You then come up against The Corrupted, the main villains in the game. They are the stewards of the Divine Dragon, and their families have been guarding Alear in their sleep for all this time. You meet the loveable Clanne and Framme, alongside their guardian, Vander. In Fire Emblem: Engage, you play as Alear, a “Divine Dragon” who has woken up from 1,000 years of slumber. I really enjoyed the story as a whole, and don’t want to spoil too too much for people, but let’s talk about the premise. But I wanted to get the difficulty question out of the way first: Fire Emblem is back to being a hard game to beat, at least for me. This game also hosts a few different side games that will challenge you even farther that I’ll discuss a little later on. This was a complete 180 from Three Houses, where after 300+ hours I only lost one character. If I had the classic mode on with permadeath, I probably would have lost 6-10 characters that I liked, and 4-5 that I didn’t care about as much. Everything is there for a reason, and you’ll need to fully utilize everything for success. You have to think much more strategically all the way around about the way you class people, the lineup of characters you use, and how you bond the characters together. No longer can I send 1-2 characters on their own to get a chest you can get swarmed at any time and lose someone. For my first foray into Engage, I played on the lower difficulties just so I was able to see everything the game had to offer, and I can tell you this game takes things to an entirely new level compared to what I was used to. I’ll go ahead and start with this, since this was a point of contention for some of the fans who have played Fire Emblem longer: Engage is MUCH harder than Three Houses. Finally, prepared for an entirely new experience than I had with Three Houses, I jumped into Fire Emblem: Engage. I ended up watching a 15 hour Fire Emblem retrospective on YouTube and read a few Wiki articles about the characters themselves. With Fire Emblem: Engage announced and the fact we were going to be seeing some of the heroes from the older games, I started my research. I then went back, based on the recommendation of my brother, to Fire Emblem Fates and played Birthright and Conquest. Thankfully, I was able to find a copy at my local game store and well, after 300+ hours and 11 playthroughs of Three Houses, you might say I became a fan. However, I watched a stream of a group playing it and immediately started falling in love with its cute characters and interesting, strategic planning for the combat. I wasn’t particularly a JRPG/Tactical RPG gamer. When Fire Emblem: Three Houses released, I didn’t think anything of it. For a while I was a Marth main despite knowing nothing about the actual game he was a part of at all. I was introduced to Fire Emblem originally with Super Smash Brothers. It has had some of the highest heights Nintendo has seen, while also suffering some of the lowest lows in the company’s history. Fire Emblem has a treasured history in gaming.
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