Fire Emblem: Three Houses (26th July, Switch) - The Bear and Badger

regmcfly

Also the end credits song fucking slaps

Nina

regmcfly wrote:

Got my waifu too
It's

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Annette

Oh fu, I haven't been able to recruit her yet. Don't think I can as my magic will never be high enough.

How many hours did it take? I feel like I'm doing something wrong as I'm at 45 and am still not at the spoiler bit from the trailers.

Also realized paralogues get added when you recruit characters (I thought they were a set thing). I guess you'll see all of them when you do all three houses? Probably need to focus on recruiting the silver badges though.

ayns

Finished first playthrough yesterday on yellow 85 + hours. Considering blue for NG+.

Wanted to ask how NG+ works if you keep various progress data?

Waifu

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JonB

In NG+ you get

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Otherwise you go through everything as before.

ayns

Cool. Cheers.

Nina

Why is this game so weird with the warnings?

With a paralogue it always ends with you agreeing (start battle) or staying out of it for now (back to menu or something).

Now I was exploring in the 2nd month (I think), had done 2 faculty training and was about halfway through my normal routine. I talk to Edelgard, camera changes, it gives me a choice that's important for the story (which B completely ruined by deciding to declog the drain from the shower, this is why I don't like playing at night) and without warning it just skips the rest of my explore day. Why wasn't I given a way to back out of that?

I do have a save right before the start of that day, so I kept that in case I want to go back. I just expected to be able to delay the choice, as seems to be the case for paralogues.

mistercrayon

I also reset my save that day. My hope is that all of the suddenness and surprise pressure is to make you feel like you need to choose your most instinctive choice there and then.

Nina

I'm just gonna continue with it, but at least I got the back up in case I want to see the other path.

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^Edelgard / Black Eagle spoilers, I'm not sure how this is for other houses.

mistercrayon

There’s a bit where she says

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Nina

@mistercrayon

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So I made another choice. And another save game.

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^Black Eagle spoilers.

I'm having fun.

mistercrayon

Playing through the golden deer and I get to see Ferdinands fate after playing and finishing a run with Black Eagles. (Spoils for both)

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mistercrayon

Bouncing from an old save file to continue the black eagles path

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ayns

One save for me. I like to live with the imperfect choices.

Less stressful lol

mistercrayon

Yeah I’m normally like that but I didn’t fancy playing the first 30hr to see the story.

Nina

That's also why I kept two saves just where story points are triggered in the Black Eagles line. It took me 45 hours or so to reach those, I don't want to do that again. Rather go through the early chapters with the other two houses.

Kazuo

Finally finished my first game with about 60hrs on the clock. Great stuff all-told, Golden Deer 4 lyf, Hilda is our Queen etc.

JonB

I wrote a little piece about this for the new EGM site, about the dynamics of power and control between player and characters:
https://egmnow.com/game-of-pawns-power-and-agency-in-fire-emblem-three-houses/

Nina

Nice article.

I started to see the whole "build your party" in a completely different light when someone mentioned that they killed every character they didn't like. For a game that wants you to keep them alive, that felt like such a rebel thing to do. Wish I thought of it myself.

I think you should technically be able to play it with just the avatar and class head of choice, think I've never seen another name in green during the main missions.

ayns

Enjoyed the article Jon.

Steaming through second playthrough as Blue Lions. Thoroughly enjoying the relationship shifts after steering Golden Deers in the first play through.

I've heard it's good for 4 playthroughs. Anyone got more info?

JonB

Yeah, it's a little different with the Black Eagles

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Edit: I assume that's what it is anyway. I haven't looked into it in detail or done all the routes.

mistercrayon

The worst universe version of it is that some unlock only exists if you do all four routes on one save file.

Frosty

JonB wrote:

Yeah, it's a little different with the Black Eagles

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A split in the story where you can choose your allegiance. But you can always keep a save just before and not redo the whole thing.

Edit: I assume that's what it is anyway. I haven't looked into it in detail or done all the routes.

Yeah that is basically it.

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I was a bit disappointed with the classes by the end of the game. There didn't always seem to be a natural progression from the advanced to master classes and I was having to fundamentally change a character to get them to fit. There also didn't seem any point getting Byleth or Edelgard to take one of the Master classes as they had their own unique option that seemed much better.

Think the only other thing that disappointed me was that the

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Oh yeah there was one other thing

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. Anyone know?

mistercrayon

You get to use it in that battle? Otherwise I think you’re right it’s all in the ether.

I see there’s no point in collecting items. About half way through my second route I ceased bothering with chests and items as your silver xxx was doing the job and time was more important to me.

Re: baddies

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SLEdge

Just finished a first run through, and it was good. Overall I found the 3D nature a bit awkward and usually had to change the camera angle to be as bird's eye as possible to mimic FE's of old.

My Byleth (female)

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Just wanted to finish the story before Astral Chain arrives.

mistercrayon

Hahaha. Recruitment in run three

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Wariospeedwagon

Good article Jon B; that goes a long way to explaining why I enjoyed the first half a lot more than the second.

mistercrayon wrote:

You get to use it in that battle? Otherwise I think you’re right it’s all in the ether. I see there’s no point in collecting items. About half way through my second route I ceased bothering with chests and items as your silver xxx was doing the job and time was more important to me. Re: baddies

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I the half arsed nature of the empire ending is weird. It’s almost like they gave up on it in a lot of ways - maybe it would raise questions like: hey Edelgard you were mates with peeps who killed my dad. Also what was the point of killing him?!!

Just finished my first run and got that ending

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mistercrayon

Haha got to half way in blue lions and

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The Daddy

Edit: this is not the whisky thread!

regmcfly

mistercrayon wrote:

Haha got to half way in blue lions and

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lunatic shades dmitri is pretty fun way to see something I’ve seen thrice the same way before

I hated this and then I love it

JonB

Truth is, I ditched this the moment I had something else to play. I mean, it's fine but never fully compelling.

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