Fire Emblem Three Houses reviews: Meta: 89, OC: 89

[IcaroRibeiro]

Finished my White Clouds part with Black Eagles and sided with Edelgard. Decided to play this before finishing Verdant Wind because I will need to play with Black Eagles two times

So now I'll took some time playing Verdant Wind (currently in chapter 18) and then Crimson flower, rather than playing two back-to-back Black Eagles White Clouds' Part

Honestly, Edelgard's White Clouds is just the best version of White Clouds. I'm happy I decided to let Black Eagles be my third house, Edelgard version of events help me to break the boredom of playing the same first 12 chapters for the third time. She's by far the most interesting Lord of the game, and the one with the best story

I'm starting to believe that I actually doing the best way possible to finish this story, so far I've done:

1) Goldn Deer's White Clouds: Been the first play-trough, the lack of connections of characters between the events presented here didn't bother me at all. There are many archers here, so a really newbie-friendly house. The characters are fun and lively, and I felt almost completely disconnected with all dark sides of the story, which TRULLY made me fell sad and regretful when playing in a destroyed post-time skip Garreg Mach. Claude is invested in the lore and secrets of the church, so many questions are raised in this one which is delightful. Since I don't mind waiting long before getting any answer I could easily move forward the Blue Lions route

2) Blue Lions' White Clouds: It was a more well-connected White Clouds, with characters having deeper connection with events (like Ashe-Lanato, Sylvain's brother, Dimitri and Duscurr etc). It really DOES FEEL the true cannon White Clouds, rather than the a side-story White Clouds. Absolutely no question about the lore is raised, which is unfortunate, this was more about politics and war than story of Fodlan. Also all shady things the Church done was ignored here, which is a frustrating (in a good sense of frustration). Overall, while I felt Golden Deer was a party, here was more a reunion before war, so I didn't suffered nearly as much as in the first route. To be honest, this always looked like a war-like house, so yeah, time to go to war

3) Blue Lions' Azure Moon: This was a satisfying conclusion for the Blue Lions journey. I feel like everything that happened here was right. As I said, BL's White Clouds was definitely the cannon White Clouds, so we can see this here by how well the plot is connected with the house's characters. It's explain absolutely nothing of my questions though, nothing about Byleth past, or Rhea's, nothing... If this route just gave us more information I would say this was the best one. Since it doesn't, time to move forward

4) Black Eagles' White Clouds: If Blue Lions was the "main story", and Golden Deer "the side story", Black Eagles was the "behind the story" version of White Clouds, and this was by far the best approach of White Cloud's events. It give us a opportunity to see the events by a different perspective and damn! I just love Edelgard. While it's true the Black Eagles house is not as fun as Golder Deers nor as cohesive as Blue Lions, the story balances this a bit giving completely new events for the last chapters, making this experience feels fresh compared to the first two play trough. It also finally displays Rhea as I always felt she was: A tyrant

Now, it's time to got some answers. Before Fight along with Edelgard and really be sure she is doing the right thing (or regret to choose her side) I need to understand what the fuck is going on with the church, and as far I'm concerned, it belongs to Verdant Wind the burden to explain what Azure Moon didn't managed to do.

So, finally time to finish Verdant Wind, only 5 or 6 more chapters to go. See guys soon!

Last edited by IcaroRibeiro - on 28 March 2020