The Fire Emblem thread

Yeah, it's brilliant. It's the first one in a while where I think the difficulty is well-balanced. And the Engage system and bonds and such is a great replacement for the creepy social sim stuff (though there's still a bit of it)

That said, I just lost a unit. It was right at the end of a reaaaaaally long and difficult map, I'd used all my rewinds and couldn't be arsed to do everything again, so I said "fuck it, I'll just get a new archer eventually".

And in the next chapter, I did! It's pretty ridiculous how many units this game throws at you.

Wow, chapters 10 and 11 are absolutely immense.

Have you played a Fire Emblem before?

It depends what you liked about Awakening, and the series in general.

Three Houses probably has a better story, and a stronger emphasis on the strategic layer. Pretty much any unit can be anything you want them to be, with enough education and training. There's a lot more of managing relationships away from the battles themselves.

Engage has more of a bog-standard story, and the characters aren't as strong. But it's very much focused on the battles, and tactically it's a return to how the games were before Awakening revived the series. The maps are also better, and it looks much better.

Personally I very much prefer Engage, but that's mostly just a taste thing. I think both are worth playing.

Tip for anyone playing this:

The difficulty is, on the whole, very well balanced. But it is not well balanced for the skirmishes and various other side content.

This is because those maps scale with Alear's (your main character) level. So if you let them get too far ahead of the rest of your team, you'll be fighting skirmishes where is impossible for anyone but Alear to kill things.

It's only really relevant if you want to grind, but maybe something to keep in mind.