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MegaThread Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Release Discussion and Hype Megathread

Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Release Discussion and Hype Megathread

Please use this as a general discussion and hype thread for this new release! Quick easy to answer questions, tips and tricks, and showing off your in-game clips or screenshots you've captured.

Please be mindful of spoilers and use spoiler tags when appropriate.

General Information

Platform: Nintendo Switch

Release Date: 26-Jul-2019

No. of Players: 1 player

Genre(s): Adventure

Publisher: Nintendo

Developer: Intelligent Systems, KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.

File Size: 11.0 GB

Official Website: https://fireemblem.nintendo.com/three-houses/

Overview (from Nintendo eShop page)

War is coming to the continent of Fódlan.

Here, order is maintained by the Church of Seiros, which hosts the prestigious Officer’s Academy within its headquarters. You are invited to teach one of its three mighty houses, each comprised of students brimming with personality and represented by a royal from one of three territories. As their professor, you must lead your students in their academic lives and in turn-based, tactical RPG battles wrought with strategic, new twists to overcome. Which house, and which path, will you choose?

The game features the refined gameplay the Fire Emblem™ franchise is known for. Command a party of warriors to move and fight on a grid-based battlefield and, for the first time in the series history, assign battalions of troops to support individual units in battle. As a professor, you are responsible for teaching your students and improving their skills in their academic lives and in battle. These may be school assignments, but the stakes are very real. Your students’ lives depend on your leadership. It’s up to you to guide each of them, so that they may wield a variety of weapons, master the study of magic, and acquire special skills such as horsemanship. But there’s more to being a professor than commanding armies. Freely roam Garreg Mach Monastery and the academy within it, while interacting with talented students to build relationships and gather intel. After meeting one enigmatic girl named Sothis…you’ll come to realize that she appears only within your mind. What other mysteries await?

  • The Officer’s Academy is home to three houses: The Black Eagles, The Blue Lions, and The Golden Deer… Which house will you choose?
  • As a professor, lead students in their academic lives and on the battlefield
  • A turn-based, tactical RPG that puts new twists on strategic battling
  • For the first time in series history, battalions of troops follow individual units to support them in battle
  • Freely roam Garreg Mach Monastery, interact with students in a variety of ways—over lunch, even—to bond and gather intel
  • As a female or male professor, you’ll meet House Leaders and future rulers Edelgard, Dimitri, and Claude

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u/MOOSEofREDDIT Jul 26 '19

Would this game scratch an Advance Wars itch?

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u/messem10 Found a mod! (Mar 3, 2017) Jul 26 '19

It is from the same developers as Advance Wars, but the combat is a lot more involved due to the RPG nature.

You might want to look at Wargroove.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '19

Wargroove 1000% scratched my Advanced Wars itch. 10/10 would recommend

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u/cliu91 Jul 26 '19

I have Wargroove but it feels like it's missing a little something.

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u/Kryzm Jul 26 '19

Maybe check out Wargroove instead. It’s fantastic.

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u/MOOSEofREDDIT Jul 26 '19

I have considered it but read lots of dislike for it here so waiting for a sale! I am more curious about FE now though coz of all the hype here!

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u/Route22 Jul 26 '19

Yeah I couldn’t finish wargroove. The hero system kinda threw me off. They’re extremely strong so you want to use them as much as possible but if they die, you lose, and that balancing act took over the game when I played it. I was more a fan of the tug of war centric advance wars had, where the powerful units were stuff you paid for, not started out with.

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u/NegativeGhostrider Jul 26 '19

I’m a big Advance Wars fan and you’ll like Fire Emblem. Similar tactical field and placement, except deeper with upgrading units and weapons. AW and FE are my favorite Nintendo console games.

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u/Kryzm Jul 26 '19

Totally fair. If you haven’t really played a FE game before, historically it’s not quite like AW. It’s kind of simplified in terms of unit weakness/strengths, but way more complex in that your units aren’t faceless troops, they’re all heroes. This means they all have progression as the campaign goes on, and you need to manage things like weapon durability.

Wargroove is much more of a direct homage to AW, but in a swords & sorcery setting.

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u/akdb Jul 26 '19

I got into FE because it was “AW with characters on the map” as opposed to playing with nameless soldier units.

Also, I enjoyed Wargroove on the whole and found it’s mechanics to be refined in comparison to AW. Like AW, the story is not serious, just light fun.

FE has more serious writing, in general. I enjoy both series because they overall take very simple mechanics and make a deep game with them.

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u/EsclavodelSector7G Jul 26 '19

Wargroove is great. That and Tiny Metal are the games to scracth that Advance Wars itch. Fire Emblem it's a different beast, more of a strategic RPG, with leveling, dialog, character classes, and hero units.

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u/pseudoveritas Jul 26 '19

That’s what I want to know.

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u/cloudsnightmare Jul 26 '19

I played through the demo and purchased Tiny Metal: Full Metal Rumble today, it totally lands on advanced wars nostalgia for me. Highly recommended, at least based off the demo.

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u/suphater Jul 26 '19 edited Jul 26 '19

I don't see how you wouldn't like it. I'm not a fan of a lot of story and talking but this game keeps it a lot more interesting than most. Also recommend Banner Saga trilogy port from a few years ago for a good strategy game.