Post-timeskip Dimitri btw. The way one of the last things he says to you before the timeskip is an unhinged snarl of "I will kill anyone, should you ask me to."
"I will take that head from your shoulders and hang it from the gates of Enbarr" GO OFF KING? I THINK??
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I have to admit.... I never finished Three Houses. I got to the second part of the game and did not recruit ANYONE from the other houses (except like, shamir and the teachers) and was so upset about having to actually permakill the other characters that I haven't touched it since it came out.
I am now recruiting EVERYONE i possibly can bc i refuse to kill poor Bernadetta or Marianne or Ignatz.
Also, fuck Rhea. I really really hate her and i dont even know her whole story
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3H Pre-Time Skip: haha we're at school and we're having so much fun!
3H Post-Time Skip: Did you have a nice nap? Well guess what? The world is going to shit and now you have to kill your friends.
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some lingering 3H questions:
how the fuck did thales disrupt byleth’s divine pulse when jeralt was being killed and why did he never attempt to do it again?
how exactly does monica have macuil’s crest when it’s implied he hated humans too much to ever share his blood with them?
what is the deal with the crest of ernest? no one with it was among the saints, the elites, or the apostles. there’s neither a sacred or relic weapon associated with it and was apparently “lost to history”. is that nabatean still alive? if so, where the hell are they? and why is anna the only one to have their crest? are they secretly the progenitor of all the annas across the series and that’s the reason they all have that weird nurse joy thing going on?
how the hell do all the wolves just happen to have major crests? yuri got his directly through aubin sure, and balthus might be in a similar boat, but what about hapi and constance? like, among everyone born with an inherited crest at the time of the game, less than 10% of them have major ones. did cornelia’s experimenting turn hapi’s crest into a major one?
seriously, what the hell happened to patricia after duscur?
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hey look its humans metaphor nEvEr drAwS tHoSe !
i've been trying to practice drawing humans so i can...actually draw humans! enjoy some sketch sheets until i get around to more rendered art or whatever i draw next
(still cant draw faces/eyes quite right (getting the shapes and sizes of the eyes right evades me HORRIBLY) (also face proportions as a whole are lost on me lol) but i mean. better than before i suppose??)
my fondness for extreme expressions reeeaaaally shows here. man
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Three Houses vs. Engage
I LOVED Three Houses. I loved the characters and their interactions. I thought the story was very compelling and they did a great job getting you invested in characters. I watched a million let’s plays of it to get every bit of content. HOWEVER.
Three Houses was not some tour-de-force of video game writing. I’m sorry, but it wasn’t. It had silly, tropey moments. The political aspects and power dynamics were very surface level and really didn’t explore very deeply. For some reason, you’re on the ‘right’ side of history no matter what side you take. And don’t give me any BS about “Well, every side thinks they are on the right side”. Then why didn’t the game explore the actual ramifications of that? It was surface level. The other side just went crazy and that was your reason they were wrong. And don’t get me started on how they explore oppression.
Even though characters had depth, most of the time that depth was literally said out loud by their character instead of being shown through actions. I can’t even remember if they TRIED to give the protagonist any personality, that’s how little they had input.
AGAIN, I LOVED Three Houses. I am not trying to hate on it. That doesn’t mean it had no flaws.
Now, Engage comes out and it is the low-hanging fruit. It’s very easy to see the wild character designs and scoff and say “Oh they didn’t try”.
IT. IS. NOT. A. BAD. STORY.
Just like Three Houses, it has it’s flaw, yes. But it is super fun and campy. The characters are all great. They are so much fun to watch.
This honestly feels like that stupid “happy endings aren’t realistic” shit that was going around when we had all those gritty reboots of media properties. Writing characters who get along and are nice is NOT BAD WRITING.
The protagonist is nice and a little scared because he suddenly has to be IN CHARGE OF A WAR EFFORT AFTER JUST WAKING UP BECUASE HIS MOTHER DIED. The amount of people who call Alear boring with no hint of irony and then laud Three Houses, I just can’t.
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I can’t help but wonder how Shez would react to finding out that their arch-nemesis, the legendary Ashen Demon Byleth, is happily married to one of their friends in another timeline.
Dimitri: ...That’s the Ashen Demon who bested you?
Shez: Yeah. But that won’t happen a second time. Now that I have you by my side, I swear--
Dimitri: She’s....beautiful.
Shez: ...What.
Dimitri: I feel as though I know her....as though we met a long time ago....and we were....deeply in lo--
Shez: DIMITRI NO, YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO HELP ME FIGHT HER!
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one thing that people rarely mention that would be really interesting to analyze is the fact that outside of the obligatory avatar supports, Jeritza only has supports with women. I just find it such an interesting detail about him.
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( * SONIC FRONTIERS SPOILERS AHEAD ! )
AS THE NEW DAWN crested over the horizon , relief shed a weight from sonic’s shoulders. a great burden lifted , now that he knew without a doubt that his friends - family - were safe. they’d saved each other at the end of the day. he could breathe easier for it.
but sonic knew full well some others weren’t so lucky. he was feelin’ great now ! he’d said. there was just one more thing he had to do. no worries. he’d be back before they knew it. and he’d ran , relying on INSTINCT - and the lingering , intimate knowledge of the place - to guide him. and with an abrupt S K I D to a halt , sonic found him where the cliffs overlooked the sea. and all was quiet. still.
save for the stars that fell. sonic watched them in silence , walking to the cliffside and lingering just beside. it would be some time before sonic bothered to break it.
❝ ....hey. ❞
@npcharacters / for eggman !
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Intelligent Systems taking out paired endings for everyone except Alear is like…this fucking sucks ass. Paired endings have been a thing since GBA and even before then Gaiden did “alternate character endings.”
“They’re just toning back the romance and weeb shit!” Alear can fuck, and not all paired endings are romance (even in the newer games). It’s also an anime game made in Japan. It is going to have Japanese Anime Tropes.
Just feels like a real step back if non-Alear characters are “and then they did this” set endings.
And the story leaks are like…I’m withholding my full judgement until I get my copy, but it just feels “average” for the series outside of the normal standouts (Tellius, Jugdral, and friends) from a cursory glance and weaker writing than three houses (which Koei Techmo mostly did which explains A Lot tbh).
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Dataminers found Hegemon Edelgard in the demo. Three hopes isn’t a golden route confirmed. Hallelujah
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THEY ARE ALL GREAT
Yeah, about half of them just look like an in-between or a kinda lesser version of their time skip designs but just to comment on them in no particular order
I love that Hilda's hairstyle is different for each of her designs. The cloak is also great too. She's just trying a bunch of things out and all of them work. I love it.
Ignatz really looks like he's in the process of coming into his own with this design. He looks more confident in general and I love his paint splatter bow attack thingy.
Leonie... idk, she just kinda looks like one of those in-betweens; gameplay-wise she looks fucking FIERCE though. You can tell she's definitely gone through some character development in-between the School Arc and this game.
Raphael is just... there's no fucking doubt at this point that they just designed him with pro wrestlers in mind this entire time. I was already feeling hints of Andre the Giant from him in Three Houses, but this time they didn't even try to hide it. He's literally just Hulk Hogan for this one.
Lorenz looks good, I actually kinda prefer this to his full timeskip design. You can tell he hasn't been introduced to Hot Topic/Spencer's or MCR/P!ATD yet, but he's clearly gotten to that point by the War Arc in Three Houses.
Claude is another one of those in-betweens, but he looks way more like a leader than he ever did in the School Arc, and it obviously only gets better after the events of this game.
I don't have all that much to say about Lysithea except that I like the longer hair and the pretty dress. She probably hits like a truck in this game too.
Saved the best for last. Best girl Marianne. My 3H waifu. What can I say, she's just perfect. I'm also starting to think I just have a thing for characters voiced by Xanthe Huynh. Or maybe it's just Xanthe herself that I have a crush on. Anyways, I absolutely love her semiskip design. Her outfit is beautiful, her long hair is beautiful, and I absolutely love that she gets Dorte as part of her moveset.
Edit: also @yusuke-of-valla and @lyteupthenyte thank you so much for being generally awesome and super into this too, it's really nice to have other people who I'm sorta close with on Tumblr that are as enthusiastic and excited about this stuff as i am. it just feels good to be able to share something with others since irl I've never really had that
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To all Lysithea endings where it's not textually stated that she eventually gets cured....
Shut up, Lysithea gets cured in all her endings, even in ones where it's not explicitly stated. Lysithea getting cured comes with the territory of Being a Lysithea Ending.
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