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The game that forever killed my favorite franchise. If Three houses was it's own IP and not a Fire emblem game, then I would of given it a far greater score. Maybe an 8. But this is Fire emblem. Like it or not, this is the direction Fire Emblem is going in. A weird persona wannabe simulation game instead of being... you know, a solid tactical RPG like the series is meant to be. After playing Fortune's weave I am now confident that my fears that Three houses would forever ruin Fire emblem were well founded. I wish Three houses never existed so that maybe Fire emblem might still be good today... But no, instead we get this crap.

I've put well over 100 hours into the game. I absolutely love it, it certainly has a lot of flaws ranging from the repeated background assets and graphics looking horrible at times. However, the positives far outweigh the negatives with the stellar story, fun classical Fire Emblem battles along with the Persona feeling of relationship building inside of the game. The absolutely coolest thing that Three Houses accomplishes that I've never experienced in a game before is that dependant on the house you pick, you see the game in an entirely different light compared to someone else who picked another house. Example that puts light into this is that it would be like u playing Slytherin and learning about how good Snape can be and how Dumbledore can be treacherous whereas someone who plays Gryffindor would see it the other way around. Playing a different house is almost like playing a different game. What bogs it down is the first act which is almost the same in all 3 houses but act 2 differs greatly. Highly recommend playing it

Three Houses expanded on the life Awakening breathed into this series by delivering it's most fleshed out cast and compelling story. The beauty of the game is that there's no weak link amongst each of the three stories. The introduction of batallions and ability to see the armies each unit makes the game seem more real, which is something we haven't seen since Radiant Dawn with its immense fodder units to control along with your main cast.

I've played 300 hours of this game a while ago when they added Byleth to Smash, I also played Awakening and Fates. I just don't get the hype, after careful thinking this game and these series are a mess, not because it's a visual novel and tactical jrpg, stories about bloodlines, honour, pride and cavalry bore me. Also lot of characters have bad designs imo, way too colorful. The system of decisions that makes you spend 100 hours on each route or more, depending if you want to do every secondary thing and the difficulty you chose is just Bad. There are other games out there of the same genre that makes what this game does but just better. Also it really pisses me off how Nintendo decides to keep adding characters of this franchise to Smash and Intelligent Systems do more of these games than of Paper Mario... I'm so over it already, **** Fire Emblem

Its like if Persona was even worse, and with some of the most abysmal map design ever made. Edelgard was right, 20 more years of discourse.

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Amazing game overall. Supports multiple play throughs, and the combat was fantastic. Only criticism is that the calendar rotation became pretty repetitive

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Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a masterpiece. From beginning to end, I was completely hooked by its excellent story, memorable characters, and impressive world-building. The tactical combat is deeply addictive, but the progression systems are what really kept me invested. Training characters, changing their classes, unlocking new abilities, and carefully building the perfect army gives every battle a satisfying sense of purpose. Permadeath is also essential in a tactical RPG like this, as it makes every decision feel genuinely important. Without spoiling anything, something happens roughly seventy percent into the story that completely blew me away. It transformed an already fantastic experience into something truly unforgettable. The choice between three different houses also gives the game enormous replay value. Each route offers a different perspective on the world, its characters, and the central conflict, making multiple playthroughs feel worthwhile rather than repetitive. For me, this is a perfect game within its genre. Anyone interested in tactical JRPGs—or tactical RPGs in general—should absolutely play it. Fire Emblem: Three Houses is one of the very best the genre has to offer.

You get to choose between 3 nobles and their houses, there are essentially 4 total routes possible and what you choose determines which units you keep. I most recently finished the Edelgard Crimson Flower route within about a month of about 2 hrs per day on average. Of all the Fire Emblem franchise, this is by far the easiest game. I like the customizability of characters, but your maps are repetitive and boring. The running around as professor gets annoying and tedious after a while. You can skip this, so it's good it's fairly easy so you don't miss much. I also have Engage, and I've played that through, 3H doesn't have weapons triangle which Engage does. It is also an easy game.

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Fire Emblem is a game series I had never played before but was interested in trying. I sporadically started playing Fire Emblem: Blazing Blade and was really surprised how much I enjoyed both the gameplay and story. I didn't get to finish the story, but I did become interested in the series as a whole. I managed to catch Three Houses on sale and jumped at the chance to pick it up and play through it. I decided to go with the Blue Lions house without doing any research ahead of time, and I enjoyed my time getting to know all the different characters, figuring out the best way to maximize my free time, and teaching the students so they could progress through the different classes. My biggest gripe at the moment is that it felt like I spent 30+ hours getting to know all my students and getting them each to a master class, and then the ending was somewhat anticlimactic. My chosen storyline did wrap up pretty well, especially for Dimitri, but I would say the final missions left me a little unsatisfied. Now I understand that there are still three more storylines for me to play through, and if I had researched ahead of time I might have picked a different storyline to start with, but here we are. I do intend to return and play through some of the other storylines, but for now I need a bit of a break and change of pace. I give Fire Emblem: Three Houses an 8/10, and I intend to come back and update my review if and when I play through some of the other storylines. With the next Fire Emblem game coming later this year, I will be interested to see how it compares to Three Houses.

I am speechless in the amount of lore and characterization of this game’s narrative. The more I play, the more I want to know. The first playthrough is just the tip of the iceberg. I am historically allergic to replayable games, but this one’s gotten me hooked. 130 hours and still wish to come home and play a little of it in the evening

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Master classe le RPG tactical par excellence vous incarnez un professeur le plus fort , vous devez vous occuper des élevés , histoire dingue plein de rebondissement après rebondissement nous sauverons le monde coute que coute

It looks good oc, but unfortunately altho it add life sim or school sim, the core it is still the same game but with different skins. Weirdly enough the gba fire emblem is more addictive than this one.

Well well well, its basically 4 games in 1. And the Black Eagle Route is the most underrated route.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses is one of the best games I've ever played. It's one of those rare games that I actually beat, and then immediately booted up another playthrough, which I pretty much never do. The last time I played through a game I've already beaten was in 2009 when I replayed Pokemon Platinum. I'm not kidding. So the fact that I finished Three Houses and wanted to keep playing speaks volumes to how good **** it actually is. A few of the highlights of the game were: the characters (Edelgard and Dimitri in particular were some of the best characters I've seen in a video game), the voice acting was exceptional, the tactical combat was fun and satisfying, and the social sim stuff was pretty good as well, though it started to overstay its welcome towards the end. The star of the show for Three Houses though was the story, which is, yet again, one of the best I've ever seen in a game. It deals with some incredibly complex world building, alongside some great twists. The 4 paths you can take in this game just make things even more interesting, as they provide tons of replayability to see the story play out in different ways. My only minor complaints about this game (keeping it from a 10) are that it suffers from some of the anime-isms that plague a lot of Japanese content, like characters doing stuff that normal people would never do in the real world (for instance making promises for stupid things and then being overly zealous about fulfilling this promise to move along the plot). I also didn't love some of the weirder elements of the lore, some of the monster designs, religious aspects, etc. The lore was also downright confusing at times, and I don't think some elements of it are explained well. The graphics were also pretty mid. I get that there were hardware limitations, but compared to Luigi's Mansion 3, some of the Xenoblade games, BOTW, etc. this game is pretty meh to look at. Overall though, Fire Emblem: Three Houses is an incredible game that I thoroughly enjoyed from start to finish, in my opinion (even in spite of the graphics and story problems), it's the best game on the Switch because of its unique mix of fun (and dare I say addicting) tactical combat, engaging social sim stuff, deep story, and lovable characters.

This game was too easy and the whole shoehorned in social system made the game drag on not that the actual battles were any good. Fire Three Houses is more dumbed down then awakening and awakening was already babies first RPG. I beat one playthrough and never came back. I'll take Fire Emblem Path Of Radiance and Blazing Sword over this dumbed down trash any day.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a great example of how modern conventions can make an old game formula feel fresh. I have always described Fire Emblem as Anime-Chess because even though it is a tactics game akin to the Mercenaries Saga and Final Fantasy Tactics, this installment feels far more like I am playing Risk than a tactics game. The music in this game does not disappoint, and i hope to some day get this OST on the Nintendo Music app. The addition of the school scene makes the characters feel far more developed because you can experience the character progression. I can better select the characters im willing to invest time and effort into. I deffo get Hogwarts vibes when roaming the plaza. I have a terrible habit of restarting an entire battle when a character I want to love dies, so the addition of the "undo button" takes a lot of stress off. Unlike the oldest of Fire Emblems, this game has sub-battles where you can grind a character and beef their stats, but to its detriment, it made those battles feel more empty to me. There are no stakes and I feel no pressure if a character falls in battle because technically I could have chosen not to fight at all. A calendar system was added to make the chapters have more depth, which i actually think is a great touch. Each week, the students would have class, then at the end of the week I can choose to roam the school, take a rest to boost motivation, or battle random bandits. The calendar was a good way to let the player budget what to do with their time, but it made my 3rd week of battles feel bland and pointless. Overall, the story is fine. I didn't feel as engaged in Byleth as I did Corrin or Marth. Even though Byleth has a connection to the goddess of this world, I never really felt like there was payoff or anything that made Byleth's connection worth it. I still like this game and look forward to the next installment.

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Fire Emblem Three Houses is an incredible experience. To the wonderful cast of characters, the gripping story, and the engaging gameplay.

A hard game to review since the different routes deserve different scores. As such, I will focus on the route I played first, which is also the best in the game: the Blue Lions route (Golden Deer deserves the same score but the other two do not have the same quality). Amazing story, with an incredibly well realized cast of characters. The monastery was a great addition to keep the battles from getting boring all the way through, though the maps leave a bit to be desired.

Es la mezcla perfecta entre estrategia militar y drama escolar. Básicamente, sos un profesor que entrena a sus alumnos para la guerra, y lo que lo hace increíble es que la historia cambia totalmente según la "casa" que elijas al **** mejor: No solo peleas; pasás mucho tiempo en la academia conociendo a los personajes, lo que hace que te duela el triple cuando se enfrentan entre sí años **** gancho: Es súper adictivo ver cómo tus estudiantes pasan de ser novatos a máquinas de guerra personalizadas por **** resumen: Es largo y tiene mucho diálogo, pero la carga emocional y la libertad táctica valen totalmente la pena.

Muy divertido si Fire Emblem saliera para PC ganaria una pasta. Ha sido el juego que me has prestado que más horas le he echado.

This game is amazing. I put about 300hrs straight into the game before I even got somewhat burnt out. Although the monastery is a little tedious towards the end of the game, you don’t even need to go to it to advance. Do the blue lions first, then the golden deer, then the Church and then the empire. THIS GAME IS SO GOOD DO NOT LISTEN TO THE NEGATIVITY

The best story within the franchise so far (very low bar), but replayability is low. However the attempt to not make a golden route is respectable and most of the leaders' views have merits.

Other than pacing, this is a really fun game to sink quite a few hours into.

amazing story, charmyn characters, great gameplay but graphics can inprove, also teh DLC is worthy the new story is so fun

There are things I both like, and dislike about Fire Emblem Three Houses, as someone who's played Fire Emblem since the very beginning in the West (being the 7th game). The first I like about Three Houses are that the multiple routes are all included in one game, and the perspectives add a lot of replay value to a Fire Emblem game that others don't really have. Combat is improved by all characters being able to use all weapon types, but able to benefit by working on certain abilities. Skills and battalions can add new tactical depth tp the game, making strategy top notch for this game. And you can even recruit other characters from different houses into your army by training certain stats, which adds a lot of management, but it's also a weak point to me. It's very overwhelming for no reason, and the hub area is something I really dislike, because rather than feel rewarded for doing certain tasks, it always feels like I'm doing the wrong option. I feel like Three Houses was on the right track for a hub area, but Engage managed to make it better. I feel like if Three Houses had Engage's hub, it would be a 10/10 game. It's a solid game, aided by an excellent story and characters, with new wrinkles added to combat, but the hub area is what drags it back for me. For me, Three Houses is a very solid 8/10.

Una obra maestra, que todo amante del genero deberia de jugar y el mejor fire emblem hasta la fecha.

Engaging gameplay, immersive world, and endless fun! A must-play for all gamers seeking excitement and adventure.

Очень прикольная в плане менеджемента персонажей,инвентаря,умений и прочего игра,прям кайф Сами персонажи интересные , да и история сама неплоха Но геймплей если честно так себе,да и последние 10% игры очень нудные ибо делать уже особо нечего

Relationship building, grid style combat, great voice acting. This game hits the mark on what the devs set out to do, simple yet detailed. The 3 main story lines is an exceptional idea to create interest in replay ability and new story content. Highly recommend for anyone with a bit of patience early on to get into the story.

Quite repetitive but its a great game to pick up and play for short to medium gaming sessions as the story is easy to follow. The social aspects are well implemented and theres decent replay value as well given the branching storylines.

Why has every random dude played this i did not know what to do during the school phase and didnt know it was gonan be taht important

Sooooooo much content, soooooo much charm, and a very well-balanced game. Hoping for more games in this style on Switch 2.

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A good successor after Fates and Awakening. Yet it fails to capture the same magic of its predecessors. Still, it is a massively better game than Engage.

I absolutely loved this game. The RPG side combined with turn-based combat was perfect for me. I loved the whole teachingsystem that allows you to build your team and the fact that you can choose three paths that the game can take - which is nothing new for FE, but I still loved how you can piece together the story from multiple points of view. The combat system is extremely intricate based not only on weapons, but on classes and how well you grow your house. It's easy to play and master in easy and intermediate mode, I haven't tried the maddening mode but that's a challenge worth taking imo. Perfect story that unfolds slowly. Talking to the characters gives all sorts of clues as to what happenedand it made me feel more motivated to win each battle. It even has these updates on what happened to each character at the end. Overall, a fun and compelling game. I hope they do more of that.

Best game I ever played. Epic story, I played all main routes and still don't feel burned out. 100% recommended

I did not know how this was going to play. My only complaint is it wasn't as long as I wanted it to be but it is truly one of the best games on this system.

I like Jeritza, the Death Knight—he's like Lü Bu at Hulao Gate, cutting down enemies single-handedly

I loved the battles and the gameplay within the battles. Although I hated the life sim component as I found very boring to spend so much time leveling up the support and affinity of students and teacher (Hanging out with students and giving them presents, wtf?) . In addition, the font size is so small that it is completely unplayable on handheld mode.

Best strategy game for decades and I recommend the DLC as well since it fleshed out the story and characters!

Fire Emblem: Three Houses delivers brilliant tactical gameplay, deep storytelling, and unforgettable characters, making it a must-play strategy RPG

Honestly, I like the graphics way more than other people seem to. I don't have any issues with the character models and I don't care about the maps supposedly lacking detail, it's never bothered me and everything does as it's meant to. There's some pop-up sometimes around the monastery/NPCs appearing out of nowhere when they load, but I can easily ignore that. There are so many characters that I'd be surprised if you can't find a solid few you really enjoy. They're very varied in personality and appearance, though the character writing varies from "complex and in-depth" (Edelgard, Dimitri, Rhea) to "basically one major personality trait" (Raphael, Bernadetta, Cyril). My personal favourites are Claude, Sylvain, Hilda, Lorenz, Leonie, Yuri, Manuela, Hanneman, and Raphael (sure, I listed him as an example of objectively one-note writing, but I could still write you a whole essay on this guy). I love the Golden Deer as a collective, though. I really like the combat in this game. It's the first time I've played anything like this, and it's one of very very few games where I go out of my way to participate in fights because I want to, or where I find myself thinking "man I feel like doing some combat in that video game right now". The dialogue options outside of battle are silly, though - it's the most blatant case of "two options that are just reworded ways to say the exact same thing and get the exact same response" I've ever seen. Multiplayer is functionally non-existent. All it is is that if you have your online mode turned on, glowing circles will appear on battlefields signifying where other players have died or killed a unit often and granting you some XP or basic items if you stand on those spots, as well as giving you stat pages in loading screens that show things like who the most popular character for players to take to tea that month or what the most frequently fed animal at the Monastery is. Overall, this is a great game. I've played through Golden Deer 4 times so far (one for each gender of Byleth so I could S-support everyone in it, then starting over and doing the same again to refresh myself after ages of not playing), 2 runs of Blue Lions, and I'm currently finishing up my second go at Silver Snow before moving on to Edelgard's route. Taking a point off because White Clouds is mind-numbingly annoying to get through if you're replaying it often like I am since it doesn't vary by route, the romantic M/M options are pretty trash (one single gay romance option in the base-game before two more were added with paid DLC, one of those being route-specific, is crazy in a game with dozen and dozens of straight ones) and for more minor issues like the dialogue options thing, but I can't justify rating it lower - I still really like it and it's definitely one of my favourite games.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a very good, but extremely flawed game. First off, the story is an incredibly mixed bag. Ignoring the DLC (which I have not played), the story can be divided into 4 routes. The Verdant Wind route is carried by the characters and the final boss, but is overall a pretty good story, while Silver Snow and Crimson Flower both make me want to tear my hair out with how awful they were written. Edelgard and Rhea are so badly characterized in these routes it is shocking. What really carries the story in my eyes is the Azure Moon route. Watching Dimitri's progression as a character is incredible, with even the earlier pre-timeskip parts being enhanced in this routes compared to others since Ashe and Sylvain having big parts that are only emphasized in this route. I am not going into detail since I don't want to spoil anything, just now of the few FE games I have played, this route has the best story. The mechanics are at their best in this series, with one major flaw. This game really should have used the weapons triangle. Nevertheless, all of the other mechanics are great. Teaching your students to make them better at certain skills feels rewarding, battalions are a natural inclusion that makes you feel like a genius when playing, the recruitment system is a simple yet effective way to increase your army without feeling overpowered and the option to play without permadeath is great to someone who isn't the biggest fan of the mechanic. I also like how you have to plan differently to fight the Beasts than when you fight human opponents. Playing the game feels great. The characters in the game are great. I know I just said that I hate the way Edelgard is written, but that is exclusively in her route. In the other 3, she is a great character that makes you think a lot and serves as a great comparison to the protagonists of each respective protagonist. Most of the students are very well written too, with Sylvain, Dorothea, Mercedes, Lysisthea, Flaynn, Seteth and Dedue being my favourties. Even some of the less liked characters, like Cyril, Hanneman, Caspar and Leonie, are characters that I still enjoy. But the stars of the show are Claude and Dimitri. Claude is just an absolute blast to have around, with him just being one of the most charming characters to engage with, and he has a lot of depth to him (which I will not spoil, go play the game). Dimitri has the best development in the game, and is one of my favourite characters not just in gaming, but in media all together. Not every character is great (Rhea, Gilbert and every antagonist except the Death Knight and the final boss of Golden Deer is pretty bad) but overall, the characters are great. Lastly, the atmosphere, both in the monastery and during combat is great. The monastery gives an opportunity to interact with the aforementioned great characters, and it feels so relaxing to just walk around in. It does get old after a while, but I think that has more to do with having over 100 hours and less to do with the game itself. The scenery in the combat is also great. While I don't use it often, sometimes I like using the zoom in mode to see my battalions and the scenery in greater detail. Just don't play too many auxiliary battles (they reuse the same maps too many times), and you will be fine. Overall, I loved my experience with the game, but there were some major hangups, mainly with the story. If the story was better in Silver Snow and Crimson Flower I could have given it a nine or even a ten if I feel a bit generous, but I can't do that since only half of the story is good. Still, would highly recommend this game. Just stick to Blue Lions and Goldeen Deer.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses, where do I begin, this game has awesome characters, awesome design, and an awesome appearance of Anna, the only thing I dislike about the game is that weapons rust instead of being destroyed completely when they lose all their durability, but otherwise it’s fine.

Pretty good game, however beign a game made for Nintendo, took a toil.. I took 39 hours to finish the Edelgard route, and I am not even interested on the other routes, at least not while this game is still on Switch. The Ending was lackluster, no answers at all, whole story was somewhat lacking, even the romance is weird at end the MC just *here take this ring like a piece of bread* and this is it, not even a hug or brush.. I loved the strategy and game setting, however the schedule was quite annoying, liked the characters, but this game needed more time.. shame on Nintendo.