Learning to Love Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Detailing my first successful brush with the Fire Emblem series, and how it eased me into things much better than previous titles.

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Learning to Love Fire Emblem Retrospective Review KingK

[theastrawolf]

Since you seem to be a fan of the Pulse, Echoes might attract you in that sense, as Mila's Turnwheel there is basically this mechanic.

[FletcherReedsRandomness]

It's nice to see so much positivity surrounding Three Houses, especially after how controversial Fates was.

[SnaggletoothOriginal]

“As big class reunions go... this one’s gotta be the worst in history.”

[CyanYoh]

Welcome to series. Hopefully you don't hate your stay.

[rtiq]

The Turnwheel/Divine Pulse is really useful when God decides that this random enemy with a 3% chance to crit really needs to ruin my day.

[tobathetura]

"no cheery fun time"

Bruh the golden deers would like a word with you

[longers]

"Spoilers... but not for the Golden Deer route."

Welp, that's the only one I've played. So I guess I'll be watching the rest of this video in another few weeks

[hylianfelldragon]

With the older games, you aren't meant to train every single unit. The avarage amount of units that you get in each Fire Emblem game is 40 but in a single playthrough, you really only need to train like 8-11 of them and ignore the rest.

[Lastofthemohaggens]

Worth knowing that in the older games you could ignore the weapon triangle 90% of the time after the first few chapters since a good unit will do well against anyone pretty much regardless of weapon.

[olimar]

Honestly the best advice I can give for going back and playing some of the older FE games is don’t be afraid to let units die, while it can suck losing a unit, it’s normally much better than tearing your hair out replaying the game. Part of the Reason some games feel like they have such an overwhelming amount of characters is because you refuse to let them die. The games are balanced around losing units, so even if someone dies you can continue on and get a replacement. Also after hearing you’re review you should definitely play Echoes, it has Divine Pulse and is similar in 3H in terms of how the roster is handled. From their I’d definitely go into Path of Radiance, and then Radiant Dawn. But either way, welcome to Fire Emblem!

[mushroomsoda]

when you're talking about the battle at gronder field during the blue lions route, and how you attacked the golden deer house first, it really was the thing that brought my attention to how differently people view strategies in this game.
You decided that attacking them was the best course of option, but when I played through my first time, it was my second playthrough, my first having been the golden deer. I couldn't bring myself to attack claude or any of his units, so i fled completely from their side of the map, targeting edelgard's side, wishing and hoping that if I _just defeated her, _ i could talk things out with claude. i managed to go a whole seven/eight turns without attacking a single alliance member. and when I beat the imperial army and realized the battle was still going on, my heart broke. I knew claude most likely was going to retreat, but i couldn't bring myself to even attack him.
He was already on my side of the map, so I managed to defeat him quickly, but, as you said in your video, it didn't feel good. But I still got through it with minimal casualties to the alliance side, which, was never mentioned, but I felt rewarded for having done, seeing as how you side with them in the blue lions route anyways.

[Tacomster]

This was my first Fire Emblem game, Game of the Year for me

[Steelbleeder]

100% reccomend playing fire emblem echoes, while there isn't exactly marriage managing there's still fully voice acted supports and come characters do get together in the end

[ericsiegel]

Regarding Divine Pulses: I don't think it's unreasonable at all that you say you may have dropped the game without them. I think while the game maybe offers you a few too many of these towards the end, they remove all of the tedium of having to redo a map simply because you made one small mistake or - god forbid - an enemy crits you.

[MasterEnex]

After learning to Love "Fire Emblem" there is another stage you'll arrive sooner or later "Learning to Hate Fire Emblem in general"

Welcome to the club =3

[theadamsapple]

I like your idea that there are no happy endings in Three Houses, which I believe represents the strong anti-war message that the game holds. However, I strongly recommend giving the Golden Deer a playthrough, as I think it's the closest we get to a happy ending, with the casualties being mostly minimal and the explanations given throughout. You actually get closure on some plot threads that are flat out ignored in the other playthroughs. Great video overall though! Also love your analyses, was considering making one for the game too!

[Pichu]

Just so you know, in other games you aren't supposed to use every unit you get. You're supposed to build a team of 10-12 out of the 40 or so you get.

Also, Fire Emblem retrospective when?

[leandrocrivelatti]

This is the most positive reception I've seen a game in this franchise get since becoming entangled with it, I'm glad more people are getting the elegant beauty it's built on top of simplicity all over these years.

[Sakurabliss]

Welcome to the series! Three Houses truly is a great game, and an excellent gateway game into the series!
I initially expected the standard FE game, but the story and characters are so engrossing that it's crazy!
The Blue Lions route was the first game to make me cry, like damn, these characters were like my children! Seeing them overcome their struggles and hardships and work to make a brighter future has never felt so rewarding. All the routes are great, and they're all worth experiencing since they're pretty much different story lines. Glad you picked it up!

[Rookie]

This got me hooked. Seems like I have to buy Three Houses now :D