Fire Emblem: Three Houses Reviews

Fire Emblem: Three Houses is ranked in the 98th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
88 / 100
Jul 25, 2019

If you’ve had a Fire Emblem-shaped hole in your heart till now, Fire Emblem: Three Houses will leave you breathless, sleepless, and eager for more. I know I’ll be lost in this new world for months to come.

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8.8 / 10.0
Jul 25, 2019

Fire Emblem: Three Houses is one of the greatest chapter of the series. With a deep and elaborate gameplay, this new episode represents another extraordinary game avaliable only on Nintendo Switch.

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88 / 100
Jul 25, 2019

Demanding lap strategy, loveable characters and great story. But you have to like the social simulation.

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4.4 / 5.0
Aug 3, 2019

I could honestly spend a while explaining all the mechanics in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and probably not touch on everything. What is important is to understand what you're getting into. It's not a simple game or one that is overly combat driven like Disgaea. You can easily go hours without seeing a battlefield and then agonize about arguably tedious mechanics. This isn't to say it's a bad game, I'd say anything but, it's just important to understand it isn't meant for everyone and that is alright.

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8.8 / 10.0
Jul 24, 2019

The biggest Fire Emblem yet, the newest console entry delivers on tactical warfare as much as it does on story telling. With three different routes to go down, a large school to explore and so many characters to talk to Three Houses sets the new standard in the genre of strategic RPGs – and a high one it is.

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8.8 / 10.0
Aug 22, 2019

Despite a lack of difficulty, Fire Emblem: Three Houses delivers one of the best games in a franchise with some already.

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87 / 100
Aug 14, 2019

Fire Emblem: Three Houses is the newest entry in the critically acclaimed Tactic-RPG-Series. It invents a few o fit core mechanics new and introduces a whole new part. The former round based tactic adventure now comes with a complete schoolsim.

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8.5 / 10.0
Jul 25, 2019
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8.5 / 10.0
Jul 25, 2019

Fire Emblem: Three Houses is an excellent management title that catches you by the variety and depth of the gameplay. Although its main value is to allow the player to control so many factors in a simple and intuitive way, he perfects the formula with a very varied and complex narrative. In addition, it is one of the greatest exponents of turn-based combat games, since its battles have a learning curve suitable for engaging us for long hours. On the other hand, aesthetically has little to be ashamed of, since the really important sections are solved in a brilliant way like the CGI or the character design. Undoubtedly, a video game that requires dedication, but in return gives great doses of joy that result in many hours of deep management and exciting fighting.

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8.5 / 10.0
Jul 25, 2019

An engaging story and superb battle system keeps you coming back hour after hour, but Three Houses suffers from a lack of variety in the RPG sections.

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85 / 100
Sep 5, 2019

Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a great title that is weighed down by a technical section that is too poor for the system it is on. If it were more updated in this regard, we would undoubtedly talk about a contender for the game of the year.

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8.1 / 10.0
Jul 26, 2019

It is strange to talk about pacing and bloat and a slow-moving plot when the turn-based battles are built on a foundation of ‘taking your time to make the right move’. But in adding so much and painting on such a large canvas, it’s hard not to eventually feel a little lost or stuck in Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

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8 / 10.0
Jul 25, 2019

Intelligent Systems tactical role-playing game looks and plays swell on Switch, but it also lowers the stakes of this stressful series

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Jul 25, 2019

This boarding-school daydream is grandiose and silly, but a gorgeous look and revised combat help it sing

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M3
Top Critic
Aug 9, 2019

Puritans who were discouraged by their predecessor can thus breathe peacefully. Fire Emblem: Three Houses shows that the series is back on its feet again, better than ever.

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Aug 14, 2019

This is one of the strongest releases on the Nintendo Switch in 2019 so far and is certainly worth playing, even for newcomers of the veteran series.

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8 / 10
Aug 6, 2019

Fire Emblem: Three Houses features the finest game world, plot and gameplay of the series and even if certain aspects of its execution do raise some questions, its varied and rich world, high quality writing, exquisite soundtrack and the way its characters are shaped by the plot mean that nobody will be left untouched by this marvelous work, even if it might not be the ultimate Fire Emblem game that many expected.

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RPG Site
Top Critic
8 / 10
Jul 25, 2019

A very ambitious game with thorough lore and interesting characters, although it won't often challenge you if you are familiar with strategy RPGs.

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8 / 10
Jul 25, 2019

Fire Emblem: Three Houses features some of the most refined and enjoyable battle mechanics the series has seen since its successful renaissance with Awakening. But the renewed focus on support relationships gets in the way of what some may have valued most from the franchise – the strength of its strategic design and the battles themselves. Regardless, it's hard to argue that Three Houses is the best Fire Emblem since Awakening, so it's still worth your time, even if you'll have to spend it wisely.

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8 / 10.0
Jul 24, 2019

There are a few prerequisites you have to meet in order to enjoy Fire Emblem: Three Houses for dozens of hours: you can't be weirded out by the Japanese weird, you have to accept the unique visual style and hundreds of silly (but mandatory) conversations and activities, including fishing, growing plants and eating soup. If you think you lack at least one of the above skills, we recommend finding another game.

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