![]() ![]() ![]() Especially when taking on boss enemies, this comes in extremely handy – nip in with a weaker unit that has the type advantage, stop a bruiser in their tracks and then let the rest of your team wail on them with no fear of counter-attack. When you line up this type advantage in a combat encounter, the opposing unit will Break, preventing them from counter-attacking in this or any other fights until their next turn. At its core, Fire Emblem games work on a rock-paper-scissors mechanic axes are strong against spear units, spears are strong against swords, and swords are strong against axes in return. Thankfully the Divine Pulse-style rewind mechanic returns in this game in the form of the Time Crystal, which allows you to walk back a number of actions if things go pear-shaped.Īnother new mechanic introduced for combat is the ability to Break your foes. You’ll need to carefully consider each move if you don’t want to have the weaker links in your team broken immediately, because your enemies are fighting to win. Not to worry, you can still choose whether or not to enable permadeath for your units! But you’d best be prepared if you do enable it, because a fight can turn sideways fast in this game. Strategy like this is very important in Engage, because mainstay characters aren’t the only thing coming back from the series’ past – this game also brings back the tougher difficulty of older titles as well. As each unit raises their bond with an Emblem they also gain the ability to inherit their special skills, allowing you to customise each unit more and more as they spend time with the various Rings. Combining the right Ring with the right unit can definitely turn the tide in battle – pair a slow-moving heavy-hitter with a mounted Emblem for instance, and they suddenly have the ability to zoom across the map to do real damage where they’re most needed. When wearing a Ring, units can also Engage with the ring, allowing them to fuse together into a more powerful form for several turns. When equipped to one of your party members, these Emblem Rings imbue them with boosts to their stats, access to their unique weapons as well as special abilities unique to that character, like Byleth’s role as an Instructor in Three Emblems allowing him to boost the EXP gain of adjacent units. ![]() These Rings introduce the leads of past games into the mix, including series mainstays lie Marth, Roy and Ike that players may recognise from Super Smash Bros, more recent characters like Three Houses’ Byleth and Awakening’s Lucina, as well as deeper cuts for long-time fans like Lyn from the 2004 GBA title Fire Emblem The Blazing Blade or Sigurd from the Super Nintendo title Genealogy of the Holy War, a game that never officially made it beyond Japanese shores. The biggest change comes from the Emblem Rings, magical jewellery that each house the Emblem spirit of the hero of another world. Structurally, Engage takes a different approach to Three Houses both in its gameplay loop and by introducing some new combat mechanics to the mix. ![]() Just as unrest begins to rise across Elyos, Alear awakens (that’s you!) and finds themselves in the center of a conflict that threatens to throw the whole continent back into war… just as signs begin to appear that the Fell Dragon may rise again. In this time, Queen Lumera the Divine Dragon oversaw the four kingdoms while also caring for her child Alear, who remained in an eternal sleep. A millennium before our story begins, the peoples of Elyos fought a long war against the Fell Dragon before finally managing to imprison it, leading to a peace that lasted a thousand years. Can the Divine Dragon and friends measure up to the heights of Bernadetta, Raphael and Claude? The answer to both questions posed above is yes.Īs is usual for titles in the Fire Emblem series, Engage introduces us to an entirely new cast and world to wage war across – the continent of Elyos, and its four kingdoms. Three Houses’ branching storyline and richly-populated cast of characters set an all-new bar for Fire Emblem, so expectations are high for 2023’s new entry to the SRPG pantheon: Fire Emblem Engage. Fire Emblem Heroes continues to dominate on mobile, and 2019’s Three Houses (and the subsequent 2022 spin-off-slash-sequel Three Hopes) have created a whole new generation of gamers asking the question if love can bloom… even on the battlefield? Over the past few years, the Fire Emblem series has entered its own personal Renaissance – when 2013’s Awakening became a reprise for the series rather than a swan song, each subsequent game has only boosted the franchise’s widespread appeal. ![]()
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