Today, in addition to a new trailer aimed at beginners, Nintendo Japan updated the official site for Fire Emblem Engage, to add the missing gameplay section.

Most of the info has been covered in the past or in the new trailer, but as usual, there are some new bits and bobs. Plus it’s always good to recap the information.

There are four sub-sections, covering game flow, battles, growth and the Somniel.

Game Flow

The game follows a cycle similar to previous games.

Between battles, you can freely move around. You can return to the Somniel, your base of operations, and you can explore the world map. During this time, you can train your allies in optional battles, etc. When you’re ready, simply head to the destination of the next story chapter.

We’re shown a small glimpse of the world map. I believe Alear is running in the direction of Solm.

The square/diamond location with the house and hedges seems to be the Firenese map where NPCs are being attacked, seen in Alfred’s spotlight. If so, it could be a paralogue, assuming circle locations are story battles.

I think the circle location next to the house and windmill is Chapter 17, where sh** hits the fan. The route leading north from it should lead to Chapter 4, where the group first arrives at Firene and Céline needs help.

After making sure you’re fully prepared, you can begin the story battle. March your units to fight the enemy army, while keeping tabs on their classes, stats, equipment and so forth.

The screenshot shows Alear defeating a Corrupted in the Prologue, I believe.

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On 9th December, the day of The Game Awards, Nintendo shared a bunch of updates for Fire Emblem Engage. In this article, I’ll be analysing the updates to the game’s official site and the accompanying Topics article.

If you missed it, please check out our earlier analysis of the Expansion Pass if you’re interested.

A big thanks to TipperTheScales for helping with the analysis!

Topics

The article begins by introducing the Expansion Pass and Somniel trailers. I’ll skip this part since it’s covered (or will be covered) elsewhere.

Next, it introduces the concept of Emblems. I believe everything here was covered in the “Engaging with Emblems” trailer. Obviously, there will be people reading the article who haven’t been following every aspect of the game.

Update: Thanks to Philipp Smirnov for reminding me. Engage attacks are limited to one use per Engagement. This makes sense because there were occasions Byleth’s Goddess Dance wasn’t available in the menu.

From here, they showcase the remaining 6 Emblems.

Roy, the Emblem of Binding

Roy’s our boy! Voiced by Jun Fukuyama, Roy is an Emblem with a good balance of offence and defence, who’s well suited for the front-lines.

Transcendence is an Engage skill that temporarily boosts the user’s Level, granting them additional stats.

In Roy’s overview video, it seems to grant 5 Level Ups for most units and maybe 6 for Dragon classes (like Alear’s Dragon Child).

Lapis is Engaging with Roy to borrow his Engage skills/attacks. The map is Firene on fire (seen in Ivy’s spotlight etc.), which we now know occurs in Chapter 17.

Allies include Goldmary (sword, synced with Celica), Alear (sword, synced with Marth), Fogado (bow cavalry), Panette (axe), Chloé (unarmed Wyvern Knight), Lapis (sword cavalry, synced with Roy), maybe Pandreo (tome/staff), Hortensia (tome/dual staff) and I think Etie (bow). Merrin might be the unit cut-off near the top, synced with Sigurd.

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