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Godspeed, Artix. Engage is a game I'm never sure what I really feel about. It goes very, very hard for a particular identity, and certainly carves out its own particular niche in the franchise.
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Three Hopes proved that you can make Byleth an interesting character. Shame that FE in general doesn't seem to like talking about that game.
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Artix posted:There's also something to be said for how the game treats Alear himself - characters are deferential and overly polite, sometimes to an obnoxious degree, but it's important to note that for the majority of folks that we meet in the game, they quite literally worship him. God is not only real, he is standing in front of you, and he wants your help to murder that man on the other side of the battlefield. It's an interesting evolution. These kinds of characters have always hung around Fire Emblem, starting with Tiki, and Three Houses went so far as to make the protagonist an unwitting reincarnation of a goddess, but Engage is where they flat out made the PC into the setting's Sword Dragon Jesus and made it a major plot point that most of the cast literally pray to them.
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Mar 25, 2024 22:06
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Alas, brawling is still paying for its sins in Three Houses. I really preferred the brute force grappling animations in that game to this game's fancy kung fu style.
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Mar 29, 2024 01:40
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Fortunately, some Emblems in this game are so powerful that if there's a character you particularly like, they can carry their own weight regardless of their stats simply by being an Emblem caddy. It's how I kept Vander useful throughout the game in my last play. Engage gives you a shitload of resources to invest in characters as you see fit, and it's mostly a question of how much you want to invest in a given character to make them useful.
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Mar 31, 2024 21:53
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Fajita Queen posted:The death scene is well done in theory but really does not work at all in the context it's given in, because it's so abrupt. You aren't given enough time to care about her enough to justify what is intended to be a huge emotional moment imo. This is my feeling. Yeah everyone sells it pretty well, but the player has only known Lumera for about ten minutes and if you're familiar with the narratives common to the genre, at least in my case I actively declined to get invested in what little I saw of her because it was so obvious that she was going to die for cheap emotional points.
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Apr 1, 2024 22:42
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Etie at least has the fact going for her that her cheese grater abs (not particularly visible during normal gameplay) are matched by a decent STR growth, unlike Rinkah from Fates.
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Apr 2, 2024 02:47
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Celine does have a niche, and it's that it's possible to get a levin sword very early in the game, which she's perfectly built to use. It's not enough to carry her long-term, but it gives her a big power spike right at the start of the game. She also does respectably as a monk, with her balanced offensive growths, but you unfortunately aren't able to make more monks for a very, very long time. And Chloe in my experience is never not a monster in human form.
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Apr 8, 2024 23:44
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Faillen Angel posted:As soon as Warp Ragnarok stops being able to outright one-shot things, it's just a tool for putting yourself into very bad situations. Personally I find it very useful as a repositioning skill that happens to require an enemy to work. Self-warp can be a very powerful trick, completely leaving aside the attack, especially if you put Celica on someone with staves.
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Apr 9, 2024 01:08
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weso12 posted:
And further muddying the waters is that in some real life instances, a reigning female monarch took the title of 'king' to emphasize that she's the one in charge, the best known example probably being King Jadwiga of Poland.
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Apr 18, 2024 23:07
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Ah, Jean. This was the first anything I ever saw of Engage. Spoilers because of future characters in the UI. https://twitter.com/tray790x/status/1616594121015033856
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Apr 22, 2024 22:12
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Energy Drop to Chloe Angelic Robe to Alear
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One other important detail about Micaiah: she's your only source of knife access for quite some time, so if you really want to second seal someone into a thief, or promote into one of the new classes that use knives early on, they'll have to spend time with Micaiah, even if she's not optimal for that role. UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF PREVIOUS PAGE
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Yeah, but IIRC you don't get Leif for a while yet in the story.
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