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@goatslayer3160Ай бұрын
Mangs are you okay? Blink twice if you're being held hostage.
@NormanJR18Ай бұрын
I think you mean "If you're being held against your will, blink three times."
@aereonexapprentice7205Ай бұрын
Mangs: There are good designs in Engage >Proceeds to glaze over the blondies Yeah, yeah... that checks out
@SpeedwinghereАй бұрын
Colour me impressed that you actually made a pretty good list of things about the game. Engage has a lot of good things going for it which honestly requires playing it yourself to appreciate. I hope this video maybe convinces some people that never tried the game but base their opinions on the game purely on what they saw from reviews etc on launch to actually give it a chance
@EZDre11Ай бұрын
Engage really is underrated. It's insanely fun.
@tomo8940Ай бұрын
It'll die in obscurity with Tokyo Mirage Sessions.
@OmniMon94Ай бұрын
Agreed
@OmniMon94Ай бұрын
Agreed
@OmniMon94Ай бұрын
@@EZDre11 definitely agreed
@juanfebejarano5474Ай бұрын
I believe that the reason Engage is easy to mod is because it's made with Unity, a common engine that a lot of people know how to use, and can work on a lot of different platforms. Far easier to work with than some engine created exclusively for a weird console like the 3DS.
@leatherhidegamingАй бұрын
I'm surprised it's made in Unity since it looks great and also runs so well on outdated hardware.
@Ergeniz23 күн бұрын
@@leatherhidegaming Really? The character models are very homogenized and there's nothing particularly advanced about the environments.
@DavisG603Ай бұрын
Enjoy the engage vids everyone!
@dangfxn771Ай бұрын
How the heck do you not mention the music in this game 😒
@DavisG603Ай бұрын
@@dangfxn771 not up to me, blame the egg
@DanielFlores-fv3vrАй бұрын
How dare you not mention Engage's amazing soundtracks
@fakesmile172Ай бұрын
To be fair, almost every game in the series has an amazing soundtrack.
@JoeLinhardtАй бұрын
And to be even fairer, although Engage’s soundtrack is good for a Fire Emblem soundtrack standards is just good, the best tracks of the game are remixes and those already carry the essence of their respective games. Engage’s own tracks sound just… good
@TreeckoBroАй бұрын
Honestly, there's like two good songs. The Four Hounds and the Final Boss themes.
@ecsphysicsmakoАй бұрын
@@TreeckoBro Don't forget Solm!
@Zyaire286Ай бұрын
@@TreeckoBroNot going to mention Defective soundtrack?
@MrMariosonicmanАй бұрын
my positive that doesnt get brought up enough. Anna actually gets really good supports with people. after the dissapointment of Fates anna and even more three houses anna we get an Anna that actually feels like part of the world and while sharing similarities to past Annas we get unique takes with her supports this time around.
@Artemas_16Ай бұрын
IS really gave us child Anna, I was pissed off when Robin and Corrin forbid Anna to continue her tradition with daughter.
@KopperNeomanАй бұрын
@@Artemas_16 In both of those games Anna should have given birth to Anna. That way Anna could be Morgan''s sister.
@Artemas_16Ай бұрын
@@KopperNeoman totally agree, that would be best case scenario. But even if IS was lazy and didn't wanted to make dlc child, they at least could make that name of child changed.
@mysticpumpkin852020 күн бұрын
@@Artemas_16 better yet, in the end Awakening Anna appears alongside Fates Anna as the family Engage Anna lost. Apparently Awakening Anna told Chrom to piss off offscreen and raised her baby sister in the family business via a loophole, since its not her daughter after all
@josuecallejero9864Ай бұрын
The pixelation at 0:50 😂
@lunialation666Ай бұрын
well with how the internet is nowadays it is sadly needed
@drakenpriestАй бұрын
Right. Where was it again...China were barefoot was a wannabe offense?
@LuminousArc92Ай бұрын
the death of Lumera, while not a good scene since we knew her for 10 minutes tops so Alear crying so hard is stupid, Framme actually trying to heal her and being unable to do so was good. Too often those with healing magic never use it in cutscenes so I appreciate Framme's attempt here
@FlameUser64Ай бұрын
Sure, Alear only knew Lumera for 2 days… but she'd only been _awake_ for that many days, and had total amnesia. More importantly, Lumera was the first person to actually treat Alear like a _person_ and not just a god. Nobody else had engaged with Alear as an equal, as a fellow person they could just talk to. They'd always just gone straight to hero worship, putting Alear on a pedestal and making her feel alien and alone. _That's_ why Lumera's death hit so hard for Alear, she lost her very first human connection.
@CarbonMaliteАй бұрын
I feel like Lumera was an inside joke moreso than an actual plotpoint. Like, as though the game was intentionally trying to speedrun past all the FE tropes and they had to get the parent death out of the way ASAP. In that sense it's pretty funny
@YarharsuperpirateАй бұрын
@@CarbonMalite If they wanted Lumera to die off in the first hour, the least they could have done was have more of Alear's memories of her slowly coming back over the course of the game. So the impact of having to fight her risen self at the end of the game would have alot more weight to it. Since you would have had more chances to see the past with her.
@KopperNeomanАй бұрын
I mean, her HP was already at 0.
@FlameUser64Ай бұрын
@@Yarharsuperpirate See _this_ is a critique I can actually get behind! Though… I'm not sure how intended this is, but I got the impression that Alear and Lumera didn't get very long together the first time around, either. It seems like Alear was "killed" only a few days or maybe weeks after becoming friends with Lumera. Still, though, some memory snippets could have been cool, and might have been a good opportunity to further foreshadow the twist.
@EternalwarpuppyАй бұрын
One thing I never see Fire Emblem Engage get praise for is its voice acting. I always play female Alear because I love Laura Stahl's voice for her. David Matrenga's ability to put unnatural emphasis on random words and sound hilarious doing so was a great personality quirk for Zelkov. Brittney Karbowski and Laura Post did an amazing job managing the 2 faced natures of Citrine and Yunaka, but Megan Harvey took that to the extreme with Veyle.
@Florete_FEАй бұрын
Yeah, one thing I've said before is that Laura Stahl deserved a better script. She put so much heart into the role...for *this*.
@lsrrr3857Ай бұрын
Many played the JPN version and the voice acting combined with female alear's generally down syndrome-ish look makes the scenes super cringe. One example is the scene where her rings were taken, the scene of alear with her giant hollow looking eyes and screaming "give me back!" in anime voice, thats top level of cringeness.
@Brown95PАй бұрын
@@Florete_FE I think it's fair to say that most voice actors in Engage deserved a better script than whatever this mess of a game was. 🗿
@birdbig6852Ай бұрын
@@Brown95PThe script is not that bad if you play with jp voices. It's just like an anime, way better sub than dub unlike 3H (neutral).
@zekdomАй бұрын
This! I love Laura’s voice acting; female Alear is the only option for me.
@JaysonthevoltalorianАй бұрын
This video pretty much sums up my opinion on Engage. I find it really fun and replayable. The rings are fun and the attention to detail is amazing too. Such us, the main cast saying lines from the Emblems. And how they reflect on the battle and even lost allies. I just wish the story was better.
@AlvarO1396Ай бұрын
I got to see the live by pure chance! As an engage enjoyer, here are some points you forgor: -Music is banging, and the remixes too -i have to disagree with speedwing; I very much doubt maddening is the intended difficulty. To each their own, but I felt hard mode was just perfect. If I'd played on maddening it'd have been more frustrating than fun. -the break mechanic sounded awful in paper but I really came to like it in-game, another layer to the strategic complexity -not everyone supports with everyone. I cannot understate how big that is, but maybe you mention in tomorrow's video that less shipping means less activity online for the game I thought these would never come out! Great job to you, Davis and everyone involved ❤
@SpeedwinghereАй бұрын
What I meant by intended difficulty was the intended difficulty for fetubers who have made careers/ long term hobbies out of playing the series, making guides, telling people what to do and then not playing on the difficulty intended for players like them before leaving their reviews
@gideonantonissen6275Ай бұрын
Well the break mechanic from Engage did not work on bosses on Maddening difficulty so yeah that is kinda disappointing but i do also understand why it didn't work on bosses sorta though.
@SARGON439Ай бұрын
Mangs would rather make a video talking about Engage in a positive light than continue his Ironman >.
@popers1328Ай бұрын
Is engage hate really that bad? I know some people didn't like the art direction or whatever but my blind maddening playthrough of Engage is the most fun with Fire Emblem I've ever had.
@JordiumZАй бұрын
Engage is good but just don't see the vision
@lsrrr3857Ай бұрын
Hate is a strong word, but it is a fact fewer people enjoyed it compared to 3 houses.
@grizz5506Ай бұрын
Unfortunately a lot of drones on the internet sums it up.
@EinTheEinАй бұрын
People think silliness is bad now and that grey morality is the gold standard for whatever reason.
@SpookSkellingtonАй бұрын
Personally thought it was... meh. Not bad, but absolutely not memorable. Characters didn't stand out to me at all either (except Panette), and the gimmick felt like "REMEMBER ALL THESE CHARACTERS FROM OLDER GAMES?" I'd kill for another sprite-based game with fixed classes but split promos though.
@nikkeli3942Ай бұрын
Engage may not have been perfect but it is a lot of fun. The visuals and the soundtrack are just amazing. Hope they knock it out of the park with the next game
@stephensetcoski7171Ай бұрын
I’ve been playing Fire Emblem since the series debuted in the West. Engage has a mixed bag of character designs and a rather boring story/dialogue. However everything else it does is at least competent or in many cases fantastic. Engage is much better than many people give it credit for.
@thegreatsubtitleguy4313Ай бұрын
I think it's fair to say that engage also did a better job with the hub world than 3 houses gemeplay wise. There are no lost items to have you run laps around the map to make sure you picked them all up and found the owner, which wastes hours and murders the pace, there are no closed doors/gates when you teleport to different area and the only tasks that can be viewed as mandatory are relatively easy and take 5 minutes at most if you aren't sure which supports you wanna build up, or which units you want to do the 3 arena runs for bonus exp so you don't have to worry about. If someone wants to spend time doing every little mini game, finish collecting fish and stuff, then yeah the Somniel will take as much time from someone as the Monastery, but you don't have to do that and it doesn't hinder you in any way, meanwhile in 3 houses, you have to do the gardening, you have to do faculty training, you must interact with every character to get their support and motivation up so you can train them, you have to do fishing or the shinging in the church, you have to do the tournament and you have to do lost items. I personally feel like this is something that people don't really talk about, so I thought I'd bring it up
@FireEmbrosАй бұрын
I really like how you pointed out that the bosses are much more threatening and actually used their mechanics against you. Overall a fantastic analysis in this video. I do indeed enjoy a good engage playthrough, and love the different challenge runs and balancing acts that have occurred on multiple playthroughs. A fantastic experience!!!
@TwilightWolf032Ай бұрын
The problem with Engage is that, for every one thing it does well, there's two things it does poorly and a caveat!
@slenderMax28Ай бұрын
This is how I feel as well. If it simply was "gameplay good, story bad", I could just skip the cutscenes/dialogue and have a good time, but there are too many little annoying things and caveats that get in the way of enjoying the game.
@gravitysloths5127Ай бұрын
Engage to me felt like tokyo mirage sessions but in fe universe rather than fe in real world.
@zaekuliaАй бұрын
The warrior outfit design in Engage was my gem among the turds Leaving only one side sleeveless actually takes into account that they can use bows while still looking badass It also gives Etie the sixpack she deserves :)
@Alector12Ай бұрын
Still, Eties abs pale in comparison to the absulute unit Merrin turned out to be in warrior class. This girl has the body Etie wished she had.
@dodoraptorАй бұрын
Drink every time you hear "Which is"
@Zabes10Ай бұрын
One of the things engage did right was no bad dessert maps. In the 5 chapters the maps are either decent to really good, thats something not even fe4, fe9, fe10 among other got them right
@AliceSicilyАй бұрын
Without comparing to the other games uhh In engage itself, compared to the others chap 12-16 does feel really odd. Chap 16 can be easy if you just rush the boss, but if you cant getting stuck in the water really sucks unless your entire army is fliers
@fakesmile172Ай бұрын
FE3's desert map might be the worst one. It might be good in terms of ludonarrative but it's not fun to play.
@AeiviousАй бұрын
The reason i think engages desert maps work is not every tile is a slow down, just that its a more present hazard
@tobiz1922Ай бұрын
The music in engage is really good.
@alondite215Ай бұрын
One thing I think is important to keep in mind is that a lot of the things people don't like about Engage are things that are really just specific to that game, but the things that it does well are likely going to be carried forward onto future games. So while it's not my favorite game in the series by any stretch, I do think it's a valuable entry in the series if for no other reason than what it's likely to contribute going forward. I didn't feel this way about the 3DS games, where I started to feel like the series as a whole was slipping. With Engage it feels more like this one game just does a bunch of things all at once that aren't to my taste, but otherwise it's still a very solid video game and the series is in good health.
@WannabeVTSАй бұрын
Engage isnt really that bad, its easily the hardest official game on maddening, other than some cringy writing, its a pretty good game
@n00bplayer72Ай бұрын
Definitely agree about the bosses. I always hated that Azure Moon built up Cornelia as this menace but then Dimitri always one-shot her because she's a fragile mage. It would be great if they combined Three Houses and Engage's boss mechanics: Bosses have multiple health bars, and each new bar unlocks a new skill. Imagine if the Death Knight got Null Cavalry once you got rid of his first health bar, he'd be more of a threat.
@k-d969Ай бұрын
@n00bplayer72 bosses in engage already have this, but its only on the dark emblem bosses, they enter a frenzied state and get the rings ultimate weapons
@catfancier4269Ай бұрын
Getting to the point where I could Ironman Engage without DLC on Maddening while not using the Somniel is perhaps the most fun I’ve had with Fire Emblem. Lovely game with so much replay value.
@lero4827Ай бұрын
No way! He finally talked about Engage! This video has definitely some good points, but do the good points outweight the bad points? We'll see tomorrow in Part 2.
@kasai999000Ай бұрын
My favorite part of engage was that it fixed the issue i've always had an issue with previous games. No character is dead weight or an xp sink. I know in previous games, the beginning paladins is an issue for most. I've never used them for more of a challenge in the early game, but with the second seal, there is no longer a problem with the starting paladin falling off late game. (i do realize that not every early paladin falls off late game. i've just always had shit luck with them myself.)
@EinTheEinАй бұрын
Engage's character designs are nice since you can generally tell what class someone is at a glance which is not something I could say about 3H. There are definitely some outliars like Ivy and Hortensia but they are both brand new classes to the series and you could at least tell Ivy would be an mage of some kind. In 3H there's no way to tell what class anyone is when they're all wearing a generic school uniform. Sure there's the time skip but they still have the same issue of them not having any class clarity because you spent the school era building the characters to whatever class you wanted them to be in. Awakening and Fates also had this issue due to how different the class designs are other than a few like the mages and pegasus knights. Well maybe more so for Fates. At least Awakening kept the classic look for most of the classes.
@snailbert3292Ай бұрын
I just started replaying the game, now on maddening. It’s an incredible but not insurmountable challenge. This game may have a skip worthy story in some points, primarily the mid game, and the characters may be cringe at times, but the gameplay is like butter. Excellent maps, mechanics, and unit distribution tailor-made for Ironman challenges. Not to mention an art style that’s always eye catching. Anyway been really enjoying Conquest again, oh hey look an Engage video.
@redchicken5533Ай бұрын
I just realised today that Hortensia chasing rumours that if she can gather all of the emblems she can bring her Dad back to life actually do get substantiated by the end of the game. -> another reason why Hortensia's character progression is my favourite storyline in this theatrical game.
@kueyteow6288Ай бұрын
I've been personally playing through all the FE games, and playing them honestly increased my appreciation of Engage even more with how Engage pays tribute to past characters. Yes, it does fumble in a few areas but in general, it does a fantastic job. I still find Engage's gameplay to still be the best in FE from what I've played, I never so badly want to replay Engage again but I need complete the past FEs first. I think an underrated aspect is the characters. They feel very akin to the GBA cast in my opinion. A lot of people write them off as cringe and one-note, but I think they are endearing and are simple. They don't give these characters a chance after reading their C support. If i were more cynical, I would have wrote off 90% of the GBA cast as flat and bland if I didn't read their supports. Character designs, I think there are more hits than misses, and people blow up the "Engage has bad character designs" too much. I mean, have you seen their Somniel outfits, they all look incredible! The only thing I dislike about the designs were how some female characters have giant hair that reaches the floor. The only negative thing about the story I would say the main villain is mediocre, and the Four Hounds...yeah I don't like them, with the exception of Mauvier and Griss. I still found the story to be pretty fun, with heartfelt and hype moments.
@novaeclipse139Ай бұрын
MMW: Engage will get a big boost in popularity after the next FE game comes out. The cycle will continue
@jamesgordon1446Ай бұрын
Engage is actually my favourite fire emblem.
@kimaru135Ай бұрын
One thing I really do like was how the rings felt as powerful as the story made them to be. The crests in 3 houses were talked about as so strong and important yet in gameplay they were very lackluster
@yashinebrown9179Ай бұрын
Engage is probably one of the best Fire emblem games in terms of gameplay and replayability. Game is super easy to get into not taking 30 plus minutes to micro manage a hub. You can go in go out.
@AliceSicilyАй бұрын
My main issue is that, even if/when I spend "only" 5 or 10 or 15 mins micromanaging it still feelsbad. And the nature of the game is that you kind of have to. It is tedious and slow when it happens, moreso than the actual time itself is the loading screens
@thomasquesada7248Ай бұрын
@@AliceSicily except no
@DeadmanNC1Ай бұрын
As someing who came in with 3 houses loved that game and hard bounced off Engage this was an interesting vid calling out stuff I didnt give enough attention at first.
@Syaoran_NishiАй бұрын
Talking about the positive aspects of FE Engage... I nearly agree with everything. I like a lot of the character of the game with the female protagonist on top of them (the male protagonist is quite bad if you ask me). Another things I've appreciated are the Characters interactions, while some of them are quite of boring, one-sided or hyper-reverential, others are kind of interesting and entertaining. The battle animations are well done, in my gameplay I've almost NEVER skipped one (with some exceptions), also I perfectly agree with your statement of "feeling" the animation and the weight of the movement of the character. The story is quite good (I know, I have to keep a thing for a next comment on the bad things of this game), and has a good pace. Maybe this comment is short, but only because I do not need to go into details. For the next comment I might go into details because (spoiler alert) this game have some things that really get in the way with the enjoyment. And I also expect you to get an over-half-an-hour video out. But it's not a bad thing complaining if you like a game, it is "wanting it to be better".
@arnavmekala4578Ай бұрын
This video kinda makes me want to replay Engage as I never picked it up again after playing it once when it came out. This was because I had Fire Emblem fatigue from playing the franchise non stop from 2016-2020, but maybe when the new fire emblem release comes out, I will just replay engage to get in the swing of things. Hopefully the next game is better than engage though.
@AzaminggАй бұрын
I didn't expect the music to not get brought up. I think it's a massive step up from three houses, whose Fodlan Winds make my ears start bleeding after the massive overdose, and just in general a great soundtrack. I find both Tear Streaked and the Solm map theme to be among the best themes in all of fire emblem. But I do agree with most of what you said, but I don't get the "going back to gba era gameplay" point. I mean, you say yourself you don't want to play 2 out 3 gba fire emblem Games. So, knowing IS' approach to gba era fire emblem, I don't think it would work out.
@isakts8576Ай бұрын
to be completely honest engage's music feels kinda generic to me, at least compared to the previous entry. Three houses has tearing through heaven, Chasing daybreak, funeral of flowers, apex of the world, GOD SHATTERING STAR??? Although i do concur that fodland winds is mid..
@dangfxn771Ай бұрын
I agree the music in this game is incredible i can't believe he didn't bring it up @mangs
@AstraProcАй бұрын
Facts, the soundtrack is really good. It’s also just straight up larger than that of three houses, even while maintaining a consistently higher production value!
@DrakonPhDАй бұрын
To be fair, great OSTs in fire emblem are just an expectation lol. Engage's OST is not as good as Fates IMO (still the best soundtrack in the series), but its on par or better then 3H
@ZzShyАй бұрын
Imma be real, Engage is my favorite FE games in well over a decade and Three Houses is one of my least favorite FE games of all time, but objectively 3H has the much better soundtrack overall and I dont think its even close. You can definitely have the opposite preference, but I think its pretty clear that the soundtrack isn't as good in Engage as it was in Three Houses.
@MidwestArtManАй бұрын
The 3H Mangs art makes me think we need some official-looking Engage Mangs art. I'm sure he'll love it!
@TheRandomViewer-zv4bvАй бұрын
As someone who is in two minds about Engage, thank you for making this. Engage definitely has a lot to criticise about it. But it would be wrong to deny what it did so well. It is nice to see some positivity about it alongside the negativity. It is weird how, for the most part, the quality of this game is either extremely good or extremely bad, not just somewhere in-between.
@prof.dexample6238Ай бұрын
Okay here's my favourite thing about engage. About halfway through the campaign there's a betrayal of sorts where the main characters plans get thwarted and they lose all their emblems. But since you the player got so used to using those emblems and built your strategy around them emblems. It actually feels like the story thwarted YOU! Personally. You actually have the same reaction of "Oh f*ck, my enemies keep getting stronger and I just got much weaker" that the in game characters are having that reaction too. The same motivation to get the emblems back that you can feel from the character's expressions, YOU PERSONALLY have that same motivation because them emblems went with your playstyle and strategies. So more than any other fire emblem game, fire emblem engage is actually very engaging.
@ZephyrK_Ай бұрын
GAMEPLAY GRAHHHH. Animations, better variety in the map design and better usage of dynamic music too. Overall PLAYING Engage is amazing (which truthfully is the most important factor for a game) but if you’re gonna include a story, then at least try instead of reusing the same plot for the 10th time with less interesting or visually coherent/appealing characters than said previous attempts 😭
@YarharsuperpirateАй бұрын
Alot of people say the story was unredeemably awful. When thats far from the truth. A simple and more focused story is sometimes far better then an overly ambitious one that is all over the place like Fates and 3 Houses. Since if you go for a more complicated story, your bound to have it filled with absurd plot holes which the above 2 mentioned games have. While Engage went with a more tightly focused story that is both serviceable and incredibly easy to follow. Engage to me felt like a "Fire emblem greatest hits compilation" with the amount of fan service and references to the series as a whole. Which I felt it nailed perfectly
@TreeckoBroАй бұрын
Fire Emblem Engage did one thing extremely well. It took Fates' spot as the worst Fire Emblem.
@ramen1010Ай бұрын
Honestly I've held the same opinion of engage since it released. That the story was gonna be bad (which it was), and that the gameplay would be a lot of fun (which it was). Honestly I was just happy that the actual strategy gameplay ended up being a lot of fun. I just sincerely hope that Intelligent Systems actually incorporates their gameplay ideas with an actual interesting story and characters. Having a Fire emblem game with strategy mechanics like Engage with an Echoes/Genealogy level of story and character writing would actually be incredible. Not that I personally think that will happen. It feels like to me that most FE games either have amazing gameplay or amazing story, never quite both at the same time.
@Zyaire286Ай бұрын
I’m gonna laugh my Sommie out that the hate video going to be longer than the love video😂
@AliceSicilyАй бұрын
I think in general its just easier to rant about negatives than to praise games.
@Zyaire286Ай бұрын
@@AliceSicilyYeah, that might be true
@Underworlder5Ай бұрын
@anthonypreston7261 talking about what you dislike is easier than talking about what you like. people also tend to go more in depth about things that bother them, pointing out the exact problems in the hope they might get fixed down the line
@cheezysharkyАй бұрын
FEE is a case for me like "put a bag on her head and she's good enough". It was good in certain aspects, but I can't imagine myself wanting to revisit it anytime soon, and I'm certainly not proud of spending 60 bucks on this game on my birthday.
@thomasquesada7248Ай бұрын
That’s my take on three houses
@Alector12Ай бұрын
For older fans, another point I think in Engaes favor are the paralogues. Seeing the stages of old titles recreated and referenced, often with their infuriating BS gimmicks intact, looking at FE 4, 5, and 6 in particular, (That Sacae level has a special place in my heart) should put a smile on their faces, at least for me.
@deathandrebirth-y8xАй бұрын
watching ike knock down the fortress was a jumpscare
@KrimsonKattYTАй бұрын
CENSORING VAYLE'S FEET AT 0:50 LMAO 😂😂😂
@timothypeterson4781Ай бұрын
No Sami in this video!? What!?
@tobiz1922Ай бұрын
I love engage. The gameplay is just too fun. PEAK.
@ChillstoneBlakeBlastАй бұрын
This is going to be a KZbin short, isn't it?
@K.J73Ай бұрын
Let me guess: -Gameplay -Animation Something else ?
@lsrrr3857Ай бұрын
Goldmary
@EinTheEinАй бұрын
All of the characters are actually likeable and the story isn't a hot garbage grey morality mess like 3H since it isn't split up into 4 parts that don't have a satisfying conclusion.
@Brown95PАй бұрын
@@lsrrr3857 And goldmary is literally a manipulative narcissist, so she is basically a moot point. 😐
@cheezysharkyАй бұрын
Nothing else, king, you got it all.
@BARALover96Ай бұрын
@@EinTheEincharacters in engage are very very hit or miss.
@ReruroАй бұрын
Honestly Engage on Maddening was actually really goddamn fun, I just wish the story wasn't so blisteringly awful that it made me stop caring about finishing my first playthrough.
@thomasquesada7248Ай бұрын
Mostly right videos except Engage characters actually have great character designs, I’m serious everybody will give different answers if you ask their favorite designs Also thank fuck someone is finally saying that three houses isn’t fire emblem Also emblem rings are only as dominating if you overly relay on them
@Ender41948Ай бұрын
Oh lordy loo, no they are not good character designs, at least the majority.
@lsrrr3857Ай бұрын
Really? I am surrounded by bozos who say 3H isnt fire emblem and the best FE is tear ring saga.
@thomasquesada7248Ай бұрын
@@lsrrr3857 the best fe is actually engage
@josearaujomota4665Ай бұрын
Bro is playing both sides só he can always cone out on top
@sirbradfordofhousejonesАй бұрын
I really hope that typo was intentional. 😆
@josearaujomota4665Ай бұрын
Always has been
@Green-unitАй бұрын
Mangs is a better schemer than Claude confirmed
@tylerprince6371Ай бұрын
I love engage, but I have a bad feeling the what went wrong video will be double the length of this one
@OzekiTK4 күн бұрын
This was my first Fire Emblem. I actually really liked it and can't wait to start Three Houses.
@lightcouragefake574Ай бұрын
I’m glad you mentioned the modding community. It’s truly a different experience playing this game modded to the brim.
@Zwei-IIАй бұрын
I agree with what Speedwinghere said abou replacing the backpack pair up units to the emblem rings so you can keep getting stats bonuses but at the same time get to use every character, what I don't like as much is that you have only 2 skills to build your unit + the emblem synch skills. Conditioning you to use an emblem ring in order to use the build you have in mind and most of the Advance class skills and personal are super underwhelming, only good ones that are not from special royal classes are: No distraction, Pass, Pincer attack, Brave assist(idk hero's skill), Air Raid and Chaos Style the other ones are kinda meh and some of the skills listed above are on mediocre classes in terms of stats. As for Character personal skills, either a Character has a busted skill like Bloody Fury / Fairy Tale Folk or a really bad one like Fogado's Charmer. But all in all is fun to try builds on characters (even troll builds)
@xXMGVXxАй бұрын
I like the maps they included from previous games. They were remade pretty faithfully. I like the staff units melee attack. They feel vulnerable while not being literally defenseless. I like the break system. It makes the weapon type matter. It has issues but I hated 3H not caring about what people were using even more. Short points done. One more larger thing. Byleth and Alear never being used in their unique classes is incredibly weird to me. I feel it is not the games that made them weak but the players not using the full kit. Speedrunners are complaining that Byleth does not have 1-2 range in his unique class because they never gave him any points in faith. The enlightened one is literally the same thing as Celica's skill set what cracks me up every time I hear the complaints. Most of the unique classes in engage have similar issues where they are interesting but not obviously and unconditionally broken.
@weberman173Ай бұрын
in Byleths case the 1-2 range is also... part of the Flamesword?(was that the name of their relic?) which, i consider to be part of the class/character even if it isnt class specific
@grizz5506Ай бұрын
Engage will go down the same path as Conquest. Lambasted on release, beloved 8-10 years later with the complaints being nothing more then “characters and story were severely lacking. Otherwise phenomenal game.”
@Brown95PАй бұрын
And Awakening will still be regarded as the better game of the three for being an overall better package, despite being like 10 years old now. 👏
@nekonomicon2983Ай бұрын
Its like the Zelda cycle
@grizz5506Ай бұрын
@@Brown95PAwakening had a myriad of problems, and still does. You’re an unserious person
@thomasquesada7248Ай бұрын
Nah engage is great and when the tourist haters will leave it will be recognize has such
@kevingreenley1765Ай бұрын
I really like engage when I turn the voices off and skip all the cutscenes. I despise the writing in the game, but love the gameplay for the most part. The emblem rings, though very fan servicey are so much fun to use. And the skills in the game are actually good.
@RobertFleitzАй бұрын
fun to watch! I'm loving this game now so it was nice to hear some appreciative words :D
@originaltturtlesАй бұрын
I knew you were gonna mention map design and thats what I constantly tell everyone is the most positive thing to me about engage, its not amazing but its a step back in the right direction and I hope it means the next game the maps will be even better
@thomasquesada7248Ай бұрын
It absolutely is amazing map desing
@isnortmemesdaily2172Ай бұрын
You can almost see speedwing behind him with a gun to his head if you look closely.
@lunatic0verlord10Ай бұрын
2:37 I think this is part of the KT touch. Koei's flagship games, the Warriors games, tend to recycle maps, too. Just look at FE Warriors.
@chiefmonrovia6691Ай бұрын
8:08 you have to drop this in the hack discord if it's fully playable. I would absolutely love a baudimon arc in an NES style demake. After seeing who you got to defend engage, I can only imagine we will be hearing from PH on the next video.
@jae2493Ай бұрын
even while playing other FE titles (thracia and golden deer rn), my mind always goes back to how much I missed out on Engage. I only spent 24 hrs on my first playthrough, and there's still so much I left untouched that I wanna go back and play it as soon as I finish my current games
@AliceSicilyАй бұрын
24 hours is really really fast, most people I see they took about 50 or 60 hours
@destinydivided8689Ай бұрын
8:45 Wait. Who said Celine's teapot dress was bondage? Also, Boucheron looks way too freaky in his armor 10:19 I thought it was a me problem when I saw flaws in the game, and boy did I see flaws before the first map (the throne room doesn't count) I also thought FEtubers would've played on normal to rush the game, not hard
@AliceSicilyАй бұрын
Normal is basically for casuals. If they played on normal they would have lost credibility(?) Hard I think is because a lot of people were cautious of being burnt I guess?
@butthemeatwasbadАй бұрын
I disagree about multiple health bars, but I also can't think of an alternate solution. Maybe I just suck at the game, but all bosses became "send in enough that are strong enough to destroy each bar, or be prepared to lose someone to take two turns"
@valdonchev7296Ай бұрын
"Onto my next point, which is..." felt like a very generic, unnecessary transition phrase. I would have just cut it out and left it silent. I'm curious why you chose to do that - was it to help with stiching the various portions of the video together in editing?
@liberator-san4700Ай бұрын
For me. I think the problem people had with emblem rings was that they didn't know how to use them. And then suddenly in the late game they complain about the game being unbalanced when they didn't do anything to try to learn them. The emblems do break the game in a way. But thats because the game is balanced on you learning how to use them. Meaning later on youre supposed to already be knowing how to use them. So if you didnt bother trying to learn them dont be surprised when the game that balanced itself on that ends up making you struggle. I think my favorite mission is the penultimate mission in engage. In hard mode you're supposed to push forward while at the same time get backstabbed by enemy forces. I LOVE this mission. It reminded me of Hamartia, a mission on the Mental Omega mod for Red Alert 2 where i had to push forward and after a bit a HUGE chunk of enemy forces popped in behind me just like how your main base got popped with a backstab the second your Conyard goes down. I think also on characters. People praise Yunaka a lot. I do too because she feels like one of the only good characters here. Paralogue missions were really great. My favorite one was honestly Ike's Paralogue. When you play the mission, you're like "Oh hey! I know this mission! Ill park here! Because thats what i did!" Only for Ike to outright break the barrier. I remembered laughing so hard even if i resetted the mission cause i got caught off guard. Another one i liked was the Roy one, as in that case, a lot of strats i use ended up completely carrying over from the original one. I ended up despising Lyn's though, even if she was my fave character. But thats also because i was flier reliant... Yeah it didnt end well for me. Overall... I dont think its the best but it did a lot of things nicely... I dont recommend getting the DLC for anyone initially though, the game is balanced for you to finish it without the DLC and the DLC breaks it.
@AliceSicilyАй бұрын
The skill ceiling in this game is quite high. The difference between a "skilled" player and not is very big, which is something
@liberator-san4700Ай бұрын
@@AliceSicily Also true but I do think that it's not AS high as people think it is. It's easy enough to learn basic combos here and there. Like syncing Chloe with Speedtaker and Canto, or Louis with Corrin's anti Chain attack skill. But this is me playing on Hard Mode, I can't survive Maddening.
@VestigeSmash22Ай бұрын
en-en-engage?! W H A T T T T T? what kind of dark dragon magic is this?! that surprise aside in all seriousness FE: engage was pretty solid; for instance with new spins on the weapon triangle, the break mechanic, it works smoothly and feels like the player is being punished for not paying attention to the unit's current weapon on hand or to the disadvantage itself as a factor. plus chain attack? it's reconfigured nicely and more inclusive for more near adjacent units to stack damage but it's very reminiscent of FE: fates dual system but much better I just kinda wish during enemy phase if an enemy axe unit attacked any of the players sword units the enemy unit in turn gets punished for it.
@InternetMonster1Ай бұрын
Engage rings are battalions if they were balanced.
@nintenbone7934Ай бұрын
You forgot to mention Seadall also has a nice design
@oof5992Ай бұрын
Speedwing i kneel. Also Rev mentioned. Lets go
@KingdramanaАй бұрын
You completely forgot about Archers being good as well!...Without them having like a 5-tile range that allows them to hit through walls. See, the Gryphon Riders in Maddening are a force to be recon with. Units that you can't tank because you can't get enough Defense nor Speed to deal with them. Enter Archers, the only units that can really deal with them consistently outside of Rings. Now it really feels good to have one of them on your team to deal with a whole enemy class, instead of, you know, wanting to cast Meteor on every single enemy archer because they out range and overlap your units so hard. Plus on another note I also like Engage reinforcements being a lot more telegraphed. They often appear on the distance and give you time to prepare instead of "Okay, I just had to look at this map before hand, let me use a Time change shenanigan to fix it"
@HellishHopperАй бұрын
Engage was criminally overhated
@heyguysxdАй бұрын
One thing i like about Engage is that most of the Emblem Rings feel like those older characters. Ike, Soren and Lyn feel like their actual self. Fe Warriors for example struggled more with this. Tbf Micaiah and Roy seem to be quite different though.
@TheBrah80820 күн бұрын
I skipped all the cut scenes after the mom death. Love the gameplay!
@AbundyАй бұрын
Speedwing cameo was the best part gahahahaha
@Zahri8AlangАй бұрын
I dunno if im just bad at the game or i left some characters be too underleveled but after some point, it becomes quite considerably harder to level up some character that would have a hard time to deal the finishing blow to gain the optimal XPs
@AliceSicilyАй бұрын
Engage definitely has some weirdness with the exp curve
@aphato2770Ай бұрын
Peak -fiction- gameplay strikes again
@LiaisimportantАй бұрын
One is for sure you can finally ENGAGE with your favorite characters like Lucina oh and Female Alear just carried the whole game
@boundlessmojo1Ай бұрын
Yeah, I did my first play through on Maddening, no dlc. And I got soft locked on the chapter at the burning docks chapter 20+ or somthing. But to me, that was the most fun play through of a fe game I have ever played, maybe conquest.. Engage, imo has the best combat in a FE I have ever sunk my teeth into. (I still prefer gba's, but fuk it was good) The amount of choice you had with the rings would turn the tides so much if used properly or just get somone killed, and the game was super agro like enemy's where just ready to kill you at all times you had to play super aggressive or you would get over run and die. God, it's one of my best experiences. 👌
@TheArkhamjesterАй бұрын
That last point about how if everybody played the game on maddening which if I remember right you have to beat the game first instead of hard feels like something of a backhanded compliment
@AliceSicilyАй бұрын
Mad is available immediately. Theres also the option to lower difficulty in the somniel. Though its not quite as clear as it seems (most of the ridiculous tedious difficulty is actually at the start of the game)
@Underworlder5Ай бұрын
@@AliceSicily the game being at its hardest at the beginning sounds like standard fire emblem
@JoeLinhardtАй бұрын
Before i even watch the video i’m gonna say the combat animations in engage are GOD tier
@MrReaplingАй бұрын
alright, 10 min video max, I'm calling it
@bm4604Ай бұрын
Counter point Revelations has the redeeming quality of taking place in the Fates engine, which arguably is the besr in the series despite its own flaws
@lsrrr3857Ай бұрын
3:33 10 seconds of Rutger being... Rutger
@TerrennonPrivАй бұрын
WHOOOOT?! Mangs makes a video about FE Engage? AND HE ACTUALLY DOES IT WITH QUALITY? 0:49
@Y2khaАй бұрын
I loved engage.
@rockowlgamer631Ай бұрын
I feel like Ivy's main outfit should've been her normal outfit she wears around the hubworld, since it seems more fitting Also i like Pannette design, im a sucker for a day of the day character, same reason why i chose Fuecoco cause of Skeledirge
@gamermanzeakeАй бұрын
Look, I'm not trying to be rude here, but there's no way you're convincing me your true issue with Engage is that it isn't "engaging" in the community or KZbin generally. If all you cared about was views, you would've moved over to; Call of Duty, Fortnite, or Minecraft years ago. If you believed any of these garbo takes, you'd be playing the game in spite of the so-called interaction. People would watch you nevertheless. I probably would dip out, but that's because I won't hide the fact I hate the way Fire Emblem has been going since New Mystery. Echoes withstanding because it isn't a bastardized political agenda filled remake or entry in the series. These kinds of videos only exist to appease a side of your audience that you still want watching you, but you absolutely don't agree with. Be honest, that's the best policy. Mangs, again I'm not saying this to be mean, rude or disrespectful. It's just an obvious trope in the content creator sphere that's readily visible.
@Mangs1337Ай бұрын
I think you misunderstand me, one of my big complaints with Engage is that it's dead in the Algorithm, but no I don't just play for views. I just wish Engage was more "engaging".