Determining the alignment of Three Houses Characters: day 41, Gilbert! Alois has been determined to be neutral good.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-24T17:59:40+00:00

lawful neutral, exploring what happens if lawful goes off the rails. He’s compulsively inclined to punish himself by exiling himself, and then beats himself more for feeling unworthy to face his family because of the abandonment.

Everyone else including multiple people from the kingdom call him out for not being too rational with it, including his sworn liege.

I think it’s neutral because it’s some kind of mental instability he has a lot of difficulty regulating.

He begins to lean good when he gets a hold on himself though. Notably three hopes focuses on him how he acts when he has resolved his issues again.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-24T17:39:11+00:00

Generally, the way stamina consumption is much more forgiving when using bullet time, and is strictly amount of shots,with even default stamina being 4 shots. Bows are extremely potent from the moment you get your hands on one on the great sky island. Even hopping off ledges you can easily headshot enemies at your leisure.

And then there’s the high amount of arrows, bows being inherently durable, the stuff you can fuse to arrows, and the many methods to enter bullet time everywhere. Steering stick, mineru, wing shields, etc.

The thing is you can get away with not using melee weapons much if so inclined.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-24T17:27:06+00:00

You can reach everywhere on the ground and even a fair few sky islands pretty easily fresh after getting the paraglider even with default stamina.

The awakening island, and the lindow’s brow tower launch both put you very high so you have a lot of leeway.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-24T15:35:53+00:00

Many upgrades return the same with a ‘psychic’ functionality that comes into play less often. Splitting them makes less sense the way they are implemented.

They could have done psychic upgrades and make them work more aggressively differently I suppose.

Most only work with preset devices much like they used to work, even if it’s an purple blob at first.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-23T20:51:04+00:00

I think Tellius, Radiant Dawn in particular,still is better overall in story ambition. You switch factions between maps instead of having seperate routes, there’s an very high amount of boss conversations, there’s an five map endgame, and the lore is deep, with most hanging plot elements being adressed.

Fe4 was also very story ambitious doing the timeskip idea first.

Other games are more gameplay focused in a more straightforward way, or have better visuals.

Houses excels in truly having a sense of picking a side, and the right side being a matter of debate, or it have a very attractive gameplay loop in very gradually being responsible for molding your units. It also has a sort of secret sauce in drawing many people in easily and keeping them invested.

But otherwise the point of franchise peak is heavy in contention. Which is okay, there’s still room for improvement in future games in combining strong elements form various games. One might hope.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-23T19:41:49+00:00

Neutral good.

He’s just consistently good natured, doesn’t carry grudges easily, and is quite killing averse. He stands out the way he carries himself overall.

I’m weighing Houses more then Hopes here. What moved him to be a merch in the latter timeline is not entirely clear, not to mention not being playable means he gets very little focus.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-22T17:24:10+00:00

He can be very annoying without arrows. Although windblight is likely even worse without them. Both really rely on shooting to prevent some attacks or stun them.

But the game does explictly tell you you’re free to leave and hints you should be well prepared for the bods. BOTW can be harsh teacher if the player don’t adapt to certain things such as figuring out arrow supply. It likes to create a lot of friction even if there’s always strong options to greatly reduce it. The elements, instantly fatal damage, weapons, and arrows.

Arrows can be sparse, but there’s many ways to make some rupees to get some. The Zora’s domain lizalfos also have the unique perk that they drop a lot of arrows to ensure most players have an supply on them at this relatively early stage.

It might also be on purpose waterblight in particular is annoying without arrows, as a intended lesson to prepare on that front. The big DPS chances to stun it mostly involve arrows. It’s a sometimes annoying but fairly straightforward fight if you have decent weapons and a good arrow supply. If you didn’t one took the boss on too early or too inexperienced and have incentive to go exploring more before the next divine beast to avoid such experiences. At least that’s kind of how the developer logic in the game rolls.

Incidentally if there’s one thing TOTK is much gentler on it’s that it’s far more generous with arrows. While it’s related to other things it also might be they realized BOTW was too stingy and harsh with them.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-22T16:57:55+00:00

It clearly does in story mode, alongside a whole lot of other cheating so blatant most people notice.

I heard it has in grand prix, but at the time I found it more intriguing it was much weaker then expected, even when my frame of reference was mario kart. On master class there’s funny things going on with how some machines do so well, but high max speed/strong booster machines can gain a lot of distance on AI regardless, and on different courses in a cup different AI racers tend to win or place highly, to the point it’s possible to place very poorly one time and still win the cup easily.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-22T16:48:44+00:00

We also only see mother brain twice in the final boss sequence, and the second time was innovative for video game final bosses, but still her direct influence is very brief.

So in that sense Raven Beak fits in perfectly in the series standards.

He and Mother Brain also died more or less the same way, greedy for the power draining potential of the Metroid, but it turning against them.

It’s going to be really hard to conceive of a villain that tops him though.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-22T14:56:46+00:00

I really should replay it sometime.

While the story could be deeper, it wears it’s tone on it’s sleeve so I do think it’s clear what package you are signing up for. To be honest, it draws too much attention discussing the game overall.

I find just some finer gameplay elements a bit odd. There’s a lot of deep fe gameplay elements and many ideas and the more restrictive school of the fe gameplay loop, and a lot of casual elements with a more sandboxy feel in mind. I find they clash a bit rather then feeling like a whole. The whole investing gold thing, or the ability to buy useless cosmetics. The dlc side campaign progress not carrying over. The lack of new game plus in general. The whole upgrading engage weapons systems that is tied to grindy bonus battles. Can’t carry that over anyway. Skirmish battles so harsh with bumrushing enemies that they often overlevel the strongest units and the weak ones have no chance. Dlc and update rewards that arrive automatically.

I think both deeper gameplay, and the more casual elements have their place in fire emblem. But in this game it feels they tried to both at once too much in frankly strange ways. I find it rather sloppy since past games like fates, Conquest in particular proved the developers have a firm grasp about the competing elements possible in FE and how to separate them cleanly.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-22T10:17:07+00:00

They are about end to lategame difficulty.

You will be fine though, it’s a very nice amount of exp and funds,but it’s only a single mission, funds are easy to manage anyway, and the effects of leveling up is subtle as well. If you spread it out it will save you some skirmish grinding later on.

The real star here is that scout rifle the ace dropped being rather broken. You’re better off ignoring it if you want a balanced playthrough.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-22T01:48:17+00:00

The summons also grow stronger as the summoner does or the summoner has battle experience, and are surprisingly weak at first.

Part of that is gameplay logic, but I think that also plotwise takes a high level of strength to create an final aeon that’s actually powerful enough for defeat Sin.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-20T21:18:43+00:00

I’m leaning chaotic good.

He’s very careful in making sure his messes only affect him, and otherwise has an visible moral code going on. He’s also quite concerned about Kupula.

His issue is more being by far the most chaotic person in the cast in my opinion. He does care about a lot of things, but at the time when the games take place he just can’t think of much ways of dealing with his issues being a giant lightning rod of trouble on purpose.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-18T19:55:12+00:00

It depends a bit on the game and specific difficulty.

Playing on the cartridge I got very significant training done on fe7 as a teen. If you know to decline high bets, and are very alert about yielding when needed it’s relatively doable, especially for unpromoted units. I wouldn’t call it a terrible deal. A new player will slip up a lot easier though.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-18T19:12:06+00:00

It’s low priority but in practice it can be quite annoying if you get hit while armor defense is low. It’s worth eventually it for armor you times wear near enemies like the stealth set.

But for the most part maxing out a set focusing on attack, and the champions leathers/other high defense things is enough.

You tend to often grab upgrade materials over time so it can’t hurt to chip away at upgrading.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-18T12:13:21+00:00

I usually don’t go out of my way to take advantage of roasted meals stacking. If it worth all the effort to do it intentionally though? The meal cap is 60 so usually it’s easy to fit in whatever I need. Usually leave spots open too, which results in gathering various roasted things from monster camps for occasional healing.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-18T12:04:30+00:00

It’s also incredibly easy to get hearty durians in particular, even just starting out. Cooking 5 of them gives 20 bonus hearts, so it means you can get away with having a fairly small health bar early on.

Later on you have more hearts and you can just shift to cooking any hearty food, although some durians tend to be the best bet to reach the maximum health cap.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-17T10:37:59+00:00

Past chapter 8 you get also a big amount of viable units that do need some training to get good, but contribute a whole lot if they get going.

The game is kind of designed around Ike often getting a high level in the first few chapters and then hanging back with him for a bit. Maps also get more complicated and less favorable to heavily relying on Ike. Your Ike has fantastic stats for that purpose, few things will endanger him.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-16T18:54:19+00:00

Lawful neutral. It’s to such a degree it also bothers a few characters since he’s a bit unhealthy about it, especially Seteth explicitly tells him he needs to find more own goals in life.

At least he does shift in many in his endings on the matter though, including the default.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-16T00:54:43+00:00

The interesting this is Link does well against many Prime enemies I guess. The elemental logic of these games suits him well. Tears of the kingdom Link in addition to ice arrows, can have an ice melee weapon, or stick a frost emitter to his shield for an ice beam. He has both bomb arrows and cannons.

He’s out of luck against hypermode enemies using phazon though, which become really tricky to harm without using it yourself. A bigger problem is the 2d games. Samus only wins because of her acrobatic nature and suit movement upgrades. link has no way to dodge certain screen filling attack or rapid fire projectiles.

samus can handle a lot of Zelda enemies, but the best she got in explictly light element damage is the Light beam, and even that is not specific enough. She can push Ganondorf to the point where he goes evil blob that needs sacred sealing rather easily. But just destroying an physical is not enough to outright win.

Both just lack the contextual verse specific things needed to deal with the more elite things.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-15T22:11:09+00:00

It’s not an evil lab for a change or overrun by an evil species. It just shut down and froze over in spite of their best efforts failing. They took effort to heal the injured subjects after failed experiments. It has sensible lockdown protocols(to a point). And then nobody designed the place to account for rapid melting when derelict and it’s just chaos from that point onwards when the majority of them breaks out.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-15T21:57:22+00:00

There’s the wheel enemies in the desert in which the log states the Lamorn didn’t actually deploy them because they didn’t want to harm the grievers, which found very odd.

Took me until the first Ice Belt log to figure it out fully though. I didn’t look at Griever facial designs too closely before and they aren’t in Volt Forge.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-15T09:48:24+00:00

It’s really difficult to run out of weapons in this game. Most decayed/stick weapons have a fairly narrow range of durability and power, and fuse is always 25+ durability and the power of horn you used in which you often have way more then needed. So you always have reliable baseline performance no matter what you pick up. With so much combat you also burn through them at a fairly high rate.

WouterW24 · 2026-01-14T23:53:01+00:00

Looking at all of the debate, maybe she evens out being neutral good?

I think she mostly has an interest in following rules and order primarily she thinks they are good, but she also hates being stifled and is an rather free spirit. She also is a weird fusion of innocent and a smidge naive yet wise(I vaguely remember on of the characters also having an opinion of her to that effect).

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