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dimiclaudeblaigan · 1 year

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As someone who has played FE since FE7 came out in the west and have since played the games prior to and after it, I really don’t see how Engage is “the best FE game of all time” and yadda yadda that people keep claiming. Just because it has more customization and “freedom” doesn’t... automatically make it a better game? Personally I get more aggravated when there’s too much freedom and too many options for gameplay. Even Houses had a tad too much customization that I rarely use because it had so many menus and I love Houses.

Sure, I liked Engage, but I can’t see why it’s suddenly the bestest theeng evur just because it’s the newest entry. I had more fun with Hopes playing AG than the entirety of Engage, and I can compare them because they both reused old characters, so there was a similar feeling of interest being able to see old characters again. Other than that, I’m interested in like... two, maybe three characters tops in Engage.

Soren is pretty much the only Emblem perfectly on point who wasn’t almost entirely generic with conversations. Sigurd had fewer generic conversations and was completely ooc, so that was a big fat wah wah for me (because as we all know, IntSys pretends canon Sigurd does not exist in the whole franchise now and only uses ghost!Sigurd’s like five lines of dialogue as his only and whole personality).

Honestly I think I’m kind of getting bitter toward Engage as an entry because people keep saying it’s the best FE game ever made, especially for gameplay (big ol’ lel from me), but it’s almost always at the expense of Three Houses in one way or another, about how Houses is a worse game. It’s... really not. Oh noooo, they didn’t use anti-aliasing, the whole game suuucks. 😒

(Oh yeah, and FE9 was supposed to be the original hub world game where you got to run around at a base camp and all that fun stuff, so uhhh... that kind of thing has nothing to do with newer entries being better and all that stuff.)

Also, I am being 110% more critical of these people and Engage right now because I have a headache and have felt pretty crappy without even being sick for the past few days. :’)

#DCB Comments #like... ever notice how I very rarely post about... you know... actual Engage?#how it's always older characters and especially Houses related? yeahhhhh. Engage's story wasn't that interesting #the gameplay was... really... not that interesting. actually I found it pretty annoying a lot and the camera is s h i t #Engage did better with its characters than Awakening and Fates but they're kinda more like #two trope personalities instead of one #like... idk. it was fun but it isn't one of my faves/ I can't see myself wanting to reply it very much #like... idk. it was fun but it isn't one of my faves. I can't see myself wanting to replay it very much #also Engage REALLY hammered in the ooc stuff for Sigurd and Ike and made them nothing like their canon counterparts #Sigurd kinda has always been ooc bc like Heroes already did that and stuff #but Ike has kinda been a steady increase in ooc writing since his first non Tellius appearance #I think at this point also I'm just... tired. I'm tired of new games being the new cool awesome hero game of the whole franchise #and then it gets hated on when the next entry comes out. that's been happening basically since Awakening #(which is funny bc Awakening was /also/ better than Fates)#like idk is it really personal preference when it's four out of my five favorite games that either sold amazingly well #or are extremely sought after and fandom-wise super popular? the idea of Engage seemed cool and all but #idk something abt it... well a lot of somethings ig... aren't vibing very strongly with me #DCB Engage Stuff

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