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Me see all these people playing the game early: 😫 I can’t even play it when it releases midnight on the e-shop since I’m waiting to pick up my physical order tomorrow morning. These last few hours before a game release are so hard, but it’ll be so worth it!

Just had to vent out, but spoilers are absolutely handled horribly on Youtube. Nothing better to ruin your mood when you're scrolling through the main Youtube page on the app when a random account you've never heard of puts in a spoiler image on the thumbnail regarding a certain playable character. (Still not sure if it is 100% confirmed since the way they were represented in-game kinda looks like a mod, but it looked real enough as is. And I haven't seen anything regarding the data mine, so I can't confirm it tbh). Like on one hand, I had a certain feeling they'd return as a playable unit. But it still ruins the initial surprise I would've had if I encountered it naturally in-game. I wasn't even searching up any specific Fire Emblem videos recently at the time, but due to the algorithm anyway, this certain video still ruined a pretty cool surprise for me. Still hyped up for the game's release, but now is the best time to really be cautious about any spoiler-y information regarding the story, features and characters on any social media.

Wow, you have great attention to detail! I wasn’t entirely sure there was a specific order of when each route started after the time skip. I just assumed that after the time skip, they all literally start simultaneously. It really makes sense that in the Blue Lions route, Dmitri and the gang are already making plans to meet Lady Rhea in the Valley of Torment after the Black Eagles crossed over the bridge to Garrag Mach, the same place which the Golden Deers intended to protect. I’m glad that we are getting different angles of a singular, concrete story from each house. Makes me have more hope that there will be a turning point in the story where all routes will eventually combine after completing all three perspectives of Part 1. (I just noticed that small detail in the save file description. There has to be a cumulative Part 2 to this story, right? Data mines probably confirm it, but I’m not looking at ‘em)

My biggest wish would be anything akin to History mode from the first Fire Emblem Warriors. They have the map of Fodlan readily available, so to just adding a bunch of challenges / missions we can tackle at our own leisure would be perfect to prolong the endgame content. Also hoping for additional story-related DLC and characters. I haven't read anything about the data mines, but knowing how Koei Tecmo works, I have a feeling not all the characters shown in the game are available at launch. They'll probably be reserved as DLC packs with additional story missions relating to them. New costumes would be a nice addition, along with new hairstyles for the cast. I'm not sure if the original post-timeskip outfits are available in the game, but if not, they have to release them as DLC eventually. Oh, and obviously any other Classes that didn't make it into the base game. Lastly, and this probably won't happen but wishful thinking, it'd be fun to play as the other characters from the first Warriors game in this one. Teaming up the likes of the Awakening / Fates and Shadow Dragon cast with the Fodlan crew would blow my mind just at the sight of it happening, regardless of how non-sensical it would be.

Yeah, I'm still on the fence about this detail as well. What I liked about the first Fire Emblem Warriors game was that I could continue building my units past the main story, gaining their S-Rank weapon builds plus inheriting boost skills, (shoutout to the OP combo of Astra, Luna and Trample) and do the abundance of challenges in History Mode - serving as countless hours of endgame content. I'm going to hold on hope that something similar like this is may be hidden in Three Hopes.

I want to avoid story spoilers so I won’t read the document. But does it mention anything about a New Game+ and if we’re able to combine different save datas for routes? Or must all houses be done in the same save file to reach a “golden” route ending? ( ‘cause I feel it’s obvious that all routes will eventually combine.)

I’m curious with how the New Game+ feature is going to work. I’m starting with Black Eagles and nearing the end of chapter 4. I want to start a new file and check out and level up / grind the other house units, but I don’t want to nullify my progress for the other two routes if they don’t end up connecting the progress after completing one file when the full game releases, if that makes any sense.

Black Eagles Route spoilers:

Wow, been playing through the demo since this morning, and I gotta say, they have been very generous with the content they've offered in the four hours I've played. I selected Black Eagles for my first run through and these are my quick observations regarding the story and features so far (LENGTHY SPOILERS INCOMING) Man, I'm exhausted (in a good way) with everything the demo has given us, and I feel like there's still so much to get through, not even including what the Blue Lion's and Golden Deer routes have to offer! I know my thoughts appear scrambled through my summary above, but cannot express enough how satisfied with what we've gotten in the demo so far. The wait for it after the "leak" was definitely worth it, and now I'm even more excited for the full game to release in the coming weeks!

OH MY GOODNESS WHAT A WAY TO WAKE UP THIS MORNING! Ashen Wolves? Byleth actually speaking? Tea parties? Playable demo where we get to play EACH route? Really glad I had lowered my expectations this week, 'cause this was an amazing surprise. Peace out guys, gonna start downloading that chunky 7 GB demo and start sink into some gameplay right away! Today is a good day.

I’m basic. Will probably do Male Shez / Female Byleth on my first play through. Then the opposite genders in following ones. Planning on doing the same order for the routes as I did in Three Houses: Eagles > Deer > Lions > secret golden route maybe (?)

Yup, disappointing, but not surprised. We really did hold our hope from a small error on the website. Oh well. Was really hoping to play today since this is the only free time I've got this week. Hopefully a Nintendo Direct will come out soon, 'cause that has to be the most likely place where the final trailer for the game will release with a demo announcement.

Long time lurker, first time posting. Excited to share my enthusiasm with the rest of the community about this game. I recently looked on Nintendo's website and it appears that the "Download Demo" feature is gone from the Three Hopes page. Is it possible that it's not appearing as soon as we thought? Was hoping tomorrow would be the case since I'm so eager for some hands-on gameplay before release.