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It's definitely the best of the Awakening - Fates - Engage trio, but still has a lot of the same design sensibilities, even the bad ones. It's arguably more of a traditional SRPG than ever since the emblems make all of your units so overwhelmingly powerful. Much more asymmetric than previous games where your units were essentially working with the same kits as the enemy units.

The story is straight up bad. Not Fates bad but bad nonetheless, and worse, it's lazy. You fight the same four bosses the entire game, presumably because they didn't want to make new assets for bosses that would only be in one chapter. Several of the same exact scenes/character arcs that happened in Fates are cribbed wholesale by Engage. It sucks!

The character designs looked stupid prior to release but within the context of the game they still look really stupid.

Everyone is unapologetically bisexual though so A+++ for that

Overall I don't think it's going to make many new FE fans but probably won't lose many either. It's fine.