Intelligent Systems designed the game to have a fresh new art style, with colorful characters and 3D animation models used wherever possible compared to earlier games in the series that would often show 2D still portraits for dialogue and the like. Both Alear and Sombron seek to gain control of the rings possession of all twelve will allow a feat of immense magic to be performed. Characters wearing these 'Emblem Rings' can 'Engage' to gain vast power from summoning and merging with these phantoms. One of the core parts of both the setting and the gameplay are twelve magic rings that contain phantasmal copies of characters from previous Fire Emblem games. Alear travels the land of Elyos gaining allies while fighting against the armies of the rival Kingdom of Elusia and Sombron's resurrected undead forces the player controls and maneuvers Alear's army in these battles. The game follows Alear, a dragon in human form, who awakens from a thousand-year slumber and quickly becomes embroiled in a conflict with the forces of the Fell Dragon Sombron. It is the seventeenth installment in the Fire Emblem series, and was released worldwide on January 20, 2023.
Fire Emblem Engage is a tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch.
