Jello Reviews "Fire Emblem: Engage" (Patreon)

You've heard of the Fire Emblem game with ballistic missiles. Get ready for the Fire Emblem game where you play as toothpaste and die twice.

You've heard of the Fire Emblem game with ballistic missiles. Get ready for the Fire Emblem game where you play as toothpaste and die twice.

Spoilers for all of FE: Engage, not that anyone on earth could possibly be moved by this story.

This review is best listened to after you've already listened through the marathon 5-hour review of Three Houses, which can be found here.

Read the character review document here.

Here's the absolutely incredible breakdown of the Resident Evil franchise by Noah Cadwell-Gervais that I mention in the audio. I cannot recommend his stuff enough. In addition to video game franchise overviews, he also has really interesting and equally-long road trip videos about the history of American highway infrastructure. Noah is probably my favorite video essayist.

THINGS I REMEMBERED TO TALK ABOUT THE INSTANT I STOPPED THE RECORDING, AS PER USUAL:

This is the only FE game with a weak soundtrack. Almost entirely unmemorable aside from a few of the Solm maps.

One of the Emblems, Erika, comes from Sacred Stones. She and her twin brother Ephraim are the dual protagonists of that game. Ephraim has no dialogue and basically doesn't exist if you play the game with zoomed-in combat turned off, so Erika is just like "MY BROTHER IS HERE TOO. I SWEAR!" but he never shows up in any cutscene or any Somniel animations. This is extra weird because another emblem, Celica, is also from a game with two protagonists, but her dueteragonist Alm isn't secretly chilling out in her armpit like Ephraim allegedly is.

February will be an exciting month to be a patron! The giant 1.5 hour anime opening video is finally dropping, along with SEVEN HOURS OF EXTRA PATRON-EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS. Wowza! Don't miss it.