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Three houses stand together, but when they fall apart, sides must be taken. Will the long awaited return to consoles for the Fire Emblem series be worth the wait?
Fire Emblem: Three Houses fully realizes a new, meaningful direction for the franchise that makes it the best it has ever been.
It’s not an understatement to say the latest entry into the Fire Emblem series, Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a meaty one. At a somewhat rapid pace, my first house – the Golden Deer – still took just about 45 hours. Pick from the Black Eagles, Blue Lions and Golden Deer, and as their professor – default name, Byleth, appearance non-customizable – train up your students for battle. You can recruit students from the other two houses, and pick up the various staff at the Garreg Mach ...
Fire Emblem: Three Houses is the best Fire Emblem game since 2005’s Path of Radiance. Players who skipped Shadows of Valentia may find a lot of things strange and different at first, but it all fits together so well that it starts to feel natural pretty quickly. Even if you don’t know what you’re doing in the beginning, you can still succeed and enjoy playing in the long run. The story is fascinating, the characters are lovable and entertaining, and the presentation is great.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses is the latest instalment in the long-running tactical RPG series. It’s also the first official entry for the Nintendo Switch, follow
Fire Emblem: Three Houses excels in almost every aspect. The combat feels fresh and extremely fun. Meanwhile, the story will keep you engaged all the way to the end of its duration. It's just so close to total perfection, were it not for the lacking difficulty and the average performance on the Switch.
When all is said and done though I found myself completely in love with the characters, world, and gameplay of Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
I cannot stress enough how much Fire Emblem: Three Houses exemplifies the “RPG” part of the acronym “SRPG.” While strategy is indubitably a large part of Fire Emblem‘s DNA, the vast majority of my enjoyment was found having lunch with classmates and getting to know them better, or doing errands while running around the lovely academy grounds. This is a world you can absolutely lose yourself to for months on end, but if you find menus tedious, you might be reticent to the modern relationship-heavy Fire Emblem formula that’s cemented in Three Houses.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a tactical role-playing gem that manages to offer up one of the most engaging gameplay loops in recent memory, while also being buoyed by an epic narrative that boasts an endearing cast of characters.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses succeeds in its ambitious telling of a land at war helmed by captivating leaders, in which no side has all the answers. Its tense battles are made all the more harrowing thanks to new strategy elements, and the colorful cast of troops you send into the fray are incredibly charming. With a new take on training and bonding with your units, and the many activities and options available to sample, it’s absolutely begging to be played multiple times.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses is another must-have release for the Nintendo Switch. Featuring some of the most robust and enjoyable turn-based combat around, along with characters you'll truly want to keep alive throughout the entire 50+ hour story.
Now that the versatile Switch is Nintendo's main system, Fire Emblem has released on a home console for the first time in over a decade.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses makes you care. Then it punishes you for it. Over and over again. Throughout the epic story you are forced to make decisions where
Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a turn-based tactical RPG that adds strategic twists to battles, with formations of troops supporting individual units on the battlefield.
Fire Emblem has come a long way in the last 15 years. The series' humble beginnings on the Famicom and beyond are mostly lost among fans of the franchise outside of Japan, but I've been following it, like many fans, since the first few localized games on the Gamecube and Game Boy Advance. Since then the series has essentially looked be to be near-canceled and had a miraculous recovery which skyrocketed it to be one of Nintendo's biggest and most important IPs. And while the most hardcore fans have plenty of complaints when it comes to the direction of the series in the modern-day, it's hard to argue that it has been anything but high quality. And that continues with Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
Three Houses offers one of the best stories in the Fire Emblem series since its revival on 3DS. The characters are all brilliantly written and none ever feel like their conversations fall flat. Every story element seems well thought out and the mysteries that get uncovered along the way are always surprising. Combat feels satisfying as ever with all the new mechanics and there's a great amount of variety for players to try out or experiment with characters. It feels like a true return to form for the series where story and characters make the biggest impact in order to draw players in to a fantastical and terrifying world at war. Fire Emblem: Three Houses is an amazing title for new and old fans alike, with a gripping story and gameplay that can ease one in easy or start out rigorously hard for any type of player. There's so much to be experienced in the world of Fodlan that anyone looking for a wonderful tactic RPG will be in for a fantastic time.
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Fire Emblem: Three Houses is the definitive Fire Emblem experience, with a compelling story, streamlined gameplay, and a staggering amount of content.
Three Houses is so vibrant that I didn’t really mind the lack of difficulty. I was too invested in the characters, and looking forward to the next major plot point too much to really care. It can be bloated, messy, and unnecessarily padded with content at times, but when it comes to the core strengths of Fire Emblem – its character-driven epic fantasy, tight tactical battles and a full harem of both waifu and husbandos, Intelligent Systems have delivered something truly resonant with this one.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses is… a lot. That’s about the best way I can describe this game after sinking nearly 100 hours into this deceptively deep and massive tactical RPG. And the best (and maybe scariest?) part is that I feel like I’ve only seen maybe half of what this epic plot has to offer.
With the Switch’s delightful dual abilities, Three Houses fittingly bookends the series’ triumphant run on the 3DS and becomes the first big-screen outing in over a decade. It also surpasses them all. A masterpiece of strategy, story-telling and intertwining relationships, Three Houses deserves to make Intelligent Systems a household name.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses features some of the most refined and enjoyable battle mechanics the series has seen since its successful renaissance with Awakening. But the renewed focus on support relationships gets in the way of what some may have valued most from the franchise – the strength of its strategic design and the battles themselves. Regardless, it’s hard to argue that Three Houses is the best Fire Emblem since Awakening, so it’s still worth your time, even if you’ll have to spend it wisely.
A Strategic Switch.The Nintendo Switch has brought with it the first mainline home console Fire Emblem in over a decade. [...]
Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a fine example of brutal turn-based combat involving people you love. Get going in the game and you’ll struggle to stop.
A very ambitious game with thorough lore and interesting characters, although it won't often challenge you if you are familiar with strategy RPGs.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses is great in a lot of respects. The game flies by with its various mechanics, making for a highly entertaining adventure. That being said, I can't shake off the feeling that the final acts in the various routes could've been better. When I spent 60 hours on singular route, only to be greeted with a bummer of an ending, it stung a lot. Combining the crapshoot of your ending with a few technical problems drags the whole game down. The actual character arcs, complete with fully voiced interactions, do a great job of accounting for the limitations, thankfully. Three Houses…
Despite its minor shortcomings, the game still offers over 100s of hours of gameplay that can serve as an excellent way for the tactically minded players out there to get their strategy fix. Players are also rewarded for their time, and those that take advantage of everything on offer and use the new systems to their advantage will excel and become masters of the battlefield.
When Three Houses was announced for the Nintendo Switch, I was more hyped for this than any game currently available on the platform. While its story doesn’t quite live up to the previous entries I’ve enjoyed, mostly due to some poorly handled reveals and its failure to offer us up a compelling vill
Nintendo has had an amazing year in terms of quality games coming out for the Switch. Fire Emblem: Three Houses is their next big exclusive that everyone has been looking forward to. Fire Emblem: Three Houses is the latest instalment in the franchise developed by Intelligent Systems/Koei Tecmo Games and...
Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a fantastic entry in the series, and has quickly become one of my favorite RPGs of the modern era.
Ever since Fire Emblem made it to the cool kid’s table and finally got big in the west, there has been many an argument over the series’ newer features. While some dislike the new focus on character relationships and anime-like designs, others would never have picked up the games without them. With such a large divide between fans, I held dubious hope that Fire Emblem: Three Houses would manage to satisfy both sides of the schism.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses on the Nintendo Switch reinvents the formula for the strategy game series, blending Persona-style relationship building with more traditional RPG action.