Three Moves Ahead 477: Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Strategy, Strategy Games, War, Games & Hobbies, War Games, Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2019

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Rowan, Fraser, and Rob are joined by Kotaku's Gita Jackson to discuss their tenure as teachers at Garreg Mach Monastery. The gang talk about the really thougthful politics and characterizations that define Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Aside from that, is it a good tactics game? And finally, the gang gets into some serious spoilers about the game's shocking reveal midway through.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney,
0:03.3	here with our old friend, PC gamers, Fraser Brown.
0:06.8	Hello, enough for the old, actually.
0:10.6	Our young, best day is still ahead of him, PC gamers Fraser Brown.
0:16.6	Okay, now we'll do it. Hello.
0:19.7	We're also joined by GamesBeats, Crest Studies, Teaching Fellow, Rowan Kaiser.
0:24.0	Good morning.
0:25.2	I'll do my Hahneman voice.
0:26.9	Good morning.
0:30.2	And we're also joined by Katakus, Gita Jackson.
0:33.6	Yo, what up?
0:34.6	I'm Gita.
0:36.1	That's how I know.
0:39.0	That's Gita. All right. So this week, we've been back to school with Fire Emblem Three Houses, a tactics
0:45.5	RPG from Intelligent Systems, and Co-A-Tecmo. This is my first Fire Emblem, which is weird,
0:52.7	because this has been a series that people have been
0:54.5	telling me to play for years and uh i just never committed to the platforms this game appeared on
1:00.2	but i have a switch now so i'm playing fire emblem three houses uh but i feel like i'm missing some
1:05.1	context and need to do some catching up uh phrasen row and i know you guys go back with this
1:09.7	series a little bit.
1:11.8	What is the, like in a nutshell, what's the sort of through line of the Fire
1:16.1	Rememlim series and is this new game for the Switch a meaningful departure from it?
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