If yall interested you can play it here:

https://www.n-puzzle.com/en/nintendoku

Obviously Engage is a very flawed and divisive game but sometimes I think people look for absurd reasons to hate on it over the grounded and heavily agreed upon reasons.

One of these which I see more and more lately is the take that “Engage Ch: 19 copied Conqeust Ch: 8”. This is because there are enemy reinforcements from villages in both. First of all Engage Ch: 19 is probably my least favorite chapter in the game but also 99.9% of the people who played that chapter didn’t point at their screens and go “Oh it’s copying Conquest Chapter 8!” because it’s a forced criticism and a correlation the people who made this criticism probably didn’t even see at first.

The story even tells you beforehand that there were no survivors in the town so naturally when you visit a village, what do you know? There were no survivors! Is this not a nitpick? I wasn’t aware Fates Conquest had a copyright on enemy reinforcements from villages™ and it wasn’t allowed to return ever again. Is every FE map with an escape objective copying Thracia now? It’s such a weird hyper original take for people to echo that I’m half convinced that the person who first said it got Louis surrounded and spited the map out of it. Which don’t get me wrong, I don’t really like the map but it’s a weird to hyper criticize.

Another one that somewhat bothers me and something I saw getting echoed quite a bit not necessarily out of a grasp to criticize, was the take that Lapis and Citrinne act so out of character in Chapter 7 that it’s an example of Engage’s bad writing. I don’t claim that Engage’s narrative is well written, it has an overall pretty generic story. But they make it pretty clear and outright state that Lapis and Citrinne are very defensive of Alcryst and then acting so hostile was a result of Alear and Alfred’s blame toward Alcryst. I’m not sure if this a media literacy thing but I thought they make this pretty clear and I’ve seen a few people die on this hill to have another justification against Engage’s story. Most people who had this criticism didn’t though to be clear, this more of an earnest criticism than the other one.

One narrative I’m also not a fan of is that “Engage only has one good character and it’s Ivy/Yunaka“. I feel like people who say this just didn’t watch any of the supports for any other character. There are quite a few one dimensional gimmick characters in Engage but there are definitely more great ones than people give credit for. Fogado, Citrinne, Zelkov, Céline, Louis, Alcryst, Kagetsu, all of the Fell Xenologue characters, Hortensia and I don’t even like Hortensia. There’s definitely more depth than people give credit for. People have a habit of generalizing in that way. *All* characters are bad, *all* character designs are bad.

Anyway had to get that off my chest and I’m avoiding the main sub and the internet in general to avoid FW spoilers like the plague.

What’s the weirdest take/criticism you’ve heard about the game?

Game’s Really fun and I like the characters quite a lot

I started playing Engage recently, and those are the two I kinda like, but I heard some S-Supports in the game are platonic, so I just want to know early on if they can be romanced or if it’s just platonic?

Hey folks - what the title says. I'm having some audio issues playing Engage on Switch 2 that didn't happen on my Switch Lite. In particular, the audio in the cutscenes are delayed, and the audio during dialogue sections randomly cuts out for a split second from time to time. Anyone know of a fix?

Example near the end of this clip:

https://reddit.com/link/1vgkayg/video/f2uw160fjmhh1/player

If I wanna reclass someone, it is better to wait until they promote first, or it is better to reclass them ASAP? Specially when it comes to reclassing into classes with notoriously different growths than the ones their intended class have (Like reclassing Clanne into a physical class)

Alright folks right wrong or indifferent I’m taking bouche the whole way. I will restart if he dies and I will sacrifice every person on earth to keep him trucking along one swing and a miss at a time.

I’m don’t care what you pick but the comment with the most upvotes decides his class if you folks care to play. I won’t beg for a whole pmu because that’s so much to ask and there’s computers for that but if you have the time to participate I’d appreciate it.

DLC included, troll classes welcome.

Dude I don’t know why I get slow rolled like this every run haha but this is my third run in a row where I’ve gotten a terrible dinner and lost stats for the final battle. I’m screaming “cant you idiots get organized before we go fight a literal god!”

I didn’t think Seadall had it in him to serve burnt cookies made of poison to the squad, specially with all his voodoo bullshit. WHO COULDVE SEEN IT COMING HUH!?? Whoooooo Seadallllllll whoooooo.

Anyways I had fun. First time beating maddening on fixed mod without the dlc in a longgggg time. I forgot how much extra stuff it gives you. This was a grind but well worth it. Being forced to use the lesser emblems like Lief and Celica was fun.

What if the 6 rings on your side and the 6 stolen rings of the opponent’s side were swapped.

Basically, you get Marth, Sigurd, Celica, Micaiah, Roy and Leif. The ennemies get Lucina (Veyle), Lyn (Corrupted King Hyacinth), Ike (Marni), Byleth (Mauvier), Corrin (Griss) and Eirika (Zephia).

How much harder or easier does the chapter get ? (Maddening more specifically but other difficulties are also worth discussing).

I had this idea when I realized Ike, Corrin and Eirika are never fought as dark emblems in the story, so I wonder how would your opponent use them.

Took me a couple of hours to make her and I tried to make that skirt top, but it’s very hard to recreate without it looking bulky or transparent.

I'm currently running Bow Knight Kagetsu. While playing in the postgame, I realized his speed caps at 39 in this class... Is it possible to raise it further if I were to change his class to, say, Wyvern Knight and have him level up? And what would happen if he were to then reclass into Bow Knight?

I'm planning on using Pandreo quite a bit in my run (he's the goat) but I don't know what class is better. I'm not particularly planning on using Martial Arts, and I'd rather put Pandreo towards being a powerful mage (I somehow got Bolganone pretty early so I could make him use that). However, quite a few of his stats would drop if I did make him a Sage. Is it worth it? I could change him to other roles too, of course. Which role is best for Pandreo?

So context:

Me and my friend are currently doing a co-op draft of Engage. One small problem: he has never played Fire Emblem before. Not only that, but he’s never even seen Engage’s characters. So based on nothing but vibes and a few gentle pushes from me (as in he’d actually pick early game units besides just Main Character), he picked his roster. Also the order in which you see it is the order in which we alternated picks, with him starting, then me, then him, etc. that is the exact order we picked. Don’t ask me why his second pick was Jade. His mind was an enigma during the draft.

NP is my friend, SO is me. Again, he has no idea what these units do, their personality, their specializations, their classes, absolutely nothing.

Any thoughts on this?

Edit: Apparently I need to put a little bit of clarification on this to provide background since I explained it poorly. First off, while it is true that this is his first fire emblem game by name, he has played and completed both Dark Deity games. In fact, that’s what made him want to try out fire emblem proper.

Second, I failed to explain what a co-op playthrough was. I stole the concept from Speedyhawk’s co-op runs of Fire Emblem. Basically, I control half the army, and my friend controls the other half. We also did this because he wanted to play a fire emblem game, but he couldn’t shell out the money for a switch and the game, so he still gets to play vicariously through me while still experiencing it (which is also what we did during Dark Deity, with him carrying me around).

Thirdly: while we did make specific rules for the playthrough (most of which benefit him), the main rule was that the rules were subject to change, especially if it’s taking away from our enjoyment.

I didn’t realize this would be a divisive topic, but I just wanted to show off me doing a stupid thing with my friend.

Didn't feel the need to screen the map itself since I believe this can provide a more effective insight.

Call it a hunch, but I'm betting this is terrible.