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    Buying a Switch just for Fire Emblem?

    in Fire Emblem: Three Houses

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    Don't buy a console just to play a single game! In my opinion, grab Breath of the Wild as well if you get a Switch. That is the one game that justifies a Switch purchase in a way other titles won't. If JRPGs are your thing, you can also grab Octopath Traveler, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (personally not my favorite, but still a good game), or if you can wait until Fall, Dragon Quest XI.

    Anyway, the Avatar, Byleth, is less Robin, Corrin, Kris, and Mark, and more Persona's Ren Amamiya, Minato/Minako Arisato, and Yu Narukami.

    Whereas past Fire Emblem avatars (Robin, Corrin, and Kris, in particular) engaged in dialogue within the story, Byleth is in line with Persona's player protagonists: mostly silent with dialogue choices and the occasional thought bubble or two. Most talking in this game is done by other characters, and the most Byleth will speak will be during battles and in combat, otherwise he/she is generally mute. Like Persona's protagonists, Byleth is not customizable except with names, though like Persona 3: Portable, you can select the gender of the player protagonist.

    The general story: Byleth takes up a job as a teacher at the Officer's Academy, a leading military institution on the continent of Fodlan where some of the best and brightest of Fodlan's three countries, the Adrestian Empire, the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, and the Leicester Alliance,  attend school, including their future leaders: Edelgard of the Adrestia, Dimitri of Faerghus, and Claude of Leicester. Each one of them leads a certain academic house within the Officer's Academy, Edelgard with the Black Eagles, Dimitri with the Blue Lions, and Claude with the Golden Deers. The decision to choose which house you'll teach will greatly impact the story as a series of events will accumulate into a full blown war between the three countries after a five year timeskip. 

    Unlike past titles, you are introduced to ALL the characters in the beginning of the game, thanks in part to the school setting.

    Three Houses has more in vein with Echoes and Genealogy of the Holy War gameplay-wise, while taking story beats from Genealogy, which the directors of the game have cited as being the single most influential title on this game. I would go into details, but I believe other users can offer explanations better than I can. 

    There is a 4th Route

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    Here's a translation of some parts by a Spanish user from another forum (LunaSerena on ResetERA).

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    Y es que, recogiendo el espíritu de exceso y escala medida a borbotones que la serie ya ensayara en Fates, lo que aquí se propone es, ante todo, una decisión: norte, sur, este; águilas, leones, ciervos; azul, negro, dorado. Son los colores, los distintivos y las procedencias de las tres casas que se dan cita en el monasterio, y también los tres vértices de un nuevo triángulo que recoge las enseñanzas del original. Nadie es mejor que nadie, cada casa tiene ventajas e inconvenientes, no existe una opción correcta. Sea cual sea la facción elegida nos vamos a arrepentir, porque todas van sobradas de carisma y es realmente fácil identificar favoritos aquí y allá, y sobre todo porque hablamos del tipo de decisión que condiciona profundamente todo lo que vendrá después.

    And gathering the feeling of excess and scales that the series tried with Fates, what is proposed here is, before anything, a decision: north, south, east, eagles, lions, deers, blue, black, gold. Those are the colors, the emblems, and the origin of the three houses that come together at the monastery, and also the three vertices of a new triangle that gathers the teachings of the original game. No one is better than anyone, each house has advantages and disadvantages, there is no single right choice. Whatever faction we choose, we'll regret it, because all have charisma to spare and its quite easy to choose favorites here and there, and mainly because we're talking about the kind of decision that heavily conditions everything that will come after it.

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    A partir de cierto momento las cosas se tuercen, y lo que nos espera después son hasta cuatro ramas de un argumento que no se limita a reciclar escenarios y acontecimientos desde diferentes puntos de vista. Desde Nintendo hablan de líneas argumentales completamente independientes, de escenarios nuevos y a fin de cuentas de hasta cuatro (repito, hay sorpresas en este sentido) juegos en uno, y a tenor de lo visto hasta ahora, de la complejidad de los diálogos, la cantidad de actores en juego y el inmenso trabajo que traspira cada detalle del mundo la sensación es que no bromean en absoluto.

    Starting from a certain moment, things start twisting and what awaits us after are up to four branches of a story that doesn't limit itself to recycling scenarios and events from different points of view. Nintendo speaks of completely independent stories, new scenarios and up to four games in one (I repeat, there are surprises regarding this), and considering what we've seen until now, of the dialogue's complexity, the amount of characters involved and the immense work reflected in every detail of the world, we feel they are not kidding at all.

     

    FE16 VA Discussion

    in Fire Emblem: Three Houses

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    3 minutes ago, Silverly said:

    Not to potentially derail the topic at hand, but what’s wrong with Niosi? He seems like a decent guy to me. I’m not aware of any of the alleged rumors.

    In terms of the voices, I gotta say they sound similar enough to believe there’s a possibility of him being Dmitri.

    You will find what you are looking for if you look in the right places. At risk of derailing the thread, I am not going to directly discuss it.

    Anyway, I think Female Byleth sounds like either Abby Trott or Marcella Lentz-Pope.

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