Fire Emblem: Three Houses

I tried to replay this the other day after finsihing the Edelgard route at launch and I could not get back into it at allll. While I really enjoyed the game on my first playthrough the thought of going through the whole Academy sections again suddenly seemed incredibly exhausting to me.

Maybe again in like 5 years...

was seriously disappointed that three of four routes essentially copy and paste the same plot beats. replaying to get the full picture is a slog, and the story in the end wasnt even interesting enough to warrant multiple playthroughs. maybe if the maps weren't insanely boring it wouldn't have bothered me as much? also, having gender locked classes again after fates basically abandoned the idea outside of dlc classes is really fucking stupid.

this games map design is so boring lol

i like this less and less as time goes on lol

Part of me thinks this is the best Fire Emblem game that I've played and part of me thinks it's the worst. I could easily write a fairly redundant essay about it, but the first half of Azure Moon setting up reasons why the church is bad only to treat anyone who doesn't like the church like the devil in the 2nd half is the thing that bothers me most about the game so far.

ill be getting invested in the story of this game and then out of nowhere someone will say the corniest thing ive ever heard and it takes me right out of the game

Maybe it’s an issue with the route I took (golden deer) but after finishing the game I found myself very unimpressed. The story felt incredibly predictable to me and it feels like it falls back on the tropes I’ve seen in previous FE games. By the end of the story I was completely checked out, and it’s incredibly baffling to me that the game ends so abruptly especially with the emphasis on your relationships with other people. No goodbye, the game just ends after you get married. Okay I guess