| RolStoppable said: That's a lot of text for missing the point. The decision you make is not "good vs. absolutely evil", it's "kill the bad guy, no questions asked vs. find a way to end the war with minimum bloodshed". That might not be apparent at the time you make the choice, but that's what the player realizes within the next few chapters of each campaign. Even in the third path, the main character's motivation is always the same: Bringing peace to the continent. |
I'd argue that if the bolded was intended to be the point, it should have been elaborated on earlier in the game. Honestly, that would've made for a really interesting moral dilemma had it been given to the player ahead of time, a question of whether it's preferable to compromise morals for the sake of saving lives. Problem is the game doesn't even remotely suggest that to the player ahead of time, so it cannot possibly be the decision you make. Nothing is stated about the amount of bloodshed that would be required if you join Hoshido, or that you could save more lives if you joined Nohr. The very fact that the player doesn't realize it until "the next few chapters" shows pretty definitively that that is not the choice you are making at the time, even if the amount of bloodshed winds up being the biggest ramification later on.
