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All right, today we're doing a little bit of unique content of the channel, not news. You know, we talk a lot of news. We talk a lot of opinions on Nintendo. But how about talking about a game? This is better late than never. This is a new series that it doesn't really have a schedule. It just happens whenever I feel like I am ready to talk about a video game that I am currently playing. It is not a review. I want to stress I am not reviewing the game. This isn't some definitive. I played everything hundreds and hundreds of hours. This is an impression video to give you my thoughts on a video game that I'm presently playing. And yeah, it's for the most part my final thoughts even though I can't discuss all of the details of a given game. So today we're talking about Fire Emblem Three Houses. That's right. Better late than never doesn't matter when I started playing the game or when the game came out. It matters and what am I playing right now? And I got to give a shout out to Mark. He is one of the regulars on our live streams. I got to give a shout out to him because he did buy this game for me. Thank you, Mark. I greatly appreciate that kind of support. And he's absolutely addicted to Fire Emblem Three Houses and I can understand why. Now Fire Emblem, if you've ever played, it's a tactical strategy game. It works on a grid layout for the battles and all that. There are different weapon types that work on a rock, paper, scissors methodologies, swords, shields, bows, magic, all that jazz. You know, mounted, unmounted, etc. There's a lot of things that have to do with just just playing a Fire Emblem game and armor sets and all that jazz. Here's the thing. I'm not here to talk about the combat that much because if you've ever played a Fire Emblem game, whether it's me who played the Gamecube version and then I played Awakening, the gameplay wise, to me anyways, mostly played the same today as they did back then. I always play it in classic mode, by the way, which is where if you mess up and your unit dies in combat, they're gone. That's just how I play. I'm doing normal difficulty, classic mode, and needs to say I have lost most of my people, but I'm still kicking, still moving forward. I'm recruiting new people in to replace the ones I've lost, all that jazz. But you know, that's just me being rusty with Fire Emblem. I think on a second playthrough, I would not have as many deaths, especially since there actually is an ability that lets you reverse time three times you're in combat, so you could kind of fix a mistake three different times. I tend to not use that ability as much as I should, but you know, it is what it is. I do want to stress though that I really enjoy the combat, I really enjoy the battles, and if you want to taste what Fire Emblem combat is like without spending money, you can go download Fire Emblem Heroes on your mobile devices. It gives you a great taste of what Fire Emblem combat is like and what the rock, paper, scissors is like. Don't worry about the gotcha mechanics, that's not how it works in the actual retail games. Now, I think what's very, very interesting about these games in general, or about this game, I guess, is everything that happens between the battles. See, you are a teacher at a school that's ran by a religious person named Ray, and I don't want to get too much into the exact names and details of characters and places because you should play the game for yourself, and I'm not very good at remembering these kind of exact little fine details, but I really enjoy the in-between where you choose a house, one of three different houses. I would have Black Eagles, mostly because the, quote-unquote, leader, the new empress or future empress of Fodlan or whatever is this chick that runs it, and I think it's the only female that ran house. The other two houses are ran by males, so I can't speak from the perspective of like the Golden Deer or Blue Lions or whatever. I can't talk about those because I didn't go down that story arc, but I think that's one thing that's really cool about this game is there's basically room for three playthroughs, and apparently, I've been told, I don't know firsthand, that each house has different like endings and stuff, so you can actually have multiple playthroughs of the same house and get a slightly different experience, so that I find to be really really cool. I'm the Black Eagles, we're rockin', you get to choose a character beginning, male, female, Bioleth is the name, default name, I stick with default names for the most part unless it's an MMO, like, you know, I usually use Link in Zelda games, I'll use Bioleth here because that's the OG name of the character, but surprisingly, I have fallen in love with the aspect of the game that I feel like a lot of people either love or they hate, and that is the in-between stuff that happens at the actual Academy. The little in-fighting and in-river release between the houses, between the teachers as well, you can pretty much marry anyone in this game if you so choose. I have a chosen partner that I've been pursuing and it looks like it's about to conclude. I mean, I'm as I'll just not, you know what, I'm gonna, for those that have been watching me play this on livestream, I'll say that's a suspense for the end of the video, if you want to know who I'm gonna end up with, stay tuned. But yeah, it's really interesting to see how the relationships build between characters. Now Fire Emblems always kind of had this in-between stuff, but there's even more of it I feel like in this game than in any other Fire Emblem game I've ever played. Most other Fire Emblem games, there's some cutscenes, some choices here and there, but for the most part you're just going battle to battle to battle, that's what it felt like to me anyways. In three houses, you literally spend like an entire month in game doing different things outside of battles. Now you can choose to do extra battles. Now I haven't done that many extra battles and I probably should do some more, maybe I wouldn't die as often. It did my battles, but you know what, I like doing all this in-between stuff, whether it's teaching my students different topics and having other professors help out, but honestly it's the personal interactions that happen in the exploring part of the academy that I really enjoy. Not just building relationships with my, you know, future wife, but also like just interacting with the different students and the different characters and learning about the world. There's just so much interesting stuff happening and I'm getting really, really deep into the lore in a way I really haven't done since maybe World of Warcraft when I used to deep dive into that. Now there's so much going on in World of Warcraft I have no idea what's even happening with the Shadowlands expansion, let alone everything happening right here in this Fire Emblem game. I barely remember the story from Fire Emblem Awakening. In fact, if you asked me what the story is or how it ended, I probably couldn't tell you. So I honestly am just super, super into the fact that this game is everything I've really ever wanted it to be in terms of building like relationships. I almost view it as like a relationship game and I like that. I've tried a lot of relationship simulators over the years and Fire Emblem does it like the best and almost most realistic. Every character has their own unique personality and I love that about this game. There are characters that you think are good that might not be good, characters that are bad that might not be bad. You wonder why your dad you know left the religious order and everything but now is back working with them like why? And there's just so much interest and intrigue in this game that really draws me in like this is a game that I can't put down whenever I pick it up. Suddenly it's four hours later by the time I look up and that's actually a problem for me which is why I've actually set it down for the past week because it's just been very difficult to balance my college and work and everything and play Fire Emblem at the same time which is why I'm not waiting until I actually beat the Black Eagles route to talk about it because no I haven't beat the Black Eagles route. I'm about 30 or so hours into the game and I'm just I'm just having such a good time with all this in between stuff maybe spending more time on it than I even need to just because I enjoy it. I haven't even tried out fishing yet and like that's part of this game there's been fishing tournaments that I haven't even participated in because I just don't care about fishing. I stopped caring about fishing in video games a long time ago so to me fishing doesn't matter maybe the last time I cared was you know when they added a fishing pond to Majora's Mask 3D even then I was just curious more so than caring so yeah that's just that's just me I'm in it for the relationship building and the different things the quieter practices the meal preps the tea times which by the way I'll admit the tea time when you invite people to because in this game you can invite people to have tea with you it is probably the most pointless part of the game and the easiest part to build a relationship you can easily go four for four with pretty much any character and get a perfect tea time but nothing interesting happens and maybe the coolest part about it is that you can go into like this photo mode sort of and like move the camera around and take screenshots if you want which I guess um depending on certain angles you might be going for that's the best way to go about taking pictures of your favorite characters we're not going to go any further than that might might answer some uh rated our territory but the point is I really enjoy this game greatly and the personality it brings um I don't know I know there's going to be complaints out there I start complaints while I was live streaming about the visuals not being the most visually impressive game and it's not but Fire Emblem has never been about being visually more impressive I think Fire Emblem Warriors from a pure visual perspective looks better and isn't made by you know a Nintendo company so um I honestly think that this game looks fine for what it is looks even better and handheld and a lot of the footage you're seeing here there's some footage that I took it's very very early game I ended up not recording a lot of my gameplay because I was too busy playing it in handheld mode most of the time uh so sorry about that that I can't show you everything but one thing I can tell you now that we're reaching towards the end of the video is that I um the woman I ended up with or am going to end up with is Manuela that's right she has a lot of the same personality quirks as my actual real-world fiance except she's really really lazy with keeping things clean Yulia's like the opposite she loves things being clean but besides that there's a lot of personality quirks including some of the uh the sexiness let's put it that way uh that that seems to line up anyways uh you guys let me know what you think about all of this down in the comments below what are your thoughts about Fire Emblem 3 else's if you played it what house did you choose why did you choose it how much did you enjoy the game if you want to drop spoilers I'm not going to get mad if you drop spoilers because this game's been out for a while um I really don't care I'm having a good time I'll eventually get through my my at least one run through it uh at some point later this year not going to make a follow-up video either this is it this is my impressions of the game love it I love the in-between stuff more than the battles the battles are what I expected and that's all I got for you guys so um yeah I love uh it's a relationship simulator to me and uh I love it even more for it thank you guys so much for tuning in I'm Nathan de Rojas from Nintendo Prime and I'll catch you each and every one of you in the next episode