Yeah, it just seems to be one of those things with the game that once you've benched a character they're never getting back off it again because you need everything you've got to keep your core team relevant.
Also, most of the late game characters are so good that you're probably going to want to carry a few passengers in the knowledge that they'll ultimately get benched too.
I’ve just got around to playing this and it’s probably the most fun I’ve had in the series for awhile.
Same here. By the time this had released, I had virtually lost interest in the Fire Emblem series. The Warriors games do very little for me, and Three Houses was a massive disappointment (fantastic production values, but there was so much emphasis on the fluff at the school/monastery that it barely resembled a Fire Emblem game). I'll most likely revisit Three Houses at some point, and I enjoyed what I had played of it, but evidently not enough to hold my attention past the first few hours or so.
I bought Engage on sale just under a month ago and I've already clocked in 90+ hours. Utterly hooked. This is more or less everything that I wanted out of a new Fire Emblem, which plays a hell of a lot like Awakening/Fates that got me into the series in the first place. I almost wish that we had gotten a more simplified Solmniel as it was a bit tedious "doing the rounds" in between every bloody battle at first (and I'm such a grinder), but I eventually found my way around it, and it's not quite so annoying anymore.
Less waifu anime silliness, more tough as fudge battles.
I didn't mind the silly romance elements of past entries. I'm just the tiniest bit disappointed that it's (sort of) gone, but the fact that all units can merge with any of the returning Emblems more than makes up for the lack of child units.
One thing that is really annoying me though is the skirmishes are on such a high level, I wanted to use them to level up my less used characters. It’s a really odd decision to have them be on higher levels than the story mode.
I've been grinding so much (it was just so damn fun) that when I would return to the normal stages (I'm up to Chapter 22 or so at the moment), most of my units were only getting 1-2 EXP per battle.
I've been trying to play in a balanced way so that pretty much everybody is viable in combat, and I tend to phase out the OP units so that the weaker ones get a chance to shine.
It's kind of ruined the fun of playing through the campaign, but again, there's consolation in the fact that my OP units won't be quite so against the randomly generated skirmishes later on.
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Finished chapter 15 just now. I really like this game. It would probably be even better, if had played the rest of the series. It might be time for me to call the Fire Emblem series a must have.
@Jhena The story missions are a good, well-balanced challenge. It's one of the few games in the series that actually feels good to play on the highest difficulty.
The skirmishes are just nonsense. They just bombard the player with units. Even easy skirmishes are harder than almost any story mission.
Finished chapter 24. I am glad Zephia and Griss found peace at the end. Alear of the past feels so lonely, sad and hurt, I just wanted to give him a hug and tell him that everything will be fine.
If I were to describe Engage it would be very quick and forgotten much like Tokyo Mirage Sessions. Both had colorful worlds, zanny characters, simple plots meant to appeal to a younger audience that overall were fun to play. That said both quickly fell over everyone's radar and were sadly forgettable. I wonder if this released sooner would it have had a longer life span especially with the Switch 2 very close. Regardless I respect what the game wanted to accomplish, but if they don't want to scare away fans mainly Three Houses newbies again this kind of story effort and character writing can't happen again.
The series needs to evolve to were both gameplay and story can be great not one or thr other.
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