FIRE EMBLEM ENGAGE

DEVELOPER Intelligent Systems PUBLISHER Nintendo PLATFORM Nintendo Switch

-  Jose Alvarez

Tactical RPGs are often a test of one's patience and ability to think several moves ahead to defeat challenging enemies. There are many comparisons to chess, except that there are many dimensions to characters in tactical RPGs. In contrast, chess is primarily a measure of playing better than your opponent. Fire Emblem has been around since 1990, but since I never owned a Nintendo system until 1998, I had largely heard of the franchise through friends and articles in various gaming publications. This month, I decided to take a closer look at Fire Emblem: Engage to see precisely what I was missing and to draw my own conclusions about the franchise through a fresh perspective.