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[theeeveetamer]

Initial Three Hopes Demo Opinions

Okay so far I've played through the entirety of the Blue Lions demo content (minus supports and extra additional dialogue tidbits). Spoilers ahead.

I really, really, really prefer this plot to the original 3H plot so far. I think Shez joining and becoming a student makes way more sense than Byleth joining and becoming a teacher. I think the story is a lot stronger with just skipping over all of the high school mystery BS and cutting straight to the heart of the actual conflict.

So far at least, Shez is a lot less of an invasive presence in the main plot than Byleth was. they get their moments, but there's also been a lot of content where they've been sidelined/completely excluded from conversation and I find that very refreshing.

Along those lines, I'm surprised Byleth hasn't shown up more yet. They were in the prologue and seem to have completely disappeared from the game after that. I know they'll probably have a bigger role, but whatever that role is... No idea, unless the other routes have more to share.

Shez being fully voice does WONDERS for their believability as a character. My god. The thirty seconds of Byleth content we've gotten has also done more to establish the whole "emotionless, powerful merc" characterization than the entirety of 3H did (the power of showing, not telling)

I picked F!Byleth. It is very hard to take F!Byleth seriously as a threat lmao. She looks so goofy. Really wish they'd given her a different design. Though I suppose there's still a possibility they will get something, since IIRC the trailers all appear to have come from the prologue chapter?

There don't appear to be S supports? On one hand, I'm kind of glad. I know people were expecting them and TBH I'm not really sure why, since this doesn't seem like that kind of story. Of course, they could always come up later in the plot. Who knows. I wonder if there'll be endings too, or if it'll be more like FE:W.

I'm curious to see how the fandom reacts to the rearrangement of support ranks, since several characters now have fewer conversations with other characters than they did before. The demo only appears to let you get up to C rank, so I guess we'll have to see how it's handled when the game comes out fully.

I'm having fun, but there's a lot of mechanics to this game. Like, almost too many. It's just a tad bit cumbersome and I'm probably not going to end up using a few things because I just straight up won't remember that they exist.

PLAYABLE! MOTHERFUCKING! RODRIGUE! Additionally, no playable Gilbert yet. I think IS heard my plea for a trade offer and took it seriously lol.

I also enjoy the worldbuilding tidbits we've gotten so far. One of my biggest issues with the OG 3H was that they gave you so much info... but almost none of it was that interesting or related to the characters or the story. Like, I don't care what year Loog was born, but you damn well better bet I'm interested to hear WTF Dimitri's life was like before he came to the academy! You best BELIEVE I wanna know that Duscur has it's own language!

Dimidue are so gay. So gay. I love them so much. I think I'm going to explode.

Ok that's all I got for now, if I have any more thoughts I'll make sure to scream them to the heavens