LogFAQs > #979513150

Awakening kinda influenced every game afterwards, so characters have like one gimmick and that's their entire personality.

In terms of gameplay, 3H, you don't really recruit units like you do in regular games. You should plan to have a core of units and use them for the whole game.

Engage is very similar to Awakening. It has the same leveling system with second seals and a world map with extra maps for grinding. You still want a set of core units because the extra maps scale with you, so once a unit gets left behind, it's very hard to catch up.

3H also has NG+ and you can buy skills and combat arts you've mastered before.

Both games have the monastery stuff you do after a battle, kinda like Fates, but so much worse. I didn't like it I'm 3H and then Engage makes it worse. In Engage, they give stat bonuses, so you should probably do it, but it's so tedious.

Between the two, I would recommend 3H.