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

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English version of that latest japanese trailer. I think.
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There’s loads of stuff I like there. The hub seems compact and can also move, which is a lovely idea and solves several of the issues I had with the team having to return to the huge monastery every time in TH to stick to a rigid calendar. It’s a hub designed for you to do all your upkeep and get back out there rather than a centrepiece the size of a small town that I just ended up having to fast-travel around as it was marginally quicker.

I love the idea of being able to create and share battle maps, that’s much more interesting to me than seeing other peoples castles in Fates was.

All this ring bonding and melding seems to have a lot of potential for tinkering with units, both inherited skills and as a piece of equipment. I can get behind that.

The pet farm made me laugh but I’m not gonna pretend that I won’t be going there to pet the army kitty :)

It’s just, yeah, I like that all this optional stuff is there, but also you can seemingly run through it all fairly quickly.
 
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Awakening Chapter 4 (top) and Fates Chapter 6 (bottom)
 
Hauke_von_Arding said:
By the way here is an interesting analysis by a fan translator about the question of Rosado's gender identity.



I will remain curious how they will handle them.
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Indeed. Much like the translator I'd be happy if Rosado was trans or a crossdressing guy.

I know I'm a bit late on this, but the latter would appeal greatly to me given that I crossdress a lot irl. I know Forrest in Fates exists, but I never played that to any meaningful degree.

Fingers crossed either way. A trans character would be brilliant too, assuming they are written correctly.
 
Thunder84 said:
"The Fire Emblem Engage game" is definitely a bit goofy, but I don't think anything will ever top "Wave 3 of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass DLC for the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe game". That one is still in a league of its own.
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"Wave 3 of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pas DLC for the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe game for the Nintendo Switch family of systems only playable on Nintendo Switch system with Nintendo Switch copies of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe game"
 
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New tweets! Looks like the Qigong battle style can use Chain Guard, which reduces damage to allies to zero while the unit guarding takes up to 20 percent of their max HP in damage. Chain Guard can also only be used at max HP.

Also: Leif vid!
 
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I am really happy that Jugdral reps are in this game. Not that they wouldn't have been, but we're a long way from the days when the broader western FE fandom skipped over those games entirely just due to their general inaccessibility.
 
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  • On the Bulletin Board, you can check base information
  • You can invest in a country and check its performance
  • If you exceed a certain amount of gold when investing in a country, your investment level will rise and you recieve a gift.
  • Countries with higher investments yield rarer enemies in skirmishes, which give higher gold and exp, in addition to more materials when walking around maps
  • In "base information", you can find the location of characters in the Somniel, and you can choose an area to fast travel to
  • There are acheivements, which grant you bond fragments when completed
 
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DunningSmith said:
Probably the best female design in the game as fas as I'm concerned. Now can we get a demo, pls?


I liked it :)
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Which part of it did you like? I enjoyed the Byleth confession scene near the end of the game. What I didn't enjoy was how the rest of my army got paired sometimes at random.

I think even if you don't have child units, the player should be able to choose who they want to have an "s-rank" with for everyone in their army if they want to. This also allows people to not force everyone into hetero relationship if that's not their vibe, something you can't control in 3H.

Course in my perfect world you'd get more canon relationships in games like this in general. I get that canon ships have almost never been a thing in FE, and even canon children like Roy, Lucina, or Lilina have a parent who're left ambiguous. I just want someone to do it consistently and now bail into "choose your waifu" like most modern rpgs do.
 
BassForever said:
Which part of it did you like? I enjoyed the Byleth confession scene near the end of the game. What I didn't enjoy was how the rest of my army got paired sometimes at random.

I think even if you don't have child units, the player should be able to choose who they want to have an "s-rank" with for everyone in their army if they want to. This also allows people to not force everyone into hetero relationship if that's not their vibe, something you can't control in 3H.

Course in my perfect world you'd get more canon relationships in games like this in general. I get that canon ships have almost never been a thing in FE, and even canon children like Roy, Lucina, or Lilina have a parent who're left ambiguous. I just want someone to do it consistently and now bail into "choose your waifu" like most modern rpgs do.
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Random in what way? You can always see in the menu which characters are closest with each other. And Byleth's S-rank confession felt more special since it wasn't accompanied by fourteen other support chains all ending in S-rank marriage proposals.
 
The only kind of demo I think would fit FE would be one of those SE style "first 2-3 hour where progress transfers". Say the first 2-3 missions, letting the player experience the Somniel, and then first battle after the Somniel.
 
BassForever said:
The only kind of demo I think would fit FE would be one of those SE style "first 2-3 hour where progress transfers". Say the first 2-3 missions, letting the player experience the Somniel, and then first battle after the Somniel.
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This is pretty much exactly what the Awakening demo was.
 
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BassForever said:
What I didn't enjoy was how the rest of my army got paired sometimes at random.
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I actually really liked that, it was fun getting to see who ended up with who at the end of the game, and some of the mini-stories and plots related to them were sweet and fun, even if they were really short.
 










  • Stats of units will increase in the next battle via cooking
  • support points will also increase with the characters you invite
  • If the food is cooked well, you may get a bento after cooking, which heals HP
 
Time Travel confirmed! The dude behind the counter wears jeans and a college jacket, he clearly came from the future to warn the group about the impending dangers. Yet another parallel to Fateswakening.
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DunningSmith said:
Time Travel confirmed! The dude behind the counter wears jeans and a college jacket, he clearly came from the future to warn the group about the impending dangers. Yet another parallel to Fateswakening.
:^)
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Intelligent Systems should just make the modern Fire Emblem their character designers want so bad. at least it'll make up for Tokyo Mirage Sessions
 














New tweets, this time explaining class change + Kagetsu!

- Using a Master Seal, units at level 10 and above can change into a promoted class, which (as per usual) grant extra stat buffs and allow units to use more weapon types.

- You can class change into a different class of the same rank (i.e. first tier or second tier) with a second seal.

- Seems like units have a talent for specific weapon types, which determines the classes in which they can reclass into. However, units can inherit talents for other weapon types from Emblems, allowing them to have more reclassing options.
 
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Why is it that no matter what I do I get spin-off vibes from this?? I want to be excited but my brain keeps looking at it and thinking oh, not really into spinoffs. Even though it looks nicer than FE3H..
 
MeatheadSamus said:
Why is it that no matter what I do I get spin-off vibes from this?? I want to be excited but my brain keeps looking at it and thinking oh, not really into spinoffs. Even though it looks nicer than FE3H..
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Because you likely associate mobile/gatcha games with low effort cash grab spinoffs, and this games focus on rings with the spirits of old characters is a mobile/gatcha low effort cash grab as fuck concept. The marketing has also shown off very little of the story outside of the very basic set up, which probably further feeds the fear the story will be your standard spin it's wheels go nowhere mobile/gatcha game and not have a more traditional FE narrative structure. As I recall the general vibe around 3 Houses improved a lot when the time skip 3 way war was revealed, the closest we've gotten to that in Engage is evil Marth which didn't land with the way I think marketing wanted it to for most.
 
BassForever said:
Because you likely associate mobile/gatcha games with low effort cash grab spinoffs, and this games focus on rings with the spirits of old characters is a mobile/gatcha low effort cash grab as fuck concept. The marketing has also shown off very little of the story outside of the very basic set up, which probably further feeds the fear the story will be your standard spin it's wheels go nowhere mobile/gatcha game and not have a more traditional FE narrative structure. As I recall the general vibe around 3 Houses improved a lot when the time skip 3 way war was revealed, the closest we've gotten to that in Engage is evil Marth which didn't land with the way I think marketing wanted it to for most.
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I think this really is what it is. The gatcha ring concept just gets weird vibes for me, and I truly despise mobile games so even though it isn't exactly like that, the fact it gets close has my brain associating them. They also have done a very poor job showing other things in the game. I love FE narrative so I wish they would show exactly what's going on aside from "here's a bunch of past heroes, and they fight for you, cool!" Show me a tidbit as to why. Unless I missed that, which is possible--a lot of it is in Japanese.
 
MeatheadSamus said:
I think this really is what it is. The gatcha ring concept just gets weird vibes for me, and I truly despise mobile games so even though it isn't exactly like that, the fact it gets close has my brain associating them. They also have done a very poor job showing other things in the game. I love FE narrative so I wish they would show exactly what's going on aside from "here's a bunch of past heroes, and they fight for you, cool!" Show me a tidbit as to why. Unless I missed that, which is possible--a lot of it is in Japanese.
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You're kind of the perfect example of the potential danger that is "why should I care they didn't show off anything interesting" that potentially turns into "why should I care they basically showed off everything interesting" :p
 
















  • You can have weapons forged in exchange for materials and gold
  • You can add the power of an Emblem to a weapon
  • Units can have "bond conversations" with Emblems by raising their bond level, and watching the conversation raises bond levels even higherStand
  • Standard support conversation info
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JR436 said:
Indeed. Much like the translator I'd be happy if Rosado was trans or a crossdressing guy.

I know I'm a bit late on this, but the latter would appeal greatly to me given that I crossdress a lot irl. I know Forrest in Fates exists, but I never played that to any meaningful degree.

Fingers crossed either way. A trans character would be brilliant too, assuming they are written correctly.
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heya im also late! and i would have to agree on the fact that i would really enjoy a crossdressing guy! i do some crossdressing my self and forrest is like my fav FE character, could definately do with some more rep.
 


Looks like it hasnt been mentioned around here yet. There is currently a contest undergoing from NoA to win some acrylic figures from Engage. Good luck (even though I cant participate due to being only for US and Canadian residents)
 
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Man, this game is looking better and better with each new trailer!

Interestingly, they didn't show off the mechanic revealed on Twitter where you can freely roam maps after beating them like in Somniel, which I was kinda expecting, so I wonder if we're gonna get another trailer soon that shows that off a bit more? Maybe a trailer that'll also reveal dungeons 👀
 
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