Fire Emblem Engage - 10 BIGGEST Changes

Fire Emblem Engage is the first major Nintendo Switch release of 2023, and we've played the first eight chapters. Here are 10 of the biggest changes as well as some of our early thoughts sprinkled in for good measure.

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[vicentegatica]

"Marth from smash bros"... I guess mistery of the emblem doesn't exist now :0

[Ratstick]

I like that the triangle is back because it means certain classes that were just useless without it are back to being important at least in some way.

It’s not just “this type of unit is the most powerful so just make everyone that”.

[illialidur]

5:16 Roy is from FE6, Binding Blade, not FE7 Blazing Blade. The Blazing Blade rep is Lyn. Otherwise, zero complaints. This is an awesome review, I’m super excited and leaving a like.

[devinoster]

I’m honestly just hoping the support system comes back I loved talking to my units

[wmgflute]

This entry in the series looks great, and sounds super fun! Can't wait to make a Chloe a borderline kinshi knight with Lyn's bond ring :)

[XIII_Lightning_]

My first FE game was Three Houses and I LOVED it! This one looks great. I hope it has a good story to make up for it not having multiple paths to take. I understand Three Houses might be unique in that as far as FE goes, but that’s what got me playing it for 300+ hours. Obviously I don’t know how good the stories usually are in these games only having experience with one.

[evanherynk]

The donating gold to other nations mechanic has me intrigued. If done well enough it could cause the player's choices to affect the politics of the world in an interesting way and could be a good way to influence paths the game could go or what characters are playable. Also, everyone's gonna want some Legion rings to boost Strength and speed.

[ashleygryffindor]

New system meets retro system= Nice work!

I can hardly wait to get this game in two more weeks

[StevenM]

three houses was pretty incredible, im curious how this one will be

[capn_sarge]

So glad they seem to have toned down the exploration between battles. That got super tedious pretty early on in three houses, and love that the weapon triangle is back. Very excited for this game

[matt]

Back to the roots with a twist. I feel like I will massively enjoy this game.

[miker]

FE 3 houses was my first full FE game and loved the socials/in-between battle activities. I was worried hearing about some removals of those but looks like there is still enough there I will love.

[keeysOST]

I loved the multiple paths of three houses, but god I'm glad we're back to the one story path.

[Gary_Sherman]

This p(review) is great, really appreciate the detailed analysis on changes from 3H.

[rwt]

Thank you for a no-nonsense, concise review. Well done. I already pre-ordered the game before this review, but I'm excited to know more about it, since I can't play it yet. It looks like a good game. Looking forward!

[stygian]

My favorite part is when Marth said "it's engaging time", and then they engaged all over the place.

[OSIRIZ]

If they did some fire emblem localization collection for the ones we haven’t gotten to play would be cool, definitely looking forward to this game!

[ArceusDX]

Why do people keep saying Three Houses didn't have the weapon triangle? It did, Swords > Axes > Spears was still a thing, it just wasn't as visible.
Heck, pretty sure TH had 2 Weapon Triangles going on.

[spiderdude]

Here's another VERY important change:

One rounding a stage by warping or flying straight to the boss is now impossible. Almost all bosses have a held item called a revival stone that essentially gives them an extra health bar. Think along the same lines as beast enemies in FE three houses. You can deplete their health bar, but once it reaches zero, they become immune to further damage, and will refill their health to max at the start of the next enemy phase.

This makes one-rounding not just impossible, but insanely risky, as you now have to survive an entire entirely phase with a unit isolated by itself. Even the strongest units will struggle to do this with the new break status.

[CountArtorias]

Fire emblem this month, octopath next month.. this year starting out great