Yeah thats the whole absurdity of the image that blows my mind. Nil is so fucking useless who would even bother putting him in range of anything for this to ever happen
I tried to make use of his ability on Xenologue 1, he had a 33% chance of critting a wolf, so I took that chance, he missed and got critted himself on the counterattack. That's when I straight up only used him for Corrin terrain bc I was not dealing with his bullshit
Yeah for me, the clue was when I was using Gregory with Celica, and ‘Holy Stance’ triggered. I first thought it was like Griss’s unique variation of Celica’s ability where it could proc with any unit, but then I checked and it was just for corrupted. Then I suspected
i chalked it up to them being "corrupted" because of their circumstances, not necessarily bc they were undead, but rather "corrupted" in the same way that power and tragedy can corrupt someone. i think i liked my initial interpretation more than what the game ended up doing... in any case, at least they were consistent with that gameplay choice and the narrative
*Céline:* "It's hard to see my former retainer on this battlefield. It's as if you've come back to life." *Louis:* "I had hoped to only watch you from afar. But that is easier said than done in battle." *Céline:* "Do you remember the tea you once brewed for me? I've been unable to drink it since you died. I can no longer remember just how happy I was. Could you remind me, before you sleep forever?" *Louis:* "How I wish that I could. However... I do not have that right, Princess Céline."
1:16 - 1:32 slaps so hard, it's easily my favorite part of this. Also all the feels when it comes to the dialogue between the respective retainers and their bosses
@@Pablo_Martin_aa Gaze upon a souless hater A legacy of cringe A familiar monster Sing with me a song of Mihaimercenarul A Fire Emblem hater, a complete fool His heart is lost in the dark, hard as a stone Lost in cringe all alone
In this ruined world, the reflection in the mirror stares back. But the traits are different, so there's no need to worry, as they are not you.... ...Or are they?
Diamant: "Alcryst? You want to fight me? I knew it. You never accepted me as king. I suspected you were plotting my assassination all along. Now's the time, is it?"
My god, the other Diamant just makes me sad. Especially with that little break that he has in his conversation with Amber. Whoever Diamant’s English VA is did an amazing job
They managed to make me like Hortensia. Not even just because she was depressed; her voice was always nails on a chalkboard to me. Voice is actually good now, same VA and everything. Which means she and the director deliberately wanted my ears to bleed before, so that's quite a nice range on that actress.
@@nuibaba280 I have standards. Also you really need to chill out with harassing people who criticize this game. That's why I've completely ignored you otherwise.
@@nuibaba280 I've seen you make dozens of replies harassing people on many videos that are criticizing aspects of the game, namely justonegamr's support videos. Get off your high horse.
Celine: Divine One, I noticed something, When I engaged with Emblem Celica, She and I noticed that Seraphim was doing more damage and the enemy took Holy Stance Damage. Alear: What?! But that should only happen if they are corrupted, yes? Celine: We may need to prepare for the worst then with this revelation, I think that we all died in this world and became Corrupted somehow hard as it may be. Alear: .......... After Xenologue Ch. 3 Citrinne: Divine One, something happened as I fought with the Alternate Prince Alcryst and Alternate Prince Diamant. Alear: Let me guess when you engaged with Emblem Celica Seraphim did more damage, yes? Citrinne: Wait, how did you know Divine One? Alear: ........ Revelation finishing Xenologue Ch.4: Alear: I really didn't want to think that all my friends in this world are gone and became Corrupted but here we are. Ivy: I feel the same Divine One, it made sense to me as I engaged with Emblem Celica. Still I also did not want to think that.
I too noticed the effectiveness when I Engaged+ but still didn’t put two and two together until the big reveal. They seemed more lively and human than corrupted Hyacinth in our world. They even have the privilege of using REVIVAL stones which is ironic because they’re already dead.
@@idreadFell365 i think they wanted you to find out the twist with celica,as even in the reveal trailer it showcases the holy stance being active in the battle forecast when merrin attacked Celine
The whole song does imo! And it's actually quite fitting... We're fighting revived, mind controlled former heroes in both Revelation and the Fell Xenologue after all...
thats what makes me think that these aren’t so much inverse versions of the characters we know as much as it is them put through extreme circumstances. Like you can still see aspects of their character shine through, but it’s just accentuated because of the hell world they had lived through
@@FrNSICs they are opposite versions tho. Timerra's dialogue's reveal she is a vegetarian and that Merrin hates animals. Hortensia says that Goldmary had no elegance, Fogado says that Bunet was a terrible cook. So I think they really are opposite versions, however i also think they're pesonalities got accentuated because of the hell they're living in
@@maxpower004 those characters were, but only in solm and hortensia’s group was that the case, and even with hortensia, it’s strongly implied that was due to horribly extreme circumstances forcing her to have to withdraw so as not to get hurt or get attention.
@@remsicle5521 but we also know for example that the Firene Kindom is aggressive, and that Brodia hated war. All the characters have always been opposites, but they were still allies because of the divine dragon bringing them together. However once they died everything fell apart and the "uglier" side of their personalities started to show
Thanks for uploading the music! I haven't seen anyone uploading it yet and I really like it, will you upload all the new music that this DLC has brought? I'm looking forward to hearing other boss music! ^^
It's interesting to know that almost all of the enemies you fight are corrupted. The reason why I say almost all. Well that's more close to the final boss of the xenologe.
is there significance to that lullaby they play at 1:20? its everywhere in this dlc (mostly in mirrored engage) and its not like i have the money to check why lol
No significance beyond sounding cool and being in all the tracks. Maybe it's meant to be the counterpart to the main theme leitmotif from base game which is itself everywhere
why are the reins of alfreds horse um...like fully in front of the head???? thats not something that just happens. id understand if they were behind the head, resting unused on the neck so he can use his weapon but theyre just. dangling. in front of the horse. also, sorry, i got off topic. anyway the musics fine.
Damn good music. Some really decent writing in this DLC, way better than the main game but way too little way too late and not worth the price tag... Ah well. Too big to fail at this point.
@@Minako_Meleph People just want to hide behind hot take reviewers I suppose! Game had TERRIBLE presentation, not story! I wish they would get that right, but I guess you can't convince people who went in EXPECTING the worse because it wasn't "three houses" and acted like that game "needed defenders....when it didn't!" 3Houses was good, Engage was good. To each their own as you said, but I wish they'd be more original instead of trying to uselessly mess with Metacritic (And me LAUGHING when that 80 goes higher one day when Metacritic finally gets through) Gameplaywise it did have many errors I hope get corrected (Alot of the updates felt like they were FIXING what they broke, like the SP Books in Wave 2, Letting you get skills in the Arena I can let pass because they didn't know if it would get annoying for some to have to go back and forth and so fixed that! Understandable! But alot of the SP fixing was silly and hopefully they DON'T fuck up Skills with their balancing insanity in the future again! Though that's a minor complaint! I long learned how to adjust and work with the system! I'm not a weakling who can only complain) Also while I agree with the price for the Expansion pass being as it was! I would say I'd have cut it to 25 or 20! But 30 dollars didn't kill me to pay so I'm only feeling annoyed because I paid 5 dollars more then I should have! But these's guys are acting like their poor as FUCK or something....or just pretending they have buyers remorse when they don't (Lets be real, they're just hoping the Devs see the whining, fear the worse and try & fail to replicate 3Houses completely and fail hard so they can bitch and cry like they've been betrayed, got more people who want to feel like betrayed victims instead of playing the game! They have the right to complain, but fucking be constructive and abit more Original as in YOUR OPINION then copying someone else and hide behind "so-called numbers" to justify your hate!)
honestly engage's main story was largely inoffensive. It wasn't great or anything stellar, but i'm not so sure I can say the same about the writing of the DLC. especially with the bumrush of unearned twists nearing the end of it. Oh the royals were dead the whole time. (At least this was foreshadowed through gameplay, but it didn't explain anything considering the big bad was the one who revived them. why give them their bracelets back? what was the point?) Oh Nel actually loved the divine dragon, which is weird. Oh Nil was actually evil the whole time, but actually also not Nil, but actually also Nel knew the whole time, but actually also it's uncertain if Rafal was completely evil and maybe it was just sombron using 4d chess to make his two remaining children fight after he died, but actually also Nel knew this too and so she kiIIed herself, but actually also apparently Rafal heard somewhere that dragons can revive each other, but actually this will take an arbitrary 1000 years that just happen offscreen because I guess time passes differently in the xenologue world At least the music and the Winds were cool
@@FrNSICs It's all about Story Presentation my friend! Fell Paralogue avoided presenting it's story in the fashion the Main Game did and that's likely why it avoided the hate by those who hated the main story! (Helps they had little in the reviewers to justify going around and being shitheads for a few of them. And you know many of them only acted like assholes because of some of the reviewers! Not that I'm blaming them! Seriously! Say "you didn't find the story interesting" in your review and discover you just started a war you will obviously be blamed for when it's not your fault some people are crazy and decide to go insane attacking others because of their opion) Frankly speaking it felt like a story that should have had more then 5 chapters to tell it in my opinion as you mentioned with the "unearned twists" (But I would only accept that IF it was like Cindered Shadows in that I only have to beat it ONCE period to get all the stuff in main game playthroughs and that's only one of MANY things that need fixing for it!) Hopefully the Devs with the Next Fire Emblem look at Engage and SERIOUSLY look at "what went wrong" and how they could fix things in the next Fire Emblem (Have no problem with the SP gaining from gaining EXP! Just wish you got more and no reduction based on EXP gains, and SP costs were not insanely high....or that they made the numbers on those like "Sword Avoid 1-X" so damn high when it was better to stop the number at like "Sword Avoid 1-3" and that was that! And by that I mean Sword Avoid 1 bonuses are not so small" to make it worth the grab) Story Presentation to be honest could be worked on (namely look at the cutscenes that DID work in Engage as many of them were pretty good. REALLY need to avoid having the character's feel like their close as hell to each other! Referring to how Chapter 10 End Cutscene went....or how you feel like the characters are next to each other....then battle starts and your far away...and look at Three Houses/Three Hopes! They did a good job avoiding that problem! And REALLY look into the Cringey cutscenes and maybe see it from those who complained about them's point of view on "why that didn't work out well as it did and was cringy") Engage has potential, hell I'll say the story was better presented then Fates (Found myself FIXING Fates story alot cause I see it's potential if they didn't make the mistakes they did in it! Engage had the advantage of NOT having a route system, so Alear's personality stayed consistent unlike Corrin who was all over the place! Funny that Corrin is better when "not in their own game" LOL) I'm not going to compare it to 3Houses story wise because the scales were different (and that would be like comparing Thracia 776 to Genealogy or Blazing Sword to Binding Blade. I'd say compare Binding Blade story to Shadow Dragon or Sacred Stones, hell even Path of Radiance! Blazing Sword....compare it to Engage instead) but to say it has no redeemable qualities or anything good is just asinine (People can have their opinions, I'm just pissed off more at the assholes who feel your not allowed to have an opinion or you committed a sin because you dared to have one opposite of them. Also not a fan of the 3Houses vs Engage crowd who go out of their way to DOGSHIT one to raise the other up like they fear praising one means you hate the other! All while I'm hearing playing them back to back and having fun with them fully aware of their flaws, but their strengths FAR outweigh the flaws!)
![Fire Emblem Engage: Fell Xenologue OST - Mirrored Engage [Final Battle]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/LkwisPhn5cM/mqdefault.jpg)
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Nil half a second before being one shot
Yeah thats the whole absurdity of the image that blows my mind. Nil is so fucking useless who would even bother putting him in range of anything for this to ever happen
I'm pretty sure Nil can't even fight basic enemies on normal difficulty without dying
I tried to make use of his ability on Xenologue 1, he had a 33% chance of critting a wolf, so I took that chance, he missed and got critted himself on the counterattack. That's when I straight up only used him for Corrin terrain bc I was not dealing with his bullshit
He really carries the team haha
Its ok framme is using chain guard on him
Other Alfred: "What sorcery is this!?"
Alfred: ah crud, I'm still not swole even in this world 😫
Honestly I was secretly hoping evil Alfred would be incredibly swole and that everything else about him would be the same.
Alfred is such a vibe it’s crazy
I wonder how Kagestu would react to other Kagestu
When you have Celine + Celica attack Evil!Celine and see that Seraphim does bonus damage: 🙃
Omg that is one insane clue
@@arhyllinchroma9062if you check every enemy is weak to corrupted effective weapons
Yeah for me, the clue was when I was using Gregory with Celica, and ‘Holy Stance’ triggered. I first thought it was like Griss’s unique variation of Celica’s ability where it could proc with any unit, but then I checked and it was just for corrupted. Then I suspected
@@arhyllinchroma9062 Yeah when I saw that, I was like "I discovered something I wasn't supposed to discover, haven't I?"
i chalked it up to them being "corrupted" because of their circumstances, not necessarily bc they were undead, but rather "corrupted" in the same way that power and tragedy can corrupt someone.
i think i liked my initial interpretation more than what the game ended up doing... in any case, at least they were consistent with that gameplay choice and the narrative
*Céline:* "It's hard to see my former retainer on this battlefield. It's as if you've come back to life."
*Louis:* "I had hoped to only watch you from afar. But that is easier said than done in battle."
*Céline:* "Do you remember the tea you once brewed for me? I've been unable to drink it since you died. I can no longer remember just how happy I was. Could you remind me, before you sleep forever?"
*Louis:* "How I wish that I could. However... I do not have that right, Princess Céline."
Alfred's horse is pogging 😮
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1:16 - 1:32 slaps so hard, it's easily my favorite part of this. Also all the feels when it comes to the dialogue between the respective retainers and their bosses
Legit felt like I was playing a different game when I heard that part.
Hell yeah I agree that part gets me pumped up
merrin & timerra convo and the alcryst & lapis convo are so sad
@@piscet1575sounds like something outta nier honestly
I wish more parts of the song were like that
1:17- 2:02 best part holy
All of the music in this dlc is an absolute bop, love it!
Cringe
@@mihaimercenarul7467 embrace the cringe you call a home
Love that we got basically a whole map of Defective Frenzy too, was headbanging my way through that chapter
@@mihaimercenarul7467 get out hater.
@@Pablo_Martin_aa Gaze upon a souless hater
A legacy of cringe
A familiar monster
Sing with me a song of Mihaimercenarul
A Fire Emblem hater, a complete fool
His heart is lost in the dark, hard as a stone
Lost in cringe all alone
Me finally figuring out why Eirika's Sieglinde does effective damage on literally everything 😂
In this ruined world, the reflection in the mirror stares back.
But the traits are different, so there's no need to worry, as they are not you....
...Or are they?
One of my favorite Soundtracks
tea celine vs coffee celine
alfred vs steroid alfred
Diamant: "Alcryst? You want to fight me? I knew it. You never accepted me as king. I suspected you were plotting my assassination all along. Now's the time, is it?"
Alcryst: Assassination!? You’re my brother Diamant. I respect and admire you-I would never!
My god, the other Diamant just makes me sad. Especially with that little break that he has in his conversation with Amber. Whoever Diamant’s English VA is did an amazing job
@@arturiapendragon9642 he's now in the newest Hoyo game and he's the male avatar.
Ah yes the music that plays when things are heating up and actually becoming a challenge for me.
Can't believe they based an entire character around Vander's personal S-Rank Axe
that starting piano being dropped for the entire song is a war crime
0:31 good part
They managed to make me like Hortensia. Not even just because she was depressed; her voice was always nails on a chalkboard to me. Voice is actually good now, same VA and everything. Which means she and the director deliberately wanted my ears to bleed before, so that's quite a nice range on that actress.
@@Kyronex0 I don't care what it's supposed to be, it's awful
@@AkameGaKillfan777 No. Stop whining.
@@nuibaba280 I have standards. Also you really need to chill out with harassing people who criticize this game. That's why I've completely ignored you otherwise.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 "People disagree and make statements against me on the internet!? Harassment!!!" lol
@@nuibaba280 I've seen you make dozens of replies harassing people on many videos that are criticizing aspects of the game, namely justonegamr's support videos. Get off your high horse.
Remember kids it's perfectly morally acceptable to kill sentient undead with their own motivations and desires because they're undead!
Also because their souls are trapped in those undead shells due to how Corrupted work.
@@nuibaba280 And they attacked first! AND STILL KEEP ATTACKING!
Yep, these dead folks have no idea they’re actually slaves.
This song goes so unnecessarily hard especially with the lowkey disturbing retainer conversations
Probably my favorite regular boss theme in the series!
Wtf îs wrong with you
@@mihaimercenarul7467 Stop whining
@@mihaimercenarul7467 Why do you hate Fire Emblem Engage so much?
This theme is epic. And the Pictures you used from the credits are also badass love this track. Fits so much to the characters and the situation.
Listening to this track in Chapter 3 during the final rushdown made the DLC worth every penny
FINALLY THE MUSIC
That's some good music there.
Celine: Divine One, I noticed something, When I engaged with Emblem Celica, She and I noticed that Seraphim was doing more damage and the enemy took Holy Stance Damage.
Alear: What?! But that should only happen if they are corrupted, yes?
Celine: We may need to prepare for the worst then with this revelation, I think that we all died in this world and became Corrupted somehow hard as it may be.
Alear: ..........
After Xenologue Ch. 3
Citrinne: Divine One, something happened as I fought with the Alternate Prince Alcryst and Alternate Prince Diamant.
Alear: Let me guess when you engaged with Emblem Celica Seraphim did more damage, yes?
Citrinne: Wait, how did you know Divine One?
Alear: ........
Revelation finishing Xenologue Ch.4:
Alear: I really didn't want to think that all my friends in this world are gone and became Corrupted but here we are.
Ivy: I feel the same Divine One, it made sense to me as I engaged with Emblem Celica. Still I also did not want to think that.
Alear could'nt have this informations since in Canon is friends from our Elios dimension are not transported in FX verse
Aléar: time to engage+ and pull out the oliguria then!
I too noticed the effectiveness when I Engaged+ but still didn’t put two and two together until the big reveal. They seemed more lively and human than corrupted Hyacinth in our world. They even have the privilege of using REVIVAL stones which is ironic because they’re already dead.
Most of the enemies in the Fell Xenologue when they see a unit of yours they recognize: You’re just a corrupted
Nel: No you
@@idreadFell365 i think they wanted you to find out the twist with celica,as even in the reveal trailer it showcases the holy stance being active in the battle forecast when merrin attacked Celine
Best/favorite soundtrack that the DLC had to offer! Its so freaking good!!
I always laughed when i saw this picture. It just depicts a scene right before a reset with rell's stats at the time of the map.
This track is so good
1:17 It is a crime this vocal part isn’t longer
Engage+ and you have 2 Oliguria swords to bust the corrupted up with
The part at 1:17 hits different while watching the Fell lords talk to their retainers
Beginning gave me a Destiny by Blood vibe.
wow ur right
The whole song does imo!
And it's actually quite fitting... We're fighting revived, mind controlled former heroes in both Revelation and the Fell Xenologue after all...
God this theme goes hard
The beginning reminded me of destined by blood from fates
Alfred still seemed pretty similar compared to Celine, who really got put through the ringer. Poor girl.
Normal Celine was always a monster. Only her crippling tea addiction kept her sociopathy in check.
thats what makes me think that these aren’t so much inverse versions of the characters we know as much as it is them put through extreme circumstances. Like you can still see aspects of their character shine through, but it’s just accentuated because of the hell world they had lived through
@@FrNSICs they are opposite versions tho. Timerra's dialogue's reveal she is a vegetarian and that Merrin hates animals. Hortensia says that Goldmary had no elegance, Fogado says that Bunet was a terrible cook. So I think they really are opposite versions, however i also think they're pesonalities got accentuated because of the hell they're living in
@@maxpower004 those characters were, but only in solm and hortensia’s group was that the case, and even with hortensia, it’s strongly implied that was due to horribly extreme circumstances forcing her to have to withdraw so as not to get hurt or get attention.
@@remsicle5521 but we also know for example that the Firene Kindom is aggressive, and that Brodia hated war. All the characters have always been opposites, but they were still allies because of the divine dragon bringing them together. However once they died everything fell apart and the "uglier" side of their personalities started to show
1:21 goes crazy wtf
Thanks for uploading the music! I haven't seen anyone uploading it yet and I really like it, will you upload all the new music that this DLC has brought? I'm looking forward to hearing other boss music! ^^
Yeah, that's the plan. I just need to finish off the last map so I have some more context for the songs.
Worth it
It's interesting to know that almost all of the enemies you fight are corrupted. The reason why I say almost all. Well that's more close to the final boss of the xenologe.
is there significance to that lullaby they play at 1:20? its everywhere in this dlc (mostly in mirrored engage) and its not like i have the money to check why lol
No significance beyond sounding cool and being in all the tracks. Maybe it's meant to be the counterpart to the main theme leitmotif from base game which is itself everywhere
@@schrabby4703 thats based
1:08 is from a previous FE boss theme
1:21 sounds like "in New York!"
how is there already such good art the dlc hasn't been out an entire 3 days yet holy hell
This is the official art.
Its official art lmao
Its the "credits" cg
1:16 to 1:32 sounds like a song from SMT almost lol
Honestly the mentioning of SMT makes me wish Itsuki from TMS#FE was an Emblem
That first image is extremely hilarious to me considering Nil is almost certainly not surviving an encounter against boss Alfred.
Maybe Nil's playing on normal mode and also being bonded shielded.
tellius vibes fr
Can you extend this please? :3
Finally some music worthy of fire emblem legacy
Other Ivy: I'm a religious tyrant! I killed my father to bring back Lilac! Mwahahaha!
Ivy: …You turned him into a ghost?
How did you get the footage of my units using their Dark Emblems that can TALK and use FULL power?>:)
What are the words they saying in the music, Is it latin?
This piece of ost almost sounds like tekken
why are the reins of alfreds horse um...like fully in front of the head???? thats not something that just happens. id understand if they were behind the head, resting unused on the neck so he can use his weapon but theyre just. dangling. in front of the horse. also, sorry, i got off topic. anyway the musics fine.
Damn good music. Some really decent writing in this DLC, way better than the main game but way too little way too late and not worth the price tag... Ah well. Too big to fail at this point.
Agree with you until main game, very hard disagree with everything else. Each their opinions, I guess
@@Minako_Meleph People just want to hide behind hot take reviewers I suppose! Game had TERRIBLE presentation, not story! I wish they would get that right, but I guess you can't convince people who went in EXPECTING the worse because it wasn't "three houses" and acted like that game "needed defenders....when it didn't!" 3Houses was good, Engage was good. To each their own as you said, but I wish they'd be more original instead of trying to uselessly mess with Metacritic (And me LAUGHING when that 80 goes higher one day when Metacritic finally gets through)
Gameplaywise it did have many errors I hope get corrected (Alot of the updates felt like they were FIXING what they broke, like the SP Books in Wave 2, Letting you get skills in the Arena I can let pass because they didn't know if it would get annoying for some to have to go back and forth and so fixed that! Understandable! But alot of the SP fixing was silly and hopefully they DON'T fuck up Skills with their balancing insanity in the future again! Though that's a minor complaint! I long learned how to adjust and work with the system! I'm not a weakling who can only complain) Also while I agree with the price for the Expansion pass being as it was! I would say I'd have cut it to 25 or 20! But 30 dollars didn't kill me to pay so I'm only feeling annoyed because I paid 5 dollars more then I should have! But these's guys are acting like their poor as FUCK or something....or just pretending they have buyers remorse when they don't (Lets be real, they're just hoping the Devs see the whining, fear the worse and try & fail to replicate 3Houses completely and fail hard so they can bitch and cry like they've been betrayed, got more people who want to feel like betrayed victims instead of playing the game! They have the right to complain, but fucking be constructive and abit more Original as in YOUR OPINION then copying someone else and hide behind "so-called numbers" to justify your hate!)
honestly engage's main story was largely inoffensive. It wasn't great or anything stellar, but i'm not so sure I can say the same about the writing of the DLC. especially with the bumrush of unearned twists nearing the end of it.
Oh the royals were dead the whole time. (At least this was foreshadowed through gameplay, but it didn't explain anything considering the big bad was the one who revived them. why give them their bracelets back? what was the point?) Oh Nel actually loved the divine dragon, which is weird. Oh Nil was actually evil the whole time, but actually also not Nil, but actually also Nel knew the whole time, but actually also it's uncertain if Rafal was completely evil and maybe it was just sombron using 4d chess to make his two remaining children fight after he died, but actually also Nel knew this too and so she kiIIed herself, but actually also apparently Rafal heard somewhere that dragons can revive each other, but actually this will take an arbitrary 1000 years that just happen offscreen because I guess time passes differently in the xenologue world
At least the music and the Winds were cool
@@FrNSICs It's all about Story Presentation my friend! Fell Paralogue avoided presenting it's story in the fashion the Main Game did and that's likely why it avoided the hate by those who hated the main story! (Helps they had little in the reviewers to justify going around and being shitheads for a few of them. And you know many of them only acted like assholes because of some of the reviewers! Not that I'm blaming them! Seriously! Say "you didn't find the story interesting" in your review and discover you just started a war you will obviously be blamed for when it's not your fault some people are crazy and decide to go insane attacking others because of their opion)
Frankly speaking it felt like a story that should have had more then 5 chapters to tell it in my opinion as you mentioned with the "unearned twists" (But I would only accept that IF it was like Cindered Shadows in that I only have to beat it ONCE period to get all the stuff in main game playthroughs and that's only one of MANY things that need fixing for it!)
Hopefully the Devs with the Next Fire Emblem look at Engage and SERIOUSLY look at "what went wrong" and how they could fix things in the next Fire Emblem (Have no problem with the SP gaining from gaining EXP! Just wish you got more and no reduction based on EXP gains, and SP costs were not insanely high....or that they made the numbers on those like "Sword Avoid 1-X" so damn high when it was better to stop the number at like "Sword Avoid 1-3" and that was that! And by that I mean Sword Avoid 1 bonuses are not so small" to make it worth the grab) Story Presentation to be honest could be worked on (namely look at the cutscenes that DID work in Engage as many of them were pretty good. REALLY need to avoid having the character's feel like their close as hell to each other! Referring to how Chapter 10 End Cutscene went....or how you feel like the characters are next to each other....then battle starts and your far away...and look at Three Houses/Three Hopes! They did a good job avoiding that problem! And REALLY look into the Cringey cutscenes and maybe see it from those who complained about them's point of view on "why that didn't work out well as it did and was cringy")
Engage has potential, hell I'll say the story was better presented then Fates (Found myself FIXING Fates story alot cause I see it's potential if they didn't make the mistakes they did in it! Engage had the advantage of NOT having a route system, so Alear's personality stayed consistent unlike Corrin who was all over the place! Funny that Corrin is better when "not in their own game" LOL) I'm not going to compare it to 3Houses story wise because the scales were different (and that would be like comparing Thracia 776 to Genealogy or Blazing Sword to Binding Blade. I'd say compare Binding Blade story to Shadow Dragon or Sacred Stones, hell even Path of Radiance! Blazing Sword....compare it to Engage instead) but to say it has no redeemable qualities or anything good is just asinine (People can have their opinions, I'm just pissed off more at the assholes who feel your not allowed to have an opinion or you committed a sin because you dared to have one opposite of them. Also not a fan of the 3Houses vs Engage crowd who go out of their way to DOGSHIT one to raise the other up like they fear praising one means you hate the other! All while I'm hearing playing them back to back and having fun with them fully aware of their flaws, but their strengths FAR outweigh the flaws!)
@@FrNSICs the dlc was shorter than the main game and the twists were better paced for me