Sunday, August 30, 2020

Fire Emblem Three Houses Thoughts - Part 8: Golden Deer Revisited

Hello! I am so sorry, but I am not quite done talking about Fire Emblem Three Houses. I am nearing the end however, I see myself doing only two more write ups (including this one) before I can finally put this game down and move on.

Until then, I have completed my fifth playthrough of the game, in which I revisited my first path: Golden Deer. With the context and knowledge of all other paths, I wanted to come back and see how my thoughts and feelings had changed.

Quick note: I did not do a write up for my playthrough of the Ashen Wolves DLC Route or the Church Route, which I played after Black Eagles. This is because I simply could not think of much to say that would be worth discussing. For Church, I already covered many of its characters in other write ups, and its story is quite similar to the other paths. For Ashen Wolves, I felt that without seeing the support conversations, I barely got to know the characters, and the story in general left me with little to say. Basically, neither phased me to the point of being worth a write up, like the previous routes of this game did.

However, replaying Golden Deer did. So with that in mind, I wanted to dig into the story, its characters, and conclude my complex feelings towards them, now that I have a better understanding of the game as a whole.

Fire Emblem Three Houses Thoughts - Part 8.5: A Breakdown of the "Truth" of Fodlan's farthest history

This write up is an addition to my other Fire Emblem write ups, as its conclusion is an important part of arguments I make regarding the game’s narrative. For this, I would like to look at the game’s backstory, at its farthest point in time, and pick apart and argue that the supposed “truth” the player is told at the end of the Golden Deer route, is actually not the truth. With that in mind, let’s begin: