Engage is genuinely awful experience. It has no value as a 'so bad it's good' riff game like Fates, the tactical gameplay isn't better than Conquest or the GBA/Tellius games and it takes the worst parts of the 3H's monastery grind and doubles down on them. It's insulting as an anniversary game to boot.
Oh no I know how dogshit the latest FE games are, I meant if FE currently has a rampant pedophile problem like he implied.
Echoes is still pure SOVL. Expect Gaiden jank gameplay and the best OST IS has ever produced.
Damn right, shame that because it was on a console at the end of its life
and it had a pre-order DLC it never got the love it deserved, now the executives probably saw that as "remaking the older, Japanese exclusive games but actually making them way better unlike 99.9999% of other remakes isn't profitable so we're never doing it again.
I'm playing through 3H again right now
I remember playing it because my brother lent me his copy after he finished it, beat the Golden Deer route, found out it was the best route by far (imho), dropped the game and never touched it again even after the DLC released. It was enjoyable for the most part, but not really something I'd replay multiple times like PoR, RD, the SNES and GB games.
Conquest remains a great challenge and a great source of laughs. Haven't bothered to touch Birthright since the first time I finished it and you couldn't pay me to touch Revelation after putting in ~200 hours to get as many of the supports as possible back in 2016.
I tried Revelation, could not finish it. Mostly due to a lack of time to finish it and just decided not to continue. I think it was the English patch rather than the official English translation. I'm glad I never got sucked into the "Rev better/Conq better" arguments, especially last year where more people than usual were going "actually Rev was not that bad." I say they both were meh and watch people shit themselves.
While I didn't
hate it, in fact I think it saved the franchise but at the cost of appealing to the lowest common denominator (or at least set up later titles to). I hate the precedent it set because it sent FE's quality into a free fall. Never forget, Engage is a descendent of Awakening's success. But eh, I'm probably just talking out my ass and acting like a grognard.