The one thing that fixes Fire Emblem 3 Houses (also happy 5th anniversary)

Celebrating Fire Emblem Three Houses' 5th anniversary, Jason presents his case on how to improve the game with one small fix making it easier to replay the game and play all of its different routes.

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[duyanhpham]

In Edelgards defense nobody would buy a fire emblem game without war

[Ajia_No_Envy]

If we ever get a remake, we need to get a dedicated Golden deer route, one where Almyra is more included in the story. Holst would be playable and like Edelgard's route, it would be locked behind certain conditions.

I would also love to see the Ashen wolves get an entire route to themselves. Akin to not revelations, having no faction, they navigate the war period trying to help out those closest to them. As the ashen wolves all have people they care about from each faction. The war part of the game could have you recruit the other characters from each faction such as hilda, Ashe, etc. Instead of recruiting characters in the academy phase.

[megashyguy]

The only small fix I want is to have Rhea as the lead for SS. As long as I can get my church peeps and get a more focused fight against the slithers and learn more about them while kicking their tech in then I’d be fine.

[DSeditor]

Mixing houses in part 1 and deciding the house to stay for part 2 is SO GENIUS 😯

[bashfulpanda]

I was just going to say remove genderlock on classes

[ramones]

I never understood people who complained that 3H reuses stuff, especially in the school phase, cuz like, have you never replayed a game before? thats literally what replaying a game is. and did you think you were gunna get 3 whole ass different games for 1 price tag?

[illusionofquality]

I had a similar solution in mind.
Each month has a mission and you should be able to pick which House leads the expedition each month. Since Byleth has more field experience than Manuela and Hanneman, it wouldn't be weird why they are the professors leading all the time.
Depending on the mission, some characters for other Houses will insists on joining you (like Ashe for Chapter 3, Leoni for Chapter 10, Edelgarde for Chapter 8, all of which can be declained by the player, but then they will skip on some bonus dialogue), but you can ask a character from other houses to join you on the adventure if you favorite isn't in the House you want to lead.
For Chapter 9, you will meet up with the House Leader you chose the most often during the other chapters, if it's a tie, then it's based on support level/points to make the come back promise.
Chapter 11 is when you actually decide your house. All house leaders are at the Rite, Dimitri goes berserk and Edelgarde is exposed. Here you get a few options, protect Edelgarde (self-explanatory Black Eagle route), fight against her (Blue Lions), don't get involved with the conflict and see how it plays out (Golden Deer) or regroup by getting church forces to fight off the invasion (Church route and Ashen Wolves could auto-join here if you did DLC but didn't recruit them by that point so that there will be enough people in that house). Then based on how much support you had people from other houses will join you. It's a bit silly when all you have to do is to ride a pegasus well for someone to leave their lord permanently.

Even without a replay point, each person would be able to have unique White Cloud experience where their choices matter.

[joeyjose]

Sometimes people come up with ways to redo 3H that I don’t like, but wow this would’ve been cool! I love the idea of Edelgard calling Byleth “my teacher” not being weird because she’s not reallyyyy their student in non Black Eagles routes. There’s so much potential for a more focused story in this, I love the dedicated chapters ESPECIALLY Leonie avenging Jeralt’s death. If Intelligent Systems ever tries to do a route split again, I think something like this would be amazing

[seanrea]

Given that the accadamy phase is the only time to recrute from outside your class, it is important to have, so i propose an alternate option. To borrow from the dlc, the first missions are with the class leads and a selection of students from the rest of the class with geralt and aluise playable on the "return" arc, say 4 battles, the introduction battle, a spar match against the holy knights, an encounter with wild beast, and an encounter with bandits with your allies in ready order. Seeing your skills, you are recommended as an instructor and pick your house, you soend the same smount of time in the accadamy to permit recruitment but instead of away misdions focused on the kingdom, the missions are focused on the region for the house you chose, the monistary missions remain the same. But the training missions and mock battles are removed for more away missions for either the monistary, or the house. With the split, the choice to side with or against the church is with all houses which means loosing either demitri or edlgard with claude following your choice but choosing to follow through in targeting those who slither in the dark as the root of the war.

[jord]

I've had similar ideas in the past. I think my biggest criticism is that the mission selection you have is really lopsided with the Blue Lions being used up all earlier (which may give players too much exposure to them and too much experience with them early and bias them towards the units they're used to) and Golden Deer and Black Eagles too late (where their development will have been less under your control and you get your second week with the Deer literally right before the big choice decision.)

I would argue a separate set-up:
Chapter 1/Mock Battle - Choose Your House
Chapter 2/Zanado - Give to the Black Eagles so Edelgard is examining this mysterious professor and how they deal with Kostas in person.
Chapter 3 - Keep with Blue Lions
Chapter 4/The Rite - Give to the Golden Deer, not just because investigating an assassination scheme is up Claude's alley more, but you didn't mention that Claude actually gets a unique cutscene in VW for the SotC about "Could I even use it? Damn it, here's no telling what's to come now" which would cast suspicion on him or make him interesting in terms of the player's suspicions about the Flame Emperor's true identity.
Chapter 5 - Keep with Blue Lions
Chapter 6 - Keep with Golden Deer
Chapter 7 - Choose Your House
Chapter 8 - Keep Black Eagles
Chapter 9 - Change to Black Eagles only, given "Monica's" importance and work that into the script
Chapter 10 - Keep as Golden Deer with Leonie's motivation
Chapter 11 - After screwing around with the other houses, Rhea forces you to command the Blue Lions as part of her plans, so every single player gets to see the "Is this some kind of twisted joke?!" scene for future decisions.
Chapter 12 - Choose Your House

It removes more choices, but it lets you have more required even exposure across all three routes, and if the goal is to make White Clouds skippable, I honestly think it makes *more* sense to have fewer choice missions so that you're less disadvantaged if you do skip them.

[markwalker]

I really need them to expand on some smaller details and lore surrounding Sothis and Nabateans because it has implications for the larger FE verse.
For example, if Sothis directly " created " humans as the Argathans stated, that means that humans in Fodlan aren't completely human compared to humans on the outside.
They're more like Draconic Humonculi.
Which i think is pretty huge.
Especially because it doesn't seem like magic or technology is necessary for this process, it seems like something Nabateans can do biologically.
Being able to create new different forms of life or alter existing as a natural ability.

[Princesse]

9:58 id argue it’s Claude since he’s like a schemer and he’d try to uncover who’s behind all of this

[ayyderek]

bro at 6:18 that song fro fire emblem fates I forgot about it so thank you for being it back to be it's an amazing song

[isleschild]

Conversely, I think that having your time cut down with each house in this fashion would a) make the world flatter with less character, as the appearance that the houses you DONT pick have their own unique story fades b) diminish the importance of each individual character in the game, as the time you spend with each is reduced and most importantly c) centers the story more on Byleth than ever before, rather than allowing what focus can be achieved on the house lord and his or her faction.

Currently, you are forced to / you GET to watch as each lord reveals his or her philosophy and try to substantiate it during the school arc.

[JoeSmith-dbrq]

My piping hot take is that I prefer it the way that 3 Houses has it 😅

I understand that it’s harder to get into for a 1st play through, but I think it’s better for repeat playthroughs. While the first chapters are very repetitive (and admittedly there should be fewer of them before it branches off), that encourages the player to engage more with the characters and discover their unique traits, which is a major general focus of the game. And also, with the proposed solution of breaking up the chapters between houses, that’s time lost for developing the units you’ll use for the rest of the game. So much of the point is developing your late-game builds, and you just lost 4 chapters of experience/tutoring/class experience to get there with that change. That limits how busted you can make your units (which is a huge pay off imo) and makes the mid game less interesting since you haven’t had time to specialize as much yet. In a perfect world that’s fine because the game could just be made 4 chapters longer… but with 3H’s development, that wouldn’t have been an option :(

[brendanwiley]

I like how there was such a strong reaction to the lack of Fates's worldbuilding, most commonly shown with how there isn't even a name for the continent the game takes place on, that for the next new entry they decided fuck it, here's litterally 1000 years of history and conflicts since yall want it so bad.

[AshenDust_]

I would make chapters 1, 2, and 9 choose your house for you, rather than letting you pick one. With 4 whole chapters that you can choose who to lead, it makes knowing which house you’ll choose before the timeskip a massive advantage because of how much xp and class mastery you’ll be getting, incentivizing players to play through White Clouds 3 separate times, which was the very thing you were trying to avoid.

I would make Chapter 1 the Golden Deer, Chapter 2 the Black Eagles and Chapter 9 the Blue Lions. Chapter 2 being the Black Eagles makes the most sense because Edelgard is the one who hired Kostas and the Flame Emperor appears in a cutscene after the battle. That means Chapter 1 should be the Golden Deer or else you wouldn’t play them for the first 5 chapters of the game, and Chapter 9 being the Blue Lions works well because it’s sandwiched between Black Eagles and Golden Deer chapters.

[BobbyCorwen]

Nice idea honestly, thought it would take additional fixes to work in the quirks of its progress system (i.e. proficiencies & class experience). If you jump right into part 2, you're left with the rough decision of getting each unit a set of classes that would not be malleable, not to mention picking a dancer on the spot. I'm not against it, but I'm 100% convinced that a large part of the community would take issue with things like this.

[matthewsimon]

My changes, before watching the video, are:

- no Gender lock on classes

- make Claude and Dede able to romance male byleth, for even supports between the lords

- give Claude and his fellow nobles supports with one another, allowing Claude to potentially have unique Part 2 scenarios, dividing further from Silver Snow

- and finally, mix the houses so you have a more informed choice, and supports tie into which Lord you join in Part 2.

[pepeelghetto]

One extremely easy way to fix three houses would've been to only have 1 free week every month. And also increase the tutoring weapon exp and such by x4 so It evens out with how It currently works.
Feel like It'd greatly reduce the monastery time.