@@barapanda2027 don't worry too much. I can't help but imagine that the gatekeeper is some buffed up Fortress class unit by the end of the game, I'm sure he'd be hard to kill
Nothing would break me more than if you had to fight Gatekeeper. Killing Claude and Dimitri made me cry. Killing Gatekeeper would make me quit. "Goodbye, Professor. Nothing left... to report."
George-Douglas Price I never knew you could spare Claude, I never knew how that persuade mechanic worked until recently. That just makes me sad that I killed him without even knowing I could’ve spared him on my Black Eagles route.
Aldo Navarrete I think you have to get up in support with them, like B Support or something, and later during the war, attack them with Byleth, either that or you have to recruit them first before the war and the ones who go back to their country you can spare. I don’t know if there’s a limit to how many people you can persuade to join you, though I know there are certain people you can’t persuade.
You’re better off doing something like the chruch route first, and using things like advanced drills to build it up, then use New Game+ to gain it all back with Renown
The optimal way of recruiting students is to raise their support their levels via mission assistance, eating together, and giving gifts to name a few. Once they reach support level B, they have a 20% chance roughly of joining you when the next week starts. The only problem is certain units like Ferdinand and Caspar have B supports locked until part 2, so those you will have to grind for.
@@nworder4life No, you don't. Nobody does that, especially not on Edelgard route where you have Caspar and Ferdinand (who have B locked supports until time skip). Everybody else is recruitable once you B support them (they'll ask to join randomly during the week).
@@FANATICOREACH wait I didn't finish blue lions yet but I got past the time skip and it said that he sacrificed himself for Dimitri, does he come back to life or ???
“I can’t believe you would try to kill lady rhea. Jeralt must be turning in his grave.” Oh Alois, you really didn’t understand jeralt’s views on the church.
It’s in character for Alois to misjudge Jerald this badly. Alois sees Jeralt as an idol, not an equal. It the difference between studying and worshipping someone’s ideas.
@@brysonlepage3003 if you play the BE path and do recruit him he is a very different character and follows byleth out of dedication to Jeralt, even so far as to look out for them in the 5 year time period
@@otakujiji Honestly I'm now okay with Fates existing if only because it taught them how not to handle a multiple path scenario and allowed them to get it so damn right in this game.
Matt Mest The full death scene playing and suddenly the jingle suddenly like ‘I know you just killed a student you liked but don’t worry, you leveled up’
"Professor! Has it really been five years? We ought to raise a glass to the occasion. Celebrate your return. "Nah, I'd rather commemorate it with your death."
Yeah if you spare him, he explains to Edelgard that he told his former classmates to just, retreat or lay down their arms and surrender to Edelgard if things went south. Claude is the one lord in this game that remains completely awesome no matter the route you're on.
Terrible way for a leader to raise morale. Instead of encouraging his troops to fight for a just cause, he would tell them to leave him if things go bad. I understand that he cares for his troops but no one wins a battle by telling your comrades to outright abandon you.
chinchirorin True, but maybe he doesn’t want to possibly die since he is the one and only heir to almayra? He doesn’t want to lose the throne by dying in battle.
Personally I was mad that Claude wasn't invested enough in this war to fight to the death like Blue Lions and Black Eagles. Make me go all the way to the Alliance just to say "alright you win, just take it."
Sylvain’s dialogue changes if you fight him with female Byleth. He says something like “I regret a lot of things. I should have wooed you properly back then. But instead, I have to kill you now.” Also, if you don’t use Byleth to fight Flayn, she actually dies. She says something like “I’m sorry Father... but I’m going to see Mother now.” And then Seteth just screams in anguish. FUCKING BRUTAL. I HATE IT SO MUCH.
I didn't even know you could do all this if you just killed with byleth. Killed flayn, seteth and claude. lysithea got lucky since she was recruited. all the others die anyways so I had some fun with sylvain taking on his childhood friends. Now I scream in anguish as I have gotten to know all the characters and don't want any of them to die now. Even less popular ones like ferdi and lorenz.
@@teamrockettes My (avoidable) kills in my first run were: Shamir, Mercedes, Dedue, Ashe, & Cyril. I avoided Ignatz, Leonie, Acheron ('cause I didn't know much about him), Hilda, Annette, Gilbert, and Catherine, while I recruited Ingrid, Hanneman, Manuela, Sylvain, Felix, Alois, and Lysithea (at derdriu) in that order. In my second run, after learning more about my 3 kills; Ashe, Mercedes, and Shamir, I decided to recruit everyone, and I did, except for Raphael (Heavy armor is useless on Byleth). TBH, Shamir's statements in chapter 4 and Mercedes's religious obsession (and voice) left a bad taste in my mouth, but I ended up liking them regardless. I actually paired them with the other CF exclusive characters, Hubert and Jeritza, respectively.
I tried so hard to recruit Ashe but didn't get him on my first playthrough, I ended up making that battle ridiculously difficult by trying to navigate all my characters so they were always out of his range (if any of them counterattacked he would die) and my god it was hard as hell but I didn't have to watch him die Edit: WAIT I JUST LOOKED IT UP, ASHE IS THE RECRUITABLE CHARACTER FOR POST-TIMESKIP GOLDEN DEER! OMFG IF I HAD JUST ATTACKED HIM I COULD HAVE GOTTEN ASHE, I'M SUCH AN IDIOT 💀
@@jaxryz_380 I think you have to have recruited Ashe pre time skip for that to work because I've seen videos where that's happened when you didn't recruit him you wouldn't be able to. Lysithea is the only one you can do that post timeskip.
Well you don't necessarily have to, though you do have to do some masterful maneuvering around the battlefield to avoid running into them. The Golden Deer House made it through my playthrough mostly unscathed except for one casualty. The Blue Lions though....Not so lucky. I think Annette was the only survivor, oh and Felix but that was only because I actually managed to recruit him in time.
@@ChillstoneBlakeBlast Not really an option for most of Edelgard's route. Most of the objectives are "defeat enemy commanders", which happen to be the side characters.
@@tacticalstampede5678 Most of the Alliance maps in Edelgard routes are kill commanders. You can spare Seteth and Flayn if you defeat them and make them retreat. Most of the blue lions indeed die however.
For all of you saying how lysethia has meaningless supports, you ought to reconsider. Lysethia is a character who has been burdened by these two crests, they give her some great power but, at the same time, they shorten her lifespan. All of her support tackle 1 of 3 themes: How other people keep looking into the future (which she despises since she does not have one), how people treat her as a child (where we learn she does not have the luxury to be treated as such since she will die young), and how talented she is (which bothers her to an extreme since she has gotten to where she stands by sheer effort and not talent). So yeah, Lysethia is a pretty deep character who may be a bit annoying due to how she treats others but is truly endearing
@@gamerprince-tl5hg she's the only character in game with 2 crests and in her support dialogues she says she hates being complimented on her magic abilities instead of her effort because she sees that as just her crests power and she didn't want the crests
All unrecruitable character deaths (that are avoidable); Hilda; It's been fun, Claude, sorry to go so soon. (Claude; Hilda! Damnit, I counted on you retreating...) (He never thought people would die for him.) Claude; I see I've read this situation terribly wrong. My hopes... have all fallen to ash(e). Seteth & Flayn version A; Seteth; I'm sorry Flayn, I couldn't protect you... (Flayn; No! Why? father, Why?! ) Flayn; Father... it looks like I'll be seeing mother... before you. Seteth & Flayn version B; Flayn; Father... it looks like I'll be seeing mother... before you. (Seteth; Flayn! Please, no! NO!) Seteth; I'm sorry Flayn, I couldn't protect you... Dedue can live if you defeat him before he transforms, so here's the transformation quote: Dedue; It is time. Your Majesty, I will avenge your father. You are the one true king, Dimitri! Now, here are the only ones I ever hear: Gilbert; Majesty, I beg forgiveness... my promise to you, I... could not... Catherine; Lady Rhea, my service ends here. It's been an Honor... Cyril; Lady Rhea, thank you... for everything.
Aska2468 couldn’t afford the risk of getting stabbed in the back and the bridge was a major focal point in transporting things as well as cutting away a form of escape for the kingdom.
@@Amainville93 Actually, I don't think Dedue died there. It's more than likely that because Dimitri died without regret, Dedue didn't need to avenge him, like in Verdant Wind, so he just left to go rebuild Duscur.
I sided with Edelgard for my first playthrough but when Dimitri said "Dedue... You fool..." I thought I might actually cry, and I hadn't even played Blue Lions yet! The delivery of that line is amazing.
@@jamirgg5567 I started with Blue Lions and it was such a good route. When i checked on my brother playing Edelgards it felt like such a letdown. No cutscenes, no character developement, no internal conflict. Just walking across Fodlan, mowing everything down. Now with the higher difficulty, i'll try Claudes route. (It's going to be painfull xD)
I guess that speaks to the game accurately portraying war. Because that's what it is: spending the best young years of your life with friends you might watch die in an instant on the battlefield, all in the name of a purpose greater than you. At least in this fantasy game, all the purposes feel personal and justifiable. Real life is even less cut and dry.
George-Douglas Price Real life war is even less justified at times. Remember the Football war? All of that because of a shitty American banana company and football matches
The Blue Lion deaths- Annette in particular- are the most painful deaths here, as I chose their house first. Annette’s death just broke me. Her pleas for her father, and his reaction. Absolutely heartbreaking.
@@Haos51 same here, wanted to do blue lion after my golden deer run and then black eagle buuuuuuut i think i won't. Can't kill my beloved babys. Besides how Edelgard is trying to achive her goal is totally wrong but i guess there aren't any ither ways to do so :(. I still have no idea who the real villain is, Edel or Reah?!?!?! Help :0
Probably hurts more if you have the Lions face each other. I had some missed opportunities, but I had Felix fight Ingrid, and she wasn't exactly happy.
C; "I see I've read this situation terribly wrong." C; "My hopes, my dreams... they've all fallen to ash." [Divine Pulse] B; "Yeah, Lysithea, let Edelgard handle this." L; "But I want to make him feel what I felt whenever he talked down to m..." B; "Don't make me unleash the ghost!" L; "AHHH! g-Ghost?! Where?!" E (Softly); "It's OK, Lysithea, she can't harm you." B; "OK, I'll do this instead." {Yes, I have a headcanon that Byleth told everyone about Sothis during chapter 12. Lysithea didn't take it well due to her fear of ghosts, and Edelgard took it even worse because she felt abandoned by the goddess.}
I did Golden Deer first. Killing Hilda when I finally did Crimson Flower was the most painful mistake I ever made. I truly think its poetic that the lazy and apathetic slacker would be the most ardent supporter of their leader who would fight to the death when no-one else would think she would. Personally I think they complement each other well, they are both easy going but while Claude is industrious and radical in his mindset and ambitions, Hilda is lazy but efficient and good at management. They complement one another and I think that Hilda is the best ‘retainer’ character to her respective House Lord. (Possibly more if you choose to pair them which I did because they go together really well.) Unlike Hubert or Dedue she doesn’t enable a leader of questionable morals or sanity but instead supports his ideas as a friend and colleague.
He WAS smart, I personally think that Claude is the smartest of the three lords, it's just that in this scenario Byleth/Edelgard are heartless monsters, so they aren't operating within the confines of human thought and reasoning that Claude is thinking they would be, that's why he says "I read this terribly wrong." I mean, personally I think it makes more sense logically to spare him considering who he really is and his actual lineage and place in the world, but, you know, if you want to be an inhuman savage hell-bent on killing every last one of them, it doesn't matter what sort of debts you could extract from him later on, it just matters that you get his blood.
@@randomperson8571 Being torn between saying "r/woosh" or replying logically. small brain Saying "r/woosh, and killing Claude is more reasonable since it likely prevents mass rebelions and loyalist uprisings which is one of Edelgards main goals" Advanced Brain Stating "it's free EXP" (in a "it's free real estate format.") GALACTIC BRAIN
@@maddoxbellrose7679 There's actually a CF fanfic called "Crimson Heart" that solves this problem. I won't spoil what happens, because I want people to read it for themselves, but there definitely is a way.
The voice actors for Edelgard, Dimitri, and Claude very recently did an AMA on reddit and I asked "There’s a lot of really raw dialogue in the game, particularly when the lords interact with each other, which lines do you feel were the most powerful to deliver?" Joe Zieja the voice actor for Claude responded saying: "SPOILERS [Black Eagle spoilers] The part that hit me the hardest was at the end of Claude's arc, when he dies. I literally felt like my own dreams and ambitions were turning to ash." After hearing the line myself I totally understand what he means, you can really feel the last of Claude's hope disappearing in that instant.
I gave up watching after Hilda. I’m on the Golden Deer route and my heart couldn’t take it :( On a side note, it’s awesome how this game can play with one’s emotions. Those are usually the best ones.
i havent played black eagles yet and ive completed golden deer and is over halfway done with blue lions and i gotta say if black eagles story is as good as blue lions then golden deer story really got the short end of the stick
Yeah man, this stuff is totally new to me. The way that they can use perspective to turn your students and allies from good friends into enemies you had to kill is an amazing thing. They tried with Ryoma and Xander, but failed. Other morally grey villains like Brunnya, Selena, that one senator from Radiant Dawn that I can’t remember, killing them was easy because there were no connections with their characters and personalities, you couldn’t get to know them before you fought them and there was no way to save them. That said, really like the way that the Fire Emblem series is moving, considering they fixed the major flaws the recent games had. For example, the fan service was greatly toned down, there wasn’t a specific character whose personality I hated, or at least one whom I refused to use simply because I hate their character, and the levelling and promotion system, as well as skills, actually balanced in this game. Now to wait 8 months for the story expansion...
Yeah, on my Golden Deer run, I had recruited EVERYONE from Black Eagle since they were my first playthrough except Ferdinand. It was odd when I was facing him..... It was like “dude you forgot to recruit me too). On the Blue Lion Side, I recruited Felix, Annette, Slyvain, and Ingrid to whom I married Claude to. I didn’t have my team talk to Dedue though when we were at the palace.
Doing a Black Eagle run, recruited everyone from Blue Lions and Golden Deer expect for Lorenz, Marianne, and Raphael due to the time skip from Edelgard route.
Frederick X. On a first playthrough it’s very impersonal because if you didn’t recruit them then you never got to learn about them from supports / paralogues / etc
The worst thing of this route wasn't even shown in the video. If you defeat Flayn without using Byleth, she dies. And Seteth will let out the most tearjerking, goosebumpy cry in all videogames existance. My brother was playing Edels route (i chose Dimitri) and i sat enxt to him when he palyed that chapter. Usually he's pretty nonchalant about killing stuff onscreen. But this one thing brought even him to a stop. It didn't help that we both liked Seteth as a character very much.
Byleth: Oh actually about that. You should REALLY read Jeralt's journal. He wrote all about how he felt about Rhea and how he- Alois: (Cuts journal in half with axe) Byleth: (Sigh) Well...I tried.
jeralt never wanted rhea dead doofus he suspected her and distrusted her but never wished death upon her, after all SHE saved his life, his child, gave him a home, etc.
@@wholethedogsout880 He didn't personally want Rhea dead no, but I'm pretty sure he would understand why someone could hate her that much. He might even grow to truly hate her himself if he found out that the only reason Rhea wanted to save his child was so that she could turn the child into Sothis.
@@Jarock316 That's why I always recruit Mercie, because I need Annette to fix depressed Felix, and she shouldn't have to kill both her father AND best friend.
@@apanofbread I managed to recruit everyone, and spare the alliance leaders, the other nabateans, and Dedue. I only killed Rhea, Dimitri, and the 3 Knights of Seiros who set fire to Fhirdiad. (because they wouldn't surrender, so I figured i'd put them out of their misery.)
You are missing the one where you actually kill Flayn and Seteth. Use a character other than Blyeth to kill them and they die instead of retreat. There's different dialogue depending on whether Seteth or Flayn dies first.
Bullshit! I defeated Seteth with Byleth and he died! So how was i supposed to save these two? I cried my eyes out because i wanted to spare them so badly!
@@hijabnaqvi4432 I guess so I liked her at first but honestly I chose Golden Deer first but even if I picked black eagles I won't side with Edelgard. Sure Rhea had her issues but her path had less blood in it....
Funny enough I chose Edelgard’s path mainly because of how insane Rhea was. It wasn’t until the end of part 1 that she was a lot more reasonable. And then in part 2, if you chose Edelgard, she is a lot more insane. I just finished Golden Deer Route Part 2 as well last night, it seems being Edelgard’s prisoner made her less insane
TBH she destroted crest system which was basically racism independent of race. You're either born priviledged (crest/nobility) or you're trash, a glorified servant as best-case-scenario. You just gotta befriend them beforehand so they see how they opress people.
I only recruited Leonie, Ingrid, Shamir on my playthrough on the Black Eagle Route since that was the first route on the game so I didn't get the chance to know the other characters until I starting playing the other routes, now I started to cry inside thinking about killing these characters
Agreed. I am very much so a Blue Lion. In fact, I couldn't bring myself to kill any of the recruitable ones, especially Felix, by far my favorite character in the game. Really sucked to have to kill Dedue and Dimitri...
@chu chu You really should. It fills in so much of the backstory on what Edel's doing, why she's doing it, and how much of what goes down isn't even her doing (since she has a rogue faction within her army that she's sort of forced to ally with, a faction filled with people she hates). Just recruit everyone and you're fine. You can avoid Hilda, spare Claude, spare Flayn, spare Seteth... hell, I even just avoided Cyril so I didn't kill him (you pretty much have to kill Catharine, though. That bitch is crazy). Edel even offers terms of surrender that Rhea refuses in the end. Edel's route is really sad, because you get to watch the church hang Dimitri out to dry and use him as a meatshield. Rhea is definitely the most villainouse of the faction heads, even above and beyond Edelgarde. Even in the church route, Rhea's a real bitch.
@@HollowGolem Claude totally calls that Rhea's evil, too, so it's not just Edelgard. Indeed he even goes further /believes her to be responsible for all the xenophobia all around (and here you thought taking in Cyril and Shamir was like her one redeeming quality) . Though he deals with the church via manipulation/ installing Byleth as a figurehead, and hence isn't forced to go *through* any of them (ie, Catherine and Cyrill survive) though his methods are technically slimier, in the end he and Edelgard were each simply using the tools they had at their disposal. (thing with Claude is he's got a very devious calculating mind but his parents are alive and ruling the Alliance is just his side gig to a grander scheme, so he doesn't have as much of an edge or investent as the other two, so he'll prefer softer methods and consistently bails if things go sour which had both advantages and drawbacks) He only rescues Rhea to press her for information (that being the one scene where Claude gets close to sounding genuinely angry) and then points her at twsitd so they destroy each other, it's made very clear that he's only using the church for political expedience Given her extreme backstory you find out in the golden deer route (her whole civilization was killed) you can understand why Rhea's the way she is, it's sad, sympathetic maybe and she's certainly fleshed out as a very multilayered antagonist, but ultimately she's been taking out her however justified anger at like 11 evil humans on 30-40 generations of a whole country and her motivation, though very human, is 100% selfish (to keep control of humans because she hates/fears them deep down, and to revive Sothis) whereas whatever faults Edelgard may have, her motivations are altruistic. Even If you S support her she basically admits to her crimes and of never having cared about byleth as their own person in the beginning - it's not that she's not evil, you simply redeem her/stop her being evil if you're willing to put up with being married to her in return... I prefer stopping her with a sword tbh In the end the thing is that everyone involved was acting on the information they had and none had the full story (another good example is Seteth & Flayn being unaware of the crap Rhea was pulling while Edelgard didn't know they were innocent, meanwhile poor Dimitri has no clue about anything at all but he still manages to know/find out all that super-disturbing business with Edelgard's mother, plus his route contains a lot of worldbuilding lore dumps) - Claude comes the closest to decihering the whole picture but he's still missing important pieces and only gets there in the very end. Unless you've seen all four routes you have no clue what's going in I mean it's not like I don't feel sorry for Dimitri. While the others more or less always end the same way (Claude flees, or attempts to, Edelgard chooses to go down fighting once cornered) Dimitri manages to get more or less 4 fairly different outcomes all of which are terrible, the one where he lives might actually be the one that put him through the wringer most of all, he just eventually manages to turn the corner once Byleth gets back. Poor dude never gets a break, it's like his parents forgot to invite Maleficent to his birthday feast. But he simply went after the wrong person, not even necessarily through any fault of his own.
I ignored Ashe on the final Edelgard map, and so he slowly tried to make his way to me while I was fighting Rhea. It was kind of hilarious, although I beat her before he could attack any of my units.
I don't wanna fight my precious children either! I spared myself having to murder Sylvain (possibly my favorite character, tied with Dimitri) and also Felix and Ashe. I don't actually think I'm going to be able to kill Dimitri, at all. Claude was hard enough, and I like Dimitri more.
@@ItamarO93 it is tho it always put her in a place where she needs to be saved which is not really a bad thing.. I always saw her as a fiery character that's why I like her support with el very much only reason I like her S support with Byleth is cause her crest problem has been fixed and is now living a normal life with her parents and byleth
@@JustCheppo I can see why it'll bother you, but I saw it more as Linhardt being smart and finding out info other don't know about, and then finding something, or someone, to care about enough to put some effort into.
I saw the actor(the claude one) complaining about how the black eagles got more people choosing that path on RUclips and how his group the golden deer need to get back up and beat the number of people joining the black eagles. He also did this in the game too. When I saw that in this video I literally burst out laughing.🤣
@@katonnor To be fair, BE is two of the four routes. Yeah, you only have Edel for the first half of one of them, but that means she's your lord in 1.5 routes, while the other lords are only there for 1 route.
@@katonnor She's so broken overpowered. It really is a hit to loser her and Hubert in the church route, because they are both so goddamn strong. But you do get Flayn, Seteth, Catharine, who are all pretty cool.
GunnerGirl do your best to recruit as many students as possible. Those who are affiliated with the church will side against you no matter what, I think. And I never ended up seeing Raphael or Lorenz in this route after failing to recruit them
@@vaalhazak4196 Well, Raphael only cares about his little sister so I guess he is protecting her and he is not going to a war. And house Gloucester (Lorenz's house) is neutral to the empire and help them when necessary (this is because they are in the border between the empire and the alliance and to oppose the empire in a war would meant their destruction).
@@vaalhazak4196 Actually some of the church members like the teachers, Shimir and Alois will join you if you recruit them before the time skip. I think Catherine and Cyril are too close to Rhea though, so they ditch you if you decide to betray the church. To be honest I'm not a huge fan of their characters anyway so that wasn't a huge loss for me.
I uh recruited a lot of these characters including annette so oh boy uh annette can kill both mercedes her best friend and her father gilbert oh boy what have i done
Vader 14 The Gilbert vs Annette dialogue is great. She tells him to stand aside, he says no and then says “Surely this is chastisement from the goddess”.
In my case, I recruited Annette, but didn't level her... She was killed by her father. I probably shouldn't have brought her into battle, but I wanted to see if she had a line if she fights her father.
The obvious solution is to nap Mercedes too! If you're not already past the timeskip that is. she actually gets some interesting & illuminating lines if you recruit her on this route
@@ultamaflare Having or not empathy is not something you can choose. About 95% of people have it. Most of people who go to war are in that 95%. Therefore having empathy most likely won't get you killed in the battlefield.
@@DrBXXI that is not the point. Can you sit down and say for certian that when you walk into a battle field surrounded by shouting, people getting hurt or dying, people trying to kill you, that you will be able to realize what makes them human and not kill them on the spot?
@@ultamaflare Having empathy doesn't make you take stupid decissions. As I said most of people have it and yet we let others starve to death. And most of people on the internet have empathy, yet they troll and are complete dicks with others. I see your logic, yet the facts remain true there for empathy doesn't prevent you from killing. Ofcrouse the complete lack of it prevents having any remorse, for example.
Ok so I'm not the only one that did that. I went Golden Deer my first playthrough, and seeing them attack me and get killed just shattered my heart....
I swear theres dialogue for everything! If you kill with a specific character, if you attack one whit another specific one. Its amazing and really gives inmersion!
Yes, Annette, there were other paths I could've taken, but they would've led to me losing Edelgard and being forced into a position of power that I'm not fit for. I protected the people I cared about, just like you failed to do. Even with you home burning around you, you refuse to see the truth that Mercedes saw?
I really love Alois. Like my #1 new favorite FE character But holy shit seeing his in combat dialogue Alois I feel like is the closest thing to get to a retainer, and his A Support he says "Jeralt was the most important person in the world to me... expect you, perhaps" and thinking of Alois needing to kill his best friend, mentor, guide's son after they died is so hard to watch. I feel like Alois would rather die and be with Jeralt than hurt his kid
Yup. One of the reasons I recruited Alois on my BE, suspecting that major shit was going down with the Church. I did NOT want to fight him. Your comment sums up my thoughts as well - I think he'd rather die than hurt Jeralt's kid.
This is how I feel the game should played. No recruiting at all. Raw emotion as you slaughter the students you've come to know from the other classes. It's realistic in a horrible way that soldiers of the opposition are not necessarily evil, but makes for fantastic storytelling. The last two runs I've played I recruited every character that you can. The story feels empty without them on the opposing sides. It becomes very shallow and odd fighting only the leader of the house and their right-hand man.
I agree completely. The starting units you get are more than enough to complete the game with, especially with how ridiculously easy it is, and the large sum of Divine Pulse uses the game generously gives you, That said, each House lacks some sort of ability. They even specify BE has good mages overall, and BL has excellent martial skills, while GD is focused on archers. While this is less true in BE, since you do have decent martial units, I've definitely noticed a want for mages in Golden Deer. I have yet to go the Blue Lions route, so I can't say too much about them yet. Golden Deer has Lythisea, but she doesn't get some of the safe spells, like Meteor with a range of 3-10.
@@Arkansym I don't know, Lorenz and Lysithea killed practically everyone with their magic. Meteor is a good spell, but I find that don't use it often. Or at all.
@@Arkansym il stop you right there i made lysenthia a moral servant that ninja mage class. and gave her a crests type sword. and gave her the staff that lets her use any spell from 4 spaces away. and soulblade literally as a base damage of 75 . shes the best and il use her in every playthrough
Some of these conversations get even worse if you recruit other people into the BE and you make them fight. The most heartbreaking ones for me was Mercedes vs. Annette conversation and the Felix vs. Sylvain conversation, I unintentionally recruited them both during my Edelgard route and was curious if they had unique conversations, and now I regret knowing
@@helpmeidkhowtochangemyprof5408 at least from a gameplay perspective, flayn was right there, yo boi ignatz needed the experience, and wabam, easy level up
NoirCore Oh, also... I must specify that I did this only because Claude(‘s voice actor) banned all polygons. Only lines now. So I felt the need to do this.
This video is missing Flayn and Seteth's deaths when they are killed by someone other than Byleth. Flayn's is the most soul crushing death in the game so it's pretty noticeable that it's not there
I chose the Blue Lions route first, seeing all of this...God its painful. I actually started crying after Annette's death. This game is something else, it makes you truly care about all of the characters.
Thankfully you don't need to kill Marianne. She never showed up as an enemy in the chapters where Edel fights GD. I had to dodge Hilda to keep from killing her, though.
@@HollowGolem I just took the boats over to Claude instead of dealing with the inside of the city. Also, the big theory right now is Marianne committed suicide because she never appears and is afraid of her crest.
Pretty much. However if you make the effort to max out everyone's support with each other, then the pairings in the epilogue will be out of your control. So keep that in mind if you are aiming for a specific pairing. Personally I enjoyed the novelty of not knowing who would end up together, and some of the pairings can be quite surprising indeed. So I'd recommend maxing out all supports for that very reason.
I mean they certainly are very close, she's his right-hand woman for the most part (for some reason she's recruitable in Blue Lions though which makes no sense to me but ok) but I've always seen them as more best friends. Hilda in particular is very flirty and affectionate and would say something like "my dear old Claude" even if he was just her friend, I think. But I do also agree that barring Byleth coming in and stealing one of them away, Claude and Hilda would end up together. On Claude's part most of his "romantic" supports are crap and more platonic than romantic anyway except for Petra (which wouldn't happen if, canonically, Petra remains with the empire, as I think she unfortunately does :( sadness) and MAYBE Lysithea, if we're pushing it (those two give off such strong sibling energy though... especially with how he treats her like a little kid just to annoy her, it's such a big brother thing to do). But that's just my perspective on all that, I personally like how this game focused more on friendship than on romance unlike the past games.
5:50 Shit like this is why I cannot bring myself to do a black eagles run. My first run was with Dmitri and it will just feel like a total betrayal, and no matter what every clip of her run just cements my belief that that is the wrong side.
@@KingOfMilfgaard That debate in chapter 21 just pissed me off, because Dimitri was speaking in superficial rhetoric, without the logic to back it up, and Edelgard still wasn't revealing why peaceful reform was never an option.
I didn't record it but I had Shamir kill Catherine. Shamir: Hello again Catherine. Catherine: I hoped I'd meet you today. We have nothing in common, not our upbringing, not our beliefs... Shamir ...Not the way we live, or the way we'll die!
@@TemporalElpis Yeah iirc she has a line where she says something along the lines of "I'm a mercenary, I take whatever jobs I can get. I never really had a close personal attachment to the church anyway and I'd like to see if Edelgard can fulfill her ideals first hand."
Funny how when you side with edelgard, almost everyone opposes you with disappointment and resentment and actually have a strong belief for their faction Meanwhile the black eagle students are like "well I live in the empire so I gotta fight you I guess"
@@Max-cl8mz What's the point of calling your game three houses if the choice of house you make doesn't have consequences on who dies and who lives ? It's a game about fucking war, there must be tragedy
@@louis-ferdinandmartin1059 of course there's tragedy in a war sure in a war you shouldn't be held back by your emotions but you shouldn't become an emotionless killer
I'm kind of...amazed at how chill everyone is at fighting Byleth. Lysithea, Annette, and Flayn(and Seteth) are the only ones who seem truly heartbroken at the prospect of fighting their old professor.
There should be an ending where Byleth chooses to conquer the continent himself instead of allying. If he increased his bonds enough, he would be able to recruit defeated members of each faction for his cause and, by recruiting enough members, he’d be able to persuade the faction leaders to surrender without dying with their help. Of course, the other option is to murder them all in cold blood if you wanted to.
I mean, in all seriousness I fully expect the dlc route that's coming in april 2020 to be Byleth rallying all faction leaders to fight against those who slither in the dark. The game definitely seems to imply that they stand to gain the most from everyone tearing each other apart. especially since they said they will be adding new playable characters. maybe it's possible that byleth takes over as a potential captain early on, and goes renegade by the end of part 2.
Ya..everyone except Dimitri and edelgard. Edelgard would be a cruel Queen and Dimitri would be revenge happy. I doubt they'd just throw down their blades and go for a happy ending. Despite the fact that Edelgard desperately wishes byleth could join her. Claude is honestly the only one willing to cooperate no matter what
@Brandon Nail there is admiration and then there is blind loyalty/ He is so blindly devoted to her and any jobs he is given that it is annoying and the only character development he gets is in the supports that don't have him mentioning rhea every god damn sentence or cleaning. The other characters have their flaws and such sure, but they all develop in ways that make them more loveable than their younger selves. Cyril is a one-track mind which is boring and annoying especially when he is supposed to be a prodigy but has only above average state development.
I played blue lions my first run and they're my favorite characters overall in the game. Watching you kill Mercedes, Ashe, and Annette really hit home.
Currently on the Golden Deer Route. Hearing Claude’s “all my hopes have fallen to ash” about had me in tears. Thanks for recording it though; the morbid curiosity would have driven me nuts otherwise
You should play all the routes. They did a really good job of putting pieces of the puzzle in each of them. BL answeres the least questions about the backstory, but focuses a lot on the war itself. Edel's is all about the history of the Empire and how she knows what she knows, and who Those Who Slither in the Dark are, church route lets you see what Rhea was really trying to do, and Golden Deer fills in info about the Liberator King. They also manage to make most of the leaders sympathetic in their playthroughs. Except Rhea. I'm sorry, but that bitch is pretty irredeemable if you ask me. I'd say even warmonger Edelgard is a step up from her.
@@HollowGolem Oh, I fully intend to do all of the routes, GD was just the first one I've picked. I'm gonna reserve judgment on Rhea until I've actually played the Church route. It's taking me longer than I'd like because I have to share the Switch (and game) with my brother, haha.
Only saw Lysithea's persuade and death quotes since I haven't gotten to time skip yet and her death quote is HEARTBREAKING! Holy cow, the emotion! she's my favorite unit by far too!
The kicker would be if the gatekeeper had his own quote "Greetings Professor! Looks like this is my last report..."
Alexander Cruz don’t you start with that shit. My heart can’t take it
@@barapanda2027 don't worry too much. I can't help but imagine that the gatekeeper is some buffed up Fortress class unit by the end of the game, I'm sure he'd be hard to kill
God damn it. I love that guy.
I mean... who could kill our precious boi Alm?
That would be too much. I would not be able to play.
Nothing would break me more than if you had to fight Gatekeeper.
Killing Claude and Dimitri made me cry.
Killing Gatekeeper would make me quit.
"Goodbye, Professor. Nothing left... to report."
George-Douglas Price I never knew you could spare Claude, I never knew how that persuade mechanic worked until recently. That just makes me sad that I killed him without even knowing I could’ve spared him on my Black Eagles route.
@@firebluetoad3990 hey man how fo you spare units?
Aldo Navarrete I think you have to get up in support with them, like B Support or something, and later during the war, attack them with Byleth, either that or you have to recruit them first before the war and the ones who go back to their country you can spare. I don’t know if there’s a limit to how many people you can persuade to join you, though I know there are certain people you can’t persuade.
@@firebluetoad3990 Is there a limit to how many can be spared?
Would like as much students saved if possible.
Crimson Array No limit. The only people you cant spare are leaders and their close retainers
Just like a wise man once said,
*Recruit every last one of them*
Easier said then done. To recruit you need to focus on leveling byleth's skills equally which will make him a liability in battle.
You’re better off doing something like the chruch route first, and using things like advanced drills to build it up, then use New Game+ to gain it all back with Renown
The optimal way of recruiting students is to raise their support their levels via mission assistance, eating together, and giving gifts to name a few. Once they reach support level B, they have a 20% chance roughly of joining you when the next week starts. The only problem is certain units like Ferdinand and Caspar have B supports locked until part 2, so those you will have to grind for.
Or, go to a battle. Give rusted weapons, and fight.
@@nworder4life No, you don't. Nobody does that, especially not on Edelgard route where you have Caspar and Ferdinand (who have B locked supports until time skip). Everybody else is recruitable once you B support them (they'll ask to join randomly during the week).
Right before Dedue hulks out, he calls Dimitri by name, the one thing Dimitri wanted him to do from the start
My heart...I can't...
Dedue was one of my favorite characters and none of the playthroughs do him justice
@@Sgrungle mine did in the Blue Lions. He married woth Annette
@@FANATICOREACH wait I didn't finish blue lions yet but I got past the time skip and it said that he sacrificed himself for Dimitri, does he come back to life or ???
@@Sgrungle Hell yeah he does. As long as you did his paralogue he should come back in the Battle of the Great Bridge of Myrdinn.
@@donjo4260 Hell yeah, my boy dedue is coming back
“I can’t believe you would try to kill lady rhea. Jeralt must be turning in his grave.”
Oh Alois, you really didn’t understand jeralt’s views on the church.
Yeah that was my reaction. Hey Alois old buddy have you read Jeralt's journal? You really should. It's a page turner...trust me.
It’s in character for Alois to misjudge Jerald this badly. Alois sees Jeralt as an idol, not an equal. It the difference between studying and worshipping someone’s ideas.
I had Alois with me as a Black Eagle so it seems he isn't completely stupid
I played BE first and didn't recruit Alois, but this line right here, killed any potential goodwill I could ever have to him
@@brysonlepage3003 if you play the BE path and do recruit him he is a very different character and follows byleth out of dedication to Jeralt, even so far as to look out for them in the 5 year time period
This is physically painful to watch. Three Houses really drives the emotion of the characters home.
One of the best fire emblem games to date
@@shirokatta4051 It puts a smile on my face seeing this said about a modern Fire Emblem game.
I know right damn.
I feel that this is what Fates tried to be, glad to see that IS redid the concept of choosing your path but well done this time.
@@otakujiji Honestly I'm now okay with Fates existing if only because it taught them how not to handle a multiple path scenario and allowed them to get it so damn right in this game.
I love how most of them talk mad shit and seem so confident, before being brutally one-shotted. Still though this hurt my heart.
The Hellkite Rider LMAO
Byleth: *"You talking mad shit for someone within Creator Sword range."*
The worst part is all the level up jingles
Matt Mest The full death scene playing and suddenly the jingle suddenly like
‘I know you just killed a student you liked but don’t worry, you leveled up’
sylvain: i was such a fool
byleth: talk smack get whacked
"Professor! Has it really been five years? We ought to raise a glass to the occasion. Celebrate your return.
"Nah, I'd rather commemorate it with your death."
*Proceeds to be REKT by the Creator Sword*
What a badass
tbh, that sounds like something Sans would say lmao
"I was a fool..."
That writing... brilliance.
Lysithea, the only Non-Black Eagles Unit that can legit be spared and joins you.
She also blames crests
It seems clear in her supports with Edelgard
Or like me you recruit every possible student to the Black Eagles pre-timeskip xD
She has pretty good reasons to hate the crest system.
Sylvain absolutely hates crests but is loyal to Dimitri
Only because you’re a girl :)
1:18 Claude TOLD his underlings they could flee if they wanted? That makes me like his conduct in this scenario even more.
Yeah if you spare him, he explains to Edelgard that he told his former classmates to just, retreat or lay down their arms and surrender to Edelgard if things went south. Claude is the one lord in this game that remains completely awesome no matter the route you're on.
DevilHunter1994 Yeah Claude is the only one who does not require Byleth to remain mentally stable.
Terrible way for a leader to raise morale. Instead of encouraging his troops to fight for a just cause, he would tell them to leave him if things go bad. I understand that he cares for his troops but no one wins a battle by telling your comrades to outright abandon you.
chinchirorin True, but maybe he doesn’t want to possibly die since he is the one and only heir to almayra? He doesn’t want to lose the throne by dying in battle.
Personally I was mad that Claude wasn't invested enough in this war to fight to the death like Blue Lions and Black Eagles. Make me go all the way to the Alliance just to say "alright you win, just take it."
Sylvain’s dialogue changes if you fight him with female Byleth. He says something like “I regret a lot of things. I should have wooed you properly back then. But instead, I have to kill you now.”
Also, if you don’t use Byleth to fight Flayn, she actually dies. She says something like “I’m sorry Father... but I’m going to see Mother now.” And then Seteth just screams in anguish.
FUCKING BRUTAL. I HATE IT SO MUCH.
KrzyWasabi aw no
I didn't even know you could do all this if you just killed with byleth. Killed flayn, seteth and claude. lysithea got lucky since she was recruited.
all the others die anyways so I had some fun with sylvain taking on his childhood friends. Now I scream in anguish as I have gotten to know all the characters and don't want any of them to die now. Even less popular ones like ferdi and lorenz.
Honestly I have come to love all the characters in this game. My heart is too weak to ever side with Edelgard
Me watching this: I could have spared Flayn???
When flayn spawned on the other side of the map from byleth... i did a massive U-Turn.
8:17 Aww.. Ashe even hesitated killing the professor :/
“Don’t look at me that way. You’ll throw off my aim.” i cRY
Ashe and Mercedes really got to ME. I was already intending to recruit them + Ingrid on my black eagles/edelgard route as first priorities.
AGHHH WHO CAN KILL ASHE WITH A STRAIGHT FACE I STARTED BAWLING
@@teamrockettes
My (avoidable) kills in my first run were:
Shamir, Mercedes, Dedue, Ashe, & Cyril. I avoided Ignatz, Leonie, Acheron ('cause I didn't know much about him), Hilda, Annette, Gilbert, and Catherine, while I recruited Ingrid, Hanneman, Manuela, Sylvain, Felix, Alois, and Lysithea (at derdriu) in that order.
In my second run, after learning more about my 3 kills; Ashe, Mercedes, and Shamir, I decided to recruit everyone, and I did, except for Raphael (Heavy armor is useless on Byleth).
TBH, Shamir's statements in chapter 4 and Mercedes's religious obsession (and voice) left a bad taste in my mouth, but I ended up liking them regardless. I actually paired them with the other CF exclusive characters, Hubert and Jeritza, respectively.
I tried so hard to recruit Ashe but didn't get him on my first playthrough, I ended up making that battle ridiculously difficult by trying to navigate all my characters so they were always out of his range (if any of them counterattacked he would die) and my god it was hard as hell but I didn't have to watch him die
Edit: WAIT I JUST LOOKED IT UP, ASHE IS THE RECRUITABLE CHARACTER FOR POST-TIMESKIP GOLDEN DEER! OMFG IF I HAD JUST ATTACKED HIM I COULD HAVE GOTTEN ASHE, I'M SUCH AN IDIOT 💀
@@jaxryz_380 I think you have to have recruited Ashe pre time skip for that to work because I've seen videos where that's happened when you didn't recruit him you wouldn't be able to. Lysithea is the only one you can do that post timeskip.
I hate how basically every character is likeable and on this route you have to kill 75% of them unless recruited.
Well you don't necessarily have to, though you do have to do some masterful maneuvering around the battlefield to avoid running into them. The Golden Deer House made it through my playthrough mostly unscathed except for one casualty. The Blue Lions though....Not so lucky. I think Annette was the only survivor, oh and Felix but that was only because I actually managed to recruit him in time.
Or you could just Not kill them...
Blake Blast You can but that doesnt mean your allies wont
@@ChillstoneBlakeBlast Not really an option for most of Edelgard's route. Most of the objectives are "defeat enemy commanders", which happen to be the side characters.
@@tacticalstampede5678 Most of the Alliance maps in Edelgard routes are kill commanders. You can spare Seteth and Flayn if you defeat them and make them retreat. Most of the blue lions indeed die however.
For all of you saying how lysethia has meaningless supports, you ought to reconsider. Lysethia is a character who has been burdened by these two crests, they give her some great power but, at the same time, they shorten her lifespan. All of her support tackle 1 of 3 themes: How other people keep looking into the future (which she despises since she does not have one), how people treat her as a child (where we learn she does not have the luxury to be treated as such since she will die young), and how talented she is (which bothers her to an extreme since she has gotten to where she stands by sheer effort and not talent).
So yeah, Lysethia is a pretty deep character who may be a bit annoying due to how she treats others but is truly endearing
finding out the truth about why she has 2 crests and a shorter lifespan really gives good reasons for the way she acts.
Holy shit I guess this is why so many players consider her the strongest mage in the game. It canonically makes sense.
@@gamerprince-tl5hg she's the only character in game with 2 crests and in her support dialogues she says she hates being complimented on her magic abilities instead of her effort because she sees that as just her crests power and she didn't want the crests
I thought Edelgard also had two crests? Didn’t she have a minor one she inherited and the Crest of Flames the Prime Minister gave her
@@mrmonstethul9915 I have yet to play black eagles but never heard it mentioned in dialogues I don't think
Literally every dead character in this video: Imma kill you
Byleth: - slowly pulls out a reverse Uno card - Not so cocky now aren't you?
Byleth: *activates Bites Za Dusto*
I picture him doing this while screaming "ALLOW ME TO DEMONSTRATE!"
All unrecruitable character deaths (that are avoidable);
Hilda; It's been fun, Claude, sorry to go so soon.
(Claude; Hilda! Damnit, I counted on you retreating...) (He never thought people would die for him.)
Claude; I see I've read this situation terribly wrong. My hopes... have all fallen to ash(e).
Seteth & Flayn version A;
Seteth; I'm sorry Flayn, I couldn't protect you...
(Flayn; No! Why? father, Why?! )
Flayn; Father... it looks like I'll be seeing mother... before you.
Seteth & Flayn version B;
Flayn; Father... it looks like I'll be seeing mother... before you.
(Seteth; Flayn! Please, no! NO!)
Seteth; I'm sorry Flayn, I couldn't protect you...
Dedue can live if you defeat him before he transforms, so here's the transformation quote:
Dedue; It is time. Your Majesty, I will avenge your father. You are the one true king, Dimitri!
Now, here are the only ones I ever hear:
Gilbert; Majesty, I beg forgiveness... my promise to you, I... could not...
Catherine; Lady Rhea, my service ends here. It's been an Honor...
Cyril; Lady Rhea, thank you... for everything.
“All my hopes have fallen to ash...” That line alone combined with his delivery hurt me more than any weapon ever could.
Especially since it's so easy to just avoid them and rush Rhea.
Aska2468 couldn’t afford the risk of getting stabbed in the back and the bridge was a major focal point in transporting things as well as cutting away a form of escape for the kingdom.
If you take him out with El or Byleth, you can spare him, though...
that voice landed a crit on me i tell ypu that
Who's line is that
What kind of monster kills Claude
Claude dieing was so sad 😭 I wouldn’t kill him
Not a waifu? 🤔 [kills] 😈
What kind of monster kills ashe???
@@kaiyoblu7349 But.... but... but he drops an assassin bow+
@@DrBXXI but....its ashe
Dedue's decision on this route is very heartbreaking to see because he would anything to protect his king and close friend...
I love the Blue Lions
I'm sad
I consider myself lucky I killed him before he transformed. He got to die human, and hold his lord in his arms, comforting him as he passed on.
@@Amainville93
Actually, I don't think Dedue died there.
It's more than likely that because Dimitri died without regret, Dedue didn't need to avenge him, like in Verdant Wind, so he just left to go rebuild Duscur.
I sided with Edelgard for my first playthrough but when Dimitri said "Dedue... You fool..." I thought I might actually cry, and I hadn't even played Blue Lions yet! The delivery of that line is amazing.
I played both and blue lions is the best route
Dimitri's voice actor is immaculate
Completly understand the fealing...
@@jamirgg5567 I started with Blue Lions and it was such a good route. When i checked on my brother playing Edelgards it felt like such a letdown. No cutscenes, no character developement, no internal conflict. Just walking across Fodlan, mowing everything down.
Now with the higher difficulty, i'll try Claudes route. (It's going to be painfull xD)
Or also when he says: you fought well, my friend
If this was even remotely real, I can't even imagine the mental trauma and anguish that each character would feel.
Paul Christian Sandoval nah it’s Byleth, he only shows emotion if it is jeralt dying.
@@coldfusion1679 I think Paul was referring to the other characters.
I guess that speaks to the game accurately portraying war. Because that's what it is: spending the best young years of your life with friends you might watch die in an instant on the battlefield, all in the name of a purpose greater than you.
At least in this fantasy game, all the purposes feel personal and justifiable. Real life is even less cut and dry.
You guys went with Byleth? That’s lame. I chose the female and named her Baeleth haha
George-Douglas Price Real life war is even less justified at times. Remember the Football war? All of that because of a shitty American banana company and football matches
The Blue Lion deaths- Annette in particular- are the most painful deaths here, as I chose their house first. Annette’s death just broke me. Her pleas for her father, and his reaction. Absolutely heartbreaking.
@@QuickSilverKitsune i feel you bro, she's my number one waifu choice. She's too jolly and happy to be killed like that
Annette’s death specifically makes me want to tear Edelgard in half.
I was thinking of doing all the routes.....now I don't think I can....
@@Haos51 same here, wanted to do blue lion after my golden deer run and then black eagle buuuuuuut i think i won't. Can't kill my beloved babys. Besides how Edelgard is trying to achive her goal is totally wrong but i guess there aren't any ither ways to do so :(. I still have no idea who the real villain is, Edel or Reah?!?!?! Help :0
Probably hurts more if you have the Lions face each other. I had some missed opportunities, but I had Felix fight Ingrid, and she wasn't exactly happy.
Hearing Claude's facade crack when you decide to kill him is heartbreaking.
C; "I see I've read this situation terribly wrong."
C; "My hopes, my dreams... they've all fallen to ash."
[Divine Pulse]
B; "Yeah, Lysithea, let Edelgard handle this."
L; "But I want to make him feel what I felt whenever he talked down to m..."
B; "Don't make me unleash the ghost!"
L; "AHHH! g-Ghost?! Where?!"
E (Softly); "It's OK, Lysithea, she can't harm you."
B; "OK, I'll do this instead."
{Yes, I have a headcanon that Byleth told everyone about Sothis during chapter 12. Lysithea didn't take it well due to her fear of ghosts, and Edelgard took it even worse because she felt abandoned by the goddess.}
Joe’s delivery of the line when Hilda dies just S H A T TE R S me. He is the one person she would ever die for, and it STINGS.
Ben Corman legit man Golden Deer has some heartbreaking deaths
Have you visited his RUclips channel?
I did Golden Deer first. Killing Hilda when I finally did Crimson Flower was the most painful mistake I ever made.
I truly think its poetic that the lazy and apathetic slacker would be the most ardent supporter of their leader who would fight to the death when no-one else would think she would.
Personally I think they complement each other well, they are both easy going but while Claude is industrious and radical in his mindset and ambitions, Hilda is lazy but efficient and good at management. They complement one another and I think that Hilda is the best ‘retainer’ character to her respective House Lord. (Possibly more if you choose to pair them which I did because they go together really well.)
Unlike Hubert or Dedue she doesn’t enable a leader of questionable morals or sanity but instead supports his ideas as a friend and colleague.
Alois: " Jeralt I did it...I protected the monastery"
Me: You really didn't
* kills Claude *
Claude: I'm an idiot
Everyone else: Claude had a huge brain.
He WAS smart, I personally think that Claude is the smartest of the three lords, it's just that in this scenario Byleth/Edelgard are heartless monsters, so they aren't operating within the confines of human thought and reasoning that Claude is thinking they would be, that's why he says "I read this terribly wrong." I mean, personally I think it makes more sense logically to spare him considering who he really is and his actual lineage and place in the world, but, you know, if you want to be an inhuman savage hell-bent on killing every last one of them, it doesn't matter what sort of debts you could extract from him later on, it just matters that you get his blood.
@@randomperson8571
Being torn between saying "r/woosh" or replying logically. small brain
Saying "r/woosh, and killing Claude is more reasonable since it likely prevents mass rebelions and loyalist uprisings which is one of Edelgards main goals" Advanced Brain
Stating "it's free EXP" (in a "it's free real estate format.") GALACTIC BRAIN
Me: Claude has a universe-sized brain, far larger than any one mortal can assume
@@maddoxbellrose7679
There's actually a CF fanfic called "Crimson Heart" that solves this problem. I won't spoil what happens, because I want people to read it for themselves, but there definitely is a way.
They always call him the smart one. A shame that is planning came rather short when compared to how much Edelgard planed things through.
The voice actors for Edelgard, Dimitri, and Claude very recently did an AMA on reddit and I asked "There’s a lot of really raw dialogue in the game, particularly when the lords interact with each other, which lines do you feel were the most powerful to deliver?"
Joe Zieja the voice actor for Claude responded saying:
"SPOILERS [Black Eagle spoilers] The part that hit me the hardest was at the end of Claude's arc, when he dies. I literally felt like my own dreams and ambitions were turning to ash."
After hearing the line myself I totally understand what he means, you can really feel the last of Claude's hope disappearing in that instant.
Yeah. I spared him and he stays pretty in-control and confident throughout in that scenario , but here the facade absolutely crumbles :(
Yeah if you spare him, he's like, "K, thanks. Bye."
Would you say Claude's dreams were turning into, Ashes and Dust?
AkameGaKillfan777 good one but i hate you for this xD
"It's all tears in rain, dreams were all they became."
I gave up watching after Hilda. I’m on the Golden Deer route and my heart couldn’t take it :(
On a side note, it’s awesome how this game can play with one’s emotions. Those are usually the best ones.
Yeah especially since the two have a deep connection.
i havent played black eagles yet and ive completed golden deer and is over halfway done with blue lions and i gotta say if black eagles story is as good as blue lions then golden deer story really got the short end of the stick
@@Moffattt at last, the boss of the golden deer is not another dragon
You can avoid them completely actually
Yeah man, this stuff is totally new to me. The way that they can use perspective to turn your students and allies from good friends into enemies you had to kill is an amazing thing. They tried with Ryoma and Xander, but failed. Other morally grey villains like Brunnya, Selena, that one senator from Radiant Dawn that I can’t remember, killing them was easy because there were no connections with their characters and personalities, you couldn’t get to know them before you fought them and there was no way to save them. That said, really like the way that the Fire Emblem series is moving, considering they fixed the major flaws the recent games had. For example, the fan service was greatly toned down, there wasn’t a specific character whose personality I hated, or at least one whom I refused to use simply because I hate their character, and the levelling and promotion system, as well as skills, actually balanced in this game. Now to wait 8 months for the story expansion...
This is why I recruited everyone beforehand
Nice call
Now you have to couple them for them good flavor text at the end.
Yeah, on my Golden Deer run, I had recruited EVERYONE from Black Eagle since they were my first playthrough except Ferdinand. It was odd when I was facing him..... It was like “dude you forgot to recruit me too).
On the Blue Lion Side, I recruited Felix, Annette, Slyvain, and Ingrid to whom I married Claude to.
I didn’t have my team talk to Dedue though when we were at the palace.
Doing a Black Eagle run, recruited everyone from Blue Lions and Golden Deer expect for Lorenz, Marianne, and Raphael due to the time skip from Edelgard route.
🤔 recruits only females because my harem empire has no room for sausages 😗🎶
*Damn, you had to kill Ignatz twice though???*
ah right, little blunder when editing, didnt realise, but who likes Ignatz anyways
@@meloo I am quite disappointed actually that you didn't kill him at least two more times. I hate that guy.
Mr Douche username checks out lol
@@Saafern Agreed
@@meloo nooo Ignatz is so adorable!
Fire Emblem but everyone is a red unit.
God Damn, this is genuinely hard to watch. I guess I didn't realise how much I cared for these characters until you murdered them.
Imagine *playing* through it as the *first* playthrough. That's what I did... I legit could not sleep for several days.
Frederick X. On a first playthrough it’s very impersonal because if you didn’t recruit them then you never got to learn about them from supports / paralogues / etc
The worst thing of this route wasn't even shown in the video. If you defeat Flayn without using Byleth, she dies. And Seteth will let out the most tearjerking, goosebumpy cry in all videogames existance.
My brother was playing Edels route (i chose Dimitri) and i sat enxt to him when he palyed that chapter. Usually he's pretty nonchalant about killing stuff onscreen. But this one thing brought even him to a stop. It didn't help that we both liked Seteth as a character very much.
Oh god when she said “Father Mother I’m sorry I didn’t listen to you” I WANTED TO DIE INSTEAD
"Lysithea, she burned so bright and went out too soon." - Claude, AM.
Alois: I can't believe you would try to kill Lady Rhea, Jeralt must be turning in his grave
Me: Yeah . . . about that
maximaldinotrap *Byleth remembering what Jeralt said to him “watch out for Lady Rhea”*
Byleth: Oh actually about that. You should REALLY read Jeralt's journal. He wrote all about how he felt about Rhea and how he-
Alois: (Cuts journal in half with axe)
Byleth: (Sigh) Well...I tried.
jeralt never wanted rhea dead doofus he suspected her and distrusted her but never wished death upon her, after all SHE saved his life, his child, gave him a home, etc.
@@wholethedogsout880 He didn't personally want Rhea dead no, but I'm pretty sure he would understand why someone could hate her that much. He might even grow to truly hate her himself if he found out that the only reason Rhea wanted to save his child was so that she could turn the child into Sothis.
@@DevilHunter1994 Sothis screwed over Rhea though lol.
Mercedes and Ashe dies
Me: (pulls out gun) You better reverse time or things are gonna get gruesome
But the EXP!
I actually think Mercedes HAS to die.
@@shadowpyre Yeah, the mission states to kill all enemies. Killing Mercedes also prevents Pegasus Knight reinforcements from spawning.
@@Jarock316 That's why I always recruit Mercie, because I need Annette to fix depressed Felix, and she shouldn't have to kill both her father AND best friend.
@@rupturedsky776 Our favourite students' lives are WAY more important than EXP!
sylvain's lines were pretty badass
The second half legit killed me inside.
The only way to atone for these deaths is...
*RECRUIT LITERALLY EVERYONE.*
And avoid Hilda, Gilbert, Cyril, and Catherine, and spare Claude, Flayn, and Seteth. Sadly there's nothing to be done for Dimitri and Dedue, though.
Byleth proceeds to hurt a student
Byleth: SEE? This is why when I invite you to tea, YOU GO TO TEA WITH ME!
Me: I chose Black Eagle route to S rank Edelgard.
And what did it cost you?
*looks at the corpses of all the students I killed*
Me: everything...
My first run in a nutshell lol, honestly both versions of the Black Eagle route is pretty fucked up
I still feel like it’s the best route and has the best ending but it’s a very sad emotional rollercoaster which I think is what makes it so good
@@apanofbread
I managed to recruit everyone, and spare the alliance leaders, the other nabateans, and Dedue. I only killed Rhea, Dimitri, and the 3 Knights of Seiros who set fire to Fhirdiad. (because they wouldn't surrender, so I figured i'd put them out of their misery.)
@@Moon-br4zu
I didn't kill Dedue, on my second run. He lives if you defeat him before he becomes a demonic beast.
@@maxrichards3881 huh interesting.
You know the game is good when it becomes painful to watch *the feels and the heart*
FE3H, such a great game
For me a memorable game who deserves being remembered.
You are missing the one where you actually kill Flayn and Seteth. Use a character other than Blyeth to kill them and they die instead of retreat. There's different dialogue depending on whether Seteth or Flayn dies first.
Interesting. I was wondering about this.
Who the hell would kill Flayn?
X Alter a monster that’s who
Wtf I killed Flayn with Byleth and she said she was joining mother wtf this makes me sad
Bullshit! I defeated Seteth with Byleth and he died! So how was i supposed to save these two? I cried my eyes out because i wanted to spare them so badly!
Once I do the Black Eagles I might have to put this battle on auto because I don’t think I can handle the Blue Lions dying like that :/
Me either
Ughh my heart broke into pieces every time one of them died.
Do a lot of recruitment, after that Dedue and Dimitry will be the only ones left there.
yellowbeard1 Haha I know! But I’d also feel bad if I took away Dimitri’s friends considering how he is after the time skip.
Hapenned to me. I'm in love with the babies from Blue Lions and when I played BE it destroyed me. I think I didn't like the route that much bc of that
Edelgard's path really is the darkest IMO ......
She beetch
@@hijabnaqvi4432 I guess so I liked her at first but honestly I chose Golden Deer first but even if I picked black eagles I won't side with Edelgard. Sure Rhea had her issues but her path had less blood in it....
Funny enough I chose Edelgard’s path mainly because of how insane Rhea was. It wasn’t until the end of part 1 that she was a lot more reasonable. And then in part 2, if you chose Edelgard, she is a lot more insane.
I just finished Golden Deer Route Part 2 as well last night, it seems being Edelgard’s prisoner made her less insane
TBH she destroted crest system which was basically racism independent of race.
You're either born priviledged (crest/nobility) or you're trash, a glorified servant as best-case-scenario.
You just gotta befriend them beforehand so they see how they opress people.
@@christopher961 yep when you don't choose her she sure don't take it well ...
I only recruited Leonie, Ingrid, Shamir on my playthrough on the Black Eagle Route since that was the first route on the game so I didn't get the chance to know the other characters until I starting playing the other routes, now I started to cry inside thinking about killing these characters
The blue lions got it really mfk hard in most of the routes, damn.
That very much includes their own though in that case they get a light at the end of the tunnel
I played BL first, and I'm playing BE rn cuz I want the full experience and it's hurting my heart! I don't know if I can go through with it
Dedue's transformation made me very sad, considering I did this path after the blue lions
Same killing the blue lions hit me so bad
I can't imagine doing the BE after BL. It would hurt too much.
Agreed. I am very much so a Blue Lion. In fact, I couldn't bring myself to kill any of the recruitable ones, especially Felix, by far my favorite character in the game. Really sucked to have to kill Dedue and Dimitri...
@chu chu You really should. It fills in so much of the backstory on what Edel's doing, why she's doing it, and how much of what goes down isn't even her doing (since she has a rogue faction within her army that she's sort of forced to ally with, a faction filled with people she hates).
Just recruit everyone and you're fine. You can avoid Hilda, spare Claude, spare Flayn, spare Seteth... hell, I even just avoided Cyril so I didn't kill him (you pretty much have to kill Catharine, though. That bitch is crazy).
Edel even offers terms of surrender that Rhea refuses in the end. Edel's route is really sad, because you get to watch the church hang Dimitri out to dry and use him as a meatshield. Rhea is definitely the most villainouse of the faction heads, even above and beyond Edelgarde. Even in the church route, Rhea's a real bitch.
@@HollowGolem Claude totally calls that Rhea's evil, too, so it's not just Edelgard.
Indeed he even goes further /believes her to be responsible for all the xenophobia all around (and here you thought taking in Cyril and Shamir was like her one redeeming quality) .
Though he deals with the church via manipulation/ installing Byleth as a figurehead, and hence isn't forced to go *through* any of them (ie, Catherine and Cyrill survive) though his methods are technically slimier, in the end he and Edelgard were each simply using the tools they had at their disposal.
(thing with Claude is he's got a very devious calculating mind but his parents are alive and ruling the Alliance is just his side gig to a grander scheme, so he doesn't have as much of an edge or investent as the other two, so he'll prefer softer methods and consistently bails if things go sour which had both advantages and drawbacks)
He only rescues Rhea to press her for information (that being the one scene where Claude gets close to sounding genuinely angry) and then points her at twsitd so they destroy each other, it's made very clear that he's only using the church for political expedience
Given her extreme backstory you find out in the golden deer route (her whole civilization was killed) you can understand why Rhea's the way she is, it's sad, sympathetic maybe and she's certainly fleshed out as a very multilayered antagonist, but ultimately she's been taking out her however justified anger at like 11 evil humans on 30-40 generations of a whole country and her motivation, though very human, is 100% selfish (to keep control of humans because she hates/fears them deep down, and to revive Sothis) whereas whatever faults Edelgard may have, her motivations are altruistic.
Even If you S support her she basically admits to her crimes and of never having cared about byleth as their own person in the beginning - it's not that she's not evil, you simply redeem her/stop her being evil if you're willing to put up with being married to her in return... I prefer stopping her with a sword tbh
In the end the thing is that everyone involved was acting on the information they had and none had the full story (another good example is Seteth & Flayn being unaware of the crap Rhea was pulling while Edelgard didn't know they were innocent, meanwhile poor Dimitri has no clue about anything at all but he still manages to know/find out all that super-disturbing business with Edelgard's mother, plus his route contains a lot of worldbuilding lore dumps) - Claude comes the closest to decihering the whole picture but he's still missing important pieces and only gets there in the very end. Unless you've seen all four routes you have no clue what's going in
I mean it's not like I don't feel sorry for Dimitri. While the others more or less always end the same way (Claude flees, or attempts to, Edelgard chooses to go down fighting once cornered) Dimitri manages to get more or less 4 fairly different outcomes all of which are terrible, the one where he lives might actually be the one that put him through the wringer most of all, he just eventually manages to turn the corner once Byleth gets back. Poor dude never gets a break, it's like his parents forgot to invite Maleficent to his birthday feast.
But he simply went after the wrong person, not even necessarily through any fault of his own.
*Watches Annette, Ashe, Sylvain and Mercedes*
NOPE! NO WAY! YOU FOUR ARE MY PRECIOUS CHILDREN AND SEEING THIS HURTS ME!!
I can’t bear going through black eagles story now that I started with blue lions.
I ignored Ashe on the final Edelgard map, and so he slowly tried to make his way to me while I was fighting Rhea. It was kind of hilarious, although I beat her before he could attack any of my units.
I don't wanna fight my precious children either! I spared myself having to murder Sylvain (possibly my favorite character, tied with Dimitri) and also Felix and Ashe. I don't actually think I'm going to be able to kill Dimitri, at all. Claude was hard enough, and I like Dimitri more.
Not a fan of flirt characters like Sylvain, no matter the context. Sealed his fate in his B support with Byleth.
Those are also my favorite students on the Blue Lions house. They are too innocent to die!
Lysithea....how could you... you...YOU MONSTER !
Ahhh🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
ngl aside from her S support with Byleth the only other good support she had is her A support on El.. not to mention her ending on black eagle with el
@@JustCheppo Her chain with Linhardt is good. As is their ending.
@@ItamarO93 it is tho it always put her in a place where she needs to be saved which is not really a bad thing.. I always saw her as a fiery character that's why I like her support with el very much only reason I like her S support with Byleth is cause her crest problem has been fixed and is now living a normal life with her parents and byleth
@@JustCheppo I can see why it'll bother you, but I saw it more as Linhardt being smart and finding out info other don't know about, and then finding something, or someone, to care about enough to put some effort into.
I'm sobbing my precious boy, Ashe ;;;;;
He has good reasons to side with Byleth in this path because he can avenge his "father".
He's so boring though
I mean, that's your opinion. Personally I really love his character and he's a good boi
Ashe is amazing
I don’t want to kill my boy! 😭😭😭
As a blue lion, this really hurts to watch. Everyone’s death was hard, but the blue lion’s deaths were just heartbreaking.
My heart... :’(
Fire Emblem Three Houses: Genocide Run
Those are big words for someone in one-shotting distance
I saw the actor(the claude one) complaining about how the black eagles got more people choosing that path on RUclips and how his group the golden deer need to get back up and beat the number of people joining the black eagles. He also did this in the game too. When I saw that in this video I literally burst out laughing.🤣
It really shows people are doing that every time I see the online statistics for most deployed in game Edalgarde is high on the list
@@katonnor To be fair, BE is two of the four routes. Yeah, you only have Edel for the first half of one of them, but that means she's your lord in 1.5 routes, while the other lords are only there for 1 route.
@@HollowGolem even so they still choose to deploy her. When I do my black eagle church route I won't be using her in battle just to lose her later
@@katonnor She's so broken overpowered. It really is a hit to loser her and Hubert in the church route, because they are both so goddamn strong.
But you do get Flayn, Seteth, Catharine, who are all pretty cool.
@@HollowGolem the fact she's highly deployed still means many use her and maybe even choose her route
Yes, recruiting everyone sounds now worth the effort ;-;
My heart. Lysithea hurt the most. Glad I didn't see it on my play through.
Hilda was just so depressing 😭😭
Oh... I don’t know if I’m going to be able to play this route:
GunnerGirl do your best to recruit as many students as possible. Those who are affiliated with the church will side against you no matter what, I think. And I never ended up seeing Raphael or Lorenz in this route after failing to recruit them
GunnerGirl this was my first route, luckily I recruited everyone except for Raphael and Leonie and didn’t kill Leonie so it wasn’t that bad
@@vaalhazak4196 Well, Raphael only cares about his little sister so I guess he is protecting her and he is not going to a war. And house Gloucester (Lorenz's house) is neutral to the empire and help them when necessary (this is because they are in the border between the empire and the alliance and to oppose the empire in a war would meant their destruction).
@@vaalhazak4196 Actually some of the church members like the teachers, Shimir and Alois will join you if you recruit them before the time skip. I think Catherine and Cyril are too close to Rhea though, so they ditch you if you decide to betray the church. To be honest I'm not a huge fan of their characters anyway so that wasn't a huge loss for me.
I’m starting blue lions first... so I’m going to die
I uh recruited a lot of these characters including annette so oh boy uh annette can kill both mercedes her best friend and her father gilbert oh boy what have i done
Vader 14 The Gilbert vs Annette dialogue is great. She tells him to stand aside, he says no and then says “Surely this is chastisement from the goddess”.
@@yellowbeard1 which one final battle or first map of edelgard path
In my case, I recruited Annette, but didn't level her... She was killed by her father. I probably shouldn't have brought her into battle, but I wanted to see if she had a line if she fights her father.
The obvious solution is to nap Mercedes too! If you're not already past the timeskip that is.
she actually gets some interesting & illuminating lines if you recruit her on this route
Annette is LITTERALLY the only one I didn't recruit (apart from retainers and house leaders) and oh boy... I feel bad...
no one talking about my girl Hilda not retreating like man that broke me
...The hardest of
Choices require the strongest of wills
Or lack of empathy. That works too.
@@DrBXXI it's war, empathy on the battlefield only serves to get you killed.
@@ultamaflare Having or not empathy is not something you can choose. About 95% of people have it. Most of people who go to war are in that 95%. Therefore having empathy most likely won't get you killed in the battlefield.
@@DrBXXI that is not the point. Can you sit down and say for certian that when you walk into a battle field surrounded by shouting, people getting hurt or dying, people trying to kill you, that you will be able to realize what makes them human and not kill them on the spot?
@@ultamaflare Having empathy doesn't make you take stupid decissions. As I said most of people have it and yet we let others starve to death. And most of people on the internet have empathy, yet they troll and are complete dicks with others.
I see your logic, yet the facts remain true there for empathy doesn't prevent you from killing. Ofcrouse the complete lack of it prevents having any remorse, for example.
Killing Alois, that's the painful one. The guy has only ever been a brother to you. He actually loves you like family.
This is the only game that made me go straight to finish the map without farming EXP. I'M NOT KILLING ANY ONE OF THEM, HEAR ME!!!
Ok so I'm not the only one that did that. I went Golden Deer my first playthrough, and seeing them attack me and get killed just shattered my heart....
The amount of detail and dialogue in this game is amazing!!
I swear theres dialogue for everything! If you kill with a specific character, if you attack one whit another specific one. Its amazing and really gives inmersion!
1:58 Looks like Annette trained up her 4th Wall Breaking skill those past 5 years.
Yes, Annette, there were other paths I could've taken, but they would've led to me losing Edelgard and being forced into a position of power that I'm not fit for. I protected the people I cared about, just like you failed to do. Even with you home burning around you, you refuse to see the truth that Mercedes saw?
lysithea: "father, mother... i'm sorry i didn't listen to you..."
that one hurts too much
I really love Alois. Like my #1 new favorite FE character
But holy shit seeing his in combat dialogue
Alois I feel like is the closest thing to get to a retainer, and his A Support he says "Jeralt was the most important person in the world to me... expect you, perhaps" and thinking of Alois needing to kill his best friend, mentor, guide's son after they died is so hard to watch. I feel like Alois would rather die and be with Jeralt than hurt his kid
If you A-rank Alois, though, it's post-timeskip and he's on your party, so he's replaced with a random Warmaster for that fight.
Yup. One of the reasons I recruited Alois on my BE, suspecting that major shit was going down with the Church. I did NOT want to fight him. Your comment sums up my thoughts as well - I think he'd rather die than hurt Jeralt's kid.
This is how I feel the game should played. No recruiting at all. Raw emotion as you slaughter the students you've come to know from the other classes. It's realistic in a horrible way that soldiers of the opposition are not necessarily evil, but makes for fantastic storytelling.
The last two runs I've played I recruited every character that you can. The story feels empty without them on the opposing sides. It becomes very shallow and odd fighting only the leader of the house and their right-hand man.
I agree completely. The starting units you get are more than enough to complete the game with, especially with how ridiculously easy it is, and the large sum of Divine Pulse uses the game generously gives you,
That said, each House lacks some sort of ability.
They even specify BE has good mages overall, and BL has excellent martial skills, while GD is focused on archers.
While this is less true in BE, since you do have decent martial units, I've definitely noticed a want for mages in Golden Deer.
I have yet to go the Blue Lions route, so I can't say too much about them yet.
Golden Deer has Lythisea, but she doesn't get some of the safe spells, like Meteor with a range of 3-10.
@@Arkansym I don't know, Lorenz and Lysithea killed practically everyone with their magic. Meteor is a good spell, but I find that don't use it often. Or at all.
I mean, you can only use it twice/map anyway.
It's still worth having. My Dorothea was one-shotting bitches from across the map.
Next BE run I do, I'm sticking with just those in the house.
@@Arkansym il stop you right there i made lysenthia a moral servant that ninja mage class. and gave her a crests type sword. and gave her the staff that lets her use any spell from 4 spaces away. and soulblade literally as a base damage of 75 . shes the best and il use her in every playthrough
Some of these conversations get even worse if you recruit other people into the BE and you make them fight. The most heartbreaking ones for me was Mercedes vs. Annette conversation and the Felix vs. Sylvain conversation, I unintentionally recruited them both during my Edelgard route and was curious if they had unique conversations, and now I regret knowing
To be honest, it is pretty funny watching them all get one-shot after giving their speeches.
I killed Claude. Then his dialogue killed me.
Hilda's like: I won't give up!
5 seconds later: I give up!
Y'know, you can straight up kill flayn and seteth
Just, don't use the professor to fight em, and seteth goes mad screamy mode
I was hoping to see this, I've heard its gut-wrenching
@@warhawk3972 i did it and trust me it is ngl i still feel guilty
@@helpmeidkhowtochangemyprof5408 at least from a gameplay perspective, flayn was right there, yo boi ignatz needed the experience, and wabam, easy level up
@@warhawk3972 It's heart-breaking, brain-cracking, body-tearing
I hated Seteth with a passion so when I killed Flayn and he screamed...I laughed super hard, rewinded the turn, and 1 shot her again.
7:59
The biggest loss in the video ;)
lol
Canas Newell
Actually, this is this biggest loss in the video:
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@@Hadaron That's technically the biggest loss in the comments. :P
NoirCore
Oh, also... I must specify that I did this only because Claude(‘s voice actor) banned all polygons. Only lines now. So I felt the need to do this.
@@Hadaron I am too small brain to understand this
2:38 A true knight dies during the sad part of the music.
This video is missing Flayn and Seteth's deaths when they are killed by someone other than Byleth. Flayn's is the most soul crushing death in the game so it's pretty noticeable that it's not there
I chose the Blue Lions route first, seeing all of this...God its painful. I actually started crying after Annette's death. This game is something else, it makes you truly care about all of the characters.
Hilda's, Annette's, Dedue's, Ashe's and Mercedes's were especially heartbreaking...
Thankfully you don't need to kill Marianne. She never showed up as an enemy in the chapters where Edel fights GD. I had to dodge Hilda to keep from killing her, though.
@@HollowGolem I just took the boats over to Claude instead of dealing with the inside of the city. Also, the big theory right now is Marianne committed suicide because she never appears and is afraid of her crest.
@@Thatguyinabox Her A-level support also indicates that she is suicidal.
@@HollowGolem Yea you don't have to kill her since she beats you to it!
Video: Starts by hurting Lysithea
Me: I can’t do this
Please, El, spare your adopted sister.
I had no idea you could spare Claude, I just yeeted him with Edelgard
You're still given the dialogue to let him live with either Byleth or Edelgard.
@@JairusC I was never given that option ):
Same. The option didn't appear for me
I love Claude but I couldn’t help laughing when you used the word yeeted in the most random way possible
@@mattolstein2999 Me neither 😢
“My dear old Claude”?, does that mean if the player doesn’t S rank Hilda or Claude, Hilda and Claude end up together?
I’m down
Pretty much. However if you make the effort to max out everyone's support with each other, then the pairings in the epilogue will be out of your control. So keep that in mind if you are aiming for a specific pairing.
Personally I enjoyed the novelty of not knowing who would end up together, and some of the pairings can be quite surprising indeed. So I'd recommend maxing out all supports for that very reason.
S.Silverman yeah I wanted Claude and Hilda but for some reason I got Claude and Leonor.
@@s.silverman9864 Shamir pretty much Married Katherine in mine
I can go with that
I mean they certainly are very close, she's his right-hand woman for the most part (for some reason she's recruitable in Blue Lions though which makes no sense to me but ok) but I've always seen them as more best friends. Hilda in particular is very flirty and affectionate and would say something like "my dear old Claude" even if he was just her friend, I think. But I do also agree that barring Byleth coming in and stealing one of them away, Claude and Hilda would end up together. On Claude's part most of his "romantic" supports are crap and more platonic than romantic anyway except for Petra (which wouldn't happen if, canonically, Petra remains with the empire, as I think she unfortunately does :( sadness) and MAYBE Lysithea, if we're pushing it (those two give off such strong sibling energy though... especially with how he treats her like a little kid just to annoy her, it's such a big brother thing to do). But that's just my perspective on all that, I personally like how this game focused more on friendship than on romance unlike the past games.
I got that pairing on my first run
It feels like the game really ships him with either hilda or petra, both A supports with them are super flirty
5:50 Shit like this is why I cannot bring myself to do a black eagles run. My first run was with Dmitri and it will just feel like a total betrayal, and no matter what every clip of her run just cements my belief that that is the wrong side.
Golden deer?
No side is wrong, and no side is right.
That's the point of the Story.
You should try Crimson Flower and Silver snow. There pretty decent.
I started with Dimitri, but I love Edelgard's route, character, and house the most.
@@maxrichards3881 Thats respectable even if im resisting the urge to slam a mace into my head reading it
@@KingOfMilfgaard
That debate in chapter 21 just pissed me off, because Dimitri was speaking in superficial rhetoric, without the logic to back it up, and Edelgard still wasn't revealing why peaceful reform was never an option.
Thank you for doing this! Are you planning to do vs quotes between npcs like Felix and his father, Annette and Gilbert, Shamir and Catherine, etc?
I didn't record it but I had Shamir kill Catherine.
Shamir: Hello again Catherine.
Catherine: I hoped I'd meet you today. We have nothing in common, not our upbringing, not our beliefs...
Shamir ...Not the way we live, or the way we'll die!
good idea actually
@@Nitros14 Does Shamir ever have any lines during explore about why she sided against Rhea?
@@TemporalElpis Yeah iirc she has a line where she says something along the lines of "I'm a mercenary, I take whatever jobs I can get. I never really had a close personal attachment to the church anyway and I'd like to see if Edelgard can fulfill her ideals first hand."
@@crimbo4690 I still find it so weird because Shamir was working for the Knights of Seiros because Rhea helped her when she first came to Fodlan.
Funny how when you side with edelgard, almost everyone opposes you with disappointment and resentment and actually have a strong belief for their faction
Meanwhile the black eagle students are like "well I live in the empire so I gotta fight you I guess"
Honestly, I never done that because I always recruit everyone in every run.
You weak
@@QuickSilverKitsune They're all sweet tbh, it's hard to kill them.
@@louis-ferdinandmartin1059 nah he's just a normal human being with emotions
@@Max-cl8mz What's the point of calling your game three houses if the choice of house you make doesn't have consequences on who dies and who lives ?
It's a game about fucking war, there must be tragedy
@@louis-ferdinandmartin1059 of course there's tragedy in a war sure in a war you shouldn't be held back by your emotions but you shouldn't become an emotionless killer
This hurts me even more because I didn't know I could spare Claude.
I'm kind of...amazed at how chill everyone is at fighting Byleth. Lysithea, Annette, and Flayn(and Seteth) are the only ones who seem truly heartbroken at the prospect of fighting their old professor.
There should be an ending where Byleth chooses to conquer the continent himself instead of allying. If he increased his bonds enough, he would be able to recruit defeated members of each faction for his cause and, by recruiting enough members, he’d be able to persuade the faction leaders to surrender without dying with their help.
Of course, the other option is to murder them all in cold blood if you wanted to.
While that would be ideal, it would also kinda ruin the whole "War is ugly and brutal" message that the game is going for.
I mean, in all seriousness I fully expect the dlc route that's coming in april 2020 to be Byleth rallying all faction leaders to fight against those who slither in the dark. The game definitely seems to imply that they stand to gain the most from everyone tearing each other apart. especially since they said they will be adding new playable characters. maybe it's possible that byleth takes over as a potential captain early on, and goes renegade by the end of part 2.
@@ApexGale Nah, we'll be joining up with TWSITD instead, for we make great choices xD
Ya..everyone except Dimitri and edelgard. Edelgard would be a cruel Queen and Dimitri would be revenge happy. I doubt they'd just throw down their blades and go for a happy ending. Despite the fact that Edelgard desperately wishes byleth could join her. Claude is honestly the only one willing to cooperate no matter what
So the church route?
I am going to be honest and say that the only death I wasn’t to bothered by was Cyril.
Tbh same
Who is this "Cyril" you speak of? Is it an NPC?
Daniel Morris some beggar idk
@Brandon Nail there is admiration and then there is blind loyalty/ He is so blindly devoted to her and any jobs he is given that it is annoying and the only character development he gets is in the supports that don't have him mentioning rhea every god damn sentence or cleaning. The other characters have their flaws and such sure, but they all develop in ways that make them more loveable than their younger selves. Cyril is a one-track mind which is boring and annoying especially when he is supposed to be a prodigy but has only above average state development.
Does anyone feel bad killing that little shit?
( 4:09 ) "Maybe I've become like him…"
I swear to God if she's talking about Glenn!
Yes, she is 😢
Everyone hating on edelgard but nobody realize I'm really working for the church for world domination! 😈
Imagine being an imperial
Holy Kingdom gang where we at
Yo.
Greetings professor! Nothing to report!
This makes it harder for me to keep going with Edelgards route since I picked the Blue Lions, Dimitri my boy :(
Is it morbid that I want to see unique dialogue if a character manages to kill Byleth?
“Don’t look at me that way, you’ll throw off my aim.”
That’s possibly the best simultaneous threat and plea I’ve ever read
When you cry at a scene in a video game you know its good. (Silently prepares heart for when he finally buys a switch and this game)
Same bro, same
Everyone: Prepare to meet your end!
Byleth: *Slaughters everyone in one hit*
Litterally everyone:I'm not gonna let you stop me
Also them: dies in one hit
I played blue lions my first run and they're my favorite characters overall in the game. Watching you kill Mercedes, Ashe, and Annette really hit home.
Currently on the Golden Deer Route. Hearing Claude’s “all my hopes have fallen to ash” about had me in tears. Thanks for recording it though; the morbid curiosity would have driven me nuts otherwise
You should play all the routes. They did a really good job of putting pieces of the puzzle in each of them.
BL answeres the least questions about the backstory, but focuses a lot on the war itself. Edel's is all about the history of the Empire and how she knows what she knows, and who Those Who Slither in the Dark are, church route lets you see what Rhea was really trying to do, and Golden Deer fills in info about the Liberator King.
They also manage to make most of the leaders sympathetic in their playthroughs. Except Rhea. I'm sorry, but that bitch is pretty irredeemable if you ask me. I'd say even warmonger Edelgard is a step up from her.
@@HollowGolem Oh, I fully intend to do all of the routes, GD was just the first one I've picked. I'm gonna reserve judgment on Rhea until I've actually played the Church route. It's taking me longer than I'd like because I have to share the Switch (and game) with my brother, haha.
Only saw Lysithea's persuade and death quotes since I haven't gotten to time
skip yet and her death quote is HEARTBREAKING! Holy cow, the emotion! she's my favorite unit by far too!