The Other Side of the Fourth Wall

Here is the final part of my playthrough of Fire Emblem Engage. Beware of spoilers, including for the ending! More Paralogues Before we begin, I'll discuss the Paralogues, so those who have stumbled here won't inadvertently read spoilers. Byleth's Paralogue was the first one I did, and takes place inside the Holy Tomb. Like Chapter 11 of Three Houses, you must advance to the south to defeat the boss- Byleth, in this case- while protecting the Crystals, which are stand-ins for Crest Stones. The good news is that they're destroyable objects and it takes the enemy a few attacks to bring them down. The bad news is that once they're down, they're gone forever; in Three Houses, you could recover the Crest Stones by defeating the enemies carrying them before they could flee. Byleth is the boss of the chapter, and primarily uses his Goddess Dance to refresh units. Somewhat annoyingly, the staff users near him use Warp to send enemies to where you're most vulnerable

We're now on the sixth part of my chronicling Fire Emblem Engage. This time, the entry will cover Chapter 16-20, and it's obviosu that the game's entering the home stretch, although there's still a ways to go before the end. Be warned- there will be major spoilers in this entry, especially toward the end. As a note before we begin, I'll point out that I'll probably put the rest of the game into one last entry, which won't be uploaded for a few days. Chapter 16 The mission is on the border of Solm and Firene, bringing the adventure full circle, literally and figuratively. It's similar to how, in Awakening, the last few chapters were near places you'd already been. Alear and the royals discuss their next move, noting that they have five rings, but the bad guys have seven- the six that were stolen from Alear at the cathedral and Eirika and Ephraim's ring. They realize they're in a tight situation- they need to get some rings back but taking the