It does feel like and everything or nothing game that also happens to be good. I remember a number of other people saying the same around fates.

I'm at the start of chapter 16, after 60-70 hours and I must say I'm slowly losing interest. I'm not really feeling it where they're going with the support conversations, and the non battle things are taking up too much time now. Doesn't help that it doesn't run very smoothly.

For the battles, I'm missing the weapon triangle, and the rewind function is a bit too good. Battles are taking more turns now, so that's good, and I have used the rewind a couple times now.

I enjoyed the characters in Awakenings a lot more, if I'm ever gonna do a replay of Three Houses with a different house, I don't think I'll bother with recruiting and just do auto everything's-that-possible.

I don’t want to really be on some pile on backlash because it feels like a disingenuous stance for someone who put in 150hr or so in the game but. There is this weird sense that while everything changes in five years it also doesn’t in the most bizarre ways. Like- seeds I planted have managed to bear fruit after five years. Or trivial conversations have follow ups (one where two people talk about a fight that happened in a previous shopping trip that happened five years before).

Should I let Lorenz die? He's the absolute worst.

Got five or six of his support vignettes to watch with other classmates and I think I'd rather just kill him off.

I'm still very early in a golden deer run.

He wants to have a "constructive and candid exchange of opinions" with Lysithea.

I can't deal with this.

I quite liked Lorenz in the end. He's still a bit of a cunt, mind.

I just made Felix my Dancer.

I'd recruited him to the Black Eagles and all he'd talk about is "The Boar Prince" and I don't think I was ever told who that was.

I thought it must be but there was no context for it too make any sense

Nothing more trying than reinforcements arriving mid battle in a long winding maze. And bonus never before hinted at boss at the end!

The rewind function is great though, far better than reloading an entire battle where the bottleneck or challenge comprises less than 10% of the overall event.

I did a mission last night which was a mid month excursion off to a previous location. Loaded it up and there are six or more wolves, eagles, a giant boar thing and they called for reinforcements twice at least.

Pretty satisfying win.

I think Im getting clearer on why I liked Awakening more than Fates and Echoes, and Three Houses does the same thing: it starves you of battle side stories so you always feel short of money, experience or resources.

The first bit goes for 12 chapters I assume. I think I just did 11 and some things happened.

Not a bad plan. Also the wii and GC games are simple as far as between mission faffing about is concerned. Some of the busy work is inane.

Turns out I stumbled onto the least likely route in the game.

Im on ch16 of that path now. It does go rather quickly and its kind of easy too (hard, classic).