The gameplay too is not irreproachable: While the addition of simulation elements allows for the player to get to know the characters better, it ruins the tempo for subsequent playthroughs, especially given how the first part of the game, which in every route accounts for more than half the game’s length, remains almost entirely the same regardless of which route is chosen. And even when the player has experienced all of the routes and had everything explained, there are still many aspects of the story that are not given enough explanation or attention, and the motives of the main antagonist of three of the four routes remain questionable at best. Important details regarding the protagonist’s parents are only revealed on one route, and one of the antagonists only gets story relevancy in one route and completely vanishes from the game entirely in another. The story is presented in a manner where not everything is revealed on any one route, requiring multiple playthroughs for the player to get the whole story, and the end result is that most routes ultimately feeling unsatisfying in the end: The true enemy is only fully revealed on two of the routes, and dealt with off-screen on another. The game however is of course not without its issues. The sheer volume of the game is also noteworthy, with a playthrough of just one of the four routes being at 40-50 hours.
The game also does an extremely good job of depicting the individual characters, due to the addition of the exploration elements, which result in players spending more time with characters than they usually would in the series, and the characters themselves being well-defined and written. While the first part of the game remains mostly the same regardless of what the player does, the second part can differ greatly depending on the route the player chooses: Two of the four routes are very similar, but the routes are otherwise extremely different, and all four have different final stages and conclusions.ĭespite the many changes, the core strategic gameplay of Three Houses remains well done, possibly because the game was mostly developed by Koei Tecmo’s Shibusawa Kou brand team, which has had decades of experience working on war simulation/strategy games such as the Nobunaga’s Ambition and Romance of the Three Kingdoms series. The game is distinctly split into two parts, the first having the player as a tutor at the academy, and the second taking place years later, once war has broken out, putting the former students of the academy on opposing sides. The addition of these features play a large part in making the game feel a bit more like a traditional RPG, and also helps to get the player to know the characters and world more. A large amount of the game is spent exploring and participating in activities in the monastery the military academy is located in, raising skill levels via tutoring, recruiting characters from other classes to the player’s, and building relationships between characters. The biggest change to the classic Fire Emblem formula, however, is the addition of Persona-esque simulation elements.
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The rock-paper-scissors element to weapons has been removed, and new features such as individual units being able to equip battalions which alter stats and grant them access to special skills, characters now being able to use special moves more powerful than regular attacks at the cost of using up more weapon durability than usual, and the player having the ability to turn back time (in a fashion similar to that of the mechanics used previously in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, or 2013 PS3 SRPG Tears to Tiara II: Heir of the Overlord). It soon becomes apparent that Three Houses is drastically different from recent Fire Emblem games: While the game remains similar at the most fundamental of levels- It is still a turn-based strategy game- There are changes made to almost every single aspect of gameplay. The player then gets to choose one of the academy’s three classes, each representing a different country, and takes charge of it, which determines the character roster (consisting of the students from that class) and the story route for that playthrough. The game takes place in an entirely new world separate from previous games, and puts the player in the role of a mercenary who is hired as a new tutor at a military academy which has students from all three major countries on the continent.
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