Post by Kirkwood Chocolate on Apr 26, 2023 14:31:27 GMT -5
RISE FROM A THOUSAND YEARS AGO
SHAKING OFF A HAZY DREAM
FIIIIIIIREEEEEEEEE EMBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMMMMMM....
Gotta admit, Goyslop Emblem Engorge is one of my favourite games of 2023 alongside Metroid Prime Remastered. Something about this game being entirely anime tropes with no good original writing at all, just reheated and rehashed anime tropes from the previous games. I would say it's about turning your brain off, but this game actually activated my neurons better than any other strategy title in a while. The Emblem Ring system actually allows for a ton of strategic depth. That or it may just be Etie's abdominals activating my neurons.
Also shoutouts to Solm, the first Fire Emblem nation with full on black and brown people with black voice actors and everything. Fuck Wakanda, I wanna go back to the Queendom of Solm.
Apparently some people do not like the art style of this game. To each their own. I'm sure if you're a midriff appreciator, you'll appreciate this game.
As much as I love this game, I don't think it will ever sell as much as Three Houses. The Colgate hair confuses normies, personally I find the whole aesthetic of the game is probably the best looking Fire Emblem's ever been. The truth is Three Houses sold on the hype of being a Fire Emblem game that has taken design cues from Persona. This was good for the game, given how phenomenal P5 had been. Ironically, Engage is actually the thinking man's game. Three Houses just doesn't really feel like a game I want to replay. All those long ass trips in the monastery sucked. The battles that are all too easy to win, even on Hard. In comparison, Engage is a game that's hard as balls and forces you to use all the OP shit given to you to your advantage. Plus an enormous cast of characters, easily the biggest of any Fire Emblem game, and all voice acted.
If Three Houses was Persona, Fire Emblem Engage is much more oriented towards super sentai nonsense like Power Rangers with an FE coat of paint on it.The call of "Emblem Engage!" is basically the Fire Emblem version of shouting "It's morphin time!" Except instead of gaining power from mastodons and pterodactyls, they get it from previous Fire Emblem enthusiasts. Being a pure gameplay autist who only cares about story in a tertiary sense, Engage's complete lack of any kind of compelling story is actually a boon: it helps me focus on figuring out how to inherit Emblem skills with each unit and who to pair the Emblems with on each match. Plus the support conversations and character interactions are literally a game of choosing which anime tropes you'd like to watch slammed into one another. This is pure goyslop for strategy weebs, and I for one am gracious for Intelligent System's generous serving. Probably going to buy the DLC (which apparently breaks the game) and do a Hard Classic run.
SHAKING OFF A HAZY DREAM
FIIIIIIIREEEEEEEEE EMBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMMMMMM....
Gotta admit, Goyslop Emblem Engorge is one of my favourite games of 2023 alongside Metroid Prime Remastered. Something about this game being entirely anime tropes with no good original writing at all, just reheated and rehashed anime tropes from the previous games. I would say it's about turning your brain off, but this game actually activated my neurons better than any other strategy title in a while. The Emblem Ring system actually allows for a ton of strategic depth. That or it may just be Etie's abdominals activating my neurons.
Also shoutouts to Solm, the first Fire Emblem nation with full on black and brown people with black voice actors and everything. Fuck Wakanda, I wanna go back to the Queendom of Solm.
Apparently some people do not like the art style of this game. To each their own. I'm sure if you're a midriff appreciator, you'll appreciate this game.
As much as I love this game, I don't think it will ever sell as much as Three Houses. The Colgate hair confuses normies, personally I find the whole aesthetic of the game is probably the best looking Fire Emblem's ever been. The truth is Three Houses sold on the hype of being a Fire Emblem game that has taken design cues from Persona. This was good for the game, given how phenomenal P5 had been. Ironically, Engage is actually the thinking man's game. Three Houses just doesn't really feel like a game I want to replay. All those long ass trips in the monastery sucked. The battles that are all too easy to win, even on Hard. In comparison, Engage is a game that's hard as balls and forces you to use all the OP shit given to you to your advantage. Plus an enormous cast of characters, easily the biggest of any Fire Emblem game, and all voice acted.
If Three Houses was Persona, Fire Emblem Engage is much more oriented towards super sentai nonsense like Power Rangers with an FE coat of paint on it.The call of "Emblem Engage!" is basically the Fire Emblem version of shouting "It's morphin time!" Except instead of gaining power from mastodons and pterodactyls, they get it from previous Fire Emblem enthusiasts. Being a pure gameplay autist who only cares about story in a tertiary sense, Engage's complete lack of any kind of compelling story is actually a boon: it helps me focus on figuring out how to inherit Emblem skills with each unit and who to pair the Emblems with on each match. Plus the support conversations and character interactions are literally a game of choosing which anime tropes you'd like to watch slammed into one another. This is pure goyslop for strategy weebs, and I for one am gracious for Intelligent System's generous serving. Probably going to buy the DLC (which apparently breaks the game) and do a Hard Classic run.
