Poll of the Day > FE Three Houses is really, really damn good

(+) Yeah! (+)

I was not at all interested in some of the newer FE's such as Awakening or Fates(mainly due to the artstyle), but I can't believe how much I'm enjoying Three Houses. My favorite FE's are 7 and 9, but it could easily dethrone them both. I'll always appreciate those games for the more medieval aesthetic and more straightforward gameplay, but Three Houses is a great step in the right direction.

It also reminds me of the Berserk movies a bit, in a good way.

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Im on my second playthrough right now with Blue House. I finished my first playthrough with Red House. I'm digging the New Game + . each run that you do builds off of the previous.

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@Final_Fantasy2389

its a great game, edelgard is best.

Only real problem with it is the inconsistency with some of the routes.

Edelgards is the shortest, and you don't even fight the fuckers in the dark on any but yellow deer and silver snow route. Claude is also the worst character. he doesn't fit this shit at all.
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Ugh, I just posted about disliking another big JRPG, so I hope people dont think Im a hater, but I didnt care for Three Houses outside of its place as a time sink with some fun characters.

Definitely did NOT like the story. I feel having this narrative laid out to us with hours and hours of characters standing at each other, expositing info instead of jjst... showing us... makes the game feel weak.

its also UGLY! What was IS thinking making the game look that bad?

But I bought the DLC week 1 anyway, so whos the real fool?

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I thought it was really good fun. I don't see myself replaying it anytime soon though like I do with 6-12

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I intend to pick it up at some point, but I feel like I should stop procrastinating playing through 14 first (I've got both main versions, but haven't bought Revelations yet), and who knows when that will happen. I just haven't been in a Fire Emblem mood.

I think I stopped being interested in fire emblem after the awakening one because it had weird dating mechanics or some shit

PK_Spam posted...

its also UGLY! What was IS thinking making the game look that bad?

what

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ReggieTheReckless posted...

I think I stopped being interested in fire emblem after the awakening one because it had weird dating mechanics or some shit

FE's always had romance but there's no petting simulator in this one.

helIy posted...

what

Yeah, that caught me off-guard. I'm willing to accept any criticisms towards the game except for that one. This is the best looking FE ever.

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Fantastic videogame

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I need to get back into it, but there's so many other things that need doing.


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SpeedDemon20 posted...

I need to get back into it, but there's so many other things that need doing.

like ladelgard
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Does it turn into a Wifu Simulator like all of the newer FE games? If so, I'm outtie.

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shadowsword87 posted...

Does it turn into a Wifu Simulator like all of the newer FE games? If so, I'm outtie.

No.

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Krow_Incarnate posted...

Yeah, that caught me off-guard. I'm willing to accept any criticisms towards the game except for that one. This is the best looking FE ever.

tbf, the map graphics (of the battlefield) are pretty lackluster, it looks basically the same as the GCN games did. Not that the battle maps NEED to look all that great, but it's still pretty murky. Even some basic cel shading would go a long way, there.

But yes, IS still keeps finding ways to make FE even better and better. I think Awakening still might be my favorite, but TH is damn good.

Now if they would only throw Advance Wars some love.

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Kimbos_Egg posted...

@Final_Fantasy2389

its a great game, edelgard is best.

Only real problem with it is the inconsistency with some of the routes.

Edelgards is the shortest, and you don't even fight the fuckers in the dark on any but yellow deer and silver snow route. Claude is also the worst character. he doesn't fit this shit at all.

it isnt different routes like you picked a different thing, its completely different world states. Which I mean kinda dumb but whatever

Dimitri and Azure Moon is the best

Em_gai posted...

it isnt different routes like you picked a different thing, its completely different world states. Which I mean kinda dumb but whatever

Dimitri and Azure Moon is the best

it is very stupid. nemesis show up in the fucking opening and hes the boss in ONE level, for ONE path.
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What used to be the core gameplay of the franchise now buried beneath repetitive cutscenes called "activities".

How can someone who claims to like actually good Blazing Blade be fine with this?

Kimbos_Egg posted...

its a great game, edelgard is best.

The best..... example why Zephiel was 100% correct?

shadowsword87 posted...

Does it turn into a Wifu Simulator like all of the newer FE games? If so, I'm outtie.

You can marry the little girl that lives in your head.

It's seriously the most degenerate thing I've ever seen.
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Really enjoyes mt 70ish hours with the game. Was pretty fantastic.

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Kimbos_Egg posted...

it is very stupid. nemesis show up in the fucking opening and hes the boss in ONE level, for ONE path.

I disagree because the opening is more about showing us Rhea, who Byleth is connected to by blood through Jeralts inherited blood and by fate since Rhea created his mom.

None of that needed to be in the opening cutscene though. They just hyped up a background character that never does anything
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It was a piece of history that happens regardless of route and is therefore neutral and teases a connection to the overall story though

It's good, but it's got some serious flaws that keep it from being truly great imo.

The game is also extremely repetitive. Especially because you'll be playing on the same maps for every route.

I didn't play any DLC but the game is basically unfinished. It has a 50 hour prep for a 10 hour weak showdown. Act 1 was great assuming Act 2 was going to be as long as Act 1 and well thought out but it was neither.

I also despise the typical jrpg thing where they come up with an interesting moral conflict and then pussy out and instead have you fight comic book villains with no depth or logical motives. The story would have been far better if the dark goons were just removed entirely. Their motive is thinner than paper and basically equates to "I kill humans because haha killing good". It would have been maybe whatever if the game didn't already have a really interesting 3 way national conflict. If they had just stuck with the actual 3 houses fighting each other, it could have been an amazing story.

Additionally gold and red routes are just flat out not complete. Claude does his entire route in the epilogue off camera, like wtf and red route just ends before reaching a conclusion for no reason. Additionally, half the battle maps feel like placeholders which is extra weird when put next to the other maps that look good. I can only assume that they didn't have enough time to finish the game.

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Kimbos_Egg posted...

it is very stupid. nemesis show up in the fucking opening and hes the boss in ONE level, for ONE path.

its called replay value

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I enjoyed what I played of it but I got burnt out after Claude's and Dimitri's routes. I just read plot summaries of the other routes. I agree that TWSITD were really dumb

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This was the first Fire Emblem I played, but I am a fan of turned based tactic style games. I loved it, up there as my favorite switch game.

One of the best games in a series that I have been playing since its beginning (... in the U.S., at least), but it still gets a ton of hate because its fandom sucks.

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I put like 40 hours into it and can say pretty confidently I didn't enjoy it

Having your whole crew function identically until a few missions in when they're leveled and skilled is hella dumb.

Also I cant take the cutscenes seriously when every single one is the characters standing in place and talking, regardless of the action occurring. I can actually excuse it more when it's artwork and sprites (and theres more room for imagination). When I have to watch my dudes stand like five feet away from the bad guy in the middle of the village street and "spy" on him my eyes roll out of my skull.

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Blightzkrieg posted...

When I have to watch my dudes stand like five feet away from the bad guy in the middle of the village street and "spy" on him my eyes roll out of my skull.

it's been like this in the entire series though, with sprites AND drawings.


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helIy posted...

it's been like this in the entire series though, with sprites AND drawings.

helly, dude

Blightzkrieg posted...

I can actually excuse it more when it's artwork and sprites (and theres more room for imagination). When I have to watch my dudes stand like five feet away from the bad guy in the middle of the village street and "spy" on him my eyes roll out of my skull.

Have a 2D character portrait talking via VN style cutscenes is completely different than seeing a 3D model of a character literally stand feet apart from their enemy in front of a blurred, stretched background. It looks cheap and lazy and its the least interesting way to tell a story.

Just because it was always like that, doesnt mean it should continue or even that those qualities will translate from a 2D environment to a muddy 3D world of blurry character models and textures that look like theyre from Skyrim.

People will shit on the Xenoblade games for much less, but put up with Three Houses and even nominate it for GotY when it doesnt deserve that spot.

same as persona 5

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probably because you're acting like it's a problem solely on three houses, when it's a problem with the entire series.

i'll take good 3d characters and a muddy background over static, unmoving, artwork and a generic blurry mountain background.

or we can go to the 3ds games, where it's shitty pixelated "chibi" sprites on a mess of pixels at a resolution that phones had in the late 90s.





so much better

/s

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Gotta agree with Helly there.

And goddamn, I appreciate the Tellius artwork so damn much. FE9 was so good

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I've sunk over 100 hours into it, and I've been meaning to go back and finish a few things plus at least one more play through.

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Yeah, my playtime is getting pretty nuts considering I don't feel like I've played it at all really.

Not that surprising as these games have always been timesinks, but still.

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helIy posted...

it's been like this in the entire series though, with sprites AND drawings.

Which is why I explicitly said that's more forgivable.

I would also say none of the previous games (that I played, which is only a handful) had such a strong focus on cutscenes and character interactions. Given that like 90% of my playtime is devoted to jerking off in the Hogwarts hallways and hitting on the pope, I would expect that portion to feel more polished and less like a mini game.

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I wish the environments werent so ugly

Blightzkrieg posted...

I would also say none of the previous games (that I played, which is only a handful) had such a strong focus on cutscenes and character interactions.

you're right, they didn't

but the fans wanted it, and it wasn't until after they started adding more and more character interactions that the series got more popular, which culminated in three houses, the best selling fire emblem and highest rated title in the series to date.

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