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ZaziGuado posted...

I haven't played or even seen anything of a Fire Emblem since the first one that came to the west after Melee came out. How similar is Three Houses to Fates and Awakening (are they the same thing or was that something else that was split into multiple titles?), and how similar is Awakening to all the others?

Awakening, Fates, and Three Houses are all separate games. Fates has 3 different versions: Birthright, Conquest, and Revelations. It's kind of like Pokemon Versions in that you buy either Birthright or Conquest and can then get the other (and Revelations) as DLC.

Awakening is conceptually similar to FE7 (the first one that came west after Melee) though it has a player avatar (think the tactician from FE7, but now a playable unit) and characters can marry when they reach the highest support level (S) and it resulted in them having kid(s) who would also be playable units. There's story reasons for how that worked.

Fates is again more-or-less similar from a gameplay standpoint although they retained the marry/kids thing but this time they threw out the plot reasons why it made any sense.

Three Houses's core battle gameplay looks to be the same as FE7/Awakening/Fates with some new mechanics. However, the big difference between it and previous Fire Emblems is that it has an explorable hub thing between battles/chapters that most people have compared to Persona where you can explore, pick up sidequests, talk with students, etc.

Awakening would be the most similar experience to FE7 of the lot, IMO. Fanbase consensus is actually that 3H is taking most cues from FE4 (which never came west) and the Tellius (Gamecube/Wii games; Where Ike is from) games. Although the easiest comparison is to Fates since both have a "3 Routes" thing going on but unlike Fates where you had to buy the other routes, 3H has them all in the game.
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