>Comparing Engage's credits with Three Houses' credits is interesting, because it looks like almost no one from Three Houses worked on Engage.
>Based on the credits, Three Houses and Engage don't even share the same writers - and it makes sense since Three Houses was written by Koei Tecmo (a fact a lot of FE fans don't even know)
Engage:
Scenario Director
Nami Komuro (IS, same writer as Awakening and Paper Mario: The Origami King, also scenario writer of Fates)
Synthese Co., Ltd.
Scenario Writer
Yukinori Kitajima (worked also on Fates)
Hiroshi Takane (worked also on Fates)
Takayoshi Muto
Tatsuro Hamano
Crico,Inc.
Scenario Writer
Masaya Ikemura
Eiichi Konomura
Ako Tsubaki
Kei Seta
Utonapi
Three Houses (and Three Hopes):
Lead Scenario
Yuki Ikeno (KT)
Scenario
Ryohei Hayashi (KT)
Mari Okamoto (KT)
>The only Producers and Directors from Three Houses in Engage are Masahiro Higuchi from IS, who worked on every FE since FE4, and Genki Yokota and Kenta Nakanishi from Nintendo EPD (which makes sense since Nintendo always supervises their published games, Genki Yokota is even basically the bridge between Nintendo and Monolith Soft and Intelligent Systems).
Engage:
Producer
Masahiro Higuchi
Producer
Genki Yokota
Toyokazu Nonaka
Sub Producer
Kohei Maeda
Director
Tsutomu Tei
Director
Kenta Nakanishi
Three Houses:
Producer
Masahiro Higuchi
Hitoshi Yamagami
Director
Toshiyuki Kusakihara
Genki Yokota
Sub Director
Kenta Nakanishi
Assistant Director
Kazuyoshi Toriyama
>It doesn't seem like Engage is really a "different direction after Three Houses", Engage and Three Houses were just developed by different developers and staff members. Engage (mostly) by Intelligent Systems while Three Houses (mostly) by Koei Tecmo.