r/FireEmblemThreeHouses

I did Blue Lions > Verdant Wind > Crimson Flower and skipped Silver Snow, I might go back and do SS when I feel up to it, but for now I feel like I got my fill of the game.

So prior to Three Houses, the only games in the series I ever played were Path of Radiance and Awakening, which are arguably the most popular games in the seires. If I had to rank the three of them, Awakening is last and Three Houses is my current favorite. I feel like Three Houses basically did what Awakening tried to do, but was hollistcally more succesful, that said I still liked Awakening, it just wasnt nearly as interesting as the other two.

So yeah, currently Three Houses is my favorite game in the series and I think it has a lot to do with how compelling the story and characters were, in tandem with how fun the gameplay is. The map design is not nearly as strong as it was in Path of Radiance, but I really enjoyed the class system and the level of customization that was on offer.

Between the three routes that I played, I felt that Blue Lions and Crimson Flower were by far way more interesting than Verdant Wind. While I liked that Claude's ideals was about opening borders and breaking down the barriers within Fodlan, unfortunately, while he himself is a charming and fun character, he felt somewhat absent within his own route. Compare that to BL and CF, Dimitri and Edelgard are front and center, the conflicts tie back deeply into who they are, its just a shame that CF is clearly rushed. I felt that the end of her campaign was meant to the halfway point and it was supposed to go on so that she could defeat the actual villains of the story, but clearly they ran out of development time and had to cut it short. Even with those drawbacks in mind, I still loved the CF route.

Overall I loved Three Houses and I'm glad Fortune's Weave takes place in the same world, I'm looking forward to seeing some familiar faces and hopefully some advancements in the map design and the way the class system works.

These Ramblings wouldn't leave my head.

p.s: this may be disjointed or not. but even in my mothertongue (german) its the same.

I played 3 hopes first because I liked the playstyle (Musou).

How do you call the gameplaystyle(?) of three houses (Chess/tiles or whatever)?

I wanted to do BL -> CF -> SS -> VV at first, so I started with BL, but I managed only until Chapter 18 (Cornelia) before quitting and restartet with CF.

The Reason was simple: In my first Playthrough I bruteforced my way through and I barely used healing potions. CF was the shortest and I wanted all my playthroughs after the first one to be NG+.

I play also on Casual and normal as I am more of a story player than a fight?player.

I have played every Route except SS as I have grown too attached to Edelgard and Hubert( I really should bring myself to play it one of these days (Isn't the Boss also the hardest because of the white beasts?)).

I like both CF and VV (I know VV is a copy of SS) and left somewhat dissapointed with AM.

CF:

I agree that it would have been nice if we fought the argathans too.

I enjoyed Rhea very much.

I'm glad there aren't any demon (except Dedue) beasts to fight. They are annoying.

SB:

was my favorite on 3 hopes.

Monica/Kronya and Monica are barely different, for example the way she addreses Edelgard. The thing is I like her Hairstyle posttimeskip much better.

AG:

I liked the first half with finding the prepetrors(?)/Culprits behind what happend in Duscur. Then Edelgard got brainwashed.

Now I can see Thales having a way of controlling Edelgard, in case she disobeys.

But really?! Bergliz and Monica didn't seem suspicious in Edelgards sudden change in Personality?!

I am also sad that Rhea barely appeared in that Route. I very much like her and also as both in your team and as an Antagonist. I very much liked Rheas, Flayn and Seteth Paralogue. I also very much liked Dedues, Ingrid and Felix Paralogue.

AM:

1. I really like character interactions (beside supports) the Permadeath thing should have clued me in.

2. I saw everywhere that it is Character driven, all about the Childhood friends and the best one, which had me a bit hyped (you always should go without exceptions in). It was Dimitri driven.

I do like Dimitri and found him amusing/fun during his crazy Mode. I kind of snorted during my second watching of the cutscene of him going crazy.

I must add that if I didn't know he thought Edelgard was the Culprit, I also would have been annoyed at him. because of the conversation between the Flame Emperor and Thales, which was like: We are going to kill our shared Enemy and then afterwards I'm going to kill You for what you did in Duscur and in the Empire.

Another thing is that I found Gilbert to be very boring (funnily enough I enjoyed his Supports with Hanneman, Manuela and Alois), therefore I read very fast through his and Dimitris conversations after Cornelia.

I once saw a comment that said, that the Info about the true Culprit was like: bla bla bla by the way... bla bla bla, or along these line. I have to agree to that, I almost skipped over it. I do wonder why, was it because I usually read fast or was it because Dimitri barely reacted to it?

When Dimitri in the Monastry mentoined that Cornelia suddenly changed one day I asked myself if there existed Stories about Bodyswapping or Personality switches (for example through magic accidents), because it should have been suspious.

And then there is Dedue. He seems to be to biggest Victim of Permadeath (he was more like a decoration), but then again you need to do his Paralogue to keep him alive. I can for sure say, If I didn't know about that I would have have skipped his Paralogue, during my second BL playthrough, because of the map.

I also speed through the Route because I wanted Dedue back, so that he isn't behind the others.

I knew beforehand that Rhea doesn't appear posttimeskip, but it's still sad. I like her.

GW:

I liked it, even though Claude is supposed to be a schemer, apparantly it destroys his characterisation.

VV:

You know, I remember thinking when I first played it, that his dislike/distrust of the church was rather blatant/obvious. I wonder if that was just me or because I played 3 hopes before.

He also mentoins at one point, that he would have startet the war, if Edelgard didn't start it, no idea where that scene happened again (don't remember).

There is that redditor (Caspar profile) who makes these Meta-Commentary(?) comics (I Very much like your comics if you are reading this). Because of one of them I expected Dedue to appear in the Throne Room.

My Question is: Does he appear only after a certain number of turns or after all your Units are in the Throne Room? I feel like It's the latter.

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By the way: Which Unit with their best(?) weapon did you find the hardest to level up to Lv.10. For me it was the archers and from the archers it was Ashe.

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about Supports/Ending Cards:

I wish Dorothea and Ferdinand solved their misunderstanding earlier/in their B-Support and not in their A-Support.

I wanted Ingrid/ashe, got Ingrid/Seteth (feels more Platonic than romantic to me) instead.

I didn't like Dimitri/Flayn.

I liked Petra/Ashe and Ferdinand/Marianne.

I got Sylvain/Felix twice.

I S-Supported Edelgard, Jeritza, Yuri and Mercedes.

I don't really remember the other Ending Cards.

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Perhaps there were more thoughts or not, but but whatever.

Thank you for reading this.

I would like to know your thoughts.

No need to bring up the sadly rushed status of it we all know it but what I want to know was it truly just a last minute edition and an after thought from the developers since the route has unique maps whilst the others don't. I just want to know the exact truth on this matter.

If so what will they read and would they share it?