MooseChangerPat
[FE engage] Moosey's adventures playing Engage for the first time part 1.
(Warning! May contain spoilers!)
MooseChangerPat
Ah, I see we're doing the classic Awakening trope. "This is it, our final battle."

Except anyone who's played melee knows who Marth is. The ??? is kind of superfluous.
MooseChangerPat
... Okay the big bad evil guy kind of has a point, Alear is sucking at killing him.
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Ah now we... ENGAGE
MooseChangerPat
......... the amount of chuni this game has is embarrassing.
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just... ALL the dramatic posing
MooseChangerPat
Chrom we have to do something
So this time we're woken up by twins?
MooseChangerPat
Ah, here's out classic Frederick, Jagen, Titania, Gunter type dude. CC Will almost certainly like him, he's basically like and older beard faced Frederick.
MooseChangerPat
And we've got Risen... at least I'm pretty sure they're Risen. So like... they're talking about the 12 emblems... but all I can think of is...
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MooseChangerPat
if this is the same world as Marth's and then Awakening, SOMEONE decided "Hey you know what would be neat? Let's destroy the fire emblem and make it into 12 rings instead!"
MooseChangerPat
BECAUSE SPLITTING IT UP HAS NEVER BEEN A PROBLEM IN THE PAST!
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okay end of rant, back to the game.
MooseChangerPat
Alear... you're so dumb. "More of them? and they have a dragon!?"

Instead of remembering what little information they told him like, he's a divine dragon, and his mother is a dragon queen? Oh look the dragon is his mom... WHAT A TWIST!
MooseChangerPat
Was this written for babies? I was worried I might be too sick to play this properly, now I'm worried I'm too cynical.
MooseChangerPat
Also I probably shouldn't be thinking Alear's mom is kind of hot?
MooseChangerPat
I feel like they cut the budget on Engage compared to three houses. In three houses literally every line was dubbed. Now we're back to partial dubbing again.
MooseChangerPat
Are you sure the fell dragon's name is Sombron? He has kind of a cool serpent head motif going on, but Grima was the size of a small mountain. This guy seems kind of weak sauce in comparison.
MooseChangerPat
aha... so they're not risen they're "corrupted"
MooseChangerPat
....... ARE YOU SURE THEY'RE NOT RISEN!?
MooseChangerPat
... Huh... so the queen can talk directly to Marth... that's kind of neat.
MooseChangerPat
yup... yup... if you gather all the rings together it grants world altering power. Sounds like the fire emblem alright.
MooseChangerPat
(doh) I guess it's a thing where they don't trust their divine dragons enough to hold onto all 12?
MooseChangerPat
pfft, training with Alear's mom, all I can think is her being like. "Okay, now let's get serious. Go get 'em Sigurd!" >:| She's salty she lost the first spar.
MooseChangerPat
Look I know she's not, but it's funnier my way xD
MooseChangerPat
o_O Sigurd makes her move like a bat outta hell.
MooseChangerPat
In b4 Sombra is Alear's father. Which begs the question... why?

Lumera: You see any other male dragons I can bang?
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Lumera: Oh how wonderful it will be to be together with my child again! We'll go on picnics, and I'll tell them all the wonderful things I haven't had the chance to say!

Me: Stop sexy dragon Milf! Don't you know how many kidnap/death flags you're spouting!? Look at the track record of FE characters and their parents!
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Lumera: Emblem Sigurd, there's something I'd like to discuss with you.

Me: From one parent to another?
MooseChangerPat
God dammit fire emblem, what is your hard on for killing parents?
MooseChangerPat
Even Ike got to have his dad longer than this.
MooseChangerPat
of course there's the possibility she made herself an Emblem with that ring she made for Alear, but that still seems pretty weak.
MooseChangerPat
uuuuugh
MooseChangerPat
I feel like the clichés of this FE are killing me.
Bloodededeborne
This game is pretty much FE as a Saturday Morning magical girl cartoon, so uh, prepare for that
▲ndrusi
"Anyone who's played Melee knows who Marth is" yes, but that was also the case in Awakening and look how that worked out
coffee gremlin☕
i feel like ghoulvague said it best. do not expect fe3h in Engage. this is more fire emblem characters in a magical girl anime game.
Bolt Vanderhuge
Yeah, had I been awake earlier I'd have told you
Bolt Vanderhuge
Don't expect most of Engage to be clever or witty
Bolt Vanderhuge
Expect it to be anime-as-hell plays on a bunch of Fire Emblem cliches because it was meant to be an anniversary game and it got delayed
Bolt Vanderhuge
Its plot is basically sugary junk food with a few pretty decent characters, but the gameplay is at least rock solid as you get going
Bolt Vanderhuge
The game part of the game, IMO, is some of the best Fire Emblem we've had in a long time
Bolt Vanderhuge
The writing? It's very Fire Emblem in its tropes but... yeah, not as smart as Three Houses or Tellius or Jugdral.
MooseChangerPat
MooseChangerPat
If I wanted to play FE for the gameplay I'd go back to shadow dragon, or awakening. At least I feel like those had great replay value. I mostly play FE for the compelling stories, and I feel like the PLOT of the first FE warriors game was more solid than this one.
MooseChangerPat
I'm debating whether I even want to bother with the DLCs knowing how weak the plot is.
coffee gremlin☕
so ngl i never actually finished Engage. i got through more than half of it but I reached a point where I realized i just didn't care about anything happening and the characters weren't interesting enough to make me want to keep coming back to them without a good plot.
MooseChangerPat
I know exactly how you feel (doh)
coffee gremlin☕
i know this was an anniversary game so they were trying to incorporate a lot of different elements from different fire emblems. but to have this be next game in the franchise after fe3h (which was strong enough to get it's own actual follow up)....i feel like Engage just fell really short
MooseChangerPat
wooooord
MooseChangerPat
I feel like Fates had a more compelling story, and it was a trainwreck of conflicting writers
coffee gremlin☕
i have a soft spot for Fates as it was my gateway game for fire emblem. that's when i got into the franchise
MooseChangerPat
I seeee
MooseChangerPat
I think my biggest problem with fates is the localization.
coffee gremlin☕
oh? if there was an issue with that i was unaware
MooseChangerPat
Oh boy... yeah it was... big
Bolt Vanderhuge
The more I look back on Fates the more I'm just like "wow they found so many new and interesting ways to waste potential."

And I went into Engage expecting nothing based on the goofiness of the designs and that probably helped.
MooseChangerPat
Yeah... yeah I was just hoping it was a quirky thing like the armor designs of Awakening...
MooseChangerPat
I fucking miss Tellius
Bolt Vanderhuge
Some of the characters are still pretty likable, and individual arcs for them can be good, but yeah.
Bolt Vanderhuge
Again though, I like Fire Emblem gameplay for the most part, and Engage hit that in spades
coffee gremlin☕
yeah i agree the gameplay is solid
Bolt Vanderhuge
Fates did that largely well too, aside from the nonsense penalties surrounding higher tier weapons
Bolt Vanderhuge
Or rather, I should say Conquest did that well
MooseChangerPat
(LOL)
MooseChangerPat
I like the infinite grind potential of birthright and awakening
Bolt Vanderhuge
Yeah, understandable. You can do that somewhat in Engage, but
Bolt Vanderhuge
If you do, make sure you level up your units equally with Alear or it'll get nightmarish real fast
MooseChangerPat
:|
Bolt Vanderhuge
Skirmish maps have teeth in Engage
Bolt Vanderhuge
They're not free
Bolt Vanderhuge
And I frankly liked that
MooseChangerPat
We shall see.
Bolt Vanderhuge
But I'm letting you know that now before you get deep into the game
MooseChangerPat
I'm REALLY hoping I don't drop this game like a rock
Bolt Vanderhuge
Also yes, Lumera is very pretty.
MooseChangerPat
the plot was written by algorithms I swear. Just throw fe tropes at the wall and see what sticks.
Bolt Vanderhuge
I think I've heard the game was written by the same writing staff/writers who did Fates. That said, I don't know which staff that was, because Fates' development was such a mess and I can't be assed to look deeper
Bolt Vanderhuge
So grain of salt with that statement.
MooseChangerPat
Bolt Vanderhuge
/pats
Bloodededeborne
I believe that's true, plot's written by the same person behind Awakening/Fates
MooseChangerPat
no wonder it looks like they copy/pasted awakening's plot
Final
Bolt Vanderhuge
Still, some of the characters are pretty good, at least
Final
havent touched the game and I would die for Yunaka
Bolt Vanderhuge
Yunaka good, Celine good, Diamant good, Ivy good, and there's more tbh
Bloodededeborne
Celine is damn good
Bloodededeborne
You gotta get past most of her C supports tho (and read between the lines of her other stuff sometimes)
coffee gremlin☕
moosey you liked catherine a lot so you might like jade. but my fave characters were alcryst, marin, and diamant.
coffee gremlin☕
i will say that talking about engage is making me want to go back to it and at least give it another shot once i'm done with tears of the kingdom.
Bolt Vanderhuge
Marin's good too
Bolt Vanderhuge
XDD
coffee gremlin☕
i wasn't building her like a tank but girl could take a hit like one plus do some great damage. she became a "must include" unit for me real fast
coffee gremlin☕
not to mention her speed was up and...just ugh. great unit. probably my top favorite actually
Seijin CC
I heard bearded older Frederick
MooseChangerPat
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Seijin CC
hot
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