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Fire Emblem Engage: Personal Skills, Bond Upgrades & Birthdays up to Chapter 8

Thanks to Nintendo World Report‘s coverage of Fire Emblem Engage, we have additional details for characters’ personal skills, Bond Level upgrades for Emblems and character birthdays up to Chapter 8 (where previewers are allowed to talk about).

Most of this info can be found via their screenshot gallery. However, there are some bits and pieces from Reddit and Discord too.

Special thanks to GrimaceDuMinace for providing info and TipperTheScales for collecting info.

Personal Skills

Although the Elusian royals and retainers don’t join you by Chapter 8, they all appear as foes on the map, with their personal skills intact.

I didn’t notice/know beforehand, but Kagetsu and Zelkov join Ivy during the defence of Brodia castle at Chapter 8. It makes sense since Hortensia was joined by her retainers in Chapter 7.

So far, most of the personal skills seem to have fairly minor effects. Besides Céline’s, which grants 50% more HP recovery when items are used near her, Citrinne and Hortensia’s skills stand out to me.

Citrinne’s skill heals adjacent allies when she uses a healing item. Meanwhile, Hortensia gets +1 to staff range. It could mesh well with Micaiah’s Augment, which grants +5 to staff range.

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Fire Emblem Engage: Preview Analysis III

Yesterday, several media outlets shared their previews of Fire Emblem Engage. Because there was so much new footage to cover, I’ve divided the analysis into two parts; the previous part can be found here.

As a reminder, it seems everyone played the first 8 chapters of the game, stopping around the defence of the Brodian castle.

Again, in no particular order…

Note: Here’s a playlist of all the featured previews.

Suliven Gaming

This is a French preview that shows a little bit of everything.

Near the start, the player goes through a bit of the character selection. As usual, you can choose your name, birthday, difficulty, mode (Casual or Classic) and network (likely online features, like Lost Spirits). Curiously the “Growth Method” option seen in Japanese screenshots isn’t present.

Afterwards, we see bits of Alear waking up at the Somniel, with a surprised Clanne and Framme present. Followed by Alear at Lythos, outside the Divine Dragon’s Castle, presumably before the Corrupted appear and attack?

The video then skips ahead to Alfred introducing the continent of Elyos to Alear.

We know that Eve rules Firene, Morion rules Brodia, Hyacinth rules Elusia and Sfoglia (tentative name) rules Solm. However, we haven’t seen Queen Sfoglia’s face before. It’s a bit obscured here, but better than nothing!

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Fire Emblem Engage: Preview Analysis II

Today, various media outlets shared their previews for Fire Emblem Engage, which releases in 2 weeks. Back in December, a few outlets already shared their previews, but not on this scale.

In no particular order…

Note: Here’s a playlist of all the featured previews.

GameXplain

GameXplain actually has 3 videos; this one seems the meatiest.

The video begins with the game’s title screen. The background appears to be in the Divine Dragon’s Castle and it’s where a lot of stuff happens at the beginning.

Then we see some familiar cutscenes, like Alear waking up to Framme and Clanne, being rescued by Lumera’s dragon form, etc. Plus part of a support conversation between Alear and Framme, presumably.

The previews all seem to show footage from up to Chapter 8 or so. Still, please be advised there are some mild spoilers.

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Fire Emblem Engage: GameSpot & IGN Previews + 20s Web Commercial

Note: This is a backdated article.

On 13th December, GameSpot and IGN shared English previews of Fire Emblem Engage. These both appear to be from Chapter 5, when Alear attempts to reclaim the Firenese castle from Elusian invaders.

GameSpot

Since Chapter 5 is fairly early on and we’ve seen bits of it before, in Clanne’s spotlight etc., there isn’t anything massively new. However, it’s cool seeing more of the game in English, plus we have confirmation of various English names.

First, a bunch of personal skills:

  • Clanne: Verdant Faith
  • Cramme: Crimson Cheer
  • Etie: Energized
  • Boucheron: Moved to Tears
  • Vander: Alabaster Duty

Also, Vander has S Axes. It’s nice to see S weapons are back, after being absent from Three Houses.

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