- Rea
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Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a turn-based strategy RPG developed by Koei-Tecmo Games, with assistance from series creator Intelligent Systems, and published by Nintendo on July 26th, 2019 for the Nintendo Switch. In Three Houses, players take control of Byleth, a mercenary in their father's group, who ends up being recruited by the Church of Seiros, the dominant religion in the region of Fódlan, to teach at the Officers Academy, located at the Church's headquarters, Garreg Mach Monastery. Byleth is offered the opportunity to teach one of the groups representative of the three countries that rule Fódlan: the Black Eagles, the house of the Adrestian Empire, led by the imperial princess Edelgard von Hresvelg; the Blue Lions, the house of the Kingdom of Faerghus, led by the royal prince Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd; and the Golden Deer, the house of the Leicester Alliance, led by Claude von Riegan, heir to the ruling seat of the Alliance.
Three Houses represents a radical departure from many series traditions. In-between story missions, players now deal with having to schedule a finite amount of in-game time between the start of the game and the end of the game, analogous to a far less micromanagement-heavy version of Persona or Atelier—though, oddly, the time-limited elements were apparently inspired by Pikmin. How players can spend this time ranges from exploring Garreg Mach Monastery and interacting with the students under their tutelage, to hosting and attending seminars by Garreg Mach faculty, to participating in optional battles.
In terms of mechanics, Three Houses simplifies many series mechanics, and borrows a few from Fire Emblem Gaiden, a title notable for its unique and strange mechanics. Gone is the weapon triangle, a series tradition, replaced by abilities that can be learned through mastering a given weapon type. Gone is magic that can break like weapons—instead, units get a low amount of magic uses per map, but they refresh once the battle is over. Returning from the GBA and GameCube/Wii Fire Emblem games is weapon weight, a mechanic that makes players balance stronger weapons with their units' attack speed. Returning from Gaiden is equipment, non-weapon items that units can equip to gain extra offensive or defensive capability.
Very big thanks to the Fire Emblem Hacking Discord, members of whom provided the script text dump and character portraits I use in this LP. Hacking my Switch is a scary prospect, so they saved me some anxiety.
Very big thanks also to Serenes Forest, which provided an easy resource of datamined info, and also clarification on some in-game vagueness. In particular, the Combat Art descriptions used in the LP are borrowed from them, rather than using the sometimes-lacking in-game ones.
If you wanna discuss the LP with me and other people who somehow like my stuff, join the EO LP Server. I know the name points to another series, but it's also just sort of the de facto server for even my non-EO stuff.
SPOILER POLICY
- The fact that there is a timeskip in the middle of the game is not a spoiler, nor are the post-timeskip character designs except for Byleth. However, anything beyond mentioning its existence and speculating about it is not allowed. This includes discussing gameplay implications of it.
- Do not discuss support scenes we have not seen yet.
- Do not talk about plot that we have not seen yet.
- Absolutely do not talk about plot from the other routes that we have not played yet.
- I reserve the right to say "this is a spoiler, please edit your post" about anything, even if it is not explicitly mentioned in this policy.
Also, one thing: Three Houses contains characters who are canonically bisexual, and several character relationships between characters of the same sex that are not textually represented as romantic, but could be subtextually interpreted as such. I expect there to be discussion of LGBT+ topics and analysis in this thread, as such. Please do not be a bigot in response to this, or yell at people for having interpretations that you do not share. Don't get angry that someone ships Mercedes and Annette, or yell about how anything non-heterosexual is all just The Gays Shoving Their Lifestyle Down Your Throat. I have a direct line to the LP mods and am not afraid to immediately direct them towards anyone violating this rule.
Debating the quality of the representation in Three Houses, or problematic elements thereof, is also forbidden. It's a valid discussion, and one I've thought a lot about as a bi person myself, but it's not one I particularly care to have in the thread.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Playthrough #1: Black Eagles — Silver Snow
Update 0: I Fear the Edge of Dawn (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 1: This Beloved Place (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 2: Battle of the Nestling and the Kitten (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 3: The First Actual Month (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 4: CANYON.MID (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 5: Rebellion (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 6: But Why (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 7: Very Normal Days (SSLP Test Poster Backup) (Content warning: abuse and neglect of a child by a parent, kidnapping)
Update 8: If He Hits Ya, It's Gonna Hurt (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 9: Really Wanna Guillotine Count Varley (SSLP Test Poster Backup) (Content warnings: a character suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and PTSD-induced nightmares, vivid flashbacks of trauma. Violence against a child.)
Update 10: Corruption (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 11: Vanished (SSLP Test Poster Backup) (Content warning: a character remembering being involuntarily imprisoned and used for human experimentation.)
Update 12: How the Hell Did This Guy Not Stick Out Like a Sore Thumb (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 13: Dimitri's Getting Lonely (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 14: Fire Emblem: Two Lances (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 15: Cat (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 16: Uncertain Path (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 17: Orb! (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 18: Glenn Gimmadome, Owner of the Gimmsdale Gimmadome (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 19: Sssssssssss (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 20: Field-Tournament-Style-Up-and-Down-On-the-Ground etc. etc. (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 21: extremely Vinny Vinesauce voice FiiIIIIiiIIiiiIIIIIIiiiISH (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 22: The Sound of No-one Caring (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 23: I Should've Saved the Big Ball Joke for This Update (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 24: drat (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 25: I almost put "Couldn't Think of a Good Title" for this update's title, but that felt too glib for what I'm going to discuss. (SSLP Test Poster Backup) (Content warning: discussions of loss, grieving, death, and the emotions that come with each.)
Update 26: The Subtitle of Another Fire Emblem Game (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 27: Notphica (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 28: Stuff Goes Down, as Predicted (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 29: Hmm. (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 30: Cold are the hands that grasp at your soul, 'fore the graves are dug and the death knells toll. (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 31: From Cradle to Grave (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 32: Adjacent Mol Iloh (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 33: The Binding Coil of Supports - Turn 1 (SSLP Test Poster Backup) (Content warning: Marianne mentioning her old desire to die, with suicidal ideation implications.)
Update 34: Please Do Not Attack My House (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 35: Troublesome, isn't it? And untidy, too! (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 36: Linear Bounded Something-something (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 37: Dog (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 38: Blemphis (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 39: That Noise Armored Xemnas Makes When You Beat Him (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 40: Why Would You Set These Traps Oh Gods Help Me (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 41: Hell Man (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 42: Causing Problems On Purpose (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 43: Dick "Dastardly" Richard (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 44: I Gotta Have My Tools (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 45: It's Always Sunny in Fódlan: Fort Merceus Got Nuked (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 46: extremely Yiazmat voice LIKE A HOT KNIFE THROUGH BUTTER (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 47: The Mole, The Mob, And The...Nukes? (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 48: The Crown of the Immaculate (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 49: The Dying Gasp (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Playthrough #i: Ashen Wolves — Cindered Shadows
Update 50: Sewer Children (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 51: Did Someone Order a Bunch of Reinforcements? (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 52: A Nice Camping Trip in the Great Outdoors (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 53: Rea Gets the Shakes (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 54: Rats, We're Rats, We're Verrats (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 55: I'm Ver-giant-rat That Makes All of the Rules (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 56: Let's See What Kind of Trouble We Can Get Ourselves Into (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Playthrough #2: Golden Deer — Verdant Wind
Update 57: The Moon (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 58: Unchanging, Ever— Wait, Nope, Still Unchanging (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 59: How Many Times Do We Have to Teach You this Lesson, Old Men? (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 60: The Bone of Gautier (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 61: Rude Man Who Kidnaps, Please Call (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 62: Jelly! Fruit Preserves! Jelly! Fruit Preserves! Fruit Preserves! Jell— There It Is! (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 63: "Jelly is Bones." It's Not Bones! (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 64: Reality Coprocessor (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 65: My Large Agarthan Sons (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 66: Ohayo, Lemming-san! (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 67: Crossbar Switch (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 68: CCCool (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 69: No, I'm Not Gonna Say It (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 70: Fódlan Summer (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 71: The Binding Coil of Supports - Turn 2 (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 72: Fatebreaker (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 73: Fog of...bad. Yeah, gottem. (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 74: Wow! President Big Number! (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 75: The Binding Coil of Supports - Turn 3 (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 76: Dry, Dry Desert (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 77: Rematch (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 78: Time Kompression (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 79: Shambyela (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 80: From the Heavens (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Playthrough #3: Blue Lions — Azure Moon
Update 81: Strength (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 82: Baelsar's Brick Wall (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 83: Mist Ache (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 84: He's Bigger, Faster, and Stronger Too (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 85: No Nerds! Fight Milk (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 86: An Abundance of Crow Eggs (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 87: Underground Spring Water (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 88: Cats Are Nice (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 89: Bloodied and Only Moderately Broken (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 90: They'd Be Out of Business In a Week's Time (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 91: Roxas, that's a stick. (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 92: I'm Not Sure Anyone Pays Attention to These Titles (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 93: PROTIP: To clear the map, kill enemies until you win. (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 94: Chivalry, much like Rodrigue on my failed attempts at this paralogue, is dead. (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 95: Professor SSSSnake (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 96: Wait a minute, I should've done a Windows 95 joke last update. Dammit. (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 97: Flayn Day (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 98: Spherical (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 99: The Level Cap (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 100: Break (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 101: Lemme get this straight, you just realized you have two ears? (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 102: The Most Painful High School Reunion (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 103: WELCOME TO CHAOS WORLD (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 104: My House Has Now Been Attacked Three Times (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 105: I'll Add It to the Heap (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 106: Why Do They Call It Oven (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 107: Complete Global Saturation (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 108: All the Giant Bats (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 109: Astro Dorks at 12 O'Clock (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 110: Master's Mend (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 111: Welcome to the Magic Show (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 112: Arianrhod Island (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 113: March On (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 114: The Lime Knife (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 115: Perfect calculations deliver perfect results. (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Update 116: LAST CALL (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Playthrough #4: Black Eagles — Crimson Flower
Update 117: The Extreme (SSLP Test Poster Backup)
Unit Overviews
Adan/Abby Eisner
Edelgard von Hresvelg
Hubert von Vestra
Ferdinand von Aegir
Linhardt von Hevring
Caspar von Bergliez
Bernadetta von Varley
Dorothea Arnault
Petra Macneary
Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd
Dedue Molinaro
Felix Hugo Fraldarius
Sylvain Jose Gautier
Ashe Ubert
Annette Fantine Dominic
Mercedes von Martritz
Ingrid Brandl Galatea
Claude von Riegan
Lorenz Hellman Gloucester
Raphael Kirsten
Ignatz Victor
Lysithea von Ordelia
Marianne von Edmund
Hilda Valentine Goneril
Leonie Pinelli
Seteth
Flayn
Manuela Casagranda
Gilbert Pronislav
Alois Rangeld
Catherine
Shamir Nevrand
Cyril
Yuri Leclerc
Balthus von Albrecht
Constance von Nuvelle
Hapi
Mechanics
Crests
Universal Skill Learn List
OTHER THINGS I'VE DONE
A 100% SSLP of Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold. My earliest LP. I have problems with it, looking back, but I still think it's good on the whole.
A 100% SSLP of the Japanese version of Etrian Odyssey V, with JP->EN translation by Clarste, and translation editing by Kinu. A bear of a project, but one I absolutely do not regret.
A nearly-complete SSLP of Etrian Odyssey Untold. At time of writing, I plan to finish its last few updates in parallel with this LP.
A paused LP of Etrian Odyssey Nexus. I didn't get to go very far into Nexus before starting this, but there's still good stuff in there. I plan to return to it once Untold is done, and this LP is far along.
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Komi-san won.
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Reserved.
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Komi-san won.
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IMPORTANT MECHANICS TRIVIA
- Effectiveness on Combat Arts multiplies the attack's Mt by 1.5x, instead of multiplying the weapon's Mt by 3.
- Every point of Cha is worth 0.25 gambit Mt, 5 gambit Hit, and 5 gambit Avo.
Rea fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Sep 24, 2019
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You think you can defeat ME, Ephraimcopter?!?
You couldn't even beat Assassincopter!!!
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Ground floor. Hell yes.
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- Rea
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Komi-san won.
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Though one note: weren't Combat Arts first introduced in FE Echoes and then kept for 3H?
Shows how much I remember about Echoes...
I'll fix that.
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I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
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I'll vote for Abby as well. I don't own a Switch myself but I feel I should support this for the same reason that female Shepard deserved it.
Voting Abby as well. Any big-name modern game with LGBT characters, especially as romance options for the protagonist, deserves to be recognized and supported (unless the game later walks it back, like AC: Odyssey). Pity I don't have a Switch.
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Voting Abby.
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LOWTAX'S SPINE FUND
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I am always ready for more FE LPs, even moreso of a game that's consuming all my free time like this one.
Voting Abby because I went female, then male, on my runs.
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Abby
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Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
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I'm completely blind to this except for shitposts on twitter and FEH references, so this will be great.
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- Rea
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Komi-san won.
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Oh, yeah, we're also at 23 Adan, 28 Abby, counting prior votes in my server.
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No one left uncured.
I got you.
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Good luck and godspeed on this ridiculous undertaking, brave goon.
This game is A Lot, and my feelings towards it are extremely numerous, but one thing I'm certain of is how glad I am that someone's running it here.
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i want to achieve immortality through not dying
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Abby
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Good luck, big LPs are a pain. Abby.
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Festival with your real* little sister!
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Abby Because girl power is stronger than guy power in this game.
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- Fedule
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No one left uncured.
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Can... can we make Abby a brawler? I noticed they had a skill for fist weapon bonuses or something. That seems neat.
Yes, but also no.
Any non-mounted non-magical class can brawl and level up the brawling skill to get cool brawling abilities. However, the classes that specialise in it (ie, which grant the Unarmed Combat and Fistfaire skills) are locked to male units only. It sucks.
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Heroism/dark magic/fists are stored in the balls.
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Yes, but also no.
Any non-mounted non-magical class can brawl and level up the brawling skill to get cool brawling abilities. However, the classes that specialise in it (ie, which grant the Unarmed Combat and Fistfaire skills) are locked to male units only. It sucks.
The MC's plot-unlocked class does have a bonus to learning fists, but not to using them.
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Sep 6, 2019 12:35
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- Rea
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Komi-san won.
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Seems like that's that, then. We'll be starting with Abby as our form.
Also yeah, women can use gauntlets but it's kind of a fruitless exercise since they can't be put in any classes that learn Fistfaire. You're better off with literally any other weapon type on them.
Reverting to gender-locked classes after doing the right thing and not locking them in Fates is a pretty big criticism I have of the game, especially since it's so skewed towards men. Men get Hero, the Grappler line and Dark Mage/Dark Bishop, while women get...the Pegasus Knight line.
I'd much rather have had the class that has innate Fiendish Blow.
...All of this will make a lot more sense after I post the class overviews.
Okay one more thing: locking Hero to men is especially bizarre since there's a literal canon female Hero in Binding Blade (Echidna), and it's the "expected" promotion path for Mercenaries in Awakening, which Severa starts as.
What demonic magic do you use to record from a switch, because I kinda wanted to LP or stream this at some point.
An Elgato HD60 Pro plus OBS.
Ironically, the fact that the resulting footage is h.264 compressed means that an hour of 720p footage takes up far less space than an hour of lossless 400x480 footage like I'm used to.
It's not even a contest.
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No one left uncured.
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Reverting to gender-locked classes after doing the right thing and not locking them in Fates is a pretty big criticism I have of the game, especially since it's so skewed towards men. Men get Hero, the Grappler line and Dark Mage/Dark Bishop, while women get...the Pegasus Knight line.
The big thing that women get in 3H, besides per once again tradition the pegasus knight class, is the best magic class, except that it's good for very weird reasons that are mostly contextual.
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- Rea
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Komi-san won.
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The big thing that women get in 3H, besides per once again tradition the pegasus knight class, is the best magic class, except that it's good for very weird reasons that are mostly contextual.
How in the hell did I forget Gremory? Right, yeah, women get that.
Which ends up leaving male mages without a class they could very much get great use out of. And without a Master class that isn't mounted in general, come to think of it. Lemme tell you about how much I wish a certain green-haired narcoleptic could be a Gremory.
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Oh boy, good luck with this. I'm over 200 hours and still not done.
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