Fire Emblem: Three Houses

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8.8

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  1. Profyt
    Jan 31, 2020
    2
    This game is terribly boring. The main point is to run around in circles reading dialogue, doing fetch quests and checking out the waifus. Even anime fans probably wouldn't like this game because the gameplay is soo boring! The combat isn't really innovative or very exciting, its ur typical tactical rpg stuff, deploy some dudes, run them to various terrains- use magic, melee or rangedThis game is terribly boring. The main point is to run around in circles reading dialogue, doing fetch quests and checking out the waifus. Even anime fans probably wouldn't like this game because the gameplay is soo boring! The combat isn't really innovative or very exciting, its ur typical tactical rpg stuff, deploy some dudes, run them to various terrains- use magic, melee or ranged attacks, kill the enemy- then run around hogwarts for another 20 minutes.
    idk, i guess some people are into it, but its a huge time sink just to read tons of dialogue...    … Expand
  2. Endrance09
    Jul 28, 2019
    0
    Don't waste your money on this trash game that looks like the PS2 era. Play 3 hours with 0 gameplay
  3. xaurax
    Jul 27, 2019
    0
    Malo con ganas y aburrido. Dando vueltas sin hacer nada. Si lo sé no lo compro
  4. Kleptomacer
    Oct 15, 2019
    0
    Obnoxious characters and boring story line make this game not worth playing. Avoid.
  5. Promotheus
    Oct 30, 2020
    0
    I like the Fire Emblem franchise so I decided to give this one a try out of sheer covid boredom. If you do not like anime aesthetics, or tropes when it comes to story telling and characters, give this one a pass. I understand that they are going for a Harry Potter thing with the three houses and all. But it makes zero sense to send young literally children out into war to be killed (not toI like the Fire Emblem franchise so I decided to give this one a try out of sheer covid boredom. If you do not like anime aesthetics, or tropes when it comes to story telling and characters, give this one a pass. I understand that they are going for a Harry Potter thing with the three houses and all. But it makes zero sense to send young literally children out into war to be killed (not to mention everyone being so casual about it).

    The characters are very stereotypical and predictable, you have your awkward shy emo girl who self quarantines even though there’s no pandemic and so on. The male characters are pretty much all this Japanese male ideal of being very thin and effeminate, which is fine it’s just a bit jarring as a westener.

    If you are Gen Z, and/or a weeb, you will love this game. Otherwise you will probably hate it like I do. It’s sad because the standard Fire Emblem tactical gameplay is fine, if only you didn’t have to deal with the chore of the dating sim/visual novel **** John Carmack said it best: ”Video games need a story just as much as a porn movie does”. I wish I could refund this but alas.    … Expand
  6. bruddawakka
    Jul 28, 2019
    0
    Awful graphics, awful romance options, broken unbalanced gameplay, way too easy,fix this immediately.
  7. pdecou
    Jul 26, 2019
    5
    it's different from the old fire emblems but it doesn't seem like a bad game after 8 hours, but the part in the academy isn't much fun to carry on.
    unfortunately the graphics are ugly, almost like the new pokemon. much better games come out on switch like dragon quest or valkyria chronicles, these results are unacceptable from nintendo.
  8. s1w1s
    Jul 30, 2019
    0
    Cons
    - Koei developer
    - Worst graphic
    - Worst user interface
    - Worst story
    - Battle is like retro game

    All the japan games in these days are bad.
    They only like your money.
  9. zxreo
    Dec 6, 2020
    0
    No gameplay. No ergonomy. No artistic direction. Grindy, waste of time. Play the GBA titles.
  10. sarisa
    Jul 27, 2021
    10
    Wow. Now this is a game!
    This game reminds me Attack on Titan anime in so many aspects: well expanded relationships between characters, astonishing music (strongest point in the game); various plots & twists; superb story involving real politics or strategy.
    I rarely give high notes for games. But this time it's well deserved 10 out of 10. Sure, this game has some problems -    Wow. Now this is a game!
    This game reminds me Attack on Titan anime in so many aspects: well expanded relationships between characters, astonishing music (strongest point in the game); various plots & twists; superb story involving real politics or strategy.
    I rarely give high notes for games. But this time it's well deserved 10 out of 10.

    Sure, this game has some problems - difficulty level called "normal" is way too easy.
    Some aspects about controlls like moving Byleth in monastery are, well... strange. Especially if you face even little drift in your joycon. Sure, some activities could be developed better, with more heart involved. They feel in generall like being little superficiall. But again, the game should always maintain proper balance. And it is what this game does.
    I never liked tactical RPGs, but this game is simply great. And I feel now being more interested in the genre. I want more!    … Expand
  11. Valkyrje
    Jan 7, 2021
    5
    So, after about 40h (some way into second part/act) I decided to drop this game. It was no longer enjoyable to me and I decided to not give in a sunken cost fallacy, as per my New Year's resolution :). I enjoyed the tactical gameplay until it rapidly became much too easy (I played on normal) but a myriad of not fun and full of anime-tropes activities on top of units micromanagement was tooSo, after about 40h (some way into second part/act) I decided to drop this game. It was no longer enjoyable to me and I decided to not give in a sunken cost fallacy, as per my New Year's resolution :). I enjoyed the tactical gameplay until it rapidly became much too easy (I played on normal) but a myriad of not fun and full of anime-tropes activities on top of units micromanagement was too much for me. If you like that, go ahead, but for me, I dream of a day when tactical games will give more freedom than old as a World moving on a square grid etc.… Expand
  12. amandra
    Jan 3, 2021
    3
    This game is very boring. I ended up dumping an above average amount of time into this because the reviews _must_ be justified eventually. They weren't and I'd love to have that time back. In the end this just seems like a game for prepubescents to gawk at anime girls...there's less time consuming ways to accomplish that.

    Pros: Polished Decent story Bones of a good strategy game, but just    This game is very boring. I ended up dumping an above average amount of time into this because the reviews _must_ be justified eventually. They weren't and I'd love to have that time back. In the end this just seems like a game for prepubescents to gawk at anime girls...there's less time consuming ways to accomplish that.

    Pros:
    Polished
    Decent story
    Bones of a good strategy game, but just bones.

    Cons:
    The maps have virtually no impact on strategy. Strategy has virtually no impact on winning (it's insanely easy).

    The school thing was pure grind. Unrewarding, soul-crushing grind, that you can't really skip if you want to try to craft a team. They even knew it was boring since for the second half they cut out quests and you simply run around to get instructed. Yay...

    Tea parties....wtf?

    Plot paths revolve around preposterous situations. Side with a traitorous serial killer or you current allies? Believe it or not the interwebs claims siding with the killer is a better story. I won't know cuz I couldn't be bothered to try a different story path. One was enough torture.    … Expand
  13. elandroid
    Jan 3, 2020
    6
    Nada mal con este Fire Emblem. Las mecánicas y las batallas siguen siendo las mejores del género. Pero la historia, los personajes, la tediosidad del juego entre fases es tan agotadora que acaba consumiendo más tiempo en tareas monótonas que lo soportable.
  14. lilboa
    Jan 6, 2023
    4
    can you remove the boring academy system?
    It looks like this game doesn't have a good enough story and enough game contents to hold up player's playing time. So you have to use this boring academy system.
  15. Halyo
    Oct 8, 2020
    3
    The maps are boring and uninspired. No strategy at all.
    The classes suck and most of the old classes were removed.
    High school setting is just annoying and is only there as a distraction from the terrible gameplay and progression system.
    TRASH. Buy FE Conquest instead.
  16. eR1c245
    Feb 20, 2021
    3
    I've played pretty much all of the FireEmblem games going back to the GameBoy Advance. Fire Emblem: Three Houses seems to be focussed on pointless side stories and tasks. Fishing, collecting lost items, cooking and buying birthday gifts to gain points seems pointless to me. The turn-based strategy is what I always loved about the FE series and Three Houses seems to be focussed on the wrongI've played pretty much all of the FireEmblem games going back to the GameBoy Advance. Fire Emblem: Three Houses seems to be focussed on pointless side stories and tasks. Fishing, collecting lost items, cooking and buying birthday gifts to gain points seems pointless to me. The turn-based strategy is what I always loved about the FE series and Three Houses seems to be focussed on the wrong things in my opinion. Play all the FE titles for the Nintendo 3DS, they are still the best.… Expand
  17. Nekster
    Sep 14, 2019
    5
    bueno, me ha parecido directamente atroz. Si esta es la dirección de la franquicia me bajo aquí. Nada que decir en cuanto a historia, que está bien, ni de los personajes, bien tratados. Tampoco de las infinitas interacciones entre ellos y Byleth. Aunque es precísamente a partir de ello que el juego me ha parecido horripilante. No esperaba encontrar un juego que es basicamente 70% socialbueno, me ha parecido directamente atroz. Si esta es la dirección de la franquicia me bajo aquí. Nada que decir en cuanto a historia, que está bien, ni de los personajes, bien tratados. Tampoco de las infinitas interacciones entre ellos y Byleth. Aunque es precísamente a partir de ello que el juego me ha parecido horripilante. No esperaba encontrar un juego que es basicamente 70% social links (subir niveles de apoyo tomando el té, invitando a comer y demás) y 30% srpg. Y lo peor es que ese 30% aun en hard / classic no tiene ninguna chicha, es un paseo y simplón, tanto que puedes enviar a tus 2 unidades rotas palante y basicamente solearte toda la historia con ellos. Yo buscaba un srpg y a este FE le queda poquito de ello. Coñazo indescriptible que no suspendo porque no lo hago con nada que me termine. Pero lo he hecho con la gota de sudor. Terminada ruta Golden Deer con Lysithea de waifu.… Expand
  18. Method__Man
    Jan 6, 2021
    10
    Lets out it this way. I vowed to only play a single path of this game before starting.

    Fast forward I have played ALL 4 paths and enjoy them all immensely. This is a wonderful game. Battles are challenging, customization deep, exploration of the monastery truly indulging, and most importantly... the story is marvellous. This game alone is worth buying a switch for. Ignore the haters, trust me
  19. jeffbizloc
    Apr 24, 2020
    3
    Fire Emblem Three Houses was a game that I would enjoy if it was focused on tactics. It wasn't designed for difficulty/strategy - way too easy on standard. That makes all the non-battle pieces not really matter in the end (unless you are really into the story).

    Game(s) like: Banner Saga, Persona 5 Pros: - Cool concept of mixing tactical battles with offline story to power up    Fire Emblem Three Houses was a game that I would enjoy if it was focused on tactics. It wasn't designed for difficulty/strategy - way too easy on standard. That makes all the non-battle pieces not really matter in the end (unless you are really into the story).

    Game(s) like: Banner Saga, Persona 5

    Pros:
    - Cool concept of mixing tactical battles with offline story to power up

    Cons:
    - Difficulty made the game boring; harder difficulties were apparently not tuned well either
    - Offline game became stale after a while and well didn't matter since the battles were so easy    … Expand
  20. Isteffy
    Jun 25, 2023
    6
    By far the most overrated Fire Emblem ever to be released, and one that tries so hard to give that ‘high school’ experience of Persona, but ultimately falls flat due to it’s uninspiring characters, lame dialogue, and the games insistence that a Fire Emblem game should have users spend 70% of their game playing a Persona knockoff.

    Worst is that if you are an old fire emblem fan, you will    By far the most overrated Fire Emblem ever to be released, and one that tries so hard to give that ‘high school’ experience of Persona, but ultimately falls flat due to it’s uninspiring characters, lame dialogue, and the games insistence that a Fire Emblem game should have users spend 70% of their game playing a Persona knockoff.

    Worst is that if you are an old fire emblem fan, you will find the combat maps extremely uninspiring and uncreative. A lot of maps were flat with no restrictions and enemies were randomly scattered through the map.

    I got bored and stopped this game 3 times. I wanted to like this, but ultimately this game is just mediocre and i don’t like the direction that this series is going so this will most likely be my last fire emblem game for a while    … Expand
  21. BirdSquanchy
    Sep 4, 2019
    10
    The best tactic RPG i have ever played. Great history with such different routes, lovely characters, and the most important: nice gameplay.
  22. Phuz
    Nov 14, 2021
    10
    Edit: A note about the 0/10 scores on here. People are allowed an opinion. Giving a zero doesn't mean they are counterbalancing 10/10's they don't agree with. For starters if you don't like playing with subtitles, then this is an instant 0/10. The voice acting is shockingly bad. The dialogue is just as bad with heirs to the throne all using the slang of a 10 year old and it just soundsEdit: A note about the 0/10 scores on here. People are allowed an opinion. Giving a zero doesn't mean they are counterbalancing 10/10's they don't agree with. For starters if you don't like playing with subtitles, then this is an instant 0/10. The voice acting is shockingly bad. The dialogue is just as bad with heirs to the throne all using the slang of a 10 year old and it just sounds stupid. Lorenz, Bernadette, Marrianne, (I could list more) are just total dick heads to put in a game. Claude isn't far behind them. Some people just outright don't like the anime art style, I prefer that style but not everyone does. There is dating, yes in game dating. It is **** stupid. It would be much better to give a prompt saying would you like to stare at Manuela's **** for 30 seconds and yes/no options. It is now possibly my favourite game ever and I am surprised still at how high it scores. It has some big gaping holes in its production.

    Anyone saying this voice acting is good, is either very young, or very deaf, or just accept crap acting.

    Permadeath is also optional, some reviews made out like you can't play with permadeath. You can.

    So after getting that out of the way, here is my review.

    I usually can't stand AAA games 'cos they are usually over hyped rubbish. At first I thought the same when I started playing this too. I expected a chess style game like the amazing FE Radiant Dawn on Wii but then started playing and thought what is this God awful walking sim. As I was ready to trade it/sling it across the room, something just clicked and I loved it.

    Now this has elements that I normally can't stand like levelling up, fetch quests, terrible voice acting, walking sim, I could go on forever but suddenly after a few hours, I enjoyed it. For some reason I got dragged in to the world of crappy dialogue, crappy VA (even the Jap VA sounds OTT and cheesy) and running around the base/monastry with pointless missions and thoroughly enjoyed it. Was it the music? Possibly, as I could sit and listen to the music and the game just be a bonus.

    I have seen people slating the graphics on this, I loved it. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just needs to work in context and with the other game elements, which it does extremely well. It looked like a nice anime style to me.

    Sound - the music is amazing, the voice acting the same as every other game - totally annoying rubbish. Audio wise, this is at a level where I youtube the songs, or leave the game running even when I've finished play to carry on listening.

    Gameplay, I enjoy the strategy chess bits and I enjoy the in between sim bits a hell of a lot.

    For me this is a AAA deserving the price tag. Quickly becoming a favourite ever game of mine. The negatives with this don't warrant point deduction because my enjoyment, fun and value of this are all 10. I couldn't put it down, now on 2nd run and clocked 100 hours and bought DLC and still can't put it down.

    I've come back to this review, just to add that after A Link to the Past this is the only game that has left a void in my gaming life, when I finished it. Everything else just feels lame now.

    It is absolutely offensive that this beast of a game is only scored .3 higher than Persona 5. PUT is a boring boring game compared to this. FE3H has polish and flare. PUT feels childish.

    It is very hard to get a good grasp of a game these days from reviews. People will rate any old junk 10/10. This though, absolutely deserves it.    … Expand
  23. L0RDFR3NCHY
    Sep 29, 2019
    5
    Played about 30hours and don't feel like going back to it.
    Not a terrible game but way overrated.
    The soundtrack is one of the few redeeming qualities of this game, the writing is absolute trash. This is very basic anime writing , there isnt much world building, conflicts between kindgoms that you only hear about through text has always been boring. If you love Naruto/One Piece and    Played about 30hours and don't feel like going back to it.
    Not a terrible game but way overrated.
    The soundtrack is one of the few redeeming qualities of this game, the writing is absolute trash.
    This is very basic anime writing , there isnt much world building, conflicts between kindgoms that you only hear about through text has always been boring.
    If you love Naruto/One Piece and dont like Studio Ghibli/cowboy bebop/etc , this is for you    … Expand
  24. EevieRoseAmalee
    Jan 28, 2023
    0
    What to say really. As a classic Fire Emblem fan and one who appreciates some of the newer games like awakening this game just isn't fire emblem. I get it's mainstream and in turn was many peoples first "fire emblem" game and that's okay if you like it, but this game isn't Fire Emblem it should have been a persona spinoff. If they really wanted to make a persona game they should have askedWhat to say really. As a classic Fire Emblem fan and one who appreciates some of the newer games like awakening this game just isn't fire emblem. I get it's mainstream and in turn was many peoples first "fire emblem" game and that's okay if you like it, but this game isn't Fire Emblem it should have been a persona spinoff. If they really wanted to make a persona game they should have asked atlus because atlus does it better. Instead we got a game where boring and mundane social mechanics are integral to the story progression and they removed the weapon triangle something that gives fire emblem it's identity. That would be like removing pokemon types. It removes the identity from the game. As a fire emblem fan I can never recommend this game to another fire emblem fan simply because it spits in the face of what fire emblem is known for and does it's own thing all the while waltzing around with the name "fire emblem", but it isn't even fully made by intelligent systems. If you enjoy half baked social mechanics and baby mechanics that make a game way to easy with no challenge then this game might be for you, but if you're a fire emblem fan who appreciates all the good things that the series has done then just stay away from this one because it takes away so much and instead turns this game into a social sim with no real accomplishments in return for them.… Expand
  25. Lesh0
    Sep 12, 2019
    6
    Tbh i expected more from the hype this game had. Sadly it didnt deliver to me, the beginning of the game was boring, every moth activities were interesting in the start but also got fed up with them too quickly. On the other hand chapter 2 had its good moments and was way better delivered than chapter one. The game overall is beautiful and has its charm, you also will get attached yourTbh i expected more from the hype this game had. Sadly it didnt deliver to me, the beginning of the game was boring, every moth activities were interesting in the start but also got fed up with them too quickly. On the other hand chapter 2 had its good moments and was way better delivered than chapter one. The game overall is beautiful and has its charm, you also will get attached your students which is a + for me too. Overall an ok game but could do better in many aspects 6/10… Expand
  26. Luahanseng
    Aug 12, 2020
    6
    Freakin boring story and narrative. Things are a bit repetitive. you just want the game to end
  27. Jgalvis
    Aug 1, 2019
    10
    Increíble juego, no son los mejores gráficos, pero FE nunca se ha tratado de eso. Historia de mucho trasfondo. Sin lugar a dudas de los mejores juegos del 2019
  28. Davpoi79
    Aug 9, 2019
    10
    Je découvre fire emblem avec Three Houses. Je ne suis pas déçu. Plus on avance et plus le jeu dévoile sa profondeur. Un plaisir.
  29. Starlord87
    Aug 31, 2019
    9
    Tattico a turni esaltante e soddisfacente, storja eccellente. Gli do 9 perché ha cali di frame nell'esplorazione del monastero e la parte del monastero è pico soddisfacente
  30. Nekogeta
    Sep 2, 2019
    5
    I haven’t put this game down since I got it! I just finished all routes and am about to start some challenge runs until the dlc is released. Blue Lions ftw
  31. Karma2B
    Sep 2, 2019
    10
    This game is very fun and has a lot of replay-ability. Definitely the best Fire Emblem game to date.
  32. zhuseth
    Sep 3, 2019
    5
    I have not played a fire emblem game since binding blade (1st GBA game) and let me tell you what a welcome back to the series this is.

    Fire emblem three houses blends persona like relationship building with a turn based tactical rpg where you play as a professor who teaches his or her students to excel in combat. With 4 branching stories, I highly advise the methodical players to give    I have not played a fire emblem game since binding blade (1st GBA game) and let me tell you what a welcome back to the series this is.

    Fire emblem three houses blends persona like relationship building with a turn based tactical rpg where you play as a professor who teaches his or her students to excel in combat.

    With 4 branching stories, I highly advise the methodical players to give this game a fair shake.    … Expand
  33. Juan92acg
    Sep 4, 2019
    7
    Demasiado texto , llega aburrir y no se pueden evitar....la jugabilidad y el juego en si esta bien pero tanto texto.... te hace perder demasiado tiempo
  34. Chonchiz
    Nov 21, 2019
    5
    Es impresionante. Se nota demasiado el esfuerzo del equipo desarrollador pues fire emblem three houses es un juego que te atrapa desde el primer momento ya sea por sus mecánicas, su historia sus personajes y sus mecánicas que son lo más atractivo del juego pues cada decisión cuenta y lo verás reflejado conforme avanza la historia. Vale totalmente lo que pagas por el.
  35. Trojan4
    Sep 9, 2019
    6
    Starts off well but I can't help feeling very underwhelmed after finishing my first play through. It's a rather linear game as your hand is held all the way through, with no exploration other than wondering the monastery which is useless halfway through the game as missions stop appearing and your left with nothing to do.
    The game could really have benefitted from some more cinematic    Starts off well but I can't help feeling very underwhelmed after finishing my first play through. It's a rather linear game as your hand is held all the way through, with no exploration other than wondering the monastery which is useless halfway through the game as missions stop appearing and your left with nothing to do.
    The game could really have benefitted from some more cinematic cutscenes as I can't even remember 3 total.
    it's not even too later in the game that I felt cheated and wonder why I put so many hours into a game with no payoff.    … Expand
  36. RangerJD
    Sep 11, 2019
    6
    As others have said, starts off strong but quickly runs out of steam.

    The battles are far too easy, even on hard mode, and the various monastery tasks soon become very boring and repetitive. It doesn’t help as well that the graphics are very sub par, especially considering this is meant to be a AAA game. They surely could have done better than this. Having said that, hardcore FE fans    As others have said, starts off strong but quickly runs out of steam.

    The battles are far too easy, even on hard mode, and the various monastery tasks soon become very boring and repetitive. It doesn’t help as well that the graphics are very sub par, especially considering this is meant to be a AAA game. They surely could have done better than this. Having said that, hardcore FE fans will probably still find some enjoyment here. 6/10    … Expand
  37. KevWen
    Sep 23, 2019
    7
    I was into this game in the first 30 hours however very boring in the rest part. Not the best of the series definitely
  38. Ulfrik88
    Sep 27, 2019
    10
    Otra vez nintendo promete y entrega un gran fire emblem para la saga y con buena duración
  39. Kousuke73
    Oct 2, 2019
    7
    This was my first Fire Emblem game and I must say, it was a good game... but. But.

    I've only beaten the Golden Deer route so far and I liked the story overall. A little too many plot twists for my liking and I also felt like too much was left unexplained. I don't know if I just missed less obvious details but at the end of the game, I was still left asking the same questions I expected    This was my first Fire Emblem game and I must say, it was a good game... but. But.

    I've only beaten the Golden Deer route so far and I liked the story overall. A little too many plot twists for my liking and I also felt like too much was left unexplained. I don't know if I just missed less obvious details but at the end of the game, I was still left asking the same questions I expected to have been explained by this point. Still, the plot was alright and I certainly got attached to most of the characters, I learned to care about them as though they really were my students. I loved the music, I loved the general idea of the game, and I loved Claude and Sylvain. But.

    I have three major problems with this game. Firstly, I need to talk about performance. I cannot say the game had the most impressive visuals I've ever seen and honestly, I don't think anyone could say that. Despite that, the performance was by no means ideals. The game kept stuttering when exploring the monastery, moving from one area to another one wasn't as smooth as I wish it had been – I got interrupted by loading screens when I least expected it, and I must say the loading screens were annoyingly long overall for a game like this.

    Secondly, I found the game too repetitive. The first 20-30 hours were fun, given I'd never played a FE game before, but later on, and especially after the time skip, the battles got so repetitive I literally avoided battling as much as I could. Towards the end of the game, I only took up the obligatory battles and nothing else. I wish there were more quests and that they were more interesting and varied. I liked the extra story quests since they had tiny story bits sprinkled around them, both during the actual battles and the cutscenes preceding and following them, but there just wasn't enough of those. I also got really annoyed at the time rewind ability, or rather not being able to use it during the enemy turn. I literally groaned out loud every time something bad happened to my units but I knew I would have to wait until all the enemy units end their moves just to rewind... and see them do the very same stuff all over again.

    Thirdly, as I refused to play as a straight character, I hated everything about the romance system and how it tried to **** me up in all the ways possible. I played as the male protagonist and guys kept on reminding me whenever they could that "they don't swing that way", and girls kept on trying to hit me up, which was even more annoying since I felt that in many cases, it was out of their character and forced just to satisfy the potential straight male gamer. The sequel-like stories didn't help either, especially given that I chose to stay single, faced by the lack of any better option. The only gay romance options in the game I found at best limited and lazy and at worst disrespectful and condescending.

    All in all, I have mixed feelings about this game. It was a fun experience overall but some things just kept bugging me, spoiling all the fun. Also, I would like to apologize if any of my word choices in this review came off as weird or confusing. I played the game in Japanese and just finished it a few minutes ago so I might have still been under the influence of the Japanese language version of the game when writing.    … Expand
  40. Foxenz
    Oct 17, 2019
    6
    As a Fire Emblem fan, this game is a little disappointing. The positive points on it are the battle system and how beautifully the graphics are made. The story has good plots too. I believe one of the main failures of it is that the characters are very unidimensional, with poorly constructed personalities which I found hard to relate. They do not shine as in previous games. Not to mentionAs a Fire Emblem fan, this game is a little disappointing. The positive points on it are the battle system and how beautifully the graphics are made. The story has good plots too. I believe one of the main failures of it is that the characters are very unidimensional, with poorly constructed personalities which I found hard to relate. They do not shine as in previous games. Not to mention how the game seems to take a step backwards as it limits several relationships, not including LGBT options in a proper way. Another negative point is that the master classes are a bit conflicting, favouring some weapons much more than others and commonly adding a horse or dragon to more or about 70% of them. The "school" exploration is a bless and a curse, fun in the beginning until it becomes so overly grindy and tedious. You can skip it, but when you skip one of the game's main attraction, there's certainly something wrong with it.

    Fire Emblem can be and deserves to be much better than this. With more personality, good interactions and a little more attention to the evolution of classes, this game could have been nearly perfect. Unfortunately it is not there yet.    … Expand
  41. mushromfer
    Nov 8, 2019
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 游戏6分，中文加1分，因为毫无诚意的dlc（前三弹）扣一分。这不是传统火纹，夹杂着过多的少男少女养成要素。重复的关卡，重复的模型，重复的音乐，重复的动作，重复的战记，平衡性很差，所以玩过一遍就很乏味。除了画质好了，战斗部分是系列最差也好不过分。后续还把明显是本体拆下来的东西当dlc卖。既然已经跳票应该好好打磨一下的，期待一个富含战略性可重复游玩性的火纹。… Expand
  42. SonyBroWhirrrr
    Mar 25, 2020
    9
    Edelgard says that trans rights are human rights so if you don't pick her house and instead pick the piece of **** cis straight white male Dimitri, you're scum.
  43. lenosi3232
    Feb 6, 2020
    2
    I'm really not quite sure why people.are rating this game so highly. The characters are fine, but the battles (the whole basis of the fire emblem franchise) are heavily scripted. If you do something during a battle that the game doesn't want you/ didn't expect you to do, the game autocorrects with some rather annoying deus ex machina tactics like if you kill a boss that you weren'tI'm really not quite sure why people.are rating this game so highly. The characters are fine, but the battles (the whole basis of the fire emblem franchise) are heavily scripted. If you do something during a battle that the game doesn't want you/ didn't expect you to do, the game autocorrects with some rather annoying deus ex machina tactics like if you kill a boss that you weren't supposed to be able to kill, the game may spawn powerful enemies around your one vital party member and the next thing you know, the 1 hour+ battle you just went through needs to be completely started over. This isn't always avoidable either. Sometimes reinforcements spawn around vital party member just because you weren't psychic enough to know exactly where their reinforcements would appear. After the third time this happened to me, I decided I was done with the game. It just quickly becomes such a slog that it's impossible to have fun.… Expand
  44. ragethedragoon
    Mar 1, 2020
    5
    I am a hundred hours in played every route so I could give a solid opinion on this game. verdict;
    This is a mediocre Fire Emblem title at best, is it enjoyable yes, but it could have been FAR better.
    Anyone who has ever played a classic Fire Emblem game knows this title does not hold up to it's name. I have played all 3 routes with decent enjoyment. but the flaws of 3 houses become    I am a hundred hours in played every route so I could give a solid opinion on this game. verdict;
    This is a mediocre Fire Emblem title at best, is it enjoyable yes, but it could have been FAR better.

    Anyone who has ever played a classic Fire Emblem game knows this title does not hold up to it's name. I have played all 3 routes with decent enjoyment. but the flaws of 3 houses become more visible with each play through. I actively get less enjoyment the more I play it. due to the ungodly amount of "filler" between each Chapter.

    At it's core a Fire Emblem game consists of 3 main aspects:
    Strategy
    Fast and Eyecandy Combat visuals
    Engaging Characters

    These criteria are all met. but due to a lot of dragged out "filler" material it takes ages to get to those parts. Yes I am indeed calling the Hubworld "Filler". The month of prep-time between each mission is gruelingly long and it only gets longer with each play through. I am wasting time, tending to my garden, feeding my soldiers (which you can only do 2 at a time!), doing faculty training and fishing!

    I did not pick up a STRATEGY game to play a fishing simulator!

    Even the Auxiliary Battle's are basicly just level grinders to stretch out the game.
    Paralogues are the only parts that get a pass because they are basically bonus chapters for the story of the game. a story that I can only play once every ingame month.

    The other aspect of this game that has not been thought through is it's class system.
    I am quite positive about the idea of being able to train your soldiers in any way you see fit.
    despite a characters Pro's or Con's. but Half of the class's do not have a natural progression into their next stage. "Hero", "Assassin" and "Pegasus Knight" are a few notable examples. these classes have NO follow-up in their respective tree which is just a kick in your face to discover halfway. because now you have to abandon all your hard work and retrain their neglected aspects to make them useful again.

    This game also Bombards you with Characters, Classes and Dialogue;
    It is a fun gimmick to give your main character a class to run and have them be your students.
    but to instantly get bombarded with an entire school of characters just ruins the experience of really getting to know your team. the appeal of building up a team, and getting to know the characters and their class is completely lost and dis-attache's you from them. instead it's boom ! Pick a class of 10 random characters you know nothing about with a 10 mile text-crawls to learn the details of how to play the game. If you're a first time player of Fire Emblem I find this a highly un-appealing way to learn the game.

    Which also ties in to the overload of support conversations
    I get that every character needs to have support convo's with every character.
    with there are simply to many!, I don't mind listening to 1 or 2 convo's between chapters to hear what my team is doing. but when I finish a mission and I have to go through over 10 conversations every single time it just sucks the motivation out of you, with a lot of them treading the same ground it just becomes more "Filler" I don't want to feel like skipping the support conversations. but when you reach your third play through all you wanna do is get it over with so you can get to your mission!. to the actual story and gameplay!

    Cut out the Hubworld!
    Cut out the Auxiliary Battles!
    Cut out the Seminars!
    Give every character a maximum of 10 possible support convo's per playthrough!

    And you'd have a Really Decent Fire Emblem Game. worth at least a 7.5
    in it's current state. A 5 at best.    … Expand
  45. Hashirama
    Mar 24, 2020
    5
    After completing the game first time, I understood the new fresh ideas the developers introduced for the series, but those ideas did not click with me. I'm not a fan of the character design, level design, multiple endings and routes, school setting, unit management and how the narrative is told.

    Further to this, the first 20 hours are extremely easy, having played on normal difficulty    After completing the game first time, I understood the new fresh ideas the developers introduced for the series, but those ideas did not click with me. I'm not a fan of the character design, level design, multiple endings and routes, school setting, unit management and how the narrative is told.

    Further to this, the first 20 hours are extremely easy, having played on normal difficulty with classic settings with almost every unit winning with a critical hit.

    I also have an issue with the main character Byleth. Being that the character is mute during story scenes, but has a voice actor. Added to that every other character calls him/her 'professor' instead of using his/her name. With that in mind, why could we not name the character ourselves? It suggests that the developers were going to include character creation into the game (similar to FE: Awakening), but gave up on the idea.

    Overall this is the worst fire emblem game I've ever played and I prefer previous entries, such as Sacred Stones and Shadows of Valentia.    … Expand
  46. ThatPSXBGamer
    Jun 27, 2023
    6
    Actual score: 6.5/10. Wow, what a lovely game coupled with a horse **** excuse for a final boss. Fire Emblem Three Houses is a wonderful game to play, Wii style 2007 graphics aside, to be fair, as is expected with most Switch games, this game was a blast. This game is everything we loved about the 3DS Fire Emblem Games, while not as good as them in my opinion, Intelligent Systems triedActual score: 6.5/10. Wow, what a lovely game coupled with a horse **** excuse for a final boss. Fire Emblem Three Houses is a wonderful game to play, Wii style 2007 graphics aside, to be fair, as is expected with most Switch games, this game was a blast. This game is everything we loved about the 3DS Fire Emblem Games, while not as good as them in my opinion, Intelligent Systems tried their best to modernize Fire Emblem. They tried to up the graphics, but they failed miserably, the open world aspect of the school and army fighting alongside the characters was a nice use of more powerful hardware. I chose Black Eagles, and up till a very specific point in the play through was splendid, however, unbeknownst to me, there was a very specific thing you had to do to get the Crimson Flower path, if you didn't know on your first play through like me, you were stuck with Silver Snow. While Silver Snow was fun, the final boss was absolute freaking horse **** Holy **** was that final boss was bad, they throw you against multiple different White Beasts which you have to beat to get to Rhea. This as a miserable, monotonous time and was a constant fight to keep playing, I got my ass handed to me on a silver platter the first time I fought them. I had to spend a couple hours grinding up with battles and building my team up to the task, this meanwhile I had no issues with previous missions. This was the most pathetic piss poor design of a final battle, having the final boss be leagues harder than previous missions, forcing you to grind up. After beating the final boss, the whole vibe was ruined for me, what felt like a strong, fun game became a chore to play because of this pathetic finale. Sleazy game design that forces you know what to do to get specific pathways are an abhorrent mess and should be abolished. Intelligent Systems, you failed to deliver, go back to the 3DS.… Expand
  47. Swansonato
    Aug 25, 2020
    1
    I really like the Fire Emblem series, but I can't understand how someone can release a game that has unreadable fonts both in docked and in portable version. For me it makes the game unplayable and a total waste of money.
  48. ItsTamo
    Oct 7, 2021
    5
    This game seriously has some ethical issues to talk about....

    Verdant Moon Story: That guy just randomly massacred people for fun but that's totally okay since he's traumatized! We'll help him since we are his friends! And he is totally redeemable! Crimson Flower Story: That gal just randomly committed genocide against religion and committed human experiments and attacked a neutral    This game seriously has some ethical issues to talk about....

    Verdant Moon Story: That guy just randomly massacred people for fun but that's totally okay since he's traumatized! We'll help him since we are his friends! And he is totally redeemable!

    Crimson Flower Story: That gal just randomly committed genocide against religion and committed human experiments and attacked a neutral alliance but that's okay since she is traumatized and thinks she is the justice! She has no idea how she'll build her next government (yeah like she literally starts to figure that out in the support dialogues. Which means that she had no plans about what her ideal government structure should be when she started attacking the church) but decides to overthrow the current government that has been doing decent for the past thousands of years! But that's okay since she hates them and "thinks" they are the bad ones! (Slither whatever guys were the actual bad ones but she never figures it out since she's just dumb) She'll selectively choose who can be killed and who doesn't have to be depending on her mood but that's 100% okay since she's forging her own path!

    Oh Jesus... I hate how this game constantly tries to justify the genocides of civilians. The story tries to tell me that it's all for the good cause, but no. All the stories and war crimes the characters are committing are wrapped with pretty words and packed with great character design. The game was fun enough. I was infuriated when I played it at launch (2019), and I still rant about how bad the story is even to this day (2021). I hated both Dimitri and Edelgard due to how poorly written their stories were.

    On top of that, I hate how the game portrays visual/racial minorities. I'm really uncomfortable with Petra and Dedue's characters. Residential schools and missionizations of first native people is a real thing, and the Devs don't even bother to portray that properly. I'm an immigrant myself and I well know that kids start to forget their mother tongue only after an year or so. The game tries to wrap itself so that it seems like the story is criticizing imperialism and racism, but in truth it's not. It's only embracing those false ideals. How they talk about the issues is overly shallow and insensitive.

    Must admit, I loved the game play, but this is the most disgusting story I've seen in a video game. I still can't sleep at night when start thinking about it. I thought FE Fates had a pretty bad story, but that was just a bad story and nothing else. FE3H's story is not only bad but also very immoral. I hate it to death.    … Expand
  49. m0th
    Aug 19, 2022
    3
    Fire Emblem Three Houses is an extremely lacking game that utilizes political ideologies as an aesthetic to cover up it's directionless story. The story is superficial, character interactions feel incredibly forced and unnatural, and it's artificially bloated with fetch quests. Snappy pacing which was once a highlight of the series is now gone. And there are no rewards for sitting throughFire Emblem Three Houses is an extremely lacking game that utilizes political ideologies as an aesthetic to cover up it's directionless story. The story is superficial, character interactions feel incredibly forced and unnatural, and it's artificially bloated with fetch quests. Snappy pacing which was once a highlight of the series is now gone. And there are no rewards for sitting through an entire in game month to reach the gameplay because the majority of maps are dull.

    After the initial wow factor of the game being customizable, I found myself wishing I was playing Tellius again. The game advertises itself to have multiple routes, but in reality it's approximately two routes. And the best map design is seen in the route they spent the least amount of time on.

    The social simulation aspect was not fun for me. Being a teacher who dates their former students is so weird. Not to mention all the people who justify it by saying Byleth (who's over 20 at the start) is close in age to these characters (the youngest being 14/15) so it's okay somehow. As if that's not the textbook definition of grooming?

    Byleth as a character is the worst main character in Fire Emblem history. Worse than Corrin because at least Corrin was born with half a personality. They're a blank slate made for the character to project into. The game tries to get you to believe that this bland empty husk has somehow changed lives and is fit to assist politics. Blue Lions route being one of the worst offenders for me because every dialogue "choice" is there to comfort characters I would rather not. If we could play as the lords instead of them with more concrete writing, the character interactions would have been salvageable.

    There was nothing I enjoyed in this game except for a handful of characters with wasted potential. If you think the writing in this game is good in any capacity please play Tactics Ogre.    … Expand
  50. Voyagerx
    Mar 10, 2022
    0
    GAME IS CENSORED! Nintendo acts themselves as the Chinese government and they are no different than communists in this aspect. They must learn, if the game is suitable in Japan, it is fine for us. There should be no changes other than the correct translation. If something (ie a reference) is unclear, we can all look it up ourselves. Overall, unnecessary censorship
  51. SMLNGN
    Jul 7, 2022
    9
    This is my first turn-based tactical game that I have made it to the end. This is my first ever game with anime characters. Fire Emblem is now one of the most important franchises in my life.
  52. WhackedUniform
    Jan 27, 2023
    6
    The worst game in the series. The battles are easy and few. This is hardly a tactical rpg. Additionally, the story is your basic anime narrative with cliche characters that all look the same.
  53. MeiKaG
    Dec 27, 2022
    1
    No deberia tener que hacer cosas tan especificas para poder tomar la cuarta ruta. Perdi 15 horas de juego con la intención de tomar esa ruta.
  54. tonberry_ftw
    Jun 24, 2023
    1
    Game mechanics were great, but really hated the hypocrisy for some of the characters that I wouldn't name for spoiler. I would give it 9.5 for golden deer, 8.5 for blue lion, but the other route was just terrible.
  55. Totoques22
    Aug 9, 2023
    2
    Worst Fire emblem experience ever and I’ve played revelations and **** romhacks

    70% of the game is social sim filler, avoid at all cost unless you’re into that The gameplay is awful by FE standards, and for a strategy game the mechanics don’t add up to each other and most combat arts/gambits are irrelevant outside of them few busted ones. Forget about any difficulty higher than normal    Worst Fire emblem experience ever and I’ve played revelations and **** romhacks

    70% of the game is social sim filler, avoid at all cost unless you’re into that The gameplay is awful by FE standards, and for a strategy game the mechanics don’t add up to each other and most combat arts/gambits are irrelevant outside of them few busted ones. Forget about any difficulty higher than normal since hard is only hard in the 1/5 of the game and maddening is some random unfair **** because the dev are simply incapable. And all that isn’t mentionning bad map design and absolutely terrible balance People keep mentioning a good story but that’s just not true only 2/4 routes have good story and one of the good ones is a secret route which is unfinished and unpolished,The only good story you will probably get is White Clouds in the first half of the game before the route split afterwards the story is mediocre on paper but bad when you consider that gameplay/story dissonance is very high, it’s like the gameplay is trying to contradict the story at every possible occasion(ex: crest as a whole)

    I’ve seen many claim that characters are at their best in the series but that’s just wrong many are insufferable and the practically all boil down to « I HAVE TRAUMA » also unlike any other FE you CANNOT just pick your favorites and have fun, you are stuck with who you got whether you like them or not. And sure you can recruit students but it’s too long, at the cost of training your main character and they join without any class mastery if not with terrible base stats for some adults

    Im giving it a two and not a 0 because white clouds is still a great story even if I am absolutely disappointed every time I want to absolutely continue the story only to end up in the awfully long, boring and repetitive social sim part

    Unit building is fun even it’s ultimately worthless to try to optimise your team since the difficulty will never hold up and the game is keen on never putting the player at any disadvantage (exactly how to NOT design a strategy game)

    Three houses is an SRPG in a series of TRPG

    I’ll reiterate my warning: avoid at all cost unless you’re into social sim and if you usually play FE for the gameplay    … Expand
  56. Equinocio
    Jan 14, 2021
    8
    One of the best Fire Emblem out there. Nice story and characters. Unfortunately, the game is marred, otherwise, by terrible graphics and very few classes for you to choose from.
  57. RaidenLucifer
    Jul 31, 2020
    7
    I had a lot of fun with the game, definitely a series one should try. Unfortunately the story can leave a few things to be desired, especially with some of the plot holes and conveniences they chose to make, some not ending up being as believable, beautiful soundtracks for the battles, online is a bit of a gimmick that makes the game easier, save your money on the nintendo online. Maps canI had a lot of fun with the game, definitely a series one should try. Unfortunately the story can leave a few things to be desired, especially with some of the plot holes and conveniences they chose to make, some not ending up being as believable, beautiful soundtracks for the battles, online is a bit of a gimmick that makes the game easier, save your money on the nintendo online. Maps can get a bit repetitive, some supports end without much of a finish. Be prepared for fishing minigame and micro managing chores. Overall a fine and fun experience… Expand
  58. smahlt
    Jan 19, 2020
    7
    It's alright. It feels like a lot of stuff was changed for the sake of making changes, not improvements. The result isn't bad, just not as good as the greats, such as FE7 and PoR. I'm also not huge into the whole school half of the game.
  59. SomeName
    Jan 25, 2023
    8
    It's an improvement over the FE: Fates, tries out some new ideas, but visibly lacks polish. I'd say its better to wait for DLCs and patches to add content before playing it.

    + Some new management/life simulator elements that allow for breaks between the battles. + They "somewhat" dialed down the waifuism in the games. Sure they still all look like anime, but they mostly look of legal    It's an improvement over the FE: Fates, tries out some new ideas, but visibly lacks polish. I'd say its better to wait for DLCs and patches to add content before playing it.

    + Some new management/life simulator elements that allow for breaks between the battles.
    + They "somewhat" dialed down the waifuism in the games. Sure they still all look like anime, but they mostly look of legal age and you're not related to them.
    +Some of the support conversations were actually fun to read and also explained some of the lore of the universe.
    +/-The story lets you believe they actually hired writers this time, although they struggle with keeping up a good suspense. Every time the secrets of the protagonists are on the verge of being revealed, the game has to force in some disturbance so the story can keep going on.

    - The graphics... just look ugly. The character models have strange outlines and the lighting makes a lot of environments look very plain. The game also seems to drain more power than the Switch can charge which can lead to resolution bugs at 1% battery.
    - The game is too repetitive. To fully explore all paths you'd need to play it 3 times, but really only the 2nd half changes per playthrough. A lot of battle maps are recycled which also doesn't keep combat fresh either. The life simulator minigames can also turn into a real grind. Especially that fishing game. Why oh why did they include that?
    - The game hasn't really been balanced/tested too well. Some classes are significantly superior to others and mount penalties are meaningless. There is also no weapon triangle, so there's no incentive to master more than 1 weapon category.    … Expand
  60. Afenger
    Dec 13, 2020
    8
    Sou um grande fã da serie Fire Emblem, este novo jogo veio com uma proposta bem diferente, tirando o foco de ser apenas um rpg estratégia direto, aqui temos a introdução de um calendário onde temos que fazer escolhas que nem sempre sao de nosso agrado. Personagens com pouco carisma ficando longe de termos alguém próximo ao Chrom. Um vasto conteúdo que garante diversas horas por 3 historiasSou um grande fã da serie Fire Emblem, este novo jogo veio com uma proposta bem diferente, tirando o foco de ser apenas um rpg estratégia direto, aqui temos a introdução de um calendário onde temos que fazer escolhas que nem sempre sao de nosso agrado. Personagens com pouco carisma ficando longe de termos alguém próximo ao Chrom. Um vasto conteúdo que garante diversas horas por 3 historias diferentes garantido um bom fator replay.… Expand
  61. SZJX
    Sep 23, 2019
    8
    It's an excellent mainstream game but it's really overrated. I can gladly give it an 8 but not more.

    Just as many other mainstream JRPGs, the true focus of the game is actually the character interactions and romance, while the main story just serves as a back drop, unfortunately. It's good that they attempted something relatively new among mainstream games, which is to try to present    It's an excellent mainstream game but it's really overrated. I can gladly give it an 8 but not more.

    Just as many other mainstream JRPGs, the true focus of the game is actually the character interactions and romance, while the main story just serves as a back drop, unfortunately.

    It's good that they attempted something relatively new among mainstream games, which is to try to present the main story from several sides, who conflict with each other. Unfortunately, eventually they somehow still deemed it necessary to play it safe and introduce some absolutely cartoonish "villains", so that they take all the blame, while every "normal character" can be whitewashed. Sorry, this is simply not how the real world works. This sort of black-and-white, good-vs-evil thinking is not just stupid, it's downright dangerous.

    The battles/maps are generally not satisfying enough. Part 2 of the story is rushed, and many plot developments on the main story simply don't make much sense or are clearly unfinished.

    They clearly devoted their main effort to writing and directing all the character interaction stories. But to view all of them you need to grind incessantly, which is a huge waste of time. According to the stats on my save, I spent more than 80 hours just to finish my first route...... which is ridiculous. I don't even spend that much time with some actual Visual Novels, which have really deep and well thought-out stories, save the pain of having to do lackluster battles in between.

    If watching those character interaction soap opera and romancing the characters is the whole point of this "game", why not just go on YouTube and watch all of them easily?    … Expand
  62. jocariba
    Jul 6, 2020
    9
    Un excelente juego, el error que tiene es que peca de repetitivo sobre todo en la escuela, las histórias son increibles, los personajes me encantan, la jugabilidad definitivamente la mejor en un Fire Emblem, es un juego muy recomendable
  63. Khaar
    Jan 27, 2021
    8
    WIP REVIEW!

    As a PC and PS4 gamer it was interesting trying out the switch and play Fire Emblem. I loved FE on the GameCube so I looked forward to the "different" FE game on Switch. First "playthrough" landed on about 10 hours but I decided to restart because I choose Normal+Classic. If you like Strategy games normal is way too easy, I would always suggest classic because (trying    WIP REVIEW!

    As a PC and PS4 gamer it was interesting trying out the switch and play Fire Emblem.
    I loved FE on the GameCube so I looked forward to the "different" FE game on Switch.

    First "playthrough" landed on about 10 hours but I decided to restart because I choose Normal+Classic.
    If you like Strategy games normal is way too easy, I would always suggest classic because (trying not to spoil) there is two ways to undo someone's death in the game.

    Hard+Classic at a glance changes base stats like hit chances, now I cannot overreach with characters and I have to think hard about which weapon to use based of the hit stat. Something I barely needed to pay attention to on Normal.

    Graphics:
    Nintendos decision to make a portable console reflects on the graphics. Much like PS2 era games, the 2d art is gorgeous but the 3d animations are stiff like much of the textures.
    Prepare for that if you're coming of PC games or even PS4 games.

    Monastery:
    You'll spend quite some time outside of combat, here you will do quests, converse with characters and more!
    While I had my doubts in the beginning the game does an excellent job of slowly giving you the tools and understanding of how it all works.
    One amazing thing is that they give you the option to fast travel very early, so running around the monastery doesn't take too long.

    The only thing I really found lacking was explanation of the classes. If you look online there is obvious better choices for some characters then others, and the game does a terrible job to relay this to the player.

    I feel like the characters should more clearly tell me what they want to become so I can guide them towards that goal. Needing to rely on other people and the online community is not optimal.

    Combat
    Story
    Characters    … Expand
  64. Elric81
    Sep 3, 2019
    8
    A great game but that for a poor graphic and the boring part of the monastery, makes me lower the score.
  65. frederik1478
    Mar 14, 2020
    7
    Fire Emblem three Houses Trying to do so many things that it is losing Fire Emblem in the process losing. I enjoyed my time with the game and I would never say that I had a bad time. I think the game is just too open for its own good it is a nice experiment but it's just not for me
  66. ZeoN
    Sep 6, 2019
    9
    Uno de los mejores juegos del año. Un JRPG con varias rutas y distintas posibilidades. Una jugabilidad muy buena para los amantes del género. Banda sonora de calidad e historia elaborada,
    Como puntos negativos está el apartado técnico y que a cierta altura del juego puede hacerse algo repetitivo pero si lo miras en conjunto es un gran título
  67. syscro
    Feb 25, 2020
    9
    Uno de los mejores de la serie.
    Historia intrigante.
    Musica buena como siempre. La mecanica para leer el texto anteriormente dicho en las conversaciones hizo que lo quisiera implementado en todos los juegos. Me acostumbre tanto que ahora lo que juego siento que debiese estar dicha opción. 10/10 El comienzo hasta midgame es demasiado monótono para completar todas la historia a su 100%.    Uno de los mejores de la serie.
    Historia intrigante.
    Musica buena como siempre.
    La mecanica para leer el texto anteriormente dicho en las conversaciones hizo que lo quisiera implementado en todos los juegos. Me acostumbre tanto que ahora lo que juego siento que debiese estar dicha opción. 10/10
    El comienzo hasta midgame es demasiado monótono para completar todas la historia a su 100%. Eso les falta en mejorar, ya que al dividir el juego en diversas historias se siente mucho el tipo de negocio que hicieron en 3ds y era una autentica basura (fates)    … Expand
  68. Razor7557
    May 3, 2020
    8
    Fire Emblem's return to glory after the localization-caused complete failure and insult to western audience's intelligence that was Fates. Story might not be groundbreaking, but it's still very good, gameplay is enjoyable, and characters are really fun to get to know better through the Support conversations. I certainly also enjoy that none of the sides is entirely "good" one, somethingFire Emblem's return to glory after the localization-caused complete failure and insult to western audience's intelligence that was Fates. Story might not be groundbreaking, but it's still very good, gameplay is enjoyable, and characters are really fun to get to know better through the Support conversations. I certainly also enjoy that none of the sides is entirely "good" one, something you notice if you play more than just one campaign(Talking especially to people who played only Blue Lions route... which I personally consider worst of four possible endings).

    I would give it a 9/10, however I can't help but notice that the game seems somewhat... "sanitized" in development, possibly to avoid offending certain easily offended scumbags who pretend to play games while in reality just being bunch of political activist whiners. For example, there is an odd lack of swimsuit or even towel outfits, which were usually available in Fire Emblem, even though the game has a Sauna, which should be more than enough of a reason for characters to wear towels... but instead they seem to wear really out of place looking potato sack outfits... I mean there is no proof there was any meddling in that regard, but nonetheless I find it suspicious.    … Expand
  69. DulceLinux
    Sep 2, 2019
    10
    Que hermosa experiencia es este juego, la manera en que logra que te encariñes con tus estudiantes, que sientas el deseo de hacer que les vaya de lo mejor en la vida, de protegerlos, etc. Sin duda un juego excepcional.
  70. Berke28
    Aug 30, 2019
    10
    Joyconboyz Joyconboyz JOYCONBOYZ Joyconboyz Joyconboyz Joyconboyz Joyconboyz JOYCONBOYZ Joyconboyz Joyconboyz
  71. Perminator
    Aug 5, 2019
    8
    I was a bit skeptical at first to buy this game, because I played fire emblem awakening and I didn’t like it. However this is way better than I expected. Just the fact that you can customize each of your students to fit to your needs is done very well. The story is great too. I’ve not gotten far into the story yet I think. I hope not, because I don’t want it to end... haha. I will try theI was a bit skeptical at first to buy this game, because I played fire emblem awakening and I didn’t like it. However this is way better than I expected. Just the fact that you can customize each of your students to fit to your needs is done very well. The story is great too. I’ve not gotten far into the story yet I think. I hope not, because I don’t want it to end... haha. I will try the two other faction/houses after I’m done with one I playing with now.

    What I miss is the possibility to change the appearance of your character. Being able to change everything, eyes, hair, clothes and more. There is DLC they were you can buy to get additional clothing, but I think at least give us the option the change the hair and the face. With details and so on. That’s why it doesn’t get a 10/10 from me. The gameplay is very fun and it’s rewarding to see how your ensamble of characters evolve and become even deep. You can even invite other students into your house from the other factions.That’s great. I love that. All in all, you can get into this without prior knowledge about the franchise or lore. I enjoy that, newbie friendly but still deep and complex at the same time. I’m now looking forward to the next entry in the series. Please give us more options to create a character from the ground up like other RPG games has done in the past.    … Expand
  72. Emmett601
    Sep 2, 2019
    8
    Fire Emblem Three Houses is an ambitious game, no one is going to deny that. There is an impressive amount of scope covered between three lords under the same view points each with their own perspective and reactions to countless events with each cast each having their very own highs. Your first play though should be a lot of fun as you learn how the game operates and learn the unfoldingFire Emblem Three Houses is an ambitious game, no one is going to deny that. There is an impressive amount of scope covered between three lords under the same view points each with their own perspective and reactions to countless events with each cast each having their very own highs. Your first play though should be a lot of fun as you learn how the game operates and learn the unfolding of the maps and what strategies work, and once you finish you get the option for New Game+ to help you through getting to custom build how you want the world even more so than before.
    However the biggest flaw in the game is really that there is just way to much shared content in maps with a difficulty on par with Sacred Stones and with as tools as broken and plentiful as Awakening. I still had a great time with this game and put in countless hours but after your first playthrough it's a bit down hill compared to your first time through. Also not every route is equal.    … Expand
  73. Cesar3
    Jul 11, 2020
    7
    Buen juego de la saga, nintendo nos esta acostumbrando mal con tanto juego bueno
  74. Sensey_DARJ
    Sep 2, 2019
    10
    Lo mejor que he jugado de FE desde el juego de wii y 3ds. Siempre me ha gustado la estrategia por turnos y la mecánica que se mueran tus personajes y no puedas revivirlos y no ver finales por culpa de eso siempre lo he visto genial.
  75. 12345Snake007
    Sep 2, 2019
    10
    Trying to even out review bombs............................................
  76. Da3_who_knows
    Jun 19, 2020
    8
    i have played many Fire emblem games before, and i can say that this one is one of the best in the series, but there are a few thing that i would have improved.
    First thing first, this is an amazing game. Despite all the small problems that is has, i have finished all the storylines, played more that 170 hours in it. Gameplay is amazing, story is awesome, music is great (not as great as    i have played many Fire emblem games before, and i can say that this one is one of the best in the series, but there are a few thing that i would have improved.
    First thing first, this is an amazing game. Despite all the small problems that is has, i have finished all the storylines, played more that 170 hours in it. Gameplay is amazing, story is awesome, music is great (not as great as awakening thought imho). the fact that the weapons break is actually a great mechanics that i think should have been added long ago.
    i wish it had more relationship iterations, like the past fire emblems. And the fact that after playing all the storyline i still haven't found something that would agree with me. No story would leave me completely satisfied with the characters and their choices, so that kind of left me disappointed. However, all in all this is a great a great game and i would recommend it to anyone.    … Expand
  77. Airufino23
    Sep 4, 2019
    10
    Un juego echo con mimo y a la antigua usanza con unas historias muy buenas,obra maestra
  78. Ernest_Figueroa
    Sep 1, 2019
    10
    Si te gusta el estilo de combate de este tipo de juego, este es posiblemente el mejor de su genero.
  79. Bbplayer
    Dec 23, 2019
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Positives: A very exciting time with awesome twists and turns in the adventure, Awesome combat and a fun game all around.

    Cons: (personal opinion): Two annoying things right at the end, the ending was very abrupt with no post war scenes and two, the S rank system is very annoying in which it tells you "wait until after the war" so I did, I didn't ever get prompted for the S rank system so I guess I missed the quest for the ring somewhere down the line.

    I still recommend the game overall though.    … Expand
  80. xSelene89
    Sep 15, 2019
    8
    Very good Story and Chars but its a technical mess. The Frame Rate is horrible and slows down to 10 FPS when fast traveling inside the school. Textures on the Fighting Maps are not better then the 3ds Version.
  81. swerzylicious
    Apr 1, 2022
    9
    Я так рад, что прошел путь Черных Орлов и впереди еще два дома. Но это уже 9 из 10 и вряд ли станет хуже. Лучше, увы, тоже не станет, потому что антураж академии бедноват и нельзя погладить котиков :(
  82. RageRuner
    Jul 14, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I played through this game in a day, and plan to play the other 2 houses my first being the Blue Lion House, and holy **** this game is great. This game is a strategy game, I played it like a RPG and grinded exp, so I can't tell you how great they did that. Firstly, the characters: they kind are a mixed bag or stereo types and slightly altered stereo types. Each are great, I enjoyed all of their dialogue, my personal favorite and first bride was Bernie. The weapons do have a limited number of uses (skills using up more of it) but to prevent being defenseless against enemies, your weapon will do less damage instead, which is cool of them to not softlock/kill you. The twists are...well they are twists alright. This means recruiting is important, and also means you will have to kill characters not involved with your class. The relationship system is cool, it works like you'd expect, do what they like, they like you, do what they don't, they don't. Pretty simple. The story besides the characters were alright (though I guess I wasn't as invested in that). But, the basic idea is that you're a professor of a house/class (of your choosing) and you teach them skills, bond, listen to what they have to say, fight with them. You could play classic and have those characters die once defeated, but I'm a baby and wanted to keep my precious characters thank you very much. There are a lot of sad losses regardless, and I loved every second of this game. 60$ well spent.… Expand
  83. Garlands
    Sep 1, 2020
    9
    Un excellent tactical rpg qui vous occupera pendant des dizaines d'heures voire plusieurs centaines !
  84. Onioncreature
    Jan 13, 2021
    8
    Three Houses is certainly a step up in the series in terms of storytelling and gameplay accessibility. I found the 3DS titles to be slightly too difficult on the causal setting, but Three Houses has dialed back the difficulty substantially, which I, and many other novice strategists I'm sure, greatly appreciate. Three Houses also fully realizes the central hub concept which was exploredThree Houses is certainly a step up in the series in terms of storytelling and gameplay accessibility. I found the 3DS titles to be slightly too difficult on the causal setting, but Three Houses has dialed back the difficulty substantially, which I, and many other novice strategists I'm sure, greatly appreciate. Three Houses also fully realizes the central hub concept which was explored in Fates, and expands upon it majorly. Walking around the monastery is a nice change of pace from the battle sections, though completing the various tasks did become a bit tedious in the latter half of the game. The story is generally more engaging than ever before, the central characters have a bit more depth to them than in the series past. There's also a fair bit of intrigue, many characters have fairly detailed backstories that are gradually unfurled as you go along. That being said, the way they delivered some of these vital pieces of information was a bit lacking, leading to a few instances of anticlimax. Speaking of anticlimax, one of the biggest issues I have with this title is the sheer amount of content, though I do recognize that for many this will be the game's greatest asset. I found myself a bit bored with the gameplay loop by the last few hours of the game, and the final months of my Blue Lions playthrough did test my patience. This is unfortunate, because having completed one of several different routes through the game, which took about 50 hours, I discovered that several key story details are contained within other routes, leading to a bit of disappointment. The ending itself was fairly satisfying, but I just really dislike the feeling that I'm missing out on vital story details. I simply don't have the stamina to play through another whole campaign with this same gameplay loop right now, and because of that several plot points either have no resolution, or ones which aren't particularly satisfying. I think that it is a bit unreasonable to ask players to complete a 50 hour story mode several times to get the full picture of the events which take place, even if there are many enthusiasts who will take it upon themselves to play every route. I will say, however, that at least Three Houses includes all necessary routes on the cartridge, which was not the case in Fates. Three Houses is still in most respects a great game, but I do hope that Intelligent Systems returns to one central storyline someday, as the multiple route method just doesn't really mesh with how I play these games.… Expand
  85. DaveTheGigi
    Apr 29, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Graphics: This is one of the easier things to critique about this game, this game looks absolutely horrible at times, the environments look so bland it's ridiculous it looks like they went to unity and searched for stock castle assets, and while in the beginning, the wonder of this huge place and being able to explore it immersed me very early on but after a while, it wears off once you look at the details especially if you look hard at certain textures (FRUIT), The Saving grace (graphically) of this game is the character models each character felt and looked distinct while there were some jaggies on the hair and stuff like that I found myself falling in love with some of the character designs (*cough* *cough* Post timeskip Dmitri) when you start battling this game's faults visually become less of a problem as your focusing on strategy and everything looks alright the anime cutscenes are absolutely amazing, they were immersive and badass. and got you engaged in the plot very easily while the fps is kinda low the animation style is gorgeous and makes me want to see a fire emblem in a Xenoblade 2 art style overall visually 6/10 looks like crap but over time your eyes get accustomed.

    Gameplay: Speaking of strategy this game's combat system is absolutely fantastic and is easily the best thing about this game and is so consistently good and satisfying every time I wasn't vibing with the story I'd do some random sidequest and it would immediately engage me. a MUST when you play this game is to have permadeath if you don't the combat system wouldn't be near as fun, there have been several times when my character was about to die and I had to do some crazy strategy, one of my most ballsy strategies is on the final area of the game when I had to have byleth go and defeat a monster and a whole fleet BY HIMSELF because they were nearly killing my characters and I couldn't get to edelgard, so I had Cyrus near the corner of the door so he couldn't get attacked by anyone except the mage that nearly kills you in one hit so he was drawing damage while byleth and came in with a whole fleet. these strategies are so satisfying to pull off and allow your creativity to go wild and while playing this game it feels like gates in my brain are opening when I do some big brain strategy. another reason to have permadeath when one of your characters die you feel is unlike anything I've felt in a game before when a character dies your heart drops and when its the end of the game and you have to make sacrifices so the rest of the squad can survive and succeed it feels bad and makes you feel like you're in a war, Especially post timeskip. this feeling I've only felt in cutscenes with games that have the best of stories. overall Gameplay 10/10 some of the best I've seen out there

    Story: I'm going to have two separate sections for story and writing because especially in this game there is a major, so overall the overarching plot of this game is pretty good post time skip it slows down to a slog luckily I went blue lions soi had crazy Dmitri to keep me entertained. but the twists in this game will have you engaged but because of the sometimes sub-optimal writing and characters, the game can feel like a chore to get through. whenever something crazy happens such as Dmitri killing a man in cold blood or when Dmitri transforms as a person to become king and passes the dagger to edelgard and the Final Scene oh my **** god the final scene was amazing and showed so much character development in only a 2-minute cutscene. speaking of cutscenes whenever the game goes anime **** goes down and something wild happens like your father dying. or you going **** Super Sayain, either way, the overarching story is engaging and entertaining. Story 9/10 Pretty engaging but not a masterpiece

    Writing: the writing in this game is either fantastic or dog****. Byleth is a piece of bread and is so boring but he does the job of reflecting the player and making you feel in his shoes but when you think about him he's just a boring piece of bread which is somehow so fantastic that everyone loves him so much and this would be fine if they had a character creator or something like that and gave more options to speak up and say more things they usually give you two options yes or yes in a mean way (which isn't that rude in the first place) but this isn't completely true and in certain areas, they give you choice which can affect plot points dramatically but the thing that makes me hate the writing is that the characters will say the same thing over and over as if I didn't get it the 7TH TIME. but I won't lie certain things Dmitri say still reverberate through my head, and sometimes the writing is master class but it lacks real consistency 7/10

    Music: Great not my favorite edge of dawn slaps 9/10
    Supports: wish they had more detail if this game had a higher budget and support convos could improve also sometimes these convos are cheeks other times great 8/10    … Expand
  86. MuchoPelicula
    Aug 27, 2019
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Obra maestra atemporal es una buena definición para este gran juego. Tiene una gran cantidad de aspectos novedosos con respecto a sus predecesores, como puede ser la ambientación en el monasterio y en un ambito educativo, con sus consiguientes cambios en el sistema de aumento de atributos a través de las tutorías, que dan una mayor libertad a la hora de dar clases a tus tropas. De la misma forma se reintroducen aspectos como la ruptura de las armas (que no desaparecen, sino que son más debiles al romperse, diferenciandose a Awakening).

    Los personajes son en su mayoría un conjunto de personajes-tipo, pero que presentan siempre algún aspecto característico que los diferencia de otros personajes similares. El sistema de apoyos está bien y las conversaciones profundizan en sus personalidades y relaciones interpersonales. Recuerdan mucho a personajes de anime y los clichés se reparten como tostadas, pero eh, también tienen sus aspectos divertidos inesperados (Claude admitiendo que le gusta ser ahorcado, toda la relación entre Hubert y Ferdinand o las canciones de Annete).

    Las batallas siguen el típico formato Fire Emblem de combate por turnos, aunque se pierden aspectos como el triangulo de armas (aunque permanezcan como habilidades) y existen clases demasiado desvalanceadas, como los jinetes, magos o arqueros que rompen el juego en su totalidad, pero esto siempre pasa de alguna forma en todos los juegos de estrategia.

    La historia dividida en 3 (y más dentro de estas), es una buena forma de darle al juego más rejugabilidad para el NG+, y me parece que están bien articuladas. Para mí, la historia de Edelgard es la que me resultó más interesante, mientras que la de dimitri no me llegó a convencer, y la de Claude está simplemente bien. En mi caso, fueron los personajes secundarios como Hilda, Hubert o Lysithea los que me llamaron realmente la atención y me hicieron interesarme en el devenir de las batallas. Y luego está Lorenz, que lo dejé caer en combate con ganas.

    Echo de menos aspectos como la segunda generación de personajes, pero agradezco la mayor libertad de acción que el monasterio te condece con respecto a juegos previos como la saga de Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn, que aunque me encantan, siempre me parecieron un poco repetitivas. Es también bastante fácil, pero habrá que esperar al Modo Lunatic del DLC para ver si da para algo. El matrimonio pasa a ser inútil de la misma forma al no existir la descendencia, fuera de para acabar con el husbando o waifu de turno.

    En definitiva, recuerda mucho a un jrpg, y si juegos de ese estilo, pero menos largos y pesados te gustan, este es un juego que deberías adorar. No es perfecto, pero tampoco aspira a serlo. Mejor juego del año para mí, aunque tampoco es que haya competencia. Quizás tras el día 30 de Agosto se pueda revisar esta opinión. 9/10    … Expand
  87. onehitok
    Aug 4, 2021
    10
    Absolutely love this RPG. Only upsetting thing is no online multiplayer. Byleth is a badass! Dimitri has the best storyline! Edelgard has the best requiem! Claude has the best humor! This made me feel like I have friends even though I don't have any!
  88. MagicHadi
    Sep 2, 2019
    8
    To preface this: this is my first Fire Emblem hame. I’d heard of the series before playing, but I’d never touched it till now, and I gotta say I’m impressed.

    First of all, the gameplay surprised me with how engaged I became with it. Things that I thought would be boring when I saw the trailers turned out to be massive time sinks. There are 2 main gameplay segments: the battles and    To preface this: this is my first Fire Emblem hame. I’d heard of the series before playing, but I’d never touched it till now, and I gotta say I’m impressed.

    First of all, the gameplay surprised me with how engaged I became with it. Things that I thought would be boring when I saw the trailers turned out to be massive time sinks. There are 2 main gameplay segments: the battles and exploring the monastery.

    The battle mechanics in Fire Emblem are unique, and cant really be found anywhere else-not to this extent atleast. I’ll spare you the details as you can just find videos of the battles, but as a first-timer playing on the hardest difficulty I found them decently challenging. If youre a fire emblem veteran, though, its definitely going to be easier..

    In the monastery you can perform many activities to bond with your students or give yourself some bonuses. You can plant and harvest crops in the greenhouse, fish on the lake, have dinner with pairs of students, go to choir practice, or just have tea with students or faculty. Participating in these activities is essential to building support between your characters and increasing student motivation-both of which are optional but highly recommended for the full experience. Increasing support with your characters allows them to gain certain bonuses while newr each other in battle, but also unlocks support conversations. This brings us to the next part of the game: the characters. I’m happy to report that every single character in this game is complex, and just *feels* real. They all have doubts and fears, things that excite and motivate them, flaws and little ticks that get you invested in them. theyre all overflowing with so much character thats evident in every interaction you have with them, and this is just accentuated by the spectacular voicework the VAs have done. As you unlock more support conversations with characters you feel your bond deepen with them, and you genuinely want to protect them-adding an entire new layer to the story.

    Speaking of the story, its just as good as the characters are. Its a war epic that starts tame, and relatively happy-go-lucky in the first part, before getting dark and gloomy in the second. It deals with themes of morality and oppression and handles them masterfully. In the second part you discover that no characters are strictly “good” people. Everyone operates in a grey area, just like in real life. The main antagonist has views many would agree with, but methods many would consider extreme and it all comes together in a way that makes fighting against them morally conflicting.

    The music in the game is nothing to write home about, but is serviceable. Theres a really nice credit song and one out of the two battle songs is great, but nothing is that memorable.

    Performance on the switch is stable for the most part, but in the larger battles near the end of the game it tends to dip pretty heavily. Ive also found a few rare frame drops even in the monastery, but overall nothing spoils the rest of the game.

    Overall, I highly recommend this game for any jrpg fan, and even strategy game fans who dont particularly like jrpgs will enjoy the combat. The story is nothing like classic jrpgs (which tend to be filled with tropes and cliches) so if thats worrying you then be at ease. The game has 3 main routes, but I’d highly recommend starting with the Black Eagles route first, as there are some extra story details there not found in other routes.    … Expand
  89. Drakoon
    Sep 1, 2019
    9
    User reviews are so meaningless. The 0 and 1 scores are given by people who don't even have the game or played it.
  90. Kamui76312
    Sep 4, 2019
    10
    La música, las batallas, toda la interacción que se puede tener con los personajes hasta conocerlos bien por su personalidad, esas emociones que chocan cuando tienes que pelear y hasta matar a un antiguo estudiante, la verdad es increíble la historia entre las 4 rutas se va complementando, sin duda es como tener 4 o solo 3 juegos en uno, su único punto malo son los gráficos pero esoLa música, las batallas, toda la interacción que se puede tener con los personajes hasta conocerlos bien por su personalidad, esas emociones que chocan cuando tienes que pelear y hasta matar a un antiguo estudiante, la verdad es increíble la historia entre las 4 rutas se va complementando, sin duda es como tener 4 o solo 3 juegos en uno, su único punto malo son los gráficos pero eso realmente pasa de lado cuando te metes a este hermoso juego… Expand
  91. Nookling
    Jul 30, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I've been playing since Awakening. This is truly my favourite Fire Emblem game ever. Very polished, great balance between story and combat. Well worth the money… Expand
  92. voltosaurus
    Aug 7, 2019
    8
    I've played through the Black Eagles and Golden Deer paths, and can say with certainty that OVERALL this is my favorite FE title. My only gripes with the game are that in the monastery, the game does not look or perform as well as I'd like it to, and in the normal Black Eagle path the story drops multiple plot threads as it transitions into the second act. However, the Golden Deer answersI've played through the Black Eagles and Golden Deer paths, and can say with certainty that OVERALL this is my favorite FE title. My only gripes with the game are that in the monastery, the game does not look or perform as well as I'd like it to, and in the normal Black Eagle path the story drops multiple plot threads as it transitions into the second act. However, the Golden Deer answers these questions by the end of it's story. This game truly shines in the characters and TBSRPG gameplay. My personal favorite parts of any Fire Emblem is the camaraderie that the army you've amassed shares, which in Three Houses is only made stronger with the cut down party size from previous games. This may be disappointing to those who liked to have large armies, but pays off through how tight knit the crew is, as opposed to in previous titles where the army at best knows each other very loosely outside of the 3-5 main characters. Three Houses introduces multiple quality of life changes and additions to the Turn-Based Strategy gameplay; Nothing groundbreaking but enough to push it into the most enthralling the series has to offer. I have yet to play through the Blue Lions and the secret route, but with 90 hours logged I can say this is a fantastic addition for fans of the series.… Expand
  93. Nate_The_Gr8
    Sep 21, 2019
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My 1st ever Fire Emblem game and I have to say I am not disappointed at all. Controls/combat are easy to understand and intuitive. The story has sucked me in and I can’t wait for my next playtime. In just 3 days I have put about 21 hours into the game which I am told is up to 80 hours for one house. There are parts of the game that can be repetitive and feel tedious but these are few and far between. I am very happy with the over all experience and can’t wait to start going though the other 2 houses.

    Updated 08/27/2019
    When I originally posted my initial review I had only just started my play through. To my surprise, I finished the Black Eagles play through just a mere 15 hours later. This was a shock to me as I had originally thought it would be up to 80 hours. However, after spending more time with the game I am happy to say that at least for my play style 40 hours is long enough for me. The things in the above paragraph that I stated as tedious or becoming repetitive I found myself falling in love with, for example exploring the monastery and talking to the students and faculty and learning their stories and lore. I have to say I am completely satisfied with how the story was handled for the Black Eagles. They are without a doubt my favorite house. I have started my second play through and I have chosen to go with the Blue Lions. I am taking my time with this one and also doing more now that I know how the game mechanisms work. For example, I am doing more battles on my off days and training my students up so I can pass them on the exams. I would highly recommend this game to anyone. I believe it has a little something for everyone to enjoy. On a side note my Girlfriend watched me play some and she has now decided she would like to try playing. She has also chosen Black Eagles as her 1st house to play through.

    09/21/2019 (Light spoilers for Blue Lions)
    Just a few days ago I finished the Blue Lions play though with about 38 hours played. To start this off with I will state I enjoyed the story overall. However there were parts as in every story that I felt could have been improved. The biggest draw back to the story for me is the handling of The Boar Prince, aka Dimitri. I understand that He as a child went though a traumatic experience, and that has left mental scars on him. However I feel that the writers did not lean into it enough or fleshed out his trauma. Duscar is a huge story/plot point for Blue Lions but I feel as though Duscar is overlooked. I feel as if Dimitri was simply given a traumatic backstory simply as a means to make him this edgy/dark brooding character. This was the biggest set back for me of the entire game as of right now for this reason I will be changing my score from a 10 to an 8. I still have the golden Deer to play though and the church route before i finish the game completely. I did like the fact that i was able to get every one of my students to master rank (Ingrid is busted as a falcon knight). I also enjoyed the way the story greatly varied for the Black Eagles play though, and how we see a different side to El. We see just how far she is willing to go and its pretty far, to achieve he goal of setting up a new world order. I greatly enjoyed my time with the Blue Lions class and I am looking forward to Playing with the Golden Deer class.    … Expand
  94. Firet
    Aug 12, 2019
    8
    The game it's great. I usually don't have time to spend on long games, but this game caught me and i can't stop playing it.
  95. anaunz
    Aug 14, 2019
    8
    TL;DR, a great RPG strategy turn-based game with heavy storytelling, but poor narrative.

    Despite how heavy storytelling the game is, the narrative is not good enough to make me want to know everything in the game. Many questions that they introduced at the very beginning of the game, they answered the question very poorly. But I have to admit that even with its poor narrative, I still    TL;DR, a great RPG strategy turn-based game with heavy storytelling, but poor narrative.

    Despite how heavy storytelling the game is, the narrative is not good enough to make me want to know everything in the game. Many questions that they introduced at the very beginning of the game, they answered the question very poorly. But I have to admit that even with its poor narrative, I still want to replay the game just to know what really happened in the other routes. There are 4 routes in the game, btw.

    Meanwhile, the gameplay is very enjoyable. The battle system is fun and challenging enough to suck me to play it until the very end.    … Expand
  96. thefredbear
    Mar 9, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. this game is amazing, easily the best one this year made by Nintendo. The battle mechanics are really fun and it is really satisfying to just 1 shot an enemy before he can do anything about it. The character designs are amazing and the bond between them really deepens and i like that. The only bad thing i can say about this is that there is a pretty big difficulty spike when you do the Annette and Gilbert prologue (Blue lions house) . Also the animation can be a bit choppy but it is still a 10 in my eyes… Expand
  97. chuckspin7
    Aug 19, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My favorite game of all-time within my favorite series of all time. Characters and combat are deeper than ever before. Im begging for more story content from DLC and I have not even played all four routes yet.… Expand
  98. QuackoZ
    Aug 22, 2019
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Spoiler tagged just in case

    Good Game, definitely a step in the right direction, This game does a lot right in terms of Narrative and world-building, probably not Jugdrall-Tellius level but still great, The Characters in this game are probably the best the series has ever had, every character is important to the narrative in different ways, and are all good units and worth using, Except Cyril

    The Gameplay of this game has a lot to be desired, the Adjucant system is never really explained to the point where I am nearly done with my 3rd route and I still dont get it, The inclusion of Weapon Durability is amazing but having Magic work differently as opposed to also breaking feels a bit too OP, especially for someone like Lysithea or Dorothea, who have amazing Tomes and basically unlimited uses of it, Thr map design in this game is easily its worst feature, it reuses a lot of maps, to the point that you can nearly memorize the map by the end of a playthrough, and most of the maps arent that good, most of them are just open fields, there are a few good maps of course, like Dierdru and Fhirdiad, but good maps are few and far between. The story in the game is great in most areas, but the Crimson Flower route is easily its weakest point, while being the shortest route, it also has the most disjointed plot and doesn't even do what it is supposed to do, make Edelgard seem like a good person, even in her own route she is shown to use Crest Beasts and is extremely manipulative of Byleth and the other students.

    The concept of the 4 routs leads to a lot of misinformation surrounding the games narrative, to the point where even after playing all 4 routes, people still don't know what is true. Not that that is nessacarily a bad thing, it shows how unreliable one perspective can be, but it still is pretty annoying.

    As much as we harras Fates for its BS use of the Vallites, 3H does the same thing with the Slytherin, they are what I like to call a Pin-cushion Faction, they didn't want to make any of the completely egregious acts get done by Edelgard, so they stick the actions onto the Slythers, like a pincushion, although in 3H they are better integrated into tbe narrative, it still feels like a cop-out. Another thing I want to mention is the difficulty of this game, it is stupid easy, even on Hard/Classic you barely find yourself needing to rewind, adding New Game+ it just gets easier and easier, it becomes easier than a SS Seth solo. Although I get why they would make it easier, to make it more accessible to new players, but if it gets to the point where your hardest difficulty is too easy, thats an issue, and with the announcement of Lunatic and Maddening, thats pretty cool but they are introducing Ambush-Spawns, The worst idea IS has had since hiring Maeda, it creates Fake-difficulty, where its only hard because you dont know what to do, or "Nintendo-hard" where after a run-through it becomes incredibly easy, because the challenge is only due to inexperience. Thats not a good way to make difficulty, All together it is still one of the Best FE games, easy top 6, and a good buy for anybody interested    … Expand
  99. Dredian
    Aug 25, 2019
    10
    Llevo mas de 200 horas de juego. Es realmente impresionante, un juego increíble. realmente espectacular. El diseño, los gráficos, la historia, el guión, las posibilidades de personalización, la cantidad de tiempo de duración, el desarrollo, es increíble, realmente un 10 de 10. Mejor juego en muchísimo tiempo. Me encanta.
  100. Espinete88
    Aug 26, 2019
    9
    Increíble, he jugado varios FE, pero este es estupendo en cada uno de sus sentidos, totalmente recomendado, ya seas un veterano en juegos de estrategia o totalmente nuevo.
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#4 Best Switch Game of 2019
4
#4 Most Discussed Switch Game of 2019
4
#4 Most Shared Switch Game of 2019

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89

Generally favorable reviews - based on 102 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 98 out of 102
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 102
  3. Negative: 0 out of 102
  1. Nintendo Force Magazine
    Apr 28, 2020
    95
    There may be too much content here for busy adults to tackle! I don't know when I'm going to find the time to do full playthroughs of the other two Houses that I didn't choose to begin with! [Issue #41 – September 2019, p. 74]
  2. Universo Nintendo
    Oct 29, 2019
    90
    Fire Emblem Three Houses is one of Switch's best games of 2019 and a breeze of fresh air to this franchise. Unfortunately, its poor animations preclude any possibility of being the game of the year.
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  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Oct 11, 2019
    86
    Large selection of classes, good AI and wide variety of missions make Fire Emblem: Three Houses one of the best turn-based tactics. [Issue#240, p.50]
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