Fire Emblem Three Houses Azure Moon Chapter 17 beated.
Man, that was even less satisfying than I expected and I set the bar fairly low I thought! So after all that, they find a Kingdom messenger dead but can't confirm who was the cause and just go "welp guess we can't count on the Alliance" which, okay, fine. But then for the battle Claude and the Alliance show up and they're enemies just because?
I actually ran this mission twice to test something. The first time (and the one my save is following): I split some of my army up and left some in Alliance aggro range being 99% sure they'd attack, which they did, and then I just rolled over them. There was even some good "Why are we even fighting, Dimitri? This is insane!" and "Isn't the Empire our common enemy, Professor?" from Claude and Hubert basically laughing his ass off at the friendly fire before we surrounded Edelgard. But then I replayed the fight out of sheer curiosity of if *anything* changed if I left the Alliance alone and... nope. Claude sits there for like two turns then goes "welp can't tell the Empire and Kingdom apart, guess we'll just have to kill everyone who isn't us lol" and starts moving his whole army. And despite the fact I eliminated every single Empire unit, including Edelgard, before any of his units took damage or saw combat he just... keeps on coming. Hell, Claude himself was the first Alliance unit to engage in combat... against us! And then has the nerve to give that exact same "Why Dimitri?" battle convo when I had Dimitri move up there and it's like "cuz we already beat the Empire and you're literally attacking us anyway bro."
So. Yeah. That wasn't great.
Oh and I guess Dimitri is no longer Punished Dimitri. Think it should have been Rodrigue's death and final words that snapped him out of it and not Byleth like one scene later. Would have felt more earned imhotbqh, especially since they literally give you a flashback of Rodrigue promising to Lambert to put Dimitri back on the right path if he ever fell to the dark side but whatever.
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