{"id":181145,"date":"2023-01-09T01:22:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T01:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/fire-emblem-engages-intro-is-so-lovably-cheesy\/"},"modified":"2023-01-09T01:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T01:22:32","slug":"fire-emblem-engages-intro-is-so-lovably-cheesy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/fire-emblem-engages-intro-is-so-lovably-cheesy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Emblem Engage’s Intro is So Lovably Cheesy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you watch anime<\/span>, you’re used to intros that alternate between being deeply emotional and serious or cheesy and silly as all hell. Sometimes it’s neither of those and is purely running off of good vibes<\/span>. (Usually this is after the show in question hits a new arc.) videogames<\/span> don’t always get flashy intros, and it’s a shame that’s the case. Because after watching the intro for Fire Emblem Engage, <\/em>that kind of cheese is something games could stand to have more of. <\/p>\n

Fire Emblem Engage <\/em>is set to release in about two weeks, and along with impressions of the strategy-RPG, the game’s intro cinematic was released. A lot of the intro’s cheesiness is clearly owed to its song, which sounds like it was made in the 90s and then held in stasis for three decades. It’s so anime that you half expect it to end with an ad for Crunchyroll. The visuals try to hit that same cheese with colorful streaks of light corresponding with the toothpaste-colored protagonist Alear and their companions Alfred, Timerra, Ivy, and Diamant and footage of their in-game models showing off their special abilities. Maybe it’s not as strong an intro as the one for 2019’s Fire Emblem: Three Houses<\/em><\/span>, <\/em>thigh Engage’s <\/em>opening is fun all its own. <\/p>\n