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Xbox X|SWe've documented 23 accessibility features for Fire Emblem Engage, including Fully Voiced (Or No Speech), Adjust Speed, Low Pressure, No Quick Reactions and Select Difficulty. Its accessibility is strongest in Getting Started and Reading but it also has features in Controls, Navigation, Visual, Difficulty and Audio to reduce unintended barriers.
This report is created with input from accessibility experts and the player community to help people find games that have the accessibility features they require. Once you have found potential games on the database, there are excellent specialist accessibility sites that offer in-depth reviews to guide your purchasing decisions.
Our accessibility examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Fire Emblem Engage (Series) accessibility 13 months ago.
Accessibility Notes
At the start of the game, you can select a difficulty to play on, which can be lowered later on in the game, but never increased. Playing on a higher difficulty yields greater rewards for winning battles. At the start, you also select whether you want to play in the Classic style, where team members who die stay dead forever, or on Casual, where they are revived after. This choice cannot be changed later.
As the combat portion of the game is turn-based, there is no need for fast or precise reactions, and you can rewind as many turns as you need if you make a mistake. While there are some minigames in the hub world that require precisely timed inputs, these are all optional.
There is lots of text in menu boxes and settings screens throughout the game, which is all high in contrast but is often quite small. Dialogue is all subtitled, but is not always high in contrast and not 1/20th the height of the screen. During gameplay, the speaker's name appears alongside their speech, and a video f their face implies tone.
The hub world, the only area where you move around freely and control the camera, has a large map with different points of interest markets on it. During fights, it is always clear where you can and can't go, with high-contrast blue denoting tiles you can move to. Sometimes, it is not explicitly clear what to do or where to go next.
The game can occasionally appear low in contrast, with objects being similar in colour. During fights, the background is static.
Game Details
Release Date: 20/04/1990, updated in 2023
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, DS, GBA, GameCube, Switch, Wii, Wii U and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Battle, Communication, Strategy (Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Role-Play and Simulation)
Accessibility: 23 features
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon, Day and Night and Grid
Developer: Nintendo America (@NintendoAmerica)
Costs: Purchase cost, In-Game Purchases and In-Game Pass
Controls
We've documented 4 accessibility features for Controls in Fire Emblem Engage which deal with how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs.
Gamepad
Can play with the following:
Multiple Buttons & Two Sticks: Can play with multiple buttons and two sticks.
Button Combinations
Specific button operation required to play
Holding Down Buttons Optional: Holding down buttons for prolonged periods (a second or more) is not required or can be switched to toggling the action on and off. This is in addition to the movement stick/button which is not considered a hold for this purpose.
Rapid Repeated Pressing Optional: Quick, repeated button pressing (more than 2 times a second) is not required, can be skipped or switched to holding a button to trigger a repeated action.
No Simultaneous Buttons: Only one button or key required at a time, in addition to direction stick(s).
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Controls
If you want to play Fire Emblem Engage, but it doesn't offer the Controls accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Controls accessibility:
- Tenderfoot Tactics (13 Controls Features)
- Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (10 Controls Features)
- Before We Leave (8 Controls Features)
- Pawnbarian (8 Controls Features)
Difficulty
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Difficulty in Fire Emblem Engage which deal with how you can adjust the challenge of play, and whether this is locked once chosen or can be adjusted as you play.
Difficulty Options
Select Difficulty: Select the level of difficulty from a range of presets. This not only offers a way to adjust the challenge of a game but enables you to do so without dealing with individual criteria.
Adjust After Setting
Adjustable Between Levels: You can adjust the difficulty between levels/rounds. Although you have to restart your checkpoint or level, this enables you to adjust the difficulty after selecting it at the beginning of the game.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Difficulty
If you want to play Fire Emblem Engage, but it doesn't offer the Difficulty accessibility features you require, this similar game extends the Difficulty accessibility:
- Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope (3 Difficulty Features)
Getting Started
We've documented 5 accessibility features for Getting Started in Fire Emblem Engage which deal with what support is offered to get started with the game. This includes customising the experience when you first open the game via any onboarding processes it provides as well as tutorials and other assistance when you first start playing.
Assistance Getting Starting
These features aid your play of the game in terms of cognitive load on learning controls, dealing with pressure and coping with the environment and challenges.
Tutorials: There are helpful tutorials and instructions on how to play. Information is provided in a timely manner, with appropriate level of detail.
Reaction-Time Not Critical: Individual game actions don’t need quick reactions, or there are settings to lower the requirement for quick reactions. This means you don't need to quickly press a button in response to an on-screen prompt, target a fast-moving target or skillfully complete a scenario against the clock.
Low Pressure: Game tasks aren't time-limited or there's a low-pressure mode. This avoids the pressure of being put on the clock for overarching missions, or failing tasks because you didn't reach a destination in time.
Adjust Speed: Adjust the speed of the game at critical moments or throughout, or rewind play for a second attempt, to ease reaction times. By slowing the game, you have more time to interpret what is happening and then execute your actions. It also reduces the pressure on getting things right quickly or the first time you attempt them.
Assistance For Progressing
These features aid your progress through the game offering different ways of maintaining your progression.
Save Progress Anytime: The game automatically saves progress or you can save any time. This doesn’t mean you never lose progress, but it does mean you can stop whenever you want (without having to get to a save point) without losing progress.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Getting Started
If you want to play Fire Emblem Engage, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:
- Before We Leave (8 Getting Started Features)
- Transformers: Battlegrounds (8 Getting Started Features)
- Beastieball (7 Getting Started Features)
- Ikenfell (7 Getting Started Features)
Reading
We've documented 5 accessibility features for Reading in Fire Emblem Engage which deal with how much reading or listening comprehension is required, how well the game provides visual and audible access to the text and whether subtitles and captions are a good fit for purpose.
Reading Level
How much reading is required to play the game's main path or story and how complex the language is. The presence of voiced characters doesn't reduce this requirement, as it's recorded as a separate datapoint.
Moderate Reading: Moderate reading required. The quantity and complexity of reading are at a level that a high school student (14-year-old) would appreciate.
Text Visibility
High Contrast Text: Text colour contrasts to the background or can be adjusted to be. The text in menus, instructions and other information is presented in high contrast with a solid background.
Subtitles
All Speech Subtitled (Or No Speech In Game): All spoken content has subtitles, or there is no speech in the game. This means there is no requirement to hear spoken dialogue or narrative to play the game.
Captions
Speaker Indicator and their Tone: Textual captions indicate who is speaking and their tone (or there is only ever one person speaking). This can also be indicated visually in the game with character icons or character expressions with text in speech bubbles next to the person speaking.
Voice Acted
All Dialogue is Voice Acted (Or No Speech In Game): All of the game dialogue and narrative can be voiced, or there is no speech in the game. This means there is no requirement to read the dialogue and narrative text to play the game.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Reading
If you want to play Fire Emblem Engage, but it doesn't offer the Reading accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Reading accessibility:
- Undertale (6 Reading Features)
- Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle (6 Reading Features)
- Wargroove (6 Reading Features)
Navigation
We've documented 3 accessibility features for Navigation in Fire Emblem Engage which deal with how the game provides guidance and assistance to navigate its worlds. These are only for games that have traversal and exploration in 2D and 3D spaces.
Clarity
Large Clear Navigation: The in-game navigation and maps are clear to read. They offer large text and offer markers that are large and of high contrast. Where text or information is small, there are settings to zoom-in and increase visibility.
Head-Up Display
Game Map: View a map of the game world during play, with the landscape, points of interest and missions highlighted throughout the entire game. This enables the orientation of the player and the world, confirming a direction of movement and the location of destinations or points of exploration.
Menu Navigation
Digital Menu Navigation: Menu choices with Gamepad can be made without using an analogue stick to guide a cursor to a selection. For example, using D-Pad, buttons or the Stick to change menu selection in a single action.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Navigation
If you want to play Fire Emblem Engage, but it doesn't offer the Navigation accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Navigation accessibility:
- Wargroove 2 (5 Navigation Features)
- Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (4 Navigation Features)
- Beastieball (4 Navigation Features)
- Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope (4 Navigation Features)
Visual
We've documented 3 accessibility features for Visual in Fire Emblem Engage which deal with how you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game.
Visual Distractions
No Busy Backgrounds: No distracting backgrounds or you can make them static or blank. This includes the absence of other movement elements in the background that might distract or confuse the action. Where foreground contrast is high, this includes games with some movement in the background that doesn't make it overly difficult to distinguish what is happening.
Motion Sickness Friendly
Motion Sickness Friendly: Doesn't have 3D movement elements that may trigger motion sickness, like motion blur, depth of field and field-of-vision. Or includes the ability to disable motion blur, depth of field and field-of-vision effects.
Colour Options
Colour Blind Friendly: Game doesn’t rely on colour or can switch to colour blind friendly mode with double coding or similar way to avoid colour dependance.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Visual
If you want to play Fire Emblem Engage, but it doesn't offer the Visual accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Visual accessibility:
- Ikenfell (8 Visual Features)
- Transformers: Battlegrounds (7 Visual Features)
- Pendragon (7 Visual Features)
- Floppy Knights (6 Visual Features)
Audio
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Audio in Fire Emblem Engage which deals with how you can adjust the audio of the game and whether audio cues compensate for aspects of the game that are hard to see.
Play Without Hearing
Play Without Hearing: No audio cues are necessary to play the game well.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Audio
If you want to play Fire Emblem Engage, but it doesn't offer the Audio accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Audio accessibility:
- Valkyria Chronicles 4 (3 Audio Features)
- Pawnbarian (3 Audio Features)
- Tenderfoot Tactics (3 Audio Features)
- Pendragon (3 Audio Features)
System Accessibility Settings
In addition to the accessibility features provided in the game, you can also use system-wide accessibility settings:
Android
Android has accessibility settings including ways to navigate and interact, although not all games support this.
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch has some built-in features, including a lockable zoom, that can be used on all games.
Nintendo Wii
The Wii has a few helpful settings, like disable rumble, but you have to use gesture controls for most games and the system menu.
Nintendo Wii U
The Wii U has some limited settings, such as disabling rumble and selecting mono audio.
iOS
iOS has a very extensive suite of accessibility settings including ways to navigate with voice and comprehensive screen reading, though most of the features don't work with games.
Read more about system accessibility settings.
Accessibility Report supported by VSC Rating Board, PlayabilityInitiative and accessibility contributors Ben Kendall
