A shame you feel that way. I was constantly intrigued even up to that point.
That said, very big stuff starts happening during Chapters 10-12.
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That said, very big stuff starts happening during Chapters 10-12.
Charm specifically affects Battalion parameters. They could easily expand on it to affect other aspects.
I like how Dorothea became one of my favourite post-timeskip designs because she ditched the dumb hat, and then Mercedes, who was one of my favourite pre-skip designs due to her fabulous hair, decided to chop it all off and adopt even more egregious headgear. The nun getup is consistent with her character but the design/style does absolutely nothing for her.
Got it, thanks. It looks like most of my preferred pairings are going to end up together, so all is right with the world.
Got it, thanks. It looks like most of my preferred pairings are going to end up together, so all is right with the world.
I was gonna marry her, but her other A ranks are too good for me to interfere haha
Dorothea has always been at the top. Since Day 1
The only real change since release has been Claude & Lysithea sneaking into the bottom.
While I'm in rambling mode, I just wanted to say how pleasantly surprised I am at the writing generally, and more specifically in terms of character supports. I had low expectations after Fates, but they managed to infuse so many of what could have been silly, frivolous skits (and to be fair, some are still just that) with interesting lore, worldbuilding, and meaningful character development, all with a great standard of voice acting to boot. The Dorothea/Ferdinand and Seteth/Flayn A scenes almost got a tear out of me, for goddess's sakes.
At some point Hubert was the top tea party guest. That was a good day.
Finished BE playthrough today. This game really got its hooks into me. It's not often I jump right into New Game+ but here I am. Leaning towards BL this time, but question about choosing routes:
I'm guessing based on the choice in the Holy Tomb, all Houses have a a church route start at that point? I'm thinking of maybe a church route (even though all their characters kinda big me)
Was it in BE-E and Month 4? Cuz that's his birthday month and being in the tea party list is almost automatic.
Not sure exactly what you mean but yes, all three default paths have you side with the church against Edelgard. But the characters are obv different between them, so not sure what you mean by "all their characters"...
only black Eagles has the church route, no one else. For pretty obvious story reasons
No. Only BE splits at that point. There's 4 routes total including BE's split.
Finally finished my first playthrough! Loved every minute of it, though I do agree with those who've said that the monastery sections started to drag in the second part and needed something more. Y'all weren't kidding though when you said the Blue Lions route gives you very little information outside of Dimitri's personal history. I mean there are still so many loose plot threads.
Anyway, this has easily been my favorite Fire Emblem. I feel like there aren't any weak links in the main cast. I came to love pretty much all the students and their support interactions were consistently amazing. I often feel overwhelmed by the large number of recruitable characters in Fire Emblem games, but one thing that I really liked about this game was that you get to know nearly all the playable characters right from the start and can recruit whoever you want relatively early.
Now to decide if I'm going to take a break or jump into another playthrough... I think I'm gonna go Black Eagles next. Ugh I already feel unclean, like I'm cheating on my baby blues.
- What happened to Patricia? Did she reunite with Edelgard after fleeing the Kingdom? Why did she marry King Lambert in the first place if she was desperate enough to kill him to return home. Was she forced to marry him and being held against her will?
- Who the fuck was the old man that stopped Byleth from saving Jeralt who seemed like an endgame boss? I assume he's actually relevant in other routes, but where did he go in Dimitri's route? Seems like a cause for concern...
- We don't even get to see Rhea after everyone has been talking about rescuing her for literally half the fucking game? Not even a brief conversation explaining what Edelgard had been doing to her for 5 years and why she hadn't just killed her? Or at least a thank you? Alrighty then lol.
I still find it hilarious how similar Edelgard is to Daenerys. The looks, the ruthless ambition, the insistence in their ability to make the world a better place and the belief that they're meant to do so... Ironically I've always been a huge Daenerys stan, but choosing Dimitri made me hate Edelgard for all her self-righteousness. I love a strong female villain though and Edelgard filled that role very well. Regardless of whether I think her actions are just, which I obviously don't at the moment, I think she's a very compelling character and it annoys me that I still basically know nothing about her history, so I'm looking forward to learning more. Clearly some shit went down after she met Dimitri as a kid and went back to the Empire. I loved the conversation Dimitri and Edelgard had before the final battle and I wish there had been more moments like that. Their relationship is so tragic.
Also... some of these endings are wrecking me. Dimitri/Dedue: "When Dimitri finally fell to illness, Dedue tended to his liege's deathbed, and then took up a post at his grave for the rest of his days. When the time came, they were buried beside each other." WHY must you make me feel things, game. ;_;
- Who the fuck was the old man that stopped Byleth from saving Jeralt who seemed like an endgame boss? I assume he's actually relevant in other routes, but where did he go in Dimitri's route? Seems like a cause for concern...
- We don't even get to see Rhea after everyone has been talking about rescuing her for literally half the fucking game? Not even a brief conversation explaining what Edelgard had been doing to her for 5 years and why she hadn't just killed her? Or at least a thank you? Alrighty then lol.
I still find it hilarious how similar Edelgard is to Daenerys. The looks, the ruthless ambition, the insistence in their ability to make the world a better place and the belief that they're meant to do so... Ironically I've always been a huge Daenerys stan, but choosing Dimitri made me hate Edelgard for all her self-righteousness. I love a strong female villain though and Edelgard filled that role very well. Regardless of whether I think her actions are just, which I obviously don't at the moment, I think she's a very compelling character and it annoys me that I still basically know nothing about her history, so I'm looking forward to learning more. Clearly some shit went down after she met Dimitri as a kid and went back to the Empire. I loved the conversation Dimitri and Edelgard had before the final battle and I wish there had been more moments like that. Their relationship is so tragic.
Also... some of these endings are wrecking me. Dimitri/Dedue: "When Dimitri finally fell to illness, Dedue tended to his liege's deathbed, and then took up a post at his grave for the rest of his days. When the time came, they were buried beside each other." WHY must you make me feel things, game. ;_;
Anyway, this has easily been my favorite Fire Emblem. I feel like there aren't any weak links in the main cast. I came to love pretty much all the students and their support interactions were consistently amazing. I often feel overwhelmed by the large number of recruitable characters in Fire Emblem games, but one thing that I really liked about this game was that you get to know nearly all the playable characters right from the start and can recruit whoever you want relatively early.
Now to decide if I'm going to take a break or jump into another playthrough... I think I'm gonna go Black Eagles next. Ugh I already feel unclean, like I'm cheating on my baby blues.
Thanks all, this makes a lot of sense now. The church characters didn't make a huge impression on me during my first run, so I'm thinking it's Blue Lions next for me.
Who are "the church characters"? You mean Black Eagles? Or the teachers & flayn & cyril?
Well, based on my BE playthrough, I got the impression that some characters would be unique (if not recruited) to the Church faction.
For me, that ended up being Seteth, Flayn, Ashe, Cyril, Catherine, Gilbert, and obviously Rhea. I didn't recruit them pre-timeskip, so they all showed up specifically with the Church, not with the other two Houses.
Yes. That character that stopped you from saving Jeralt is intentionally supposed to remind you of every Fire Emblem final boss ever. A main part of Three Houses is how it twists the typical Fire Emblem story depending on your part. You basically played the "diversion" path where you mostly focused on Dimitri's personal story. Every path handles the story differently and that includes the characters you may or may not meet.
Those are all "regularly" recruitable. Though I'm surprised you got Gilbert because I was under the impression that he was exclusive to BL. And Rhea is never recruitable. The only ones that are specifically EXCLUDED in the BE-Edelgard route are Flayn & Seteh I believe (and maybe Cyril, not sure).
The biggest "church character" routes are BE-C and GD. Which share a lot of the same maps too
Weird, I guess I never progressed support with him pre-timeskip enough to see that. He definitely showed up as a Church commander in one of the late missions.
Sorry, I wasn't totally clear. I didn't actually recruit any of those characters (except Flayn). I just assumed they could be recruited.
I'm guessing my next playthrough is going to be radically different haha.
I'm certainly not mad that he wasn't the final boss. I'm glad he didn't pop up at the last minute like I was expecting to undermine Edelgard's final boss status, but it still felt weird to have him just vanish from the plot like that lol.
There are a few magical weapon ones which do considerably more damage than a regular attack for certain characters.
I mean, they're still around in the monastery, with unique dialogue post-skip. Some even have unique supports and most have unique paralouges you can pretty much only get via recruitment. The only thing they miss out on is the post-battle group chats, which they wouldn't be in anyways had you not recruited them.
Dorothea is a jack of all classes for me and it's wonderful. I'm getting the sense her and Edelgard might statistically be the most loved characters in the game.
He's actually in the BL route multiple times, you just have no idea without playing the other routes. The story structure of this game is amazing in how it constructs the routes.
I definitely recruited the 2nd character in BE E, maybe it's based on supports though. Made me realize he's a total bro.
i think it probably just comes down to the fact i never see them since i don't use them in battle (mercey usually filled my 10th slot), so I just come back to the monastary and it's like, cool guys, good to see you, glad you're still alive and I didn't have to get Claude to put an arrow right through your head like he did everyone else...
It's good for her. Warlock is what's actually useless to her.
(Bishop is also good for her until you unlock Gremory - same growth rates as Warlock except it comes with 10% Luck and 5% charm with the added bonus of abilities she can actually make use of)
You can recruit Alois in BE-E, you just have a small window to do so in chapter 11.
I swear to god, this game knows who I'm rooting for and holds them back. Petra and Hilda—the two characters I'm the most excited about, and setting up the most—are at 106 stat points at level 19. Only Raphael is lower at 101, everyone else is around 115-130
cmon game. lemme have this
time to start feeding them from the garden i guess
cmon game. lemme have this
time to start feeding them from the garden i guess
this has been said a hundred times, but honestly because of how magic in this game works, the distinction between black and dark magic seems really pointless. if it were tome-based, or even "use an item to teach a character a spell"-based, it would maybe make sense, but as it is it seems to just exist to deliberately screw lysithea and hubert over.
See, I kept sacrificing slots from my original team to make room for new recruits. Caspar lasted like a month or two, then Ferdinand was dropped, then Hubert, then Lindhart, and then I added Mercedes, Ingrid, Lysithea, and Marianne. And then I kept recruiting and made a b-team for auxiliary battles so my main squad doesn't get over levelled.
Honestly I feel like the systems could use some work. Still not there yet
I'm taking Hilda through the Wyvern Lord path, so defense doesn't matter toooo much. She's getting alright Strength, a little Speed screwed though. Petra's getting great speed but not as much dex as I wish she were.