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Pre-Release Fire Emblem Engage — Pre-release Discussion Thread

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9-Volt said:
Honestly, this looks and feels much better than Three Houses. Especially on the character design front. Colorful and full of emotions. I like everything about the playable cast.
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I was about to say the exact opposite about the character design/art style. What a step down from three houses. There's exactly one design for women shared by basically all of them shown so far.
 
That new trailer, really loved this art style, so clean and most important colorfull unlike 3H. I still don't get the "same face" / "generic desing" critics as every charactern shown oozes their own personality and design
 
The fighting kingdom is called BROdia lmaoooo

Am I crazy or is Male Alear voiced by Ignatz/Seliph's VA?
 
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Im just...what?
The story seems like a fanfiction about FE. The script seems to be ... i dont even know.
Character designs im not a fan. im not against bold colors (actually, more games need them), but here they seem to garish in my opinion. pushing the chosen one narative even more then they already have (why do they need to? let us have a normal lord that works for his win and is not alreday chosen to be the hero)...and so forth.
Maybe the gameplay is great, but tis is so far removed from where i want them to go.
Adn of coooorse there are "dark emblems"... always have to have the evil counterpart...
(im sorry if i seem like a negative nancy about this game, which is why im generally not posting here).

Echoes is for me still the prime in presentation for this series. then the GBA ones and Awakening.
TH seemed like it would be up there, but the game did make so many bad choices that it fell out of favor pretty fast.

Also: maybe its just me, bit this seems to be a case of "really sharp in prerendered cutscenes" but then in gameplay the model outlines seem fuzzy because its rendered in sub native resolution and lacks AA
 
Yeah, I'm pretty mixed on this but the gameplay will seal it for me. I don't mind the aesthetics - the more colourful approach I like - but I'm not too big on the character designs yet, especially the women. Tonally the story seems far less 'grounded' than Three Houses, which is about par for the course given the premise and style of this game; I was a big fan of the world of Three Houses and the way the characters felt like a meaningful part of it.

Engage is very different in emphasis, basically, which was clear on the first reveal. I'll probably drop my limited edition preorder and just go for the standard edition. If the maps and missions are interesting, then that's really what I'm looking for this time.
 
A little sad that the rings really seem to be limited to the 12 lords. Wished they would at least use it for Antagonists or side characters too.
 
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DecoReturns said:
To be fair. Some Three Houses trailers were the same lol. Pretty common criticism when we had those a while back.

But the theme of that game made it easier to wait and see. Here it’s a bit all over the place from silliness to super serious, combine with the designs.
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I see. I haven‘t followed Three Houses pre release discussion.

Anyway, I don‘t vibe with Engage at all so far.
 
I can't even begin to imagine how good this game will look on the Oled switches tbh!!
Kinda makes me wish I had one. XD

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Once I let go of the comparisons between this and 3H and accept its a whole new game, i dont particularly see anything disappointing about this! (except the potential subjective taste about chara designs which is definitely understandable!)
 
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Aether said:
Echoes is for me still the prime in presentation for this series.
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I agree Echoes is the best looking FE game in terms of style and presentation. It's also the only 3DS FE I haven't beaten more than once because it has serious game flaws. So for me FE gameplay will always >> presentation
 
zumaddy said:
I agree Echoes is the best looking FE game in terms of style and presentation. It's also the only 3DS FE I haven't beaten more than once because it has serious game flaws. So for me FE gameplay will always >> presentation
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cant argue with its flaws. i would still say it feels more strategic then TH to me.
Awakening overused the combining of units and was rather simple but fine. Fates had some great gameplay, some bullshit, but was cringe in regards to the story and the reuse of content for 3 scenarios was also to much.
I honestly feel the best on replays with the GBA games (because it is in my opinion the one where strategy is in the forefront and the story is not in the way of having fun) and awakening (straight forwardness helps a lot here).
 
At least some better character designs this time. I'm all in for more well armored girls without showing skin (I hope her back isn't revealing.... looking at you Kisara from Tales of Arise)

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That new trailer was amazing, that certainly convinced me of not wanting to skip this game.
 
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Seems to confirm there are only 12 Emblem Rings, which should hopefully end that horrible speculation about these games having gatcha mechanics like Xenoblade 2 or Heroes.
 
Soul Lab said:
I see. I haven‘t followed Three Houses pre release discussion.

Anyway, I don‘t vibe with Engage at all so far.
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Yeah. In fact, three houses was not in the brightest spots until “leaks” and then the very last trailer before release that reveal the time-skip. I feel some forget how it was getting much more criticism then actually being looked forward too.

That direct Segment about the school aspect was a whirlwind to read through back then.

I was pretty optimistic about the game tho. Ironically I found the gameplay very mediocre and the story very repetitive, three houses had this horrible thing where cutscenes said 100 words when only 10 were needed to explain things. Tho I’m the end, I appreciated them trying a lot of new stuffs, always felt like it was for future titles, like Holy War. Engage just looks like a back to simplistic basics with the old school plot and being much more “tone down” compared to Three Houses, which was very very dense in dialogue and themes. (Too dense in my opinion)
 
Linkstrikesback said:
I was about to say the exact opposite about the character design/art style. What a step down from three houses. There's exactly one design for women shared by basically all of them shown so far.
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I felt the same thing for 3H. Some characters looked like carbon copy of each other and due to nature of the academy setting, they were devoid of emotions. Even the house heads. All three were bland as hell and that is even when Dimitri became roughed up eyepatch wearing dude.

Engage fixes many wrongs 3H did, imo.
 
Maronic03 said:
Ike my beloved is present in this trailer so you know it's good.
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The more interesting thing about Ike in the trailer is that he has ragnell whereas in previous art he had Urvan, his father's axe. I haven't been following closely enough to know if it was already confirmed that the emblem ring summons had multiple weapons or not, but that basically confirms it.
 
Linkstrikesback said:
The more interesting thing about Ike in the trailer is that he has ragnell whereas in previous art he had Urvan, his father's axe. I haven't been following closely enough to know if it was already confirmed that the emblem ring summons had multiple weapons or not, but that basically confirms it.
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Or they finally noticed that PoR Ike (which they're using) isn't able to get and/or use Urvan so they changed it to Ragnell because they didn't want to rework the character model to the Radiant Dawn one. ;D

J/K.

Maybe.
 
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This looks so fucking cool. While some design are hit or miss (too many lolis) I'm curious to see how melodramatic the story will be since it looks to be on the simpler side.
No new maps but we'll just wait for twitter drops.
Also I can't believe we're getting the red blue paint meme canon.
 
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Linkstrikesback said:
The more interesting thing about Ike in the trailer is that he has ragnell whereas in previous art he had Urvan, his father's axe. I haven't been following closely enough to know if it was already confirmed that the emblem ring summons had multiple weapons or not, but that basically confirms it.
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I don't think that's it. If you pause the first trailer during the gameplay segments there's no inventory slot for the emblems to have other weapons. I think what'll happen is that as the Emblem bond increases, they'll unlock memories of their more powerful weapons which replace their starting ones. Marth as an example has a rapier in the gameplay footage, but it's hard to imagine he won't eventually get the Falchion.
 
Damn I was hoping for some gameplay in the trailer. FE's one of my favorite series but I honestly think the series (since the GBA days at least) has always had completely average writing and completely average stories (besides Three Houses, which was really good in those regards) so it's hard to be too interested in the story for me lol.
 
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I'm actually more intrigued now. Simply cause we get to fight the evil versions of the 12 representatives of the emblem rings :d
 
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Bonejack said:
Hold up ... rewatching that part of the trailer ... that IS Radiant Dawn Ike we're seeing in the trailer.
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Would make sense if Emblems can "promote" and gain their more iconic weapons and possibly promoted outfits if applicable. Perhaps the Emblem's weapons don't actually matter for range or triangle advantage and are just a boost to damage.
 
Good Trailer. I still don't know what to expect from this game. It's a mixed bag for me. Completely different vibes than with Three Houses.

I like the colorful graphics. The charakter design is very Anime and reaches from serious to ridiculous. Same with the story elements. It kind of looks like a sort of spin off orc jubilee christmas special to me.

Probably will buy at a 30% sale
 
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The game looks good, I'm just really not vibing with the character design.

It feels like any two characters could swap their outfits and I wouldn't notice.
 
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BassForever said:
Would make sense if Emblems can "promote" and gain their more iconic weapons and possibly promoted outfits if applicable. Perhaps the Emblem's weapons don't actually matter for range or triangle advantage and are just a boost to damage.
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Though it doesn't make sense for Ike to go from Urvan using PoR to Ragnell using Radiant Dawn. Plus they technically would have to also consider his third promotion in Radiant Dawn which does change his appearance and stats too.

Making Emblem weapons give the actual Engage chars an attack / weapon might boost might be a good idea, else we're having a shitload of sword units since that's what almost all FE lords are using.
 
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Was going to buy the game anyway day one, but this trailer got me extra excited for the game!! I really like the idea of going to different lands with different climates and it was great seeing more characters!! Even in fe3h what I liked most was the characters and this trailer helped show that there are more variety than what was previously shown. The girl with like the colour orbs is still my fav and can't wait to get to know her better!! Also, I finally found characters that I actually want to romance so I am happy about that too lol gotta see their personality first to chose, but glad I see potential options now. I think this game looks great now that I have gotten used to the main character model and general art style
 
The game has straight up three of my fav JP voice actresses + another one I love so I'm stoked LMAO

Idk if the story will slap, but the graphics, music and va cast already makes this game a highly anticipated game for me!

FE Trailers equal Direct hype for me, so I'm just really happy right now + Pokemon in two days, IM THRIVING 🤩
 
I think 3 houses was a blessing and a curse for people, especially if it got you in the series.

Because if you did not know, all the main writers (3) for 3 houses were from Koei Tecmo (with help with IS). I am not sure if Sakoto Kurihara (last 3 non-KT FE) is helming this, but it seems to be in their wheelhouse. But as with previous FE trailers they tell you nothing.
 
So...

I still HATE the logo font lol
but: HYPE!

Visually, it really seems a generational step compared to Three Houses; story-wise it seems very interesting, villains seem to be actually evil, this time around, and I love dragons
 
MisterSpo said:
Yeah, I'm pretty mixed on this but the gameplay will seal it for me. I don't mind the aesthetics - the more colourful approach I like - but I'm not too big on the character designs yet, especially the women. Tonally the story seems far less 'grounded' than Three Houses, which is about par for the course given the premise and style of this game; I was a big fan of the world of Three Houses and the way the characters felt like a meaningful part of it.

Engage is very different in emphasis, basically, which was clear on the first reveal. I'll probably drop my limited edition preorder and just go for the standard edition. If the maps and missions are interesting, then that's really what I'm looking for this time.
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This is pretty much where I am. The overblown script and character designs and summons… it just reminds me of Fire Emblem Heroes and not in a good way. I much preferred the style of TH rather than the hot mess of random character design and theatrics that this appears to be. Still, if the battle scenarios and combat mechanics are solid, that’s what I’m there for.
 
SirArthur said:
I think 3 houses was a blessing and a curse for people, especially if it got you in the series.

Because if you did not know, all the main writers (3) for 3 houses were from Koei Tecmo (with help with IS). I am not sure if Sakoto Kurihara (last 3 non-KT FE) is helming this, but it seems to be in their wheelhouse. But as with previous FE trailers they tell you nothing.
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People also just seem to have gotten used to 3H more "ANIME" designs, especially for characters like Female Byleth, Kronya, Cornellia, or most of the female students after the time skip like Hilda, Dorothea, and Petra. Those exact same designs and characters could show up on Engage and people would be screeching.
 
My hype for this game has cooled down a bit. I think it looks great, but there's nothing in it so far that makes me excited about it
 
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Just watched the japanese version of the trailer and the voices sound so much better to me than the english ones (as always). Is japanese dub already confirmed for the western game versions?
 
I feel like this trailer hasn't done anything but doubled down on my assumptions from the first trailer re: the importance of old heroes and the relative simplicity of the plot and setting
 
woodhead said:
Just watched the japanese version of the trailer and the voices sound so much better to me than the english ones (as always). Is japanese dub already confirmed for the western game versions?
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They had dual audio in 3 Houses I would be shocked if they cut it as a feature in any future games.
 
BassForever said:
People also just seem to have gotten used to 3H more "ANIME" designs, especially for characters like Female Byleth, Kronya, Cornellia, or most of the female students after the time skip like Hilda, Dorothea, and Petra. Those exact same designs and characters could show up on Engage and people would be screeching.
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I am curious how Byleth will look, given the different designer.

Yeah there are a ton of factors that made people stick with the 3H design. Like it was the first home console FE since the Wii, so having a 3d feature character (with visible legs lol) was new to people. The school setting made the design (at least clothing) more somber and cohesive and with an otome designer it glued.
 
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Also, I don't wanna hear nothing about "oh, people were wrong about Three Houses based on early trailers," because I wasn't

My partner and I knew what that game was going to be like tonally from the jump, and had the timeskip pegged from "promise you won't forget me"

This game has presented itself very consistently: I think we can safely assume how it's going to be
 
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