CyberNinja

Under what evidence? Under what parameters are be defining "better" as well? I'm assuming you are well informed on the subject and not solely making a proposition based on the assumption of unanimous agreement. Well we can agree on that. Well I suppose they're pretty close in how neither system actually reflects the desires of the population. Around the time you made a proposition without evidence.

Why Weird flex but ok, that's your prerogative to be to be insulted and to not insult you further I'll only leave it as an implication of what I have to think of that. which they only have Rhea do in this route, when all routes have Edelgard commit the crimes she does in White clouds and 3/4 routes have her as the main antagonist, with her own route still hinting at her darker tendencies. Edelgard still uses her own citizens as human shields, the thief enemies have dialogue showing that her war has left her people in abject poverty and Ferdinand's paralogue shows that the Empire is cracking under unrest as Edelgard allows her nobles and the Agarthans to fully exploit her own people to win the war, a war which was as mentioned avoidable. Edelgard is a villain, you being offended by that doesn't really matter until you give some evidence to the contrary. It's Edelgard's evil actions (assassination, hiring bandits, terrorist attacks) that drive the plot of White clouds, she is the one responsible for the harm, damage, or carnage caused by the war, being the instigator. In a literary and actual sense, she is a villain. Her character, (need for control, imperialism and nationalism) push her to slaughter her former friends and classmates to fulfill the ambitions of the Imperial nobility (reunification) and drive her need to reorganize her government as distinctly totalitarian. It is Edelgard's ambitions, her messiah complex, and controlling nature that causes her to take the actions she does, it is through these distinct character flaws that Edelgard becomes the Villain, and a rather charismatic one at that!. She forms a totalitarian government, rewrites history to destroy any evidence that the Church, Kingdom, or Alliance ever existed (yes Ashe, there was more to take) and in endings where she solves her shortened lifespan (Lysithea) and most others, she never actually steps down. I won't argue on the merits of her choice of governmental system, but I wouldn't say that your stance is without controversy.

I think the writers are more self-aware then we give them credit for. A lot of people dislike Edelgard for making Jeralt's death about her, in her supports with Caspar, he'll actually call her out for making everything about her. Its stuff like this that repeats often enough to suggest that there is in fact certain concepts they want you to pick up on.

Because nothing your doing in that route is justified. Edelgard cultivates a cult of personality around misinformation and manipulation. Part of her revealing her past to you is due to the interaction of her crests and yours (another topic) part of it is her emotionally manipulating you. The game has already established that there are bad actors and unreliable narrators, specifically they hedge on leaving the player confused on CF because we don't know how much is Edelgard's own lack of knowledge and how much is her intentionally obfuscating the past to paint a better picture. She is emotionally dependent on Byleth but she also views them as much the same as those "loathsome beasts" she detests, she truly believed that due to Byleth's lineage (aka bloodline) that they would choose their race "Nabatea" over humanity. Hubert's A support also covers this concept that the major topic of discussion is of Byleth's bloodline and well... If that isn't ringing alarm bells I don't know what to say. Again let's look at what Edelgard has to say about Crests and relics in light of this, she insists that they are not gifts of the goddess but creations of Man, she paints a picture of Rhea and dragonkind as schemers jealous of humanities' ingenuity and neglects to mention how relics were made... when Amyr is a weapon made to her specifications. It isn't without reason that CF is the route that gives the least amount of information, it isn't an accident that what you are given is wrong. There is a reason that the route highlights that Edelgard is willing to lie to even her friends and closest allies... including you. It is the only route that Claude dies in and the route where you fight the most former friends (Two houses + Knights of Seiros) every single character has them calling out YOU for joining Edelgard. The route doesn't call out Edelgard because the entire route is designed around gaslighting the player into supporting Edelgard despite them being called out for it by every major character, in Azure Moon Dimitir's behavior was the problem, in Crimson Flower YOURS is. The route paints Edelgard as the hero defeating the evil Rhea but leaves in some seriously questionable behavior that it doesn't let you call out, these are the red flags that let you know something is wrong. Claude's route shows the lies but you still believe (assuming CF 1st route) she was justified with what she(and you) knew, VW opens you up to Azure Moon where you realize how far Edelgard will go, it destroys the illusion CF created. Silver Snow lets you look at things objectively again, Edelgard will ask you to join but you know better now, if you hesitate or deny her, it doesn't matter you are an enemy now, because you are not her ally your bloodline makes you an enemy. So no, CF doesn't properly justify itself, it was never meant to. That's the point. If it was your first playthrough you can fall for Edelgard's propaganda, if not you'll see through her lies. Edelgard is the villain, even in her own route: recall that the endings review the events are all as viewed from a historian's perspective.

If they had the power to take the kingdoms head on, they'd have done so, that is so obvious I don't even know why we're discussing it. They act in shadow because being revealed means defeat. Their logic in story makes sense, they want to kill the Dragons, they also want the three kingdoms locked in a state of perpetual conflict, Edelgard works to end the war while Cornelia works to exhaust the resources of both the kingdom she controls and the rebels. Agartha doesn't start seriously supporting Edelgard until she risks losing and will cut ties once it becomes clear she's lost or they'll lose too much (Myson's death) if they remain. Both the Empire and Agartha work to complete their genocide of the Nabateans and both work to hunt down the KOS. In 3/4 routes they can kill of Rhea whenever they wish but use her to supply cheap demonic beast units. to the empire. Ideally the empire will emerge victorious but be too worn down to be a threat, Arundel will engage a massive civil war utilizing the unrest he's been spreading throughout the empire and they'll use this to headcap Edelgard and subvert the entirety of Fodlan. They'd then begin their pogroms against the human population of Fodlan as they see them as "mere beasts" since both nobility and commoners carry the blood of Nabatea (crests) and they view the humanity above as irrevocably tainted by Sothis and her ilk. If Solon is to be believed, they do view themselves in a messianic sense (Saviour of all) for those they view as true Ary-humanity. So I've joked about this before but Three houses is the most faithful Fallout 2 adaptation I've seen and Agartha are the Enclave.

Actually had an enemy proc miracle three times, admittedly this was only on hard and I was skipping over enemy phase so I didn't notice the physic user, but I'm not inclined to play that map again.

Why? If we're basing it off her established character, its clear that she and Hubert are human supremacists thus having Seteth, Rhea, and Flayn in any position of power would be unacceptable for them. Furthermore if you read Edelgard's character sheet, you realize that she hates losing control. She is an autocrat and one who doesn't recognize the independence of the kingdom and Alliance. If you remove the Agarthans and Nabateans, then this is simply the story of an Emperor working to reclaim the old borders of the empire, she is embracing the Adrestian dream of reconquest. So it doesn't matter the ideology of the three lords, Edelgard would attempt to kill them regardless to reclaim the empire because 1) her need for control would not trust independent actors to create the society she desires 2) Her #1 goal is unification, attacking the church is just part of pretext. With this in mind, allying the Agarthans makes sense because she intends to fight the other two kingdoms in a state of total war. Her actions make sense when you look at her how she is rather than how you think she should be. She's the main villain.

No, of course not, They're Falcon Knights with Miracle. Have fun.

I tend to er on the side of "no your changes won't fix it, it'll be worse" because well one, I've read their fan fiction and two they need to first explain the role of the characters before making changes. Case in point, you don't need to make a villain realistic or have some tragic backstory explaining how they came to be. The Agarthans can be as cartoonsihly evil as they are shown to be, it isn't an issue. The problem the Agarthans have is they lack charisma, presence, and fanfare. If stolons spell caused the time skip and we didn't get to kill him until well into the second half of the game, suddenly they're a lot scarier. Instead they seem incompetent and trite, "oh how I was defeated by beasts." About a minute after we met them. We don't even get a new face for them besides Thales all the rest are generic portraits if they get a name. So slithers can work and the story as it stands does need them or the world breaks, they're just not all that charismatic as villains unlike Edelgard, who IS main villain of the story. illnprobably post something a bit more coherent and detailed when I have the time. Currently phone posting.

Presumably she activated the Gareg Mach defenses because they appear around the fortress stairs.

You do fight golems in the SS finale, don't remember if they got buffs, makes the Seiros shield a nice thing to have though.

Which one? CF is easy, SS changes on whether you can kill her before a white beast enters range.

because mages have their own niche with strengths and weaknesses, an Armor mage either fails to carve out a niche or completely eclipses both, ruining class diversity. Its basically bad design from the ground up, decent enemy only boss class though.

According to Dedue, crazy Dimitri was the way Dimitri actually always was. It's just that in Crimson Flower he never reaches the point of discarding the mask he wore during White Clouds. Instead he's more or less stuck in the state he was in during ch. 10-12, openly murderous towards Edelgard but trying to maintain some semblance of sanity for his friends sake. Like the other poster said, since Cornelia never did her coup, he never hit the low of no longer caring.

FE4 exists, the only change form then to now is that the characters were implicitly rather than explicitly superhuman, however Sigurd was one of the Holy Blood heroes who could murder armies on his own (in a game that actually tried to show the real scale of actual war). They might not have been doing anime jumps through the air but they were no less superhuman than say Elric of Melnibone. So the "true Fire Emblem" you crave hasn't existed for a long time, and arguably never did.

I'll be honest: there is not a single scene from the opening of three houses that I see at all being well portrayed in a live action. I can only see a live action as enjoyable in how bad it would be.

Just because people want something doesn't mean it is good to have. Magic users are basically immune to magic for dying to everything else and knights are theoretically immune to physical attacks for amror weakness. You choice is to either make them a bad mage or bad knight. Furthermore the two play opposite roles since one is meant to tank enemy phase and the other to kill enemies on player phase. Like the halbardier, it doesn't offer anything that hasn't already been supplied with other classes. As others mentioned there would never be a situation where using magic would be preferable to her combat arts or attacking normally. some classes are better in the hands of AI only. The baron works best as a boss or enemy only type, look at death knight when you give such a class/unit to a player. If you really wanted to make such a class then you'd have to redesign the rest to properly accommodate the change. Magic isn't even Edelgard's strength it's a hidden talent to open an alternate path for her aka making her a dark knight/gremory.

If you wanted her as a mage, just make her a dark knight. Dimitri is a halberdier and Claude is a Bow Wyvern, the problem isn't that Edelgard isn't overpowered, it's that her class lacks a true niche to call its own. It's supposed to be fortress knight without the magic weakness, instead it's as vulnerable as any knight without the capacity to negate physical attacks.

Why would they joke?

No, you're just going to use swords on a character that is good at swords and axes but not lances and you'll refuse to use axes when the only viable flyer is an axe or lance user. So you're either going to spread out your skill points amongst a ridiculous number of weapon skills you'll never use during a maddening run or your not, that limits the amount of classes you'll take in the latter or you've lost all ground to talk about what's a better use of resources in the former. Regardless the point is that you actually say what your doing and open your own strategies to judgement.

Ok so your going swordmaster Edelgard, not Pegasus because she sucks at lances, not wyvern because you hate axes and since you hate grappler I doubt you intend her to be a knight. So Assassin? Im curious do you have documented success or mathematical proof of what you say or are you just blowing hot air?

She'll be swimming in master classes by the time she meets the Death Knight.

Might have been neat if Flayn and Seteth had exclusive Saint class versions of the classes they normally have. Instead of Charm they would have Sacred power. Maybe make them both flyers too so Seteth would be a Lancefaire Canto sacred power Wyvern, Flayn could be a faith based Pegasus flyer, having Canto Sacred power and Faith uses x2/Lancefaire. For class mastery, they could acquire ancient dragon wrath.

Well yea, its basically Intelligent Systems adaptation of Fallout 2 starring Thales as president Richardson and Frank Horrigan moments before the latter's death.

Probably Ufotable since that's the only name I recognize and they do good work- Ok them too. Nominated for worst taste evah. Then again they could adapt Crimson Flower, hear their good for having dragons torch cities.