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FE Engage beated.

Chapter 24 I feel like we could have done a lot more if we were going to the past. Granted we were on a time limit but like, if we knew it was a time travel stone we could have warned Lumera about everything LOL. Pretty straightforward map.

Chapter 25, okay this probably my new favorite for music. Both the map theme and boss theme were great. Story pretty tense even though everything with Lumera feels really unearned because she dies so quickly so the player doesn't really get to be invested in her and it's always a bit weird how attached Alear is given he knew her for like literally 12 hours. Well, I guess with his memories back (and he claims they're all back and I'll just take him at his word I guess lol) it makes a bit more sense. I kinda wish those reinforcements didn't have the "No EXP" tag on them because then I absolutely would have tried to pull a repeat of Chapter 21 and tried to beat them. But with that tag it feels pointless and might actually be infinite - it's what I've always assumed when reinforcements with that tag start appearing.

Chapter 26, oh my god Sombron is an isekai protagonist. Still a very lame character and unlike Zephia and Griss none of this motivation is landing with me. Kinda neat map, at least in Phase 2 with the Dark Emblems. I probably could have skipped a round of them because I was able to knock two of his HP bars off the first time I took down the barrier but I intentionally held back the next time I did so he could summon the (final? I assume so) Dark Emblems so I could complete my grudge matches.

And that's it, I guess. ED was neat as were the "where are they now" art in the credits - what happens if you let characters die? Do they skip the ones that include them? Or keep them because in theory Lapis shouldn't still be working for Alcryst tbqhhh. A bit disappointed nothing seemed to open up after like a new Tempest Trial or anything, though it knocked off the level limit? Didn't check to see where it goes now. I... guess I'm done then?

I have some serious mixed feelings on Engage. The story is just... not good. It's really glaring after Three Houses but even putting that aside it's just really underwhelming. Characters are also really hit or miss and I feel like there were more misses than usual. And my least favorite thing, and it kind of casts a shadow over the rest, the Somniel just isn't good. It's objectively smaller than the Monastery but it feels like so much more of a chore because of the loading zones to various parts of it, useless dead time because it forces certain characters to man certain areas/minigames so if someone else is there it has to switch them out (or just needlessly disable the minigame in general because of the randomness in which characters are present lmao), and the minigames just kinda suck. Especially training. god how did that pass the design phase? Gameplay was great though so that's where a lot of the mixed feelings come in. The break system was neat and Emblems weren't bad either. Smash weapons felt useless though. Almost never used them.

Definitely a big step down from Three Houses IMO.

Next up should be Trails to Azure which actually means replaying Trails from Zero even though it hasn't been that long but I'm a very silly person. Thankfully NG+ should help speed things up on that front.

Edit: Oh also seeing that the Engage Story DLC trailers are dropping. First Elden Ring rises from the dead to drop a DLC announcement mere days after I beat it, now Enage does hours after. Trails to Azure DLC gonna be lit in like a month and a half.