Azz

Aside from Micaiah, we still need to get twt profiles for Merrin, Pandreo, Seadall, Zelkov and Goldmary. Going by the schedule, we should be getting a character tomorrow, then Miccy on Friday, with the last four characters next week. After that idk.

I have to say, I much prefer this new VA for Anna. Karen Strassmen is fine, but definitely not my fav VA. This new VA is a breath of fresh air and I have to say, the quality is quite good. Lets hope this is a good omen for the rest of the English voice acting. As for the other stuff, the tempest trials seems cool and will be and enjoyable side activity, the PvP/aether raids things looks cool, basically my castle again, and the multiplayer will probably be something I wont touch often if at all cause I have no friends who play FE ;___; Am wondering what else they can show off now at this point. We've pretty much seen everything sans the few unit twt profiles that are already on the website anyways plus Miccy's preview video. Will be interesting to see what they pull out

Yeah I agree on Anna possibly being the trainee unit. She's explicitly referred to as being a merchant in training. As for a late-game growth unit, I feel like one of Ivy/Hortensia/Timerra/Fogado could be. They are all in base classes when they join compared to their retainers who all join pre-promoted.

Yeah I don't mind the designs tbh. Some of them are kinda exposed, but nothing is egregious (like paladins and armours in thongs from FEA/Fates). I actually quite like the Sage design, even if the exposed torso doesn't make the most sense, I do think it looks quite sleek and I am a fan of the dark mage outfit from Fates which Sage really reminds me of and I'm excited to slutify the men in the army heehee

Engage going by Kill La Kill logic where more skin exposed=more power I guess

I have a feeling why it's showing you all the options is so that it can illustrate what conditions you're missing as to why you're not able to reclass possibly. All class changing stuff seems to be on one menu so that makes the most sense to me tbh.

Just realised birthdays are back but I wonder how they're gonna do them since we don't have an in-game calendar. I'm presuming they'll work off the switch's own clock I guess like they did in the 3ds era.

Now why do do Sages look like that jdjdjdjdjd Gonna make Vander a Sage come hell or high water. Guess we know why Griss looks the way he does, it's just what Sages look like lol. The video was really interesting, though I am surprised it dropped now rather than when twitter was up to date with all the emblems and units from the website. It was overall a great overview of the game and its mechanics and has made me 10x more excited for it. Hopefully it gets released in English at some point.

Big agree. I still remember all the Fates fix-it-fics that were around back then, we'll definitely get a lot of fan content for Engage which will hopefully not result in big ass fandom division like Three Houses did which I'm very excited for

In regards to the timeline of events, I think it will go Lythos->Firene->Brodia->Elusia->Solm->Elusia again if the first time we leave Elusia they aren't our allies->Endgame where we seemingly travel the continent again if Firene on fire means anaything I can't see there being a Brodia/Solm route split. All the Solm retainers are pre-promoted meanwhile all our Brodians are in base classes. By the looks of it, we'll go to Firene, go to Brodia for reinforcements and to help them push back the Elusians, go to Elusia for revenge cause we all know king Brodia is dying, Sombron will merc us and possibly kill Hyacinth, encouraging Ivy and Hortensia to join us, we'll turn tail to Solm for reinforcements, then we'll head either head back to Elusia in which Hyacinth will then kick the bucket and the Elusians will join us, or that will already have happened and the entire continent will fall asunder with Sombron back. Don't how we'll fit in an entire journey around the continent and have all our shmucks by chapter 17 where Firene is on fire and Zephia has Sigurd and Griss has Celica but whatevs.

Doing some calcs, and by the looks of it, we may get a final trailer soonish. We have two more emblems to be revealed which should be tomorrow (unless Japan has their own boxing day equivalent in which we probably wont get anything tomorrow probably) and Friday, and we have seven more characters to get twitter profiles, three this week, and then the final four next week. If this plays out this way, next Friday should possibly be a final trailer (presumably to go over everything) and us getting the game system section of the website.

I don't think the rings themselves will affect the quality of the story. The 12 are essentially taking the role of what normally would be the legendary heroes who wielded each games' S rank weapons (the holy crusaders, the eight legends, the 10 heroes etc). The only one I see primarily appearing in the story cutscenes will be Marth, the rest I feel like will have a cutscene or two around their introduction and will swiftly be swept to the wayside and only have their appearances in the Somniel and bond conversations.

I was more so referring to the models. FEA actually wasn't too bad IIRC, but a lot of the darker skin characters in Fates and SoV had a pretty greenish undertones which was unsettling to say the least. SoV especially was bad with Boey and Atlas looked quite green.

Oh yeah I agree, definitely the most all-rounder emblems I just wanted a 4/4/4 split of the three categories lol. If anything four categories would probably make more sense, with Marth, Roy and probably Eirika going into an all-rounder category but I also like the three

Oh big agree. Thank god we're out of the 3ds FE era where poc were green. He's certainly a bit greyer than Timerra or Fogado, but he actually looks dark skinned rather than well green

It seems that if we were to separate emblems into categories: Offensive: Celica (warp nuking), Sigurd (massive movement and wiping out whole rows), Lyn (big range and creates doubles that chain attack), Eirika (Luna and Sol) Defensive: Marth (evasion tank), Leif (WT control), Roy (miracle and pure stat boost, can stop enemies from moving), Ike (damage sponge) Supportive: Micaiah (pure healer emblem), Lucina (chain attack/chain guard), Corrin (buffer/debuffer using dragon veins), Byleth (instruct and super dancer)

I'll probably leave reclassing for the first playthrough/first time using each character to see how they should play in their base forms. As for future runs, Goldmary will definitely be put on to a griffon or wyvern and put into the sky with Hortensia and Rosado. I'll probably also try to put Vander on a flying mount too for full Shadow Dragon Jeigan vibes. Lapis seems to fall into sword Paladin a lot based on promos, but I'll probably have her go axe Hero cause I think she fits that more. I'll also probably do an all monk run at some point lol.

Kinda surprised we got Lucina, thought Ike was next based on the article released last time. Can’t say too much cause I’m in work and I only watched the trailer once, but Lucina seems quite broken if only for her ability to negate damage to adjacent allies when engaged, especially if you’re qi adept (guess she’ll be going on Seadall). Her engage attack looks cool but will most definitely cause lag I feel like lol, especially if you have the max 12 partaking

@Etrurian emperor I believe Satsuma said their reasoning for using deeprealm was because it was written the same way as it was in Fates but Vincent translated it as distant realm implying that he's foreign, which apparently influences his speech pattern. Basically, he's more like Petra than being from the deeprealms I believe

I think they would put in Alear and their group of retainers. They are your first four units in Engage and would make sense to allow people to get to know them. On top of that, you wouldn't have to develop any new classes for anyone bar Alear like you would if they added any of the main four royals (bar Alfred probably). Alear would probably get a unique Divine Child intermediate class and then Divine Dragon master class. Vander would be a Great Knight. Clanne would be a Mage. Framme would probably just be a Priest since Fódlan says no to women brawling.

Nothing has been revealed thus far however it seems they only go from C-A and not everyone has supports with everyone (bar Alear who probably supports everyone) as we have seen that Chloé does not support Diamant nor Alcryst. That's all we really know.

I wonder which emblems will give which proficiencies. I fear most of them will grant swords and it will be a struggle to divide the rest up among your units if say you want a few guys to unlock daggers or brawling. I think Micaiah and Corrin could be dagger providers. Miccy doing so would be a nice throwback to Sothe and Corrin seems to mainly provide Hoshidan katana as her engage weapons so being able to provide dagger profiency would make sense. As for brawling, the only one I see is Byleth which will be a bummer cause the urge to make an entire team of brawlers is strong, especially now that its not gender locked like in TH. At least all this customisability will be cool to attempt provided we have NG+ (oh god am I gonna try and max everyone out in every class and every weapon type like I did in TH which took me 100s of hours... probably)

Yeah, it seems as though those numbers indicate how many achievements you gotten rather than the number of achievements there is to get so I think using that to gauge how many characters there is in the game wouldn't make sense.

Interesting to note, like Paladins, Generals seem to only be able to use one weapon type which is quite interesting. Shout out to Fabulously Olivier for correctly guessing Emblems are involved in reclassing. By the looks of it, each weapon type will have a base and an advanced class that is infantry, cavalry and armoured and only uses that weapon type (sans lances RIP). Exceptions being Heroes, who have a Sword/Lance or Sword/Axe option. No Warrior to be seen which is odd since we know it exists but Vander can only go Berserker. I wonder if Warrior will be enemy only (and if it will have Bow access since we haven't had a traditional Axe/Bow Warrior is some time). I wonder how flying classes will work and if Griffon Knights and Wyvern Knights will have separate variations for different weapon combos. Also will wyvern emblem be making a return from TH? Also, now its time to start thinking about who to reclass. Will definitely be making Goldmary a flyer to join Hortensia and Rosado in the skies.

Wow they actually managed to somehow make Three Houses reclassing system return, I’m kinda shocked. I thought if we were gonna get reclassing they’d do a Fates esque system. And level resets, guess we’re back to FEA level of min maxing probably. Very sad at the seaming lack of a promoted lance infantry… again. Guess Timerra is the only lance infantry allowed I do quite like this reclassing system however. A lot of customisability is available but you have to put the work in. We know the royals can class change since we’ve seen Timerra as a Berserker, but I wonder about Alear, the thieves and Seadall. Overall, nice to have confirmation finally and I’m even more excited for all the customisability and by the looks of it, portraits will probably change based on class since they basically use in game models which has me more willing to reclass tbh