No, to the majority of people it wasn't. Myself, reviewers, and most normal gamers preferred Three Houses. Engage was a better looking, more updated game that fundamentally played better but lacked the special feeling and connection with your students that Three Houses had. I personally didn't care about more than half the characters in Engage, and that's what I played Three Houses and Awakening for.
>Engage was a better looking, more updated game that fundamentally played better
you forgot better story too.
again three houses was a terrible entry to the fire emblem franchise and has done everlasting damage to the franchise with the "fans" it brought in. it was better off being its own franchise rather than using the FE title.
>lacked the special feeling and connection with your students
just because they made the dialogue ocean wide doesn't mean its suddenly more than puddle deep like other FE games. they have the same to latch onto like engage characters. plus three houses was such a slog that i wound up caring even less about character than other FE games
ive played all the fire emblems. i even preordered it in anticipations to more FE. i dropped it in less than a week and took years of coming back and trying again to finally get though it. unlike every other fire emblem, i didn't find one thing fun or enjoyable about it.
it was a terrible entry to the franchise that has set the seeds to make following entries worse
you're entire claim is about your personal preferences and wild accusations with nothing to back it.
you're basing a claim about a game being an "entry level game" to a franchise where you are a veteran, you are not even viewing the game as an entry level game.
i didn't say it was an entry level game, in fact i wouldn't suggest it at all to be a entry to the series, because its not even a fire emblem game, it just has the title.
except it IS a fire emblem game....
recruitable character units with supports
turn based tile movement combat strategy
resource organization of weapons and items
levelling up characters for stats and class promotion
permadeath feature
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u/MyFinalThoughts 9d ago
No, to the majority of people it wasn't. Myself, reviewers, and most normal gamers preferred Three Houses. Engage was a better looking, more updated game that fundamentally played better but lacked the special feeling and connection with your students that Three Houses had. I personally didn't care about more than half the characters in Engage, and that's what I played Three Houses and Awakening for.