Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Nintendo Switch)

A great entry title for the Fire Emblem series. Full voice acting, engaging characters, and multiple routes make for hundreds of hours worth of gameplay. Treat yourself to a trip to Fodlan, you won’t be disappointed.

I had never played a Fire Emblem game before and decided to purchase this on a whim because of the graphics and Ive practically sold my soul to this game now! There is so much replayability with four different story routes and so many lovable characters! I am currently on my third playthrough, and have 160 hours put into this game. Needless to say one playthrough took me 70 hours so make sure you are ready to invest a lot of time and tears for these characters and this story. Every playthrough gives you more information about the world, your characters origins, the other characters and their interactions and very different routes once you hit the post timeskip. PSA though make sure to grab the ring in the first or second month after you are told about it, otherwise you will end up alone and cant marry your fav character (RIP my golden deer quest for Claude) This is a strategy based game so if that is your forte i think you will absolutely love this game! EVERYONE SHOULD PLAY THIS GAME PLS I WANNA FANGIRL WITH OTHER PEEPS

One of the best entries in the Fire Emblem series- fantastic writing, characters, and setting. Will not disappoint if you enjoy strategy and fantasy tactical rpgs.

The game arrived safe and well.

Very fun if a little slower pace

Amiibo Support - There is a place in your base of operations that let you scan Amiibo. You only have to scan each Amiibo once during your play-through, so if you can borrow from a friend if you want. Scanning Amiibo gets you random items each time you visit it in the game, which could be done at most once an in-game week. There doesnt seem to be a benefit to scanning tons of non-Fire Emblem Amiibo, but if you scan the Fire Emblem Amiibo, you get special soundtrack unlocks, which is a crappy reward from my point of view. I would rather get fancy items. Scanning multiple Fire Emblem Amiibo will bump up the quality of the items that you do get. Online Support - Early on, you get access to the online Liaison. Here, you can pick one character of yours to send away to other players to sell one item of your choosing. This character has the potential to learn new skills while away, and you can still use them in your party. It is pretty minimal, but also neat. You can also hire characters that other players send out, with the potential of them teaching one of your characters skills. You get money if someone hires your character or buys your items. After watching a friend play this, I was hooked, and I just had to play it to get the full experience of it. I liked the story and how you could unlock more story by working on social bonds. I like to goof off a lot on my first play-through of game, and then, once I learn the mechanics, I start over. The game is broken up into months, with each month having a main story mission to accomplish. The only day of the week you really have control over is Sunday. You can use this free day to improve your bonds with characters, do battles, or level up skills. My first play-through was on the easiest difficulty with perma-death turned on. I got about 30 hours into it when I decided to start over. All of my characters were terrible because I didnt really understand the leveling and class systems. On my second attempt, I feel like my better understanding of the battle systems started to make things too easy. I was able to dominate the battles with 3 out of the ten characters I was allowed to bring into the battle. Not a big deal, but it made the battles less fun. Here is where I removed the first star for my review. I was alright with perma-death because I was in control of it. If I lost someone, it was my own fault. But then, outside of my control, one of my favorite characters die. And it was because my social bond with the character wasnt leveled up enough. I didnt know that this was a possibility. So now, my 2nd most powerful character was just gone, and I had some really good stuff equipped to him, and I lost those items, too. So there I was, after about 45 minutes of story, in a battle that I was not given the opportunity to prepare for like every other battle, with a bunch of scrub characters with low levels and inferior gear equipped. I couldnt get past this battle, so I started over again. I figured that, now that I know what is coming, I can better prepare. Before, I was only paying attention to the equipment on the main people I used, now I was making sure everyone was fully equipped at all times. This sucked up so much time and was ridiculously boring. Add to it exploring the main monastery again, the fun was just sucked out of the game for me. Now, I am on my third play-through, I have a massive spreadsheet of every character, and their strengths and weaknesses, their likes and dislikes, their social bonds, the works. Everything I have collected up to this point. Here is where the game lost a review star for me. I played on the middle difficulty on this play-through. On this difficulty, your ability to grind levels has been essentially removed. On the lower difficulty, there were battles that you could do without taking up your battle points, so you can build up your team. They are gone on the middle difficulty. So now you have harder battles made even harder by not being able to get some grinding in. It became too frustrating, and after close to 200 hours planning and playing, I couldnt do it anymore. Exploring the monastery became a drag, battles became frustrating, and there were too many points of no return. This is my first Fire Emblem game, and I dont really have much experience with games of this genre, so I have nothing to compare it to.

I absolutely adore this game! The gameplay is great. You’ll fall in love with all of the well written characters. The story is very good and it has the best replay value of any game I’ve ever seen. Such a massive game and so much to do. It is addicting, be warned! The mechanics may seem overwhelming at first but I promise anyone can get the hang of it! You can really see how much love was put into this game!

Fast shipping, factory sealed. Taking a chance with my first fire emblem game.

Ive enjoyed this game quite a bit. Havent even finished it because it is fun to try the different houses. If you enjoyed previous fire emblem games you are gonna love this game. The graphics and battles are top tier and I love that there is decent replay value.

Awesome game!