Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Nintendo Switch)

I ordered this without noticing that this was the European version of the game. Took a chance and tested it out on my switch lite and the game worked just fine for me. I even bought the dlc and it downloaded without any issues. If you made the same mistake I did. Or are thinking of buying this one because the NA version is out of stock. Don’t worry about it, it’ll work fine on your system. The game itself is really fun. I only played about an hour or so of it, but I really like it so far!

The best fire emblem game sense Awakening. Great game with a lot of different side things you can do. The new teaching system brings more decisions making to the mix and the characters feel more apart of the story and not just randoms you can waifu simulate.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses is the first Fire Emblem game I’ve ever played. I went into it without knowing much about it, and it did not disappoint. The character dynamic in each character is so different, making each interaction memorable. The turn-based strategy battles are always a pleasure to battle in, and there is always a new challenge. The life sim part is also really fun and interacting with the characters is always something I look forward to. This game has lots of amazing content, and I really recommend this game. If you are on the fence on buying this game, I hope you buy it because you are missing out.

Great game!!!

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.

This game was the main reason why I bought a switch. It was my first fire emblem game and I absolutely love it!

Amazing game from an amazing series. A must have.

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

This game is worth every penny! My husband and I rarely like the same games - I tend to prefer story-heavy games whereas he prefers games with that can pose a challenge him. Yet FE3H is able to scratch the itch for both of us. So much so that we had to buy another Switch and copy of the game along with the DLC to keep the peace. We have already both put in 100s of hours into the game with no signs of stopping and have been thoroughly enjoying every minute of the experience. I have enjoyed the game so much that I took time to write a review and I never, ever do this - thats how much of an impact this game has made on me.

Very fun if a little slower pace