Jason Wheaton

Phenomenal game with interesting gameplay and a cast of unique characters. The story is a tried and true classic formula made interesting due to how the characters fit in and interact with the world. Most of the story telling is done through the characters with the overarching story being in the background. Got 60 hours out of my first play through and def plan on playing again.

They tried, they really did. They worked really hard on the set design and characters. However, the writers needed a good smack in the face and someone to tell them no. They jammed way too many plots together, failed to realize what made certain stories liked and others hated, and overall failed to make an engaging story. Here's hoping they get their collective s together if they have a chance to make season 2. I can forgive them butchering season 1 as I only like it, but I can't forgive them if they butcher seasons 2 and 3 which I love.

I have played Binding Blade, Blazing Blade, Sacred Stones, Shadow Dragon, Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn, Awakening, All three Fates, Shadows of Valentia, Three Houses, and all of the spin off games. I can definitively say that this is Fire Emblem at its weakest. It's no secret that Engage has a bad, contrived story reminiscent of Revelation, that's plain to see. The devs claimed however that the story is just a medium for which to give the amazing gameplay to the players. Yeah no, the gameplay is the weakest in the series too. Take an already mind numbingly easy entry with incredibly short maps and casually add insanely op engage skills, what could go wrong?! Teleport across the map and attack in the same move, you go! Casually move 20 spaces, you can do that! Do an attack with 9 hits without relying on tiny astra rng, anything you want! HEAL YOUR ENTIRE TEAM TO MAX HP FROM ANY SPACE AND GET A FULL LEVEL UP FROM DOING SO, if it makes you happy and you don't even have to deal with fortify's terrible durability, it's permanent! Like what happened to the series I loved? I was never huge fans of the Fates trilogy, but they were still alright games. This game is just one heaping dumpster fire of an experience that stomps all over the series I've been playing for nearly 20 years now! At least Fates had some genuinely good character interactions along with some interesting themes. Engage literally recycled almost every aspect of its story from past games. But rather than feeling like an ode to the series, it feels like a mockery! I'm honestly still not convinced that this game was a massive prank a side team worked on with the real next main series game soon to release.

The game is a mockery of modern video games. It runs poorly quite often, having slow downs and stuttering in random places. Not to mention that the wild areas are empty and boring. Aspects such as the forced exp share and automatic effective move guide prove that game freak has no faith in their players. These options are fine, but you should be able to disable them. This game is unfinished, and isn’t worth 60 dollars. I honestly hope game freak gets dropped from the Pokémon company over the fiasco that was this game. They’ve proven to be either unable or unwilling to make a quality game, this time not even including the bare minimum.