The main cast is among the most two-dimensional in recent memory, and too many early story beats attempt to play at emotion for characters who barely have names yet. It's nice to see the returning characters of past games in the form of Emblem Rings - more on that later - but even their bond conversations are rarely more than a blip of a paragraph that just comments on war or friendship. In fact, for the first dozen hours of gameplay, it's uniquely hard to even care about the story of Fire Emblem Engage at all. Related: One Piece Odyssey Review: The Strongest Gaming Adaptation Yet

For all of the great world and character building that Three Houses demonstrated the series can bring to life, Engage has pretty much none of it. If that narrative sounds generic, it is, painfully so at times. The threat of an evil force - the Fell Dragon - has begun to permeate the society of each country, and the once idyllic peace the amnesiac Alear helped establish is now crumbling at the seams. Fire Emblem Engage follows the story of Alear, a divine dragon awoken from a thousand year slumber to find the continent of Elyos in dire straits.

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