There are some nasty difficulty spikes that can softlock your run
It gets more manageable as you go along, but you really need to be diligent about raising your crew
Golden Deer's Final Boss is straight up impossible without preparation, lol
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There are some nasty difficulty spikes that can softlock your run
It gets more manageable as you go along, but you really need to be diligent about raising your crew
Golden Deer's Final Boss is straight up impossible without preparation, lol
Ah nice, that's encouraging to hear! It was clear on Hard that the Paralogues had the potential to be pretty interesting, but you're so overwhelmingly powerful on that difficulty that you could usually ignore all the special conditions and just steamroll them.
Like, Lorenz's Paralogue is supposed to be a defense map, but on Hard I just Warped Leonie to the left side of the map, pressed wait, and let half the enemy army crash into her untouchable Defense. I'm excited that the game's gonna push me to get a little more creative.
Damn, people weren't kidding about the lore dump at the end of Verdant Wind. On the final month now. Been quite a ride.
I can't believe this route gets epic Dubstepper cutscenes and annihilation and Edelgard gets a line in her epilogue, smh
Female Byleth is so bad. I did my first playthrough with the male and am doing my second playthrough as female. If I ever bring myself to do a third+ I doubt I'll ever go with the female option again.
Hi, i've got a question regarding DLC and family plan for Nintendo online
I have got two switches, one for me and one for my girlfriend
I bought the DLC with my account, but when she plays, I can't find where she can change the character clothes anywhere. Does she have to finish the game first? Or are dlc not shared between the accounts?
I have got two switches, one for me and one for my girlfriend
I bought the DLC with my account, but when she plays, I can't find where she can change the character clothes anywhere. Does she have to finish the game first? Or are dlc not shared between the accounts?
DLC is not shared among accounts. You bought the DLC for your account, not for anyone who uses that particular copy of the game.
Oh damn it. Just wasted 25 bucks, I bought it for her :/
Well thanks for the info!
After ~150 hours I finished my first playthrough choosing the Crimson Flower route. I was playing on hard classic and built up a lot of supports. 😅 While I enjoyed the story and love Edelgard to death, that route didn't explain shit and felt like the 2nd act of a 3 act story. I know the DLC will add some stuff and the other routes fill in many blanks, but the game seriously needs an enhanced port like Devil Survivor: Overclocked for the Switch successor.
I shelved this game for a while but started playing again. Just beat the Battle of Eagle and Lion or whatever it was called. About how much more time do I have before the time skip? I'm trying to lure a few more characters to my side but only managed Lysethia so far.
Nah, both the Church and GD routes drop the lore about the world. The game simply requires you to play all the routes to understand the world, and to assume that each route is an "what-if" scenario, so there is no true ending - plus a character that may seem insane or unhinged in one route truly isn't in another route and even explains their reasoning to act one way or another.
Give the other routes a try. You won't get the full picture otherwise - but the game doesn't need an enhanced port, imo. It's a self contained story.
If you mean the second fight between all three houses, then you have 5 more chapters left until the time skip.
About that much, yeah. Maybe a bit more of you go for the Knights and Teachers as well, they're easier to get then the other students.
I fully intend to play the other routes but Crimson Flower feels like an incomplete story in ways other than backstory and world building. For one, the fight against
Those That Slither in the Darkness is only mentioned in the epilogue.
Death Knight doesn't even make an appearance post time skip. Then there is the matter of sidestepping all the, morally grey at best, things she did as the Flame Emperor. I love Edelgard as a character but I find it really dumb that her route is so barebones.
After reading news about all the DLC coming, I'm going to shelve the game until everything is out.
Whoa, the Battle of the Eagle and Lion is fantastic on Maddening. If you're not getting value out of every move you're simply going to get overrun on the central hill, so you can't turtle your way to victory like some of the earlier maps. Dorothea ended up being the MVP due to an incredibly clutch cast of Rally Charm, a skill I don't think I ever used once on either of my previous playthroughs.
Probably my favorite map IntSys has done since Conquest.
Probably my favorite map IntSys has done since Conquest.
Even with A rating with Leonie and a 33 in the hard stat she was interested in (STR), I still needed to get up to E+ in Lance for her to join my class. Huh.
Wrapping up the first half now. They REALLY needed to nerf the shit out of Professor Level on Maddening, but they didn't, which blows. There's room for a 4th difficulty to actually fix Professor Level, which is the biggest sore the game has for both balancing and pacing. Even doing almost every general Paralogue in Part 1, I have plenty of time to spare and grind.
Ignatz joined my class without needed to spend any time or resources on him, and went on to replace my Bernadetta as my main archer. +20 to Hit and his massive luck stat is a godsend in Maddening. Petra and Bernie often had like 60-70% chance to hit even just two spaces away.
Wrapping up the first half now. They REALLY needed to nerf the shit out of Professor Level on Maddening, but they didn't, which blows. There's room for a 4th difficulty to actually fix Professor Level, which is the biggest sore the game has for both balancing and pacing. Even doing almost every general Paralogue in Part 1, I have plenty of time to spare and grind.
Ignatz joined my class without needed to spend any time or resources on him, and went on to replace my Bernadetta as my main archer. +20 to Hit and his massive luck stat is a godsend in Maddening. Petra and Bernie often had like 60-70% chance to hit even just two spaces away.
How you guys manage to play this more than one playthrough?
Im 70 hrs in, BE and hard classic and I feel Im about to end the game but the story is fucking atrocious.
Do I need to play the 3 houses and 200hrs to understand what the heck is going on?!
Fuck that.
The monastery at the beginning was fun and interesting, but now is tedious and boring and I dont want to do that anymore IF I ever chose to try other house.
Im 70 hrs in, BE and hard classic and I feel Im about to end the game but the story is fucking atrocious.
Do I need to play the 3 houses and 200hrs to understand what the heck is going on?!
Fuck that.
The monastery at the beginning was fun and interesting, but now is tedious and boring and I dont want to do that anymore IF I ever chose to try other house.
To be more clear, it is possible to get the dlc playable on her switch/account. Do the following (The downside is if you do this, you won't be able to boot any game with dlc or digital game on your switch without your switch being connected to the internet)
So her outfit will change when I change her class? Will it change how she looks in other places in the game? Before I put another minute into this game I need to know. If not, I am just going to restart. Otherwise I will push on, knowing that her idiotic design will be replaced.
No, it just changes in battle. She keeps her original outfit in the monastery and cutscenes.
In the back half of the game, each Explore day takes literally 5 minutes. Talk to why you want to talk to, buy from the special shop, then burn your activity points.
The deed is done. Those dumbass fishnet stockings have been deleted from my copy of the game.
well there's also an alternate costume that comes with the DLC that doesn't look nearly as dumb, if you wear that she only has her 'default' outfit in the cinematic cut scenes
Yeah, I didn't mind that one at all. However, I can't justify spending that much more money on a game I just paid full price for. So, I just restarted the game with the male version. He is boring, but at least I can play the game now. I couldn't get past that awful design for the female version of Byleth.
yeah I understand, it honestly would be fine or at least not nearly as dumb if there was no bellybutton window and her legs had no stockings on them
That's definitely one of the main reasons I play MByleth. I don't really care about the "romance" aspect and FByleth design is just ... well ... 🤷♀️
that video feels a bit off for Three Houses
upbeat critical quotes were pretty jarring given the context in the previous fire emblems, but a lot of the critical quotes in Three Houses tend to be more about grim determination than anything, particularly post-timeskip
I'm playing Chapter 4 on Maddening and really struggling. I can do fine right up until the reinforcements arrive. They all gang up on one side of my split crew and double nearly everyone and are just very hard to kill without tripping into the Death Knight's reach.
So Cyrill recruit stats scale off his base growths not his aptitude growths which means i had to recruit him super early if i wanted to use him. Now he would have 16 str at lvl 23 and that sucks.
I dont think those are supposed to be critical hit quotes but rather post kill quotes, like "Hilda! Hilda!" "Ugh now Im all sweaty"
I dont think those are supposed to be critical hit quotes but rather post kill quotes, like "Hilda! Hilda!" "Ugh now Im all sweaty"
I just hit 400 hours on this game according to my savefile.The only reason I bought the Nintendo Switch was just because of Fire Emblem. but I'm the exception, not the rule.
if you don't mind, which route are you on right now? you said BE but there are two routes in BE: Byleth or Edelgard. which route did you choose?
the way this game is setup you can only learn what's really going if you play in this order GD>BL>BE-Byleth>BE-Edelgard.
Having said that, I strongly recommend BL next however as BE-Byleth and GD are more or less the same route with only difference being different final boss and GD having one extra chapter in part 2.
But this particular game is for those who have free time. its okay to be burned out. try playing one or two chapters at a time. its okay to skip monastery stuff. but keep in mind when recruiting, unless u on ng+ monastery becomes necessary.
My enjoyment of an FE game's story has never had much of an influence on the replayability of it. FE7 and Radiant Dawn are perfect examples of this.
Still trudging along through my maddening run. Made it to chapter 14 of the Crimson flower route and ho boy. I almost thought that this would be where my maddening run would end. This mission can get pretty crazy. Thankfully after a couple of retries I got it in my head to warp Bernie towards the first reinforcements enemy and instantly took care of him with the hunter's volley. I'm not sure if the mission is bugged or if it's by design but the other two enemies at the gates never spawned in additional enemies after the first guy was dealt with. It made the mission far more manageable. Next up chapter 15!
By the by, the Crimson Flower route really feels half assed compared to The Golden Deer. I'm so glad that i did that route first.
By the by, the Crimson Flower route really feels half assed compared to The Golden Deer. I'm so glad that i did that route first.
Well you are playing the campaign with the weakest story first lol
Pretty sure they're criticizing the post-killing quotes that are especially jarring in the pre-timeskip era, not that the critical quotes aren't jarring in their own right (or irritating, honestly).
I miss the days when I didn't dislike the critical hits in Fire Emblem.
It's actually less half-assed. The more you play the more you realize little unique content any of the routes got. Golden Deer is a copy of silver snow. A better copy, but still a copy.
That's the Rite of Rebirth mission, right? I'd suggest not focusing on killing all units - don't split your crew, just pick a side of the Mausoleum and head for the boss. You know when the reinforcements come, so you can have units covering the rearguard when they catch up to you.
To add on to what LunaSerena said, you'll still have enough time to clear both sides if you do one side at a time. 30 turns is a while.
Just got to Dedue's paralogue. I'm looking at the portraits of the Duscur soldiers and wondering why they aren't brown-skinned. Then, I zoom in on the models and they're actually brown-skinned! Nice! Would it have been too much to ask to match the portraits too?
I went absolutely blind, I wanted to discover everything by myself and ending up on the Edelgard route, I saw nothing wrong until ...needless to say, I was invested because I was expecting a pay off but no..........not only is a disjointed story, is one that took me 73 hrs to complete............. and oh boy those portraits at the end as reward for your romance choice..... a finger to my face.
The fights are good but now that I know the hole monastery, romance options, gifts, tea and lunches are just a facade, a facade that takes WAY too much time, for now I dont have the motivation to do another route.
I finally finished my Blue Lions playthrough, and overall very much enjoyed it. GD will be next and then I'll probably wait until the DLC is out before I do BE.
Ingrid was my MVP for so many stages, as a Falcon Knight I could just throw her in a room filled with mages and most enemies and she would just shrug off their attacks or (most of the time) they'd miss entirely. Hell, even archers missed lol.
Ingrid was my MVP for so many stages, as a Falcon Knight I could just throw her in a room filled with mages and most enemies and she would just shrug off their attacks or (most of the time) they'd miss entirely. Hell, even archers missed lol.
I did. I recruited almost every character minus three Golden Deer guys, so there was a lot of support grinding for me. I focused mainly on the women x women supports so I'd have have as many of them get together in the epilogue.
Sure, but I'm talking about the quality of the story and overall production values. The Crimson Flower route doesn't feel as cohesive as the Golden Deer route and where you got a cool cutscene in the GD route you get a static image and abrupt scene cuts in the BE-E route.
That said, the BE-E maps are definitely good (better?). Though I'm not sure how much of that is also related to the difficulty settings.