Hands On: Fire Emblem Engage Is Surprisingly Fast-Paced And Delightfully Deep

12 rings to rule them all.

Happy New Year, Fire Emblem fans! And what a start to 2023 it looks like being for all you tactical RPG aficionados, as Intelligent Systems’ Fire Emblem Engage gets set to drop onto Switch in just a handful of weeks. We’ve already been busy blasting through the game over the Christmas holiday period and, at around about 12 hours into the main campaign, we reckon there’s plenty of reason to get very excited about the imminent arrival of this one.

Fire Emblem Engage introduces a colourful new continent in the form of Elyos, alongside an expansive new cast of characters who get to mix it up with a host of Emblem legends from across the series’ history. The story here sees you assume the role of Alear, the red and blue-eyed Divine Dragon who’s been awakened from a 1000-year slumber in order to go toe-to-toe with Sombron, the Fell Dragon, an ancient beast who’s got his mind set on world domination. In order to stand any chance of defeating this newly-resurrected enemy, Alear is gonna need to venture across the length and breadth of the game’s gorgeous world in search of magical Emblem Rings which contain the power of legendary heroes. Only Alear has the ability to call forth the Emblem warriors from the rings, and they’re going to need every last one of them by their side in order to prevail.

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