Fire Emblem Engage makes for a classic Fire Emblem experience. Our review:
Fire Emblem Engage opts for a more classic version of the Fire Emblem experience, with a mix of deep strategic combat, quirky characters and goofy fan-service, but doesn't try to really remake or refine the experience in a meaningful way. The upcoming Fire Emblem game is largely a celebration of the franchise as a whole, with numerous characters and maps from Fire Emblem games making an appearance through the new Emblem Ring system and accompanying Paralogues.
If you've played a Fire Emblem game besides the 2019 game Fire Emblem: Three Houses, you are likely familiar with the combat systems and mechanics at the heart of the game. Combat is dictated by the all-important Weapons Triangle which grants advantage when wielding a certain kind of weapon against users of another kind of weapon. In Fire Emblem Engage, the Weapon Triangle most importantly deals the Break condition, which prevents a defender from counter-attacking for the rest of the round.
As such, it's really the new Engage system that really lends room for customization. Wearing an Engage ring grants a unit access to a temporary merging with the Engage spirit, which grants that unit bonus attacks, access to more powerful weapons, and other extra abilities. As players build their relationship between units and the Engage rings they wear, they unlock new passive abilities and buffs.
The pace in which the game adds characters is also something of a letdown – when playing in Casual mode , the game adds new units at a pace of two or three new units per storyline scenario, with the new characters often at a higher level or having a more advanced class than current units.
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