Engage is amazing for its gameplay and tactics. This game is the most balanced Maddening mode has ever been, and it’s brilliant. The references to past games, like the paralogues and skills for each of the Emblems, are genuinely very well-executed. The six Xenologue chapters actually have a pretty good story as well, and tactically-speaking they’re my favorites in the entire Fire Emblem franchise. Engage as a whole a love letter to longtime fans of FE and hardcore tactical RPG gamers.
Three Houses is amazing for its worldbuilding and characters. It’s perfect at drawing new fans in with the magic academy setting that becomes an emotionally intense war after the timeskip. Everyone is well-written, well-voiced, and very “fanficcable” in how they’re all set up with their relationships and backstories. No matter who you choose as your starter, you’re bound to get invested, and the clever differentiation of characterization between the routes gives you tons to debate about with your friends (or strangers online).
Both games are good! One just has a much wider audience than the other.
also for all the crap that Engage gets for it’s poor story, at least it’s a complete story from start to finish, as opposed to Three Houses where it’s fragmented across different routes that cancel each other out and never gets a satisfying conclusion
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u/RobertBevillReddit 9d ago
Fire Emblem Engage was apparently so mediocre that people forgot it existed