Fire Emblem is no longer a niche series. This game franchise has been slowly clawing its way out of obscurity ever since Awakening essentially saved it from dying back in the day, and every release since has only increased in sales until 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fire Emblem: Three Houses came along and blew numbers of out the water. But, given how many even꧟ts, characters, and mechanics are in the game, we don't blame anyone for missing a few of these more subtle secrets. To help o♑ut, we'll be going over a couple of our favorites from both a gameplay and narrative point of view.
10 𒈔 The Load Screen Avatar Moves With Gyro Controls
If you're like us and very rarely take your Nintendo Switch out of the dock, this is a secret that will have eluded you for a long time. Essentially, if you're playing Fire Emblem in handheld mode with the Joy-Cons connected to the console, you'll notice that the 8-bit Bylꦆeth on the loading screen moves a bit more frequently, sometimes even going backward. Well, it turns out they move according to however the console is being tilted, and can even jump when you press the B button. It's a hyper-specific little detail but still neat nonetheless.
9 Ho൲w Crests Were Actually Passed Down By Children Of Th🅘e Goddess
So, one of the most pervasive new mechanics in Three Houses is the Crest system. These are essentially tattoos that appear at birth granting superhuman abilities to those who wield them. They're usually seen in Fodlan nobles and you're only ever supposed to have one of them. And, they're supposedly passed down from Fodlan's Ten Elites and the Four Saints, so the assumption is that those who w🏅ield them are descendants of the heroes of yore. But, thanks🐈 to some dialog and book entries, we also know Crests can be given to people through a blood transfusion and it's likely how Saints like Cethlenn and Cichol actually passed down their Crests.
8 The Implications A Support Rank Not Ending ꦆAt "A" Presents
The Support Ranks in Fire Emblem: Three Houses work a bit different from the past couple of games and work very differently to the classic games. In games like Awakening and Fates, the player acted as a sort of matchmaker, picking who should fall in love wꩲith each other and what their kids would be like.
In Three Houses, only Byleth can seemingly have a romantic partneꦡr, and the rest of the Supports just remain friends. But, some of them don't even get that far with support ranks that stop at C or B. The implication here is that opposite personalities/people can only get along so much, and that this rank represents the absolute farthest their friendship could possibly progress.
7 💝 Dmitri Has Superhuman Strength Due To His Crest
This isn't necessarily a secret, but it is something casually mentioned a few times throughout the story that people didn't really pick up on. Dmitri is a good boy who is punished way beyond anything he deserves throughout the events of Three Houses. Oh, and he also has inhuman strength given to him by his Minor Crest of Blaiddyd, something that causes him to accidentally break things he's holding at tim�ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ�es. By things, we mean people's skulls or steel swords. It's a cute/horrifying gimmick that ties into his Crest quite amazingly, and we wish the game played around more with this idea of characters having to deal with the little inconveniences that come with being a Crest Bearer.
6 ൩ Edelgard And Lysithea's Strong Connection
So, we all know that Fire Emblem: Three Houses has four "routes" by this point. Well, in this and in the Black Eagles general route, we find out that Edelgard is the sole survivor among her siblings of a series of experiments that gave her a second Crest (which makes it even more168澳洲🦂幸运5开奖网: surprising how kin♏d she is to her friends).
Much like Lysithea, a classmate in the Golden Deer, she 💞now has white hair and a severely shortened lifespan. People might've missed t♌hat connection the first time through, but what most missed, is that Edelgards success in her experiment is very likely due to the previous experiment with Lysithea, and Lysithea's pain is what led to Edelgard also surviving the process.
5 Rhea And The Church Suppressed Inventions And Innovations ⛦
While FE: TH does have a lot of subtlety in its narrative, it lacks any sort tip-toeing when it comes to the classic "religion is evil" subplot. Players could tell immediately that the Church of Sieros was obviously hiding something. But, what people likely missed hidden among all the historical annals in the library, is that Rhea and the Church were actually hindering innovation/invention in Fodlan, and nations outside of Fodlan were more technologically advanced because of it. How much more advanced? It's hard to say. But this is just one fo the ma🃏ny mysteries the Church seems to have🥂 played a part in.
4 🍸 Cutscene Interactions That Change Based On Support Ranks
One can usually tell the importance of a mission depending on if there's a high-quality cutscene associated with it. But, for the middle option, the in-engine versions, there's apparently a lot of variability in the character interactions depending on what their current Social Ranks are. Dorothea෴ might be sassier to someone she wouldn't have been if their social rank was higher. There aren't a ton of examples of it throughout the game, but certainly enough to add anot♏her layer of variability so that every playthrough feels unique.
3 Female Byleth Canꩵ Recruit Sylvain Immediately
💧Sylvain is one of the best students in the Blue Lions house, there, we said it. He's deceptively gross and a total playboy when you first meet him, but throughout the game, we find our the reasons for his flirtatious nature as well as his background and it paints an all-too-clear picture. Also, he's an insanely good unit who works well in any of the houses.
But, to recruit him, you need a decent amount of Charm and Reason, both things that are a bit of a bore to level up ). Luckily, starting in Chapter 2, if you picked a female Byleth, Sylvain will literally accept an invitation✃ no matter what and switch right over into your class.
2 Two👍-Toned Whetstone Quest Con🍬stantly References Other FE Games
Catherine and Shamir are by far the best staff members to recruit to your house early from Gareg Mach Monastery. Yes, Hanneman, is a decent mage, and Manuela is a delight to have in any situation, but Shamir's bow skills and Catherine's absurd sword proficiency are a godsend against some of the more difficult units. So, when both of them offer you a quest part way through the game to find a "Two-Toned Whetstone", we quickly hopped to it. The quest itself is a series of item trades throughout the monastery similar to the long-lasting item trading quests in the Legend of Zelda games. The only difference here is that every single item in the quest is a reference to a past Fire Emblem game, and some 🐲of the mock-🥂up names are hilarious.
1 The Dark Seal For Beating The Death Knight ꦕEarly
Lastly, we'll end on a secret that anyone who struggles with min-maxing probabl𒆙y figured out early. The Death Knight is a suicidal opponent to fight in his first couple of appearances. He auto-crits most of the time, takes almost no damage, and is on horseback so he can chase anyone down to the ends of the earth. But, he holds a guaranteed drop item called the "Dark Seal" in his inventory which is the only way to get a Dark Mage in the entire game. So, many people replayed the Disturbed Ceremony mission over and over trying to beat him without losing any units, which is almost impossible. Luckily, we recommend waiting until the boss unit is within your sights, then using a Theif student to steal the Dark Seal before killing the boss unit, effectively ending the mission with the Dark Seal in your pocket before the Death Knight even has a chance to counterattack.