One huge thing I couldn't find an appropriate place in the video to mention properly. 😕 RIP to Ferdinand's voice actor Billy Kametz, he did an amazing job voicing Ferdinand von Aegir. Not only did Billy bring so much charm to Ferdinand's character, but also brought him and so many other beloved characters to life, and he will truly be missed. 🙏🏻
yeah that's why i couldnt find it in me to play through the two other routes because i don't want to kill off Ferdinand which is why i hate that the game made some characters i like route exclusive and not an option to NOT kill them rather make them retreat (then again maybe i am spoiled by three houses but that's just me)😭
That's understandable, it definitely did suck to learn about what happens to Ferdinand in one of the other routes, especially since I had just learned about Billy's passing like a week or two prior Trust me its not just you, one thing I don't like (but I don't hold against the game) is the fact that you can't just recruit everyone like in Three Houses 😂
@@Wrath9 yeah honestly if you cant recuit them then maybe the game would take the save file info from ng+ and say "oh you have support with this character you will have the option to spare them in the next ng+ file" so that way when you do start another game file in another route if you have support from your previous save file of that character you can kill or spare them if the game gave me that, i would feel better 😂
Actually Annette's death is entirely avoidable. All you have to do is use the secret passage strategy so you can head straight to Gilbert. You still can't recruit her because you just killed her dad, but at least you don't have to kill her.
I hadn't actually played that map without taking that secret passage. I had thought it caused the death of Annette's dad. I feel a bit better about my decision. Seriously, given the option in the game, I'm like "PERSUADE, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, PERSUADE".
I played this one first. Slaughtering Ingrid, Rodrigue, and Sylvain hurt so badly. This just straight up made me very sad. Yes scarlet blaze was fun and I mained Ferdinand (RIP Billy, may you Rest In Peace.)
17:12 Fun fact about the Dominic’s. You can actually spare Annette if you use the strategy Secret Passage. By doing this, you’ll reach Annette which forces Gustave to fall back to her location to allow his daughter to escape.
I have to admit that SB is my favourite of the Fodlan routes. Having played them all, I just love the conflict of ideals and how well SB presents this conflict. SB is, for me, the route that treats all the main factions the best. As you stated in the title of your video, it's "the most important" route because everyone and everything is given the time they deserve, and the context is here to make it all meaningful. SB's focuses on the biggest strength of the Fodlan games, the beautiful grey conflict between Edelgard, Dimitri, Claude and Rhea, and it shows. From my experience here, SB is a great way to introduce someone to Fodlan, as my brother started with it and is now in love with both games. Even when you end up agreeing more with the other factions, SB never underminds them and instead expands them in meaningful ways. You feel Dimitri's sorrow at Ingrid's death or Claude's depression at how the Alliance wants to abandon him. Likewise, Shez has a great character Arc that shows why someone would fight for Edelgard. Also, Shez is far more adamant about wanting to make peace with Byleth here because they feel like Edelgard has called them out. Two minor but nonethelss fantastic scenes explain Shez behaviour. The first is regarding Count Glocester's betrayal. Shez is furious about it: "If a merc were to pull a stunt like ,that they'd be cut down where they stood!" However, they are calmed down by Edelgard, who explains to them that the Count is necessary and that killing him would only make things worse for everyone. Later before the battle for silver Maiden, Shez studies Fodlan and they bump into Edelgard. Shez has many questions, and we learn that quite a few Kingdom houses declared/were ready to declare for the Empire. However, the Kingdom accepted them back with not even a wrist slap. What follows is that Shez and Edelgard have a nuanced discussion about betrayal (Shez lists how loyalty needs to be earned) . At the same time, Edelgard explains to Shez that there are only two reasons for a betrayal that she finds despicable. These being Money and Revenge. This makes Shez feel horrible because up to this point these have been the reasons why they supported Edelgard. In this conversation, Shez sees how shallow the reasons for why they fight are; as a result, they want to change. Hence their positive stand on winning Byleth to their side in the Arval conversation. They no longer wish to fight solely for money and revenge. As this small exchange shows, I love the relationship Shez has with Edelgard. I know that the mistrust aspect is not for everyone, but it hits my soft spot in how compelling I find this aspect of her and Hubert's character. We have to remember that they spent years in a super toxic environment where Edelgards's main tormentor wore the dead body of her uncle as a skin suit and forced her to keep up with a charade. So seeing the positive influence Shez and Edelgard have on each other is uplifting. Shez becomes "the final push that urged her to act". A push that allowed Edelgard to become a genuine heroine that freed herself from her tormentors and Shez gradually becomes a pillar of strength to her. Likewise, Edelgard gives Shez "a seat at the table when no one else would" and regardless of the nuance of the decision Shez had earned themselves a postion where they are truly happy. "I can't show my face without someone yelling my name. I lead a great life sorrunded by amazing friends. All of it possible thanks to you" -Shez to Edelgard. Meanwhile a core part of Edelgards ideals is to look past someones background. But can she do that if some has ties the Argathans, her tormentors? This is the central conflict between them and Shez destroying her barriers and earning her trust is awe-inspiring. And in return Edelgard is genuily moved by them. Calminating in one small 🖐 that shows us that Edelgard overcome her inner demons and fully trust Shez. There are so many other things I could mention. What a perfect lover letter this route is for Ferdinand from his VA to us, how magnificent the playable cast is. At the end of the day, I am left with little to complain and much to praise. I hope people can look past the deaths of Ingrid and Sylvain, because avoiding it soley on that is a massive shame.
In Three Houses, Edelgard was done dirty with Crimson Flower obviously being half-assed (only pre-rendered cutscene is the ending, shortest campaign)... so I was absolutely stoked with how much closer to being 'complete' Scarlet Blaze is in this game. That said... Ingrid's death definitely broke me.
I'm really surprised you didn't go into detail about the alternate version of Chapter 14, spoilers below btw If you don't recruit Byleth in Scarlet Blaze then she actually convinces the Alliance to betray the Empire at the battle of Ailel, making it a Gronder Field Scenario and forcing you into what I consider to be the best chapter in the entire game. It was a really amazing twist the first time around, and really put into the context the subnames of Embers and Inferno that the songs had in this game, most likely referencing this very fight. The chapter showed the consequences of war, and on some variations of the chapter you even have to kill Claude to beat the chapter, which leads into the Ashen Demon appearing themselves at the end. It's realy ironic how Byleth, who in Three Houses was responsible for the student's salvation, turned into the three nationś ultimate demise in this battle, as in the ending everybody is still at war and there's no real end in sight. It was a really great twist as you don't have to enter this violent and bloody battle if you recruit Byleth, but if you don't there's actual consequences unlike in the other two routes (You also can't recruit Leonie if you don't recruit them, as she refuses your help because you killed Jeralt). This chapter alone is why I personally consider the non recruited Byleth version better than if Byleth is recruited, and why I really think Byleth was handled the best in this route compared to the others.
I didn't really go into detail on the special chapters to both cut down on time and I went in depth in the Azure Gleam review, and originally I just basically restated what I said in the AG vid and it didn't feel right, so I decided to cut it Also I had no idea that Byleth could convince Claude to betray Edelgard, now I do think not recruiting Byleth is the best outcome because that sounds amazing
One of my favourite pre-battle messages was for the Ailel map. (I don't remember the exact names for things but you get the gist) The Following Strategies have been changed: Alliance Fusillade -> Obliterate Alliance Archers. Alliance Wyvern Co -> Hunt down the Fakes. Employing the Obliterate Alliance Archers strategy allows you to kill Claude, which I think is quite funny because he's the only lord that can be killed in this game when he was the only person to survive every route in 3 Houses.
Honestly I think that SB has the best ending obviously not to blue lions lovers but I felt that the war was near to end, golden wildfire the fight between the empire and kingdom and not fighting against TWSITD , azure gleam defeat the empire but Claude is stated to be a future enemy a it will be conflict, and Scarlet Blaze defeat both the church and TWSITD Allied with Claude and I feel like Dimitri is more likely to surrender than the empire in Azure gleam, he values a lot the lives of his people.
I'm still really torn about which route's ending is better, they both have their ups and downs no matter which way you think about it I also am not really sure if I agree that Claude would or would not be a future enemy, because as long as the Church leaves Leicester alone I don't see there being any issues, especially when Dimitri wants to slowly ween the Kingdom off of its dependency on the Church, but I could've just completely forgotten whatever alluded to that in AG I do also agree that Dimitri is more likely to surrender than the Empire would, but also in AG I think the rest of the Empire is pretty much just TWSITD outside of Count Bergliez and Count Hevring since whoever wasn't recruited (aside from potentially Caspar) was killed, and after Edelgard explains the situation to them, I personally think that none of them would try to protect any of what's left of the Empire at that point, given what happened to her in that route
I think this is my favorite route for the sole fact that the neutral/bad ending feels so different from the good one. I mean, having Claude betray you at Ailell made the 3 way battle go so much harder, and it quite easily became my favorite iteration of the Battle of Eagle and Lion
THIS! Seriously, the only difference in Blue Lions is Rodrigue dying and the "difference" in GW is Judith dying...but like, nobody cares and the change is a few lines saying "if Judith was here". But with Scarlet Blaze it actually felt like recruiting Byleth made a huge difference
Something worth noting about Edelgard's rescue of Monica at the beginning of the game is that it was only possible because Jeritza was placed in charge of one of the houses as a teacher, giving him, and by proxy, Edelgard, influence over the class mission. And Jeritza was only made a teacher because Rhea was suspicious of Shez when they showed up, as opposed to Byleth where she knows EXACTLY what their nature is and implicitly trusts them enough to make them a teacher. Three Hopes is essentially a writing exercise version of the butterfly effect. Change one detail at the beginning of the story, and then trace the path of how the consequences of that change unfold naturally. For Three Hopes, the "what if?" at the root of its story is, "what if Dimitri, Edelgard, and Claude run into someone other than Byleth that fateful night?"
I think for the missing supports you talked about, those characters already having supports in Three houses, they might not have been able to come with anything else for their supports to be about. Writing supports is hard haha
From my pov the chuch gets money from the nobility, the nobility gets the backing of the goddess to rule, in the houses lanto chapter, we see the church use fear to scare the students into loyalty and in the miklan chapter the church protchs the image of the nobility, and in turn the nobility like Lorenz and ferdinand view teaching commoners about worship a duty of the nobility. The dependence of the church and nobility is too ingrained where the removal of one would destabilize the other , that's why they are corrupt.
As a Blue Lions guy I couldn’t agree more with how much this route hurts. Because I love the Kingdom characters so much it hindered my enjoyment of this route quite a bit. Fortunately I at least managed to spare Annette but being forced to kill Ingrid and Sylvain with no way at all to spare them, in my extremely biased opinion, invalidated the route for me 😂. I’m really hoping we get a 4th route via dlc to give some of the characters that got shafted in this game like Rhea, Cyril and Hanneman a chance to shine. Seteth and Flayn too actually because despite being playable they really didn’t have much plot relevance in this game.
WAIT ANNETTES DEATH IS AVOIDABLE?? 😭😭 And I feel that, I'm not sure if anything would've invalidated any route for me, but Caspar dying in AG probably was the closest thing to making me feel that way, but his death is optional sooo idk 😂 Honestly despite the war being with/about the Church, none of the Central Church characters had any relevancy in any of the routes so I agree, something that makes both them and the Ashen Wolves more of the focus point would be great, but I also hope that maybe they do something different so its not just a repeat of Three Houses DLC
honestly, Slyvain's death is the hardest for me since he was one of the few male characters i loved in Three houses I mean why did the game force me to kill him and Ingrid but not Felix?! come on at least give me the option to Spare them like in Three houses?! i guess it shows how much three houses spoiled us
@@Wrath9 yes, you just avoid fighting Annette’s father by going through the secret route during the battle. Annette will appear and once you defeat her, Annette’s father will reappear to assist her.
Ferdinand and Hubert and Monica just sort of being fridged off screen in vague terms in AG is what invalidated AG for me. I was sad to kill Ingrid and Sylvain, but they chose to fight to the death even against their allies' wishes, and Rhea kind of has it coming after being the one to cause the wars between Empire and the Kingdom, and the Kingdom and the Alliance in the past.
One thing I never figured out. Why does Edelgard invade the Leacter Alliance? They are not supporting or helping the central church. It just seems thuggish. Like she want to conquer some land just because she can
If I remember correctly, she invades Leicester because there is no direct way to the monastery in the Empire, so she had to go into Alliance territory to invade Garreg Mach, and the territories between the Empire and that pathway also supported the church so it was just an unavoidable situation (again, if I remember correctly, its been a while since I've played the game lol)
@@Wrath9 I thought there was a way from the west. Only the south was impassable. But that still doesn't matter anyway Edelgard always launches a full scale invasion into Leicester anyway, all the way to Dierdru. That is not on the way to anywhere. It seems like she just wants to conquer Leicester because.... The game never explains this so I can only really assume that she is a militaristic thug who wants more power based on her actions. Her words do not explain anything
@@aleisterleopold6229 she invaded through the alliance because it holds the best route to get a large army to the monastery, and once you start an invasion you can’t just say “teehee jk” so she just goes the full way. That’s my personal observation anyway.
regarding all the Blue Lions characters that "had to die", you literally do NOT have to kill Ashe, or Annette. Ashe is recruitable in the final "skirmish in the fog" battle. and for annette, you just have to do the "secret passage" strategy when you face her and Gilbert.
And that's why Scarlet Blaze is unanimously the best route. It has everything and you even feel a development of the bond between Edelgard and Shez, which honestly is much more lacking in the other routes. The interactions of the characters are so much better, and you are invested in the story. AG Part 2 can burn in the fires of eternity, and it will NEVER be the "true" route. It's just someone's fever dream. Yet I still hold GW as having the My most favorite ending because I just love the idea of all three nations managing to create peace without any unification.
I am sad that we don't have three hopes dlc i am thinking that we don't have any because Billy Kametz died and i wish he was still alive so we get more of Ferdinand on his character
Thanks for me. I just wanted foldlan back, and one question is, in my mind, who is going to fill the role as Ferdinand is someone who has the same energy as Billy kametz? If so, how will it feel for you?
Scarlet Blaze was pretty good up until the ending. I cannot believe after all the criticism that Crimson Flower got for dealing with TWSITD being resolved off screen they essentially do the reverse problem where the war with the kingdom is left unresolved and open ended. I was enjoying it before then, Ferdinand’s story is so damn good, but the ending just left me going wtf
Personally scarlet blaze felt all over the place and too short, you keep invading the kingdom and then you have to keep backtracking, and then takes away some agency when rhea and those who slither and the dark are both just at garreg mach, it feels unearned like we did all this traveling and now there just back here how convenient, i wish we could have fought them in the kingdom so all the concerning could have had some more weight
Oh and I fell it would have been better if there were less filler missions, so the story could more naturally go from point a to b, like you do so many missions and then it's like woppe we saved one guy welp time to do another 9 missions to go back home
No, SB showed that the Empire had logistical problems, and that is why it could not quickly invade. Really, its the other two routes that have more wacky battle strategy situations.
You forgot to review the other version of Chapter 14 of Scarlet Blaze, which is unlocked by not recruiting a certain character in Chapter 10 and killing a certain someone in that same Chapter. The story changes a bit and even the your starting position, objectives, and strategies you can use on the map this version of Chapter 14 change too.
I honestly didn't even know there was that big of a difference in the story if Byleth wasn't recruited, so like that other comment says, I only played through the one "version" of SB
Gotta admit I still liked Azure Gleam more, but that's mostly due to my personal dislike of Edelgard, and I still enjoyed it more than Golden Wildfire, because at least with Scarlet Blaze i knew what I was getting into.
I think Scarlet Blaze... and by extension Crimson Flower are the best possible endings for Fódland. By joining Edelgard you dismantle the crest system, strip the power from the church, allow the people to choose their leaders, and create equality amongst Fódland classes... +Ending racism. Let me explain point by point! Dismantling the Crest System: I think we can all agree that the crest system is bad. It promotes the exploitation and abuse of those who bare a crest or have a connection to a crest-bearing bloodline. Take Sylvain, Mercedes, or Jeritza (Emile). Striping the power from the Church: If you see Edelgard's supports with Manuela, you will learn that Edelgard's feud is with the church... not the religion. By stripping the power the church has, it will dismantle the crest system with it. It will also result in a decrease in racism against people from other countries, after all, it was the church that built Fódland's throat instead of opening relations with nations like Almyra. Also, the church, which we know is intimately related to the kingdom, did nothing to quell the genocide being committed by Fearghus against Duscur. They also left the kingdom kingless for at least 5 years... which led to disputes among kingdom nobles. I forgot to mention that getting rid of the church's power will also strip their ability to control information... like medicine and electricity... as well as oil (that's the only one that should remain unfound). If you need an example of why the church should have no power, just take a look at the real world... why do you think we keep state and church separate. Allowing the people to choose their leaders: In Edelgard's support with Constance. We learn that she plans on allowing the people to choose their leader. Some will point out that in El's tea conversations, she mentions she will choose a suitable heir. The reason why she needs to do this, instead of allowing the people to choose a leader, is because she needs someone to carry out her will once she dies. which unfortunately happens pretty soon after Crimson Flower, and Scarlet Blaze as Edelgard's double crests reduced her life expectancy greatly. Meaning she will most likely die at around the age of 30 max 40. Create Equality: In her support with Ferdi (Billy Kametz rest in peace), Ferdinand brings up the idea of equal education for commoners. Essentially creating a system where nobles and commoners co-exist, and will lead to a world of equal opportunity (essentially private school bad)... obviously, even with this, there are still issues... like rich kids getting better resources and getting tuition. But it's better than having a private school. Ending Racism: In CF and SB there are ways to spare Claude (Not too sure about SB), if spared I'm sure that Edelgard will work together to open up Fódland and Almyra!!! and Edelgard recognizes the innocence of the people of Duscur and I'm sure she would work to aid them (This is me personally so don't count it as evidence). Nevertheless, I do recognize that war is never the answer. But if looked at from Edelgard's perspective, it was really the only way. She's going to die soon and doesn't have the time to wage a peaceful campaign around Fódland. I'm sure the church would also silence her for that too. But the justification for the war is a discussion for another time. Let me speed-run the ending for AM/AG and VW/GW. For AM Dimitri doesn't deal with those who slither in the dark since you can spare Myson, the church remains in power, and relations with Almyra and Sreng remain the same. In AG it's a bit better since TWSITD are dealt with... but church remains in power. VW Better than AM/AG... but the church remains in power... GW is a pretty good ending... I don't remember if TWSITD are dealt with though..... ANYWAYS IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR THANK YOU!!!! you just read a madman's ramblings so thank you!! have a nice day and stay safe!!!!
It’s so hard because my ideals are closest to Edelgard. She is the most progressive, radical, and forward thinking leader in Fodlan and I love how she values freedom in how people live. But the childhood amigo trio from the Lions are my favorite characters in the game. I can’t condemn Edelgard. Even in AM, her war was needed to give most of the BL kids a decent life. Without the war, I’m sure Ingrid and Sylvain would have been forced into marriage and breeding Crest babies. Felix would have died like a true knight on some random battlefield suppressing rebellion #8549-the root cause going totally unaddressed. The system needed to change and Dimitri was never ever gonna change anything on his own. But those three are my babies. I couldn’t care less if Dimitri was killed, that’s a sacrifice I could handle. But Ingrid and Sylvain? Noooo. And leaving Felix alive without them-especially Sylvain-is a worse fate than death for him. At least in CF you could kill all three of them.
I liked reading your comment (I enjoy writing these lengthy rambles too), but I disagree. Dismantling the Crest system: As problematic as the Crest system is, and it IS problematic, it has its perks. I you have a Crest, you have a shot at ruling a region. And you can't fake a Crest. As Hanneman shows, there are devices that detect Crests in your blood. Choosing new leaders based on merit sounds nice, but merit is subjective. It's vague enough for the right people to exploit for their own gain. Then again, it's mentioned in both Houses and Hopes that the bloodlines of the 10 Elites are slowly disappearing. Their Crests have been weakened through generations of offspring, and it's becoming harder to find new Crestbearers. Eventually, the Crest system would get rid of itself. Stripping the power from the church: The church is xenophobic, but most of the racism in Fodlan comes from the people, not the church. Remember, Dimitri is trying to mend relations with Duscur, and the church lets it happen. It's mainly the people of Faerghus and Duscur who are against it. Rhea has 2 foreigners working very close to her. Shamir, who is from Dagda AND a nonbeliever, and Cyril from Almyra. And based on Rhea's panic when Cyril's in trouble in Azure Gleam chapter 4, it's clear she values him quite highly. Rhea has problems, but she isn't nearly as hateful as some people believe. Allowing the people to choose their leaders: This ties into my thoughts on the "Dismantling the Crest system" part, so I have little else to say. I will say however that the Edelgard/Constance support has a part in it that I really don't like. In their C support, Constance is trying to impress Edelgard with a spell that makes rainbow-colored tea. Edelgard bluntly states that she has no use for it and then pressures Constance into revealing house Nuvelle's secret origins. She limits their relationship to minor friendship and battle support until Constance spills the beans. That support really rubbed me the wrong way, and it ties into a big problem I have with Edelgard: the way she treats her allies. In Three Houses she never tells her classmates the truth about Those Who Slither, and they make themselves the enemy of most of Fodlan for her, fighting for a lie. Scarlet Blaze does a MUCH better job at making Edelgard a good friend, but her manipulating her classmates was one of the things that REALLY soured me on CF. Create equality: The Officer's Academy is already a school for commoners and nobles alike, and Seteth asks you at the start of the schoolyear to treat both kinds of people as equals. The atmosphere is so casual that most commoners refer to the nobles and even the house leaders by their first names. Some exceptions are Ashe and Dedue, but Dimitri insists to both of them to treat him as an equal. I will of course concede that it's much easier for a noble to afford to go to the academy than a commoner. Ending racism: All three lords are trying to stop racism, Claude most of all. It's not a benefit exclusively to any one route. Edelgard strengthens the bonds with Brigid through Petra (even though she's a political prisoner), Dimitri is mending the relations with Duscur (and Sreng in AG), and Claude is opening the borders to Almyra. As for your final part: I really doubt the war was necessary. Edelgard immediately decided not to trust Dimitri and Claude and tried to get them killed by Kostas, when she could have used the time at Garreg Mach to make allies instead. Due to her shortened lifespan, she is desperate to see Fodlan change while she still can. Instead, she could have looked for a way to remove her second Crest and give herself more time (Linhardt and Hanneman prove this is certainly possible). It's Edelgard's distrust, impatience and her insistence that only she can save Fodlan that make her a terrible leader in my opinion. Also, Those Who Slither aren't dealt with in AM? Dimitri killed Thales and Cornelia, and the Myson point is kinda weak, since the story doesn't progress differently if he isn't defeated. The point of the church still being in power also holds little weight, considering Byleth becomes archbishop in every route but CF, and it's hard to believe they wouldn't create some reforms after hearing the troubles of their students. Dimitri's endings also show him making reforms to the government and church.
@@greendemon905 You have really convincing arguments and have shown me a new perspective, which is awesome! But I still have to disagree with some of your points... Point 1: Dismatling the crest system It is fairly clear that the crest bloodlines are slowly dying, but it would still take many generations for them to completely disappear. The rarer a crest become, the more people bearing them will be made use of and exploited by their families and lords. We also know how desperate Rhea can get, so I'm sure she would be willing to use the remaining blood from her fallen brethren to use as ways to re-introduce crests into certain bloodlines... Take the blood rituals from Kumbala for example. Even Dimitri, admits that he agrees with Edelgard's reforms but can't support her due to Faurghus's connection and dept to the church. Point 2: Xenophobia I do acknowledge that Rhea herself isn't xenophobic... maybe a bit racist toward humans (seeing them as weak)... but she cares for them nonetheless. But the church is still her organization, and therefore her responsibility. I acknowledge that the central church has lost partial influence over the Western and Eastern churches, but that still doesn't weaken the people's faith in her and the central church, this is evident in AG. Note that there are some exceptions to this... like Lenato's people... but even then, they are a minority group. Even if the people did not listen I'm sure Rhea could have sent her knights against the kingdom's riots. Even disregarding Duscur she still enables Fódland's xenophobia against Almyra, as she is directly responsible for Fódland's Throat. I also forgot to mention how Leicester nobles keep Almyran prisoners as "servants" Cyril having been one of them to house Gonoril, even after being directly saved by Rhea she turns a blind eye to these horrendous actions. Point 3: Create Equality I completely agree that a meritocracy has its significant flaws. Nevertheless, it is still a better system compared to an aristocracy, which brings 0 equality. And though there are commoners attending Garreg Mach, they either have connections to the nobility, are rich, or are in dept (Mercedes has connections to imperial nobility. Petra is royalty. Ignatz is rich+connections to Leicester nobility. Raphael is paid for by Ignatz's parents... I think. Yuri had connections to nobility. And Leonie's entire village is in dept because of tuition) So it's not just easier for nobles to get in, it is borderline impossible to get as a commoner... note that Garrag Mach has more students than the few that we do meet and most are nobles. In fact when picking an artist for character design... Intelligent Systems (IS) hand-picked Chinatsu Kurahana for her artwork, which to them imbodied nobility and luxury since most of the cast are of noble birth. And Byleth was only hired because Rhea had a suspicion that they were Sitri's child. Point 4: Ending Racism Dimitri only resolves relations with Duscur and it can only be assumed that he improves relations with Almyra, Sreng, and Brigid. So he doesn't deal with racism completely, the only ones that do are Edelgard and Claude... But I will admit that Edelgard probably won't deal relation with Sreng, and Almyra if Claude isn't speared. Point 5: Dimitri and TWSITD We know that Dimitri doesn’t defeat them because they have more leaders than just Thales and Cleabulus (Cordelia), for example, Odesse, Myson, Bias, Pittacus, Chilon, Anaximandros, and Dolofonos. They all appear throughout fe3h’s Shambala chapter (which AM doesn’t have) and few3h’s campaigns. The only leaders Dimitri defeats or is able to, are Thales, Cleabulus, Solon, and Myson (optional). Point 6: final point! Though I do not believe in war I do believe that in order for Edelgard to achieve her goal she had to start one. Let’s look at Edelgard’s limitations, she needs her plans to come to fruition within her short lifespan, and we know the technology to remove a crest is still unknown and it’s a work in progress up until the end of the war, she also needs her crests in order fulfill her fullest potential in battle, so any peaceful campaign or reforms are not in question as they would take far too long. Remember that she wants to free not only Adrestia but the entirety of Fódland. She also needs to keep a close eye on TWSITD to make sure she doesn’t make a wrong move… one that could easily lead to her death. Now let’s look at all of Edelgard’s options at her disposal. Her first option is to convince Rhea. To do that she needs to convince Rhea to forfeit her and the church's power, thereby dismantling the crest system, this would also mean Rhea would have to spill the beans on Fódland’s true history. Let’s be realistic. Rhea wouldn’t change, or dismantle for that matter, a system, which from her perspective has worked for more than 1800 years. We see how persistent she is to uphold the system, like in the case of covering up what happened to Miklan, or how she and the church have purposefully also hindered the advancement of technology by covering up the discovery of electricity and medicine. And let me be blunt, imagine yourself in Rhea’s shoes, an 18-year-old human who is a descendant of the person who helped you build this world and tells you that she has a better way to do things and that you’re system has to be dismantled because it’s hurting Fódland… If I were Rhea I’d call her naive and send her scram. So convincing Rhea is futile. Her second option is to ally herself with Dimitri. Though Dimitri does agree with Edelgard’s reforms to some extent, he puts the church first because of Faerghus's ‘dept’ to it and its people's belief in it. AG and GW make sure to let us know that Dimitri will not betray the church no matter what. So that leaves with our third and last option… Claude! The issue with Claude is that she did not account for him when creating her plans, and by the time she came across him it was too risky to ally herself with him… thankfully we do see this play out if SB and GW… and even to some extend in CF if Claude is spared. So she can't convince Rhea, she can't ally herself with Dimitri, and Claude was an unknown variable, and too risky of a gamble, in addition to the fact that by the time she met Claude she’d already started her plans. If she wanted to do this peacefully, she would have to undergo monumental and time-consuming campaigns in order to change the very narrow-minded people of Fódland. Time that she doesn’t have. That only leaves us with one option… war. That's what makes Edelgard my favorite character of all time! She knows what she is doing is wrong, and knows the amount of pain and suffering she going to unleash across Fódland by starting this war. Yet this is her only choice if she wants to see a new, brighter dawn for Fódlands. She has to take the path of war, she has to hurt and lie to those she loves most, all for the purpose of freeing the people, and the world from the shackles TWSIDT and the church have created! Edelgard is flawed but that is why I love her! if you somehow bother to read my rants, I appreciated it very much! though I disagree I understand and respect your opinion, that's what makes fe3h so special! everyone experiences stories differently, especially in this game so I'm always happy to hear new perspectives, again sorry for the rant!!! hope you have a nice day and saty safe :D
@@edelgardvonhresvelg3222 You actually made far stronger arguments here than I usually see, and I thank you for taking my rebuttal seriously. I still don't like Edelgard's routes, and that probably won't change because conquering Fodlan feels like several steps too far for me, but I can see why you love it so. Edelgard seems to be a "the end justifies the means" type of character, whereas Dimitri is much more focused on the means, while not having much of an end. That's why he lets himself get captured by Cornelia in AG. It doesn't help the kingdom or the war, but it keeps his people relatively safe. It's that selflessness, even if it's misplaced, that I admire in him. A few things: 1. Rhea reintroducing the blood of the Ten Elites into Fodlan. I never considered this option, but it doesn't seem impossible or out of character. If she has crest stones of the 10, she may be able to revive the bloodlines. 2. About the surviving Slitherers in AM: Since we don't know the exact power structure of the group, it's difficult to say whether they could continue their work with the remaining members. We have their names, but we don't know how influential they are within the organisation. 3. I wasn't implying the 3 lords band together to convince Rhea to throw out the Crest system. Rhea would never agree to that. I meant that together they might tell Rhea of all the horror stories from their students, and create laws to prevent more nobles from tearing their own families apart.
I think my biggest personal problem with scarlet blaze is that the eagles came off as a bunch of 'yes men' that never give any serious objections to Edelgard declaring war on the entire continent compared to how they play out in silver snow. There's no comments of how her war will create suffering for the commoners that living in the kingdom/alliance, and no one has the courage to tell Edelgard that she doesn't have the right to force her ideal way of life upon the kingdom/alliance because they're not a part of the empire she rules. I can't even take Dorothea's comments about feeling sad after people die seriously because she's a part of the invading force that's killing people who are trying to defend their nation and way of life. Why should I feel sorry for the invaders who have innocent blood on their hands? Scarlet Blaze's writing failed to make me feel that the people living in the kingdom and alliance were suffering badly enough under their current rulers that invading and taking over was justified as a course of action, and it also lays the blame for the bloodshed on the defender's and not the Adrestian empire. That plus the eagle's unwillingness (outside of hubert/monica) to consider that Edelgard's war might be a bad idea for fodlan left me thoroughly disappointed and wishing that there was a silver snow route where they would rebel against edelgard's methods. Also Monica is an awful character with no personality beyond 'I love Edelgard', why am I supposed to like her? She's worse than Tharja and Camilla in terms of being obsessed, and that's saying a lot. Lastly, I think how rhea dies at the end of this route says a lot about who she is. Even at the end, when she sees a threat to fodlan's safety attempting to cause havoc she stops fighting Edelgard and gives her life to stop Thales once and for all.
I disagree because in on a lot of your comment here. The whole "Yes men" argument is very dumb because in AM and AG. The BL agree to all on Dimitri plan's. Even the ones like doing a death charge on Enbarr yet no criticism them. Dimitri as whole never get challenge by anyone past Edelgard and by extension Claude for their belief. The BL reasoning for being completely loyal to Dimitri do to him being their king / friend. Except for Felix and Dudue where the story gives them a in-depth reasoning for their loyalty. ( Though 3 Houses dumbed down Dudue the extent and reasoning for his loyal in the English version. ) The thing with SB is that we get more information on the BEalges an by extension other character reasoning for siding with Edelgard except for Linhardt who we are reasoning never given his reasoning. ( Though considering he goes from calling Edegard by her name in WC to "Her majesty" at times in CF could imply he started to respect her. ) To give a shortish list: Dorothea believes in Edelgard causes because of her past being a homeless child alone on the street, she want to her and support Edelgard causes both as a friend and confidant but also representing the lowest denominator because of her past. As well the fact that the nobles within Fodlan mistreats women as well. Hubert is loyal to Edelgard well past being a retainer both in part because of their friend but also because he believes in Edelgard vision for Fodlan since Hubert also wanting people to have the ability to rise up through their own merit as well as have Education. Caspar fight's for Edelgard for actually complex reasoning being that because of how he always treated thing's. He never saw the problem's within the Empire, TWSITD and Fodlan which why he sides with Edelgard because he wants to help and support people but also because of how Edelgard ultimately treat's people. Caspar suffers from a fear of people not accept him for both who he is and his work effort as we see this in his support in 3 Houses and he know's that he will gain nothing from the system and just like other character like Dorothea, Sylvain and etc in 3 Houses. Believes that it will never change. His support in 3 Houses is all about him going from thinking that Edelgard is being very selfish about her ideology to realises that Edelgard is actively looking out for other and is the person trying to change the system. Edelgard is Caspar biggest supporter. Hanneman sides with Edelgard because of his sister and how mistreat she was within the Empire. Where she was forced to give birth multiple times until dying from exhaustion just for a single crest child. Hanneman want's to make sure that this never happens to anyone within Fodlan through his research on Crest. The saddest thing that we just found out via interview on Nintendo magazine is that Hanneman was head of his house when his sister die which show how little power nobles have against the system. Monica despite being as much of a simp as Dudue, has similar support to Dudue in that they both genuinely care about Edelgard and Dimitri and want's to support them after saving them from their darkest hour and actively believes in them. The difference is that Monica also want to help Edelgard and her system while Dudue doesn't with Dimitri past when it comes to Duscur or revenge in CF. Monica want's to get rid of TWSITD due to how scumming of people they are as well as get rid of the corrupt nobility both in part because how far they are willing to go for their own self-gain but also because she see how it can have a negative effect on people like her Father who doesn't want to be a noble but because of the system is forced to be one. Ultimately, the reason they don't do the think you want them to do is because they believe in Edelgard causes and is trying to fight for a better Fodlan. Since the current state is very fucked up, the kingdom for example has very toxic culture's with heavily up holding the idea's of crest, where people are willing to genocide other for the sake of revenge with the Kingdom doing this with Duscur and tried doing it with Sreng. Or the fact that since it's inception, it has done nothing but be at war with other nation and tried to conquer people to the point that it has been at a near state of famine multiple times. The game is trying to ask the Audience a question: What is worst? A system and world with no human right and where people are treat like utter crap with there being multiple flaw's with the system and where change would be impossible to make because of the corruption. Or a War where people are fight for change where while people are suffering during the war. These same people would also be suffering during the system anyway.
there were already plenty of wars going on in the story that's why there were no objections edelgard was not declaring war on people live just the church and kingdom
Same, but Edelgard fanboys would do anything to defend their favourite warmonguer. As someone who was born in a country full of war, I can't understand why the fandom loves Edelgard so much.
@@mray4784 it’s the lesser of two evils, while yes she’s a warmonger the only other option is a church that keeps the world locked in a political and social slavery (metaphorically speaking)
Golden Wildfire had potential and greyer Claude was cool, but... god the execution kinda sucked. Azure Gleam... Dimitri is not as fun with no Boar action. Scarlet Blaze is everything Crimson Flower SHOULD HAVE BEEN.
Whether it's Houses or Hopes, I don't get why Edelgard wants to invade all of Fodlan instead of just going after the Church. It makes me think that her goals aren't as selfless as she claims to be. It's hypocritical that she wants to take down oppression, yet she becomes an oppressor.
The reason Edelgard has to invade most of Fodlan is directly due to the church and how it relates to the nobility. The Church dominates Fodlan using ideological and military force. Rhea doesn’t really care about what happens so long as there is no major war, unless you attack her directly. Because of this, the Church does nothing, indirectly supporting corrupt nobility who abuse the lands they hold. Edelgard s ultimate goal is to abolish the nobility, which is backed by the crest system, which is backed by the church. If you get rid of the Church, you get rid of the legitimacy that nobles use to justify their actions, making it possible to enact the reforms Edelgard wants. As for why she has to ultimately fight the other two nations, this is largely due to how they were built. The Kingdom only exists because the Church allows it. Rhea personally crowned Loog, the founder, and gave the Kingdom legitimacy through the Church. If the church were to disappear, the Kingdom goes from a feudal government to a rebellious state of the Empire overnight. They have to fight the Empire otherwise they lose a lot of power. The alliance is more tricky, as they are governed by the Roundtable, which means they are largely independent of each other. Half the noble houses in the Alliance already back the Empire, and without Claude’s political scheming, the Alliance would dissolve if Edelgard declares war on them. They are too unstable and volatile to last long term, and if it was discovered Claude was Almyran, it would get even worse.
Honestly the reasoning for exactly why has long left my brain (due to how long ago I made these videos) But I'm pretty sure that though I despise the use of the brainwashing, the *least* amount of characters die in AG, AND TWSITD are actually dealt with, which are the only reasons why I currently stand by my rankings Plus imo GW should've just been Claude going to Almyra 🤷🏻♂️😭
One huge thing I couldn't find an appropriate place in the video to mention properly. 😕
RIP to Ferdinand's voice actor Billy Kametz, he did an amazing job voicing Ferdinand von Aegir. Not only did Billy bring so much charm to Ferdinand's character, but also brought him and so many other beloved characters to life, and he will truly be missed. 🙏🏻
yeah that's why i couldnt find it in me to play through the two other routes because i don't want to kill off Ferdinand which is why i hate that the game made some characters i like route exclusive and not an option to NOT kill them rather make them retreat (then again maybe i am spoiled by three houses but that's just me)😭
That's understandable, it definitely did suck to learn about what happens to Ferdinand in one of the other routes, especially since I had just learned about Billy's passing like a week or two prior
Trust me its not just you, one thing I don't like (but I don't hold against the game) is the fact that you can't just recruit everyone like in Three Houses 😂
@@Wrath9 yeah honestly if you cant recuit them then maybe the game would take the save file info from ng+ and say "oh you have support with this character you will have the option to spare them in the next ng+ file" so that way when you do start another game file in another route if you have support from your previous save file of that character you can kill or spare them if the game gave me that, i would feel better 😂
Wait that guy also did Naofumi from shield herro and Josuke from jojos didnt he??? RIP one of the goats 😭
@Crystal sanchez I would too, that way we even end seeing Ingrid again in that fight in Ailiel, it would be nice
Actually Annette's death is entirely avoidable. All you have to do is use the secret passage strategy so you can head straight to Gilbert. You still can't recruit her because you just killed her dad, but at least you don't have to kill her.
Idk if this makes me feel better or worse, but thank you for letting me know 😭
I hadn't actually played that map without taking that secret passage. I had thought it caused the death of Annette's dad. I feel a bit better about my decision. Seriously, given the option in the game, I'm like "PERSUADE, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, PERSUADE".
I did the same to avoid killing Caspar.
To be fair I don't think she has time to even show up later anyway so it doesn't really matter
I played this one first. Slaughtering Ingrid, Rodrigue, and Sylvain hurt so badly. This just straight up made me very sad. Yes scarlet blaze was fun and I mained Ferdinand (RIP Billy, may you Rest In Peace.)
I mean, from a Dynasty Warriors' perspective, isn't the benevolent lord's sworn siblings supposed to drop like flies?
don't be sad, Rodrigue died like a true knight !
17:12 Fun fact about the Dominic’s. You can actually spare Annette if you use the strategy Secret Passage. By doing this, you’ll reach Annette which forces Gustave to fall back to her location to allow his daughter to escape.
I have to admit that SB is my favourite of the Fodlan routes. Having played them all, I just love the conflict of ideals and how well SB presents this conflict. SB is, for me, the route that treats all the main factions the best. As you stated in the title of your video, it's "the most important" route because everyone and everything is given the time they deserve, and the context is here to make it all meaningful. SB's focuses on the biggest strength of the Fodlan games, the beautiful grey conflict between Edelgard, Dimitri, Claude and Rhea, and it shows.
From my experience here, SB is a great way to introduce someone to Fodlan, as my brother started with it and is now in love with both games. Even when you end up agreeing more with the other factions, SB never underminds them and instead expands them in meaningful ways. You feel Dimitri's sorrow at Ingrid's death or Claude's depression at how the Alliance wants to abandon him. Likewise, Shez has a great character Arc that shows why someone would fight for Edelgard.
Also, Shez is far more adamant about wanting to make peace with Byleth here because they feel like Edelgard has called them out. Two minor but nonethelss fantastic scenes explain Shez behaviour. The first is regarding Count Glocester's betrayal. Shez is furious about it: "If a merc were to pull a stunt like ,that they'd be cut down where they stood!" However, they are calmed down by Edelgard, who explains to them that the Count is necessary and that killing him would only make things worse for everyone. Later before the battle for silver Maiden, Shez studies Fodlan and they bump into Edelgard. Shez has many questions, and we learn that quite a few Kingdom houses declared/were ready to declare for the Empire. However, the Kingdom accepted them back with not even a wrist slap. What follows is that Shez and Edelgard have a nuanced discussion about betrayal (Shez lists how loyalty needs to be earned) . At the same time, Edelgard explains to Shez that there are only two reasons for a betrayal that she finds despicable. These being Money and Revenge. This makes Shez feel horrible because up to this point these have been the reasons why they supported Edelgard. In this conversation, Shez sees how shallow the reasons for why they fight are; as a result, they want to change. Hence their positive stand on winning Byleth to their side in the Arval conversation. They no longer wish to fight solely for money and revenge.
As this small exchange shows, I love the relationship Shez has with Edelgard. I know that the mistrust aspect is not for everyone, but it hits my soft spot in how compelling I find this aspect of her and Hubert's character. We have to remember that they spent years in a super toxic environment where Edelgards's main tormentor wore the dead body of her uncle as a skin suit and forced her to keep up with a charade. So seeing the positive influence Shez and Edelgard have on each other is uplifting. Shez becomes "the final push that urged her to act". A push that allowed Edelgard to become a genuine heroine that freed herself from her tormentors and Shez gradually becomes a pillar of strength to her. Likewise, Edelgard gives Shez "a seat at the table when no one else would" and regardless of the nuance of the decision Shez had earned themselves a postion where they are truly happy. "I can't show my face without someone yelling my name. I lead a great life sorrunded by amazing friends. All of it possible thanks to you" -Shez to Edelgard. Meanwhile a core part of Edelgards ideals is to look past someones background. But can she do that if some has ties the Argathans, her tormentors? This is the central conflict between them and Shez destroying her barriers and earning her trust is awe-inspiring. And in return Edelgard is genuily moved by them. Calminating in one small 🖐 that shows us that Edelgard overcome her inner demons and fully trust Shez.
There are so many other things I could mention. What a perfect lover letter this route is for Ferdinand from his VA to us, how magnificent the playable cast is. At the end of the day, I am left with little to complain and much to praise. I hope people can look past the deaths of Ingrid and Sylvain, because avoiding it soley on that is a massive shame.
In Three Houses, Edelgard was done dirty with Crimson Flower obviously being half-assed (only pre-rendered cutscene is the ending, shortest campaign)... so I was absolutely stoked with how much closer to being 'complete' Scarlet Blaze is in this game.
That said... Ingrid's death definitely broke me.
I'm really surprised you didn't go into detail about the alternate version of Chapter 14, spoilers below btw
If you don't recruit Byleth in Scarlet Blaze then she actually convinces the Alliance to betray the Empire at the battle of Ailel, making it a Gronder Field Scenario and forcing you into what I consider to be the best chapter in the entire game. It was a really amazing twist the first time around, and really put into the context the subnames of Embers and Inferno that the songs had in this game, most likely referencing this very fight. The chapter showed the consequences of war, and on some variations of the chapter you even have to kill Claude to beat the chapter, which leads into the Ashen Demon appearing themselves at the end. It's realy ironic how Byleth, who in Three Houses was responsible for the student's salvation, turned into the three nationś ultimate demise in this battle, as in the ending everybody is still at war and there's no real end in sight.
It was a really great twist as you don't have to enter this violent and bloody battle if you recruit Byleth, but if you don't there's actual consequences unlike in the other two routes (You also can't recruit Leonie if you don't recruit them, as she refuses your help because you killed Jeralt). This chapter alone is why I personally consider the non recruited Byleth version better than if Byleth is recruited, and why I really think Byleth was handled the best in this route compared to the others.
I didn't really go into detail on the special chapters to both cut down on time and I went in depth in the Azure Gleam review, and originally I just basically restated what I said in the AG vid and it didn't feel right, so I decided to cut it
Also I had no idea that Byleth could convince Claude to betray Edelgard, now I do think not recruiting Byleth is the best outcome because that sounds amazing
One of my favourite pre-battle messages was for the Ailel map. (I don't remember the exact names for things but you get the gist)
The Following Strategies have been changed:
Alliance Fusillade -> Obliterate Alliance Archers.
Alliance Wyvern Co -> Hunt down the Fakes.
Employing the Obliterate Alliance Archers strategy allows you to kill Claude, which I think is quite funny because he's the only lord that can be killed in this game when he was the only person to survive every route in 3 Houses.
Honestly I think that SB has the best ending obviously not to blue lions lovers but I felt that the war was near to end, golden wildfire the fight between the empire and kingdom and not fighting against TWSITD , azure gleam defeat the empire but Claude is stated to be a future enemy a it will be conflict, and Scarlet Blaze defeat both the church and TWSITD Allied with Claude and I feel like Dimitri is more likely to surrender than the empire in Azure gleam, he values a lot the lives of his people.
I'm still really torn about which route's ending is better, they both have their ups and downs no matter which way you think about it
I also am not really sure if I agree that Claude would or would not be a future enemy, because as long as the Church leaves Leicester alone I don't see there being any issues, especially when Dimitri wants to slowly ween the Kingdom off of its dependency on the Church, but I could've just completely forgotten whatever alluded to that in AG
I do also agree that Dimitri is more likely to surrender than the Empire would, but also in AG I think the rest of the Empire is pretty much just TWSITD outside of Count Bergliez and Count Hevring since whoever wasn't recruited (aside from potentially Caspar) was killed, and after Edelgard explains the situation to them, I personally think that none of them would try to protect any of what's left of the Empire at that point, given what happened to her in that route
I think this is my favorite route for the sole fact that the neutral/bad ending feels so different from the good one. I mean, having Claude betray you at Ailell made the 3 way battle go so much harder, and it quite easily became my favorite iteration of the Battle of Eagle and Lion
THIS! Seriously, the only difference in Blue Lions is Rodrigue dying and the "difference" in GW is Judith dying...but like, nobody cares and the change is a few lines saying "if Judith was here".
But with Scarlet Blaze it actually felt like recruiting Byleth made a huge difference
Something worth noting about Edelgard's rescue of Monica at the beginning of the game is that it was only possible because Jeritza was placed in charge of one of the houses as a teacher, giving him, and by proxy, Edelgard, influence over the class mission. And Jeritza was only made a teacher because Rhea was suspicious of Shez when they showed up, as opposed to Byleth where she knows EXACTLY what their nature is and implicitly trusts them enough to make them a teacher.
Three Hopes is essentially a writing exercise version of the butterfly effect. Change one detail at the beginning of the story, and then trace the path of how the consequences of that change unfold naturally. For Three Hopes, the "what if?" at the root of its story is, "what if Dimitri, Edelgard, and Claude run into someone other than Byleth that fateful night?"
I think for the missing supports you talked about, those characters already having supports in Three houses, they might not have been able to come with anything else for their supports to be about.
Writing supports is hard haha
From my pov the chuch gets money from the nobility, the nobility gets the backing of the goddess to rule, in the houses lanto chapter, we see the church use fear to scare the students into loyalty and in the miklan chapter the church protchs the image of the nobility, and in turn the nobility like Lorenz and ferdinand view teaching commoners about worship a duty of the nobility.
The dependence of the church and nobility is too ingrained where the removal of one would destabilize the other , that's why they are corrupt.
As a Blue Lions guy I couldn’t agree more with how much this route hurts. Because I love the Kingdom characters so much it hindered my enjoyment of this route quite a bit. Fortunately I at least managed to spare Annette but being forced to kill Ingrid and Sylvain with no way at all to spare them, in my extremely biased opinion, invalidated the route for me 😂.
I’m really hoping we get a 4th route via dlc to give some of the characters that got shafted in this game like Rhea, Cyril and Hanneman a chance to shine. Seteth and Flayn too actually because despite being playable they really didn’t have much plot relevance in this game.
WAIT ANNETTES DEATH IS AVOIDABLE?? 😭😭 And I feel that, I'm not sure if anything would've invalidated any route for me, but Caspar dying in AG probably was the closest thing to making me feel that way, but his death is optional sooo idk 😂
Honestly despite the war being with/about the Church, none of the Central Church characters had any relevancy in any of the routes so I agree, something that makes both them and the Ashen Wolves more of the focus point would be great, but I also hope that maybe they do something different so its not just a repeat of Three Houses DLC
honestly, Slyvain's death is the hardest for me since he was one of the few male characters i loved in Three houses I mean why did the game force me to kill him and Ingrid but not Felix?! come on at least give me the option to Spare them like in Three houses?! i guess it shows how much three houses spoiled us
@@Wrath9 yes, you just avoid fighting Annette’s father by going through the secret route during the battle. Annette will appear and once you defeat her, Annette’s father will reappear to assist her.
Ferdinand and Hubert and Monica just sort of being fridged off screen in vague terms in AG is what invalidated AG for me. I was sad to kill Ingrid and Sylvain, but they chose to fight to the death even against their allies' wishes, and Rhea kind of has it coming after being the one to cause the wars between Empire and the Kingdom, and the Kingdom and the Alliance in the past.
One thing I never figured out. Why does Edelgard invade the Leacter Alliance?
They are not supporting or helping the central church. It just seems thuggish. Like she want to conquer some land just because she can
If I remember correctly, she invades Leicester because there is no direct way to the monastery in the Empire, so she had to go into Alliance territory to invade Garreg Mach, and the territories between the Empire and that pathway also supported the church so it was just an unavoidable situation (again, if I remember correctly, its been a while since I've played the game lol)
@@Wrath9 I thought there was a way from the west. Only the south was impassable.
But that still doesn't matter anyway Edelgard always launches a full scale invasion into Leicester anyway, all the way to Dierdru. That is not on the way to anywhere.
It seems like she just wants to conquer Leicester because....
The game never explains this so I can only really assume that she is a militaristic thug who wants more power based on her actions. Her words do not explain anything
@@aleisterleopold6229 she invaded through the alliance because it holds the best route to get a large army to the monastery, and once you start an invasion you can’t just say “teehee jk” so she just goes the full way. That’s my personal observation anyway.
It's in her support with Balthus. She wants to conquer all of Fodlan. She says as much. That includes the Alliance.
@@toriwork8891 i know yeah but why.
Wait you killed Annette? You didn't have to do that. She can escape.
I didn't know 😭
regarding all the Blue Lions characters that "had to die", you literally do NOT have to kill Ashe, or Annette. Ashe is recruitable in the final "skirmish in the fog" battle. and for annette, you just have to do the "secret passage" strategy when you face her and Gilbert.
And that's why Scarlet Blaze is unanimously the best route. It has everything and you even feel a development of the bond between Edelgard and Shez, which honestly is much more lacking in the other routes. The interactions of the characters are so much better, and you are invested in the story.
AG Part 2 can burn in the fires of eternity, and it will NEVER be the "true" route. It's just someone's fever dream.
Yet I still hold GW as having the My most favorite ending because I just love the idea of all three nations managing to create peace without any unification.
I am sad that we don't have three hopes dlc i am thinking that we don't have any because Billy Kametz died and i wish he was still alive so we get more of Ferdinand on his character
Thanks for me. I just wanted foldlan back, and one question is, in my mind, who is going to fill the role as Ferdinand is someone who has the same energy as Billy kametz? If so, how will it feel for you?
More like *THE ACTUAL "TRUE ROUTE"*
Scarlet Blaze was pretty good up until the ending. I cannot believe after all the criticism that Crimson Flower got for dealing with TWSITD being resolved off screen they essentially do the reverse problem where the war with the kingdom is left unresolved and open ended.
I was enjoying it before then, Ferdinand’s story is so damn good, but the ending just left me going wtf
Oof. A lot bloodier than Crimson Flower. r.i.p. Blue Lions kiddos T^T
Personally scarlet blaze felt all over the place and too short, you keep invading the kingdom and then you have to keep backtracking, and then takes away some agency when rhea and those who slither and the dark are both just at garreg mach, it feels unearned like we did all this traveling and now there just back here how convenient, i wish we could have fought them in the kingdom so all the concerning could have had some more weight
Oh and I fell it would have been better if there were less filler missions, so the story could more naturally go from point a to b, like you do so many missions and then it's like woppe we saved one guy welp time to do another 9 missions to go back home
No, SB showed that the Empire had logistical problems, and that is why it could not quickly invade. Really, its the other two routes that have more wacky battle strategy situations.
You forgot to review the other version of Chapter 14 of Scarlet Blaze, which is unlocked by not recruiting a certain character in Chapter 10 and killing a certain someone in that same Chapter. The story changes a bit and even the your starting position, objectives, and strategies you can use on the map this version of Chapter 14 change too.
I mean he did say hed only be talking about one version of this playthrough in the beginning so idk if he necessarily "forgot
I honestly didn't even know there was that big of a difference in the story if Byleth wasn't recruited, so like that other comment says, I only played through the one "version" of SB
@@Wrath9 From the three routes Scarlet Blaze is the only one with two endings
@Santiago Gaviria Suarez That sounds like an excuse to play through the game one more time 😂
Gotta admit I still liked Azure Gleam more, but that's mostly due to my personal dislike of Edelgard, and I still enjoyed it more than Golden Wildfire, because at least with Scarlet Blaze i knew what I was getting into.
Honestly I feel bad that the Golden Deers get mediocre routes compared to the other two in BOTH games
I think Scarlet Blaze... and by extension Crimson Flower are the best possible endings for Fódland. By joining Edelgard you dismantle the crest system, strip the power from the church, allow the people to choose their leaders, and create equality amongst Fódland classes... +Ending racism. Let me explain point by point!
Dismantling the Crest System:
I think we can all agree that the crest system is bad. It promotes the exploitation and abuse of those who bare a crest or have a connection to a crest-bearing bloodline. Take Sylvain, Mercedes, or Jeritza (Emile).
Striping the power from the Church:
If you see Edelgard's supports with Manuela, you will learn that Edelgard's feud is with the church... not the religion. By stripping the power the church has, it will dismantle the crest system with it. It will also result in a decrease in racism against people from other countries, after all, it was the church that built Fódland's throat instead of opening relations with nations like Almyra. Also, the church, which we know is intimately related to the kingdom, did nothing to quell the genocide being committed by Fearghus against Duscur. They also left the kingdom kingless for at least 5 years... which led to disputes among kingdom nobles. I forgot to mention that getting rid of the church's power will also strip their ability to control information... like medicine and electricity... as well as oil (that's the only one that should remain unfound). If you need an example of why the church should have no power, just take a look at the real world... why do you think we keep state and church separate.
Allowing the people to choose their leaders:
In Edelgard's support with Constance. We learn that she plans on allowing the people to choose their leader. Some will point out that in El's tea conversations, she mentions she will choose a suitable heir. The reason why she needs to do this, instead of allowing the people to choose a leader, is because she needs someone to carry out her will once she dies. which unfortunately happens pretty soon after Crimson Flower, and Scarlet Blaze as Edelgard's double crests reduced her life expectancy greatly. Meaning she will most likely die at around the age of 30 max 40.
Create Equality:
In her support with Ferdi (Billy Kametz rest in peace), Ferdinand brings up the idea of equal education for commoners. Essentially creating a system where nobles and commoners co-exist, and will lead to a world of equal opportunity (essentially private school bad)... obviously, even with this, there are still issues... like rich kids getting better resources and getting tuition. But it's better than having a private school.
Ending Racism:
In CF and SB there are ways to spare Claude (Not too sure about SB), if spared I'm sure that Edelgard will work together to open up Fódland and Almyra!!! and Edelgard recognizes the innocence of the people of Duscur and I'm sure she would work to aid them (This is me personally so don't count it as evidence).
Nevertheless, I do recognize that war is never the answer. But if looked at from Edelgard's perspective, it was really the only way. She's going to die soon and doesn't have the time to wage a peaceful campaign around Fódland. I'm sure the church would also silence her for that too. But the justification for the war is a discussion for another time. Let me speed-run the ending for AM/AG and VW/GW. For AM Dimitri doesn't deal with those who slither in the dark since you can spare Myson, the church remains in power, and relations with Almyra and Sreng remain the same. In AG it's a bit better since TWSITD are dealt with... but church remains in power. VW Better than AM/AG... but the church remains in power... GW is a pretty good ending... I don't remember if TWSITD are dealt with though..... ANYWAYS IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR THANK YOU!!!! you just read a madman's ramblings so thank you!! have a nice day and stay safe!!!!
It’s so hard because my ideals are closest to Edelgard. She is the most progressive, radical, and forward thinking leader in Fodlan and I love how she values freedom in how people live. But the childhood amigo trio from the Lions are my favorite characters in the game. I can’t condemn Edelgard. Even in AM, her war was needed to give most of the BL kids a decent life. Without the war, I’m sure Ingrid and Sylvain would have been forced into marriage and breeding Crest babies. Felix would have died like a true knight on some random battlefield suppressing rebellion #8549-the root cause going totally unaddressed. The system needed to change and Dimitri was never ever gonna change anything on his own. But those three are my babies. I couldn’t care less if Dimitri was killed, that’s a sacrifice I could handle. But Ingrid and Sylvain? Noooo. And leaving Felix alive without them-especially Sylvain-is a worse fate than death for him. At least in CF you could kill all three of them.
I liked reading your comment (I enjoy writing these lengthy rambles too), but I disagree.
Dismantling the Crest system:
As problematic as the Crest system is, and it IS problematic, it has its perks. I you have a Crest, you have a shot at ruling a region. And you can't fake a Crest. As Hanneman shows, there are devices that detect Crests in your blood. Choosing new leaders based on merit sounds nice, but merit is subjective. It's vague enough for the right people to exploit for their own gain. Then again, it's mentioned in both Houses and Hopes that the bloodlines of the 10 Elites are slowly disappearing. Their Crests have been weakened through generations of offspring, and it's becoming harder to find new Crestbearers. Eventually, the Crest system would get rid of itself.
Stripping the power from the church:
The church is xenophobic, but most of the racism in Fodlan comes from the people, not the church. Remember, Dimitri is trying to mend relations with Duscur, and the church lets it happen. It's mainly the people of Faerghus and Duscur who are against it. Rhea has 2 foreigners working very close to her. Shamir, who is from Dagda AND a nonbeliever, and Cyril from Almyra. And based on Rhea's panic when Cyril's in trouble in Azure Gleam chapter 4, it's clear she values him quite highly. Rhea has problems, but she isn't nearly as hateful as some people believe.
Allowing the people to choose their leaders:
This ties into my thoughts on the "Dismantling the Crest system" part, so I have little else to say. I will say however that the Edelgard/Constance support has a part in it that I really don't like. In their C support, Constance is trying to impress Edelgard with a spell that makes rainbow-colored tea. Edelgard bluntly states that she has no use for it and then pressures Constance into revealing house Nuvelle's secret origins. She limits their relationship to minor friendship and battle support until Constance spills the beans. That support really rubbed me the wrong way, and it ties into a big problem I have with Edelgard: the way she treats her allies. In Three Houses she never tells her classmates the truth about Those Who Slither, and they make themselves the enemy of most of Fodlan for her, fighting for a lie. Scarlet Blaze does a MUCH better job at making Edelgard a good friend, but her manipulating her classmates was one of the things that REALLY soured me on CF.
Create equality:
The Officer's Academy is already a school for commoners and nobles alike, and Seteth asks you at the start of the schoolyear to treat both kinds of people as equals. The atmosphere is so casual that most commoners refer to the nobles and even the house leaders by their first names. Some exceptions are Ashe and Dedue, but Dimitri insists to both of them to treat him as an equal. I will of course concede that it's much easier for a noble to afford to go to the academy than a commoner.
Ending racism:
All three lords are trying to stop racism, Claude most of all. It's not a benefit exclusively to any one route. Edelgard strengthens the bonds with Brigid through Petra (even though she's a political prisoner), Dimitri is mending the relations with Duscur (and Sreng in AG), and Claude is opening the borders to Almyra.
As for your final part:
I really doubt the war was necessary. Edelgard immediately decided not to trust Dimitri and Claude and tried to get them killed by Kostas, when she could have used the time at Garreg Mach to make allies instead. Due to her shortened lifespan, she is desperate to see Fodlan change while she still can. Instead, she could have looked for a way to remove her second Crest and give herself more time (Linhardt and Hanneman prove this is certainly possible). It's Edelgard's distrust, impatience and her insistence that only she can save Fodlan that make her a terrible leader in my opinion.
Also, Those Who Slither aren't dealt with in AM? Dimitri killed Thales and Cornelia, and the Myson point is kinda weak, since the story doesn't progress differently if he isn't defeated. The point of the church still being in power also holds little weight, considering Byleth becomes archbishop in every route but CF, and it's hard to believe they wouldn't create some reforms after hearing the troubles of their students. Dimitri's endings also show him making reforms to the government and church.
@@greendemon905 You have really convincing arguments and have shown me a new perspective, which is awesome! But I still have to disagree with some of your points...
Point 1: Dismatling the crest system
It is fairly clear that the crest bloodlines are slowly dying, but it would still take many generations for them to completely disappear. The rarer a crest become, the more people bearing them will be made use of and exploited by their families and lords. We also know how desperate Rhea can get, so I'm sure she would be willing to use the remaining blood from her fallen brethren to use as ways to re-introduce crests into certain bloodlines... Take the blood rituals from Kumbala for example. Even Dimitri, admits that he agrees with Edelgard's reforms but can't support her due to Faurghus's connection and dept to the church.
Point 2: Xenophobia
I do acknowledge that Rhea herself isn't xenophobic... maybe a bit racist toward humans (seeing them as weak)... but she cares for them nonetheless. But the church is still her organization, and therefore her responsibility. I acknowledge that the central church has lost partial influence over the Western and Eastern churches, but that still doesn't weaken the people's faith in her and the central church, this is evident in AG. Note that there are some exceptions to this... like Lenato's people... but even then, they are a minority group. Even if the people did not listen I'm sure Rhea could have sent her knights against the kingdom's riots. Even disregarding Duscur she still enables Fódland's xenophobia against Almyra, as she is directly responsible for Fódland's Throat. I also forgot to mention how Leicester nobles keep Almyran prisoners as "servants" Cyril having been one of them to house Gonoril, even after being directly saved by Rhea she turns a blind eye to these horrendous actions.
Point 3: Create Equality
I completely agree that a meritocracy has its significant flaws. Nevertheless, it is still a better system compared to an aristocracy, which brings 0 equality. And though there are commoners attending Garreg Mach, they either have connections to the nobility, are rich, or are in dept (Mercedes has connections to imperial nobility. Petra is royalty. Ignatz is rich+connections to Leicester nobility. Raphael is paid for by Ignatz's parents... I think. Yuri had connections to nobility. And Leonie's entire village is in dept because of tuition) So it's not just easier for nobles to get in, it is borderline impossible to get as a commoner... note that Garrag Mach has more students than the few that we do meet and most are nobles. In fact when picking an artist for character design... Intelligent Systems (IS) hand-picked Chinatsu Kurahana for her artwork, which to them imbodied nobility and luxury since most of the cast are of noble birth. And Byleth was only hired because Rhea had a suspicion that they were Sitri's child.
Point 4: Ending Racism
Dimitri only resolves relations with Duscur and it can only be assumed that he improves relations with Almyra, Sreng, and Brigid. So he doesn't deal with racism completely, the only ones that do are Edelgard and Claude... But I will admit that Edelgard probably won't deal relation with Sreng, and Almyra if Claude isn't speared.
Point 5: Dimitri and TWSITD
We know that Dimitri doesn’t defeat them because they have more leaders than just Thales and Cleabulus (Cordelia), for example, Odesse, Myson, Bias, Pittacus, Chilon, Anaximandros, and Dolofonos. They all appear throughout fe3h’s Shambala chapter (which AM doesn’t have) and few3h’s campaigns. The only leaders Dimitri defeats or is able to, are Thales, Cleabulus, Solon, and Myson (optional).
Point 6: final point!
Though I do not believe in war I do believe that in order for Edelgard to achieve her goal she had to start one. Let’s look at Edelgard’s limitations, she needs her plans to come to fruition within her short lifespan, and we know the technology to remove a crest is still unknown and it’s a work in progress up until the end of the war, she also needs her crests in order fulfill her fullest potential in battle, so any peaceful campaign or reforms are not in question as they would take far too long. Remember that she wants to free not only Adrestia but the entirety of Fódland. She also needs to keep a close eye on TWSITD to make sure she doesn’t make a wrong move… one that could easily lead to her death. Now let’s look at all of Edelgard’s options at her disposal. Her first option is to convince Rhea. To do that she needs to convince Rhea to forfeit her and the church's power, thereby dismantling the crest system, this would also mean Rhea would have to spill the beans on Fódland’s true history. Let’s be realistic. Rhea wouldn’t change, or dismantle for that matter, a system, which from her perspective has worked for more than 1800 years. We see how persistent she is to uphold the system, like in the case of covering up what happened to Miklan, or how she and the church have purposefully also hindered the advancement of technology by covering up the discovery of electricity and medicine. And let me be blunt, imagine yourself in Rhea’s shoes, an 18-year-old human who is a descendant of the person who helped you build this world and tells you that she has a better way to do things and that you’re system has to be dismantled because it’s hurting Fódland… If I were Rhea I’d call her naive and send her scram. So convincing Rhea is futile. Her second option is to ally herself with Dimitri. Though Dimitri does agree with Edelgard’s reforms to some extent, he puts the church first because of Faerghus's ‘dept’ to it and its people's belief in it. AG and GW make sure to let us know that Dimitri will not betray the church no matter what. So that leaves with our third and last option… Claude! The issue with Claude is that she did not account for him when creating her plans, and by the time she came across him it was too risky to ally herself with him… thankfully we do see this play out if SB and GW… and even to some extend in CF if Claude is spared. So she can't convince Rhea, she can't ally herself with Dimitri, and Claude was an unknown variable, and too risky of a gamble, in addition to the fact that by the time she met Claude she’d already started her plans. If she wanted to do this peacefully, she would have to undergo monumental and time-consuming campaigns in order to change the very narrow-minded people of Fódland. Time that she doesn’t have. That only leaves us with one option… war.
That's what makes Edelgard my favorite character of all time! She knows what she is doing is wrong, and knows the amount of pain and suffering she going to unleash across Fódland by starting this war. Yet this is her only choice if she wants to see a new, brighter dawn for Fódlands. She has to take the path of war, she has to hurt and lie to those she loves most, all for the purpose of freeing the people, and the world from the shackles TWSIDT and the church have created! Edelgard is flawed but that is why I love her!
if you somehow bother to read my rants, I appreciated it very much! though I disagree I understand and respect your opinion, that's what makes fe3h so special! everyone experiences stories differently, especially in this game so I'm always happy to hear new perspectives, again sorry for the rant!!! hope you have a nice day and saty safe :D
@@edelgardvonhresvelg3222 You actually made far stronger arguments here than I usually see, and I thank you for taking my rebuttal seriously. I still don't like Edelgard's routes, and that probably won't change because conquering Fodlan feels like several steps too far for me, but I can see why you love it so.
Edelgard seems to be a "the end justifies the means" type of character, whereas Dimitri is much more focused on the means, while not having much of an end. That's why he lets himself get captured by Cornelia in AG. It doesn't help the kingdom or the war, but it keeps his people relatively safe. It's that selflessness, even if it's misplaced, that I admire in him.
A few things:
1. Rhea reintroducing the blood of the Ten Elites into Fodlan. I never considered this option, but it doesn't seem impossible or out of character. If she has crest stones of the 10, she may be able to revive the bloodlines.
2. About the surviving Slitherers in AM: Since we don't know the exact power structure of the group, it's difficult to say whether they could continue their work with the remaining members. We have their names, but we don't know how influential they are within the organisation.
3. I wasn't implying the 3 lords band together to convince Rhea to throw out the Crest system. Rhea would never agree to that. I meant that together they might tell Rhea of all the horror stories from their students, and create laws to prevent more nobles from tearing their own families apart.
I think my biggest personal problem with scarlet blaze is that the eagles came off as a bunch of 'yes men' that never give any serious objections to Edelgard declaring war on the entire continent compared to how they play out in silver snow.
There's no comments of how her war will create suffering for the commoners that living in the kingdom/alliance, and no one has the courage to tell Edelgard that she doesn't have the right to force her ideal way of life upon the kingdom/alliance because they're not a part of the empire she rules.
I can't even take Dorothea's comments about feeling sad after people die seriously because she's a part of the invading force that's killing people who are trying to defend their nation and way of life. Why should I feel sorry for the invaders who have innocent blood on their hands?
Scarlet Blaze's writing failed to make me feel that the people living in the kingdom and alliance were suffering badly enough under their current rulers that invading and taking over was justified as a course of action, and it also lays the blame for the bloodshed on the defender's and not the Adrestian empire. That plus the eagle's unwillingness (outside of hubert/monica) to consider that Edelgard's war might be a bad idea for fodlan left me thoroughly disappointed and wishing that there was a silver snow route where they would rebel against edelgard's methods.
Also Monica is an awful character with no personality beyond 'I love Edelgard', why am I supposed to like her? She's worse than Tharja and Camilla in terms of being obsessed, and that's saying a lot.
Lastly, I think how rhea dies at the end of this route says a lot about who she is. Even at the end, when she sees a threat to fodlan's safety attempting to cause havoc she stops fighting Edelgard and gives her life to stop Thales once and for all.
I disagree because in on a lot of your comment here.
The whole "Yes men" argument is very dumb because in AM and AG. The BL agree to all on Dimitri plan's. Even the ones like doing a death charge on Enbarr yet no criticism them. Dimitri as whole never get challenge by anyone past Edelgard and by extension Claude for their belief. The BL reasoning for being completely loyal to Dimitri do to him being their king / friend. Except for Felix and Dudue where the story gives them a in-depth reasoning for their loyalty. ( Though 3 Houses dumbed down Dudue the extent and reasoning for his loyal in the English version. )
The thing with SB is that we get more information on the BEalges an by extension other character reasoning for siding with Edelgard except for Linhardt who we are reasoning never given his reasoning. ( Though considering he goes from calling Edegard by her name in WC to "Her majesty" at times in CF could imply he started to respect her. ) To give a shortish list:
Dorothea believes in Edelgard causes because of her past being a homeless child alone on the street, she want to her and support Edelgard causes both as a friend and confidant but also representing the lowest denominator because of her past. As well the fact that the nobles within Fodlan mistreats women as well.
Hubert is loyal to Edelgard well past being a retainer both in part because of their friend but also because he believes in Edelgard vision for Fodlan since Hubert also wanting people to have the ability to rise up through their own merit as well as have Education.
Caspar fight's for Edelgard for actually complex reasoning being that because of how he always treated thing's. He never saw the problem's within the Empire, TWSITD and Fodlan which why he sides with Edelgard because he wants to help and support people but also because of how Edelgard ultimately treat's people. Caspar suffers from a fear of people not accept him for both who he is and his work effort as we see this in his support in 3 Houses and he know's that he will gain nothing from the system and just like other character like Dorothea, Sylvain and etc in 3 Houses. Believes that it will never change. His support in 3 Houses is all about him going from thinking that Edelgard is being very selfish about her ideology to realises that Edelgard is actively looking out for other and is the person trying to change the system. Edelgard is Caspar biggest supporter.
Hanneman sides with Edelgard because of his sister and how mistreat she was within the Empire. Where she was forced to give birth multiple times until dying from exhaustion just for a single crest child. Hanneman want's to make sure that this never happens to anyone within Fodlan through his research on Crest. The saddest thing that we just found out via interview on Nintendo magazine is that Hanneman was head of his house when his sister die which show how little power nobles have against the system.
Monica despite being as much of a simp as Dudue, has similar support to Dudue in that they both genuinely care about Edelgard and Dimitri and want's to support them after saving them from their darkest hour and actively believes in them. The difference is that Monica also want to help Edelgard and her system while Dudue doesn't with Dimitri past when it comes to Duscur or revenge in CF. Monica want's to get rid of TWSITD due to how scumming of people they are as well as get rid of the corrupt nobility both in part because how far they are willing to go for their own self-gain but also because she see how it can have a negative effect on people like her Father who doesn't want to be a noble but because of the system is forced to be one.
Ultimately, the reason they don't do the think you want them to do is because they believe in Edelgard causes and is trying to fight for a better Fodlan. Since the current state is very fucked up, the kingdom for example has very toxic culture's with heavily up holding the idea's of crest, where people are willing to genocide other for the sake of revenge with the Kingdom doing this with Duscur and tried doing it with Sreng. Or the fact that since it's inception, it has done nothing but be at war with other nation and tried to conquer people to the point that it has been at a near state of famine multiple times.
The game is trying to ask the Audience a question: What is worst?
A system and world with no human right and where people are treat like utter crap with there being multiple flaw's with the system and where change would be impossible to make because of the corruption.
Or a War where people are fight for change where while people are suffering during the war. These same people would also be suffering during the system anyway.
there were already plenty of wars going on in the story that's why there were no objections edelgard was not declaring war on people live just the church and kingdom
Same, but Edelgard fanboys would do anything to defend their favourite warmonguer. As someone who was born in a country full of war, I can't understand why the fandom loves Edelgard so much.
@@mray4784 it’s the lesser of two evils, while yes she’s a warmonger the only other option is a church that keeps the world locked in a political and social slavery (metaphorically speaking)
@@iudextalion4882 Always happy to see how sacrificing many lives in the name of freedom is the best option.
Golden Wildfire had potential and greyer Claude was cool, but... god the execution kinda sucked.
Azure Gleam... Dimitri is not as fun with no Boar action.
Scarlet Blaze is everything Crimson Flower SHOULD HAVE BEEN.
Whether it's Houses or Hopes, I don't get why Edelgard wants to invade all of Fodlan instead of just going after the Church. It makes me think that her goals aren't as selfless as she claims to be. It's hypocritical that she wants to take down oppression, yet she becomes an oppressor.
The reason Edelgard has to invade most of Fodlan is directly due to the church and how it relates to the nobility. The Church dominates Fodlan using ideological and military force. Rhea doesn’t really care about what happens so long as there is no major war, unless you attack her directly. Because of this, the Church does nothing, indirectly supporting corrupt nobility who abuse the lands they hold. Edelgard s ultimate goal is to abolish the nobility, which is backed by the crest system, which is backed by the church. If you get rid of the Church, you get rid of the legitimacy that nobles use to justify their actions, making it possible to enact the reforms Edelgard wants.
As for why she has to ultimately fight the other two nations, this is largely due to how they were built. The Kingdom only exists because the Church allows it. Rhea personally crowned Loog, the founder, and gave the Kingdom legitimacy through the Church. If the church were to disappear, the Kingdom goes from a feudal government to a rebellious state of the Empire overnight. They have to fight the Empire otherwise they lose a lot of power.
The alliance is more tricky, as they are governed by the Roundtable, which means they are largely independent of each other. Half the noble houses in the Alliance already back the Empire, and without Claude’s political scheming, the Alliance would dissolve if Edelgard declares war on them. They are too unstable and volatile to last long term, and if it was discovered Claude was Almyran, it would get even worse.
I am surprised GW is worse for you considering AG part 2 with its use of brainwashing exists.
Honestly the reasoning for exactly why has long left my brain (due to how long ago I made these videos)
But I'm pretty sure that though I despise the use of the brainwashing, the *least* amount of characters die in AG, AND TWSITD are actually dealt with, which are the only reasons why I currently stand by my rankings
Plus imo GW should've just been Claude going to Almyra 🤷🏻♂️😭
Am I a terrible Person? I killed literally everyone and felt absolutely nothing.
Get help.
@@superiorgamedude naaaahhh it’ll be fine (probably)
@@superiorgamedude (laughs in killing enemy officers who were previously my allies in a previous playthrough)
In fairness, killing every last one of them fits the Black Eagles, really....so good for you, I guess?
You= Making a crapy meme.
Me= Cackling at your innocence
@DarkAdonisVyers
BETRAYED
The way you pronounce these names make me wanna unalive myself.
Same
Well, I'll be. I picked the most important route in my first playthrough. FYI no I didn't watch the video.
Jesus loves you and died for you and wants you saved