Burn Emblem is no longer a niche series. This game franchise has been slowly clawing its way out of obscurity ever since Awakening essentially saved it from dying dorsum in the mean solar day, and every release since has just increased in sales until Fire Keepsake: 3 Houses came forth and blew numbers of out the h2o. But, given how many events, characters, and mechanics are in the game, we don't arraign anyone for missing a few of these more than subtle secrets. To assistance out, we'll be going over a couple of our favorites from both a gameplay and narrative point of view.

10 The Load Screen Avatar Moves With Gyro Controls

If you're like us and very rarely take your Nintendo Switch out of the dock, this is a undercover that volition have eluded you for a long time. Substantially, if you're playing Burn Emblem in handheld mode with the Joy-Cons continued to the console, you'll notice that the 8-bit Byleth on the loading screen moves a chip more than frequently, sometimes even going backward. Well, information technology turns out they motion according to nevertheless the panel is being tilted, and tin can fifty-fifty jump when you press the B button. It'southward a hyper-specific little detail but still neat yet.

ix How Crests Were Really Passed Downwardly By Children Of The Goddess

So, one of the most pervasive new mechanics in Three Houses is the Crest system. These are essentially tattoos that appear at birth granting superhuman abilities to those who wield them. They're usually seen in Fodlan nobles and y'all're simply ever supposed to accept one of them. And, they're supposedly passed down from Fodlan's X Elites and the Four Saints, and then the assumption is that those who wield them are descendants of the heroes of yore. Just, thanks to some dialog and book entries, we too know Crests can be given to people through a blood transfusion and it's likely how Saints like Cethlenn and Cichol actually passed down their Crests.

eight The Implications A Support Rank Non Catastrophe At "A" Presents

The Support Ranks in Fire Emblem: Three Houses work a bit different from the past couple of games and work very differently to the classic games. In games similar Awakening and Fates, the player acted as a sort of matchmaker, picking who should fall in love with each other and what their kids would be similar.

In Three Houses, only Byleth tin can seemingly accept a romantic partner, and the rest of the Supports just remain friends. Only, some of them don't even go that far with support ranks that cease at C or B. The implication here is that opposite personalities/people tin only get along then much, and that this rank represents the accented farthest their friendship could perchance progress.

7 Dmitri Has Superhuman Force Due To His Crest

This isn't necessarily a secret, merely it is something casually mentioned a few times throughout the story that people didn't really pick up on. Dmitri is a good boy who is punished manner beyond anything he deserves throughout the events of Three Houses. Oh, and he also has inhuman strength given to him by his Minor Crest of Blaiddyd, something that causes him to accidentally break things he's holding at times. Past things, we mean people's skulls or steel swords. Information technology's a cute/horrifying gimmick that ties into his Crest quite amazingly, and nosotros wish the game played around more with this idea of characters having to deal with the lilliputian inconveniences that come up with being a Crest Bearer.

half-dozen Edelgard And Lysithea'southward Stiff Connectedness

And then, we all know that Burn Emblem: Three Houses has four "routes" by this point. Well, in this and in the Black Eagles general route, we find out that Edelgard is the sole survivor among her siblings of a series of experiments that gave her a 2nd Crest (which makes it fifty-fifty more than surprising how kind she is to her friends).

Much similar Lysithea, a classmate in the Aureate Deer, she at present has white hair and a severely shortened lifespan. People might've missed that connexion the kickoff fourth dimension through, but what most missed, is that Edelgards success in her experiment is very likely due to the previous experiment with Lysithea, and Lysithea'south pain is what led to Edelgard also surviving the process.

v Rhea And The Church Suppressed Inventions And Innovations

While Atomic number 26: Thursday does have a lot of subtlety in its narrative, it lacks any sort tip-toeing when it comes to the classic "religion is evil" subplot. Players could tell immediately that the Church building of Sieros was obviously hiding something. But, what people likely missed hidden amongst all the historical annals in the library, is that Rhea and the Church were actually hindering innovation/invention in Fodlan, and nations exterior of Fodlan were more technologically avant-garde because of it. How much more avant-garde? It's hard to say. But this is simply one fo the many mysteries the Church seems to take played a part in.

four Cutscene Interactions That Change Based On Support Ranks

One tin can usually tell the importance of a mission depending on if there's a high-quality cutscene associated with it. But, for the eye option, the in-engine versions, there's manifestly a lot of variability in the graphic symbol interactions depending on what their electric current Social Ranks are. Dorothea might exist sassier to someone she wouldn't have been if their social rank was college. There aren't a ton of examples of it throughout the game, but certainly plenty to add another layer of variability and so that every playthrough feels unique.

Sylvain is ane of the best students in the Blueish Lions business firm, there, we said information technology. He'southward deceptively gross and a total playboy when you first meet him, but throughout the game, we find our the reasons for his flirtatious nature as well as his background and information technology paints an all-too-clear picture. Also, he'southward an insanely good unit who works well in any of the houses.

But, to recruit him, you need a decent amount of Charm and Reason, both things that are a bit of a bore to level upward (particularly gift-giving). Luckily, starting in Chapter 2, if y'all picked a female Byleth, Sylvain will literally have an invitation no matter what and switch right over into your class.

2 2-Toned Whetstone Quest Constantly References Other Fe Games

Catherine and Shamir are by far the all-time staff members to recruit to your house early from Gareg Mach Monastery. Yes, Hanneman, is a decent mage, and Manuela is a please to have in whatsoever state of affairs, but Shamir's bow skills and Catherine'due south absurd sword proficiency are a godsend against some of the more difficult units. So, when both of them offer y'all a quest part way through the game to discover a "Ii-Toned Whetstone", we rapidly hopped to it. The quest itself is a series of item trades throughout the monastery similar to the long-lasting item trading quests in the Fable of Zelda games. The only difference here is that every single item in the quest is a reference to a past Burn down Emblem game, and some of the mock-upward names are hilarious.

1 The Nighttime Seal For Beating The Expiry Knight Early

Lastly, we'll end on a cloak-and-dagger that anyone who struggles with min-maxing probably figured out early. The Decease Knight is a suicidal opponent to fight in his offset couple of appearances. He machine-crits nearly of the time, takes almost no harm, and is on horseback and then he tin can chase anyone downwards to the ends of the earth. But, he holds a guaranteed driblet particular chosen the "Dark Seal" in his inventory which is the just way to go a Dark Mage in the entire game. So, many people replayed the Disturbed Ceremony mission over and over trying to beat out him without losing whatever units, which is almost impossible. Luckily, we recommend waiting until the boss unit is within your sights, then using a Theif pupil to steal the Dark Seal before killing the dominate unit of measurement, effectively catastrophe the mission with the Dark Seal in your pocket before the Death Knight even has a chance to counterattack.

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Jacob H Buchalter (271 Manufactures Published)

Jacob Buchalter is a writer and gaming dweeb based in Arizona. He'south the blazon to get irrationally obsessed with anything related to gaming, animation, art, manga, and anime. And while he isn't the argumentative blazon, he sure is stubborn about dumb details in shows and games from 5+ years agone.

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