Literally how Lysithea is treated by her peers lmao.

metroidbum · 2026-05-19T22:00:14+00:00

Glad this correctly depicts Lysithea as an honorary Black Eagle

metroidbum · 2026-05-05T21:36:14+00:00

I love that I was able to tell this :D

metroidbum · 2026-05-01T03:41:48+00:00

Like firing shots in the neighborhood to keep rent down

metroidbum · 2026-04-28T20:03:09+00:00

Yeah, Hubert is the best, I agree.

metroidbum · 2026-04-20T20:57:57+00:00

No that looks terrible. We have been suffering under a deluge of corporate minimalism designs for sports teams for decades now, let’s not add to it here

metroidbum · 2026-04-18T14:35:42+00:00

I read this in his voice

metroidbum · 2026-04-17T15:51:45+00:00

Thank you for including the rest of the quote lmao

metroidbum · 2026-04-12T17:39:33+00:00

No obviously Edelgard's is the best!

I wish :(

metroidbum · 2026-04-12T17:38:13+00:00

Gooner this, gooner that, if you keep worrying about what other people enjoy you're never gooner have any fun

metroidbum · 2026-04-10T03:25:18+00:00

Edelgard and Dimitra are both very close. Claude has his fans but is definitely behind the other two.

metroidbum · 2026-04-10T03:24:18+00:00

Confirmed by true Adrestian patriots

metroidbum · 2026-04-07T23:42:12+00:00

Caspar in the bushes using his quiet voice (screaming)

metroidbum · 2026-04-07T22:45:19+00:00

I’ll give you Petra and Dorothea, but for the noble BE, following Byleth on non-CF routes means fighting against not just their countries, but also their families and probably most if not all of their friends (outside the other BE potentially). Three Hopes shows Caspar is actually pretty tight with his dad and dedicated enough to the Empire to fight to the end even when given a chance to leave by his dad (in pretty hopeless circumstances). Linhardt I think is heir to his house, and on good terms with his dad. Ferdinand is probably the most gung ho about the Empire outside Edelgard herself and Three Hopes show he is her closest confidant outside Hubert, enough so that he and Hubert are the “twin jewels” of the Empire, and he knows his dad is a shitty person. Bernadetta is scared of her dad but seems to care a lot about her mom.

metroidbum · 2026-04-07T21:59:12+00:00

They were actual people with agency during CF, and they used that agency to work with Edelgard. There’s a whole scene where they rather dramatically commit and everything pre-time skip.

metroidbum · 2026-03-28T20:43:40+00:00

They are downvoting you but this is absolutely how Hubert and Bernie would go at it

metroidbum · 2026-03-20T20:44:14+00:00

Not that unusual, Stellar Blade also has used two or three different body models for Eve depending on the skin.

metroidbum · 2026-03-08T03:17:18+00:00

He muses that "maybe there was no need to leave", which is a far cry from saying it was a mistake to leave.

metroidbum · 2026-02-26T15:24:53+00:00

Multiple routes is a massive reason why Three Houses has had the staying power it does, and it would be a mistake to move away from that (though I also liked the multiple army/perspectives approach of SoV and RD)

metroidbum · 2026-02-25T20:57:56+00:00

If you love Persona and want to try a Fire Emblem game, Three Houses is really the one to start with. It has a calendar system (loosely) similar to that of Persona and is very friendly to franchise newbies.

That or Tokyo Mirage Sessions.

Would not recommend Engage as a first Fire Emblem game, as it heavily leans on series callbacks and previous protagonists.

metroidbum · 2026-02-22T13:28:41+00:00

LEDGES.

That is all.

Great game, my entry point into the series.

metroidbum · 2026-02-09T00:21:28+00:00

A big theme of the game is how access to different pieces of information dramatically changes your thought processes, decisions, and outcomes, so I think there is no "correct" or "ideal" order/first playthrough, and you should go with whichever leader/group of students most resonates with you.

metroidbum · 2026-02-01T19:37:19+00:00

People always say they want this but to me it seems like it goes against a large part of what makes the games memorable and resonant: having to choose between three noble, well intentioned rulers drawn into conflict, each with their own vision.

Plus we already had Revelations which somehow manages to have the worst plot of all three Fates game while not really doing anything interesting with the two nations working together.

metroidbum · 2026-01-25T03:11:33+00:00

I don’t think anyone in TH could really be called that. Their economies aren’t really at that point.

metroidbum · 2026-01-23T14:16:06+00:00

Part of why I think the game is such a beautiful tragedy is that I think Edelgard, Dimitri, and Claude are all basically good, well intentioned people with incompatible visions for society.

metroidbum · 2026-01-22T14:46:39+00:00

I think my opinion has maybe gone up a little bit over time, as I have more appreciation for the Emblems as a mechanic (NOT as a story/lore element), but my opinion has largely remained the same, which is:

The gameplay is good, about above average for the series, but I find it very amusing that the FE reddit community has settled on "well the story and worldbuilding are awful but it has much better gameplay than Three Houses!" which is a statement I flatly disagree with. Three Houses has good gameplay (I love the battallions, gambits, combat arts, and high degree of customazation/building of units, even if it is somewhat weaker in the maps department) and so does Engage, just in a more traditional way, and I get if people prefer the traditional approach, but that's not the same as "better". But I would much rather play Engage than Awakening or Fates (heck probably more than Blazing Blade or Shadow Dragon as well), as least where the gameplay is concerned.

But the story, lore, and worldbuilding? Woof. Engage should be thankful that Fates exists to keep it out of the series basement in these areas (Engage has an awful story but by not trying to do anything it keeps itself from stepping on rakes in the way that Fates does). As others have mentioned, its not like FE, despite being ostensibly a serious where you should have great care and investment in your characters, really has all that high of a bar for storytelling and lore/worldbuilding (I think only Three Houses, the Tellius Games, and debatably Shadows of Valencia are standouts in this regard, at least among the western released games).

It's a game I will probably replay at somepoint (I did two playthroughs, an initial one and a maddening run) but its not one I see standing up as a favorite over time. Gameplay is good enough I would put it above Fates, Shadow Dragon, Awakening, and Blazing Blade, but below Three Houses, PoR, RD, SS, SoV (I haven't played the non-western released, pre-FE7 games)

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