given me so much flexibility in my strategies. Otherwise love the video, like I do most of them :)

I will never play this game again. It was such a letdown despite how fun I found the gameplay. Everything surrounding it is just too obnoxious and poorly done it makes me smash my head against the wall in disbelief; how the did it come to this.

Engage is probably my second or third favorite FE game, behind the Tellius games.

Its the most anime Fire Emblem of all time xD

Story is pretty blah, but man is the gameplay fun and I love the art style

Engage was better than I originally gave it credit for. Definitely fun to play. Can only hope they learn from this and go for a more mature vibe next time.

Love the game, beautifully crafted gameplay, story, characters, all of it is amazing imo Of course there are some trip ups but as with all games, that is to be expected and used as detailing what room there is for improvement. Its also the game that finally got me to step away from the larger Fire Emblem community for the most part due to the sheer vitriol spewed about the game, which has vastly improved my mental health.

too many resources, no new game plus no replay value. 300hours to grind and unlock almost everything. no new game + with so many resources was a huge omisison. in there houses I have 900+ hours because I could start over with some perks and make fun builds. also the ring niche is too much. it makes the characters and abilities obsolete. it is good looking though.

Something i especially like-- the game finely curates and executes based on what you have access to, and the game as a result feels smooth going from start to finish. The devs were very confident about knowing how playthroughs are likely to go, and the game reflects that by being able to allow the average player to bend the rules without completely invalidating the game.