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I’d advise sticking with it, there’s a lot of game already so I’m somewhat grateful for the break before the other four routes. You can also restart Part 3 at any time, so can replay it with the new teams when the DLC hits

(The flat lighting in battles threw me in particular)

That… does kind of explain the gulf in presentational quality with FW, even relative to TH being a Switch 1 game

Also helps that they got outfits that have a unified colour scheme but express their individuality. Don’t think most of the base game characters spending half the game wearing a school uniform helps with distinguishing some of them from each other

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You see the same effect with the Cindered Shadows DLC for TH focusing on four characters. I had a much stronger sense of who the Ashen Wolves were before watching any supports

8 core members to a house is too crowded. I feel like you *need* the support conversations in TH to understand the group dynamics of your house, whereas the supports just provide more texture in FW.

Additional Fortune’s Weave and Three Houses comparison: having only four or five core characters per route allows each to have way more of a story presence in that route

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The abscence of the other four campaigns (until the DLC next year) leaves a lot of holes in the overall game, but the four campaigns that weren’t cut don’t feel incomplete as their own thing.

Also think the modular nature of the story meant that cutting back on its ambition (by reducing the routes down from 8 to 4) didn’t damage the game as much as it could’ve done

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I’d be willing to bet that a higher proportion of Fortune’s Weave players end up completing at least two Act 1s than was the case with Three Houses. Because the differences are immediately obvious if you decide to dip your toes in another route after finishing the first.

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Straight off the bat, I think four Act 1s that fuse into a single mega-campaign in Act 2/3 is a much smarter approach than Three Houses having one Act 1 that branches into four Act 2s. Much stronger understanding of how most people play games

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 14h

So, whilst Fortune’s Weave is still a messy, overambitious game, playing Three Houses has me realising that FW is relatively tempered in its ambition *and* more successful at achieving it

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It’s less about how it’s run and more about how and when the hospitals were built. I’ve stayed in a newer hospital where I got a private room, but my local hospital is more typical with the vast majority of beds being in shared rooms of 6

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Apparently Paul is on the next episode of Uncloaked and now I’m getting flashbacks

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Caught up now, happy to see Minah back on Uncloaked, but she must be getting flashbacks from a recruitment episode

Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Don’t know why I decided to log in right at this exact moment when my Mum’s on a late shift, so I’m not watching Traitors yet

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Had a DM checking I was still alive, so, y’know, can confirm I am still alive

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m generally pretty forgiving of unrealistic media tropes, but the way the moment of death is often depicted takes me out of so many things. Succession really nails how most deaths are simultaneously both more sudden and more drawn out than they often are on screen

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Forgot how good the death episode of Succession is

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Amusingly, Golden Lion seems to be the only default roster in which a woman Byleth can’t get S-support with another woman. But, yes, I totally get what you mean

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Also, at one point there was a big dramatic cutscene that I’m unsurprised to find out was recycled from another route, because it had zero emotional impact in this one

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

I feel like the only reason I’ve got any idea what’s going on from chapter 20 onwards is because I’ve played Fortune’s Weave. I’d be totally lost if I was playing this in 2019 and this was my first route

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Had an “oh God, it’s not over” moment, which isn’t a great sign. From snippets, I do think it’s specifically because of this route

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

But all of these complaints should be considered with the context that I am probably going to do a second run straight away

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

Plus, whilst both games have plenty of examples of stilted writing, I feel like FW's dialogue is generally better written. (Though, again, that might be a route thing)

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm also finding the story a bit disjointed, but that might just be because of the specific path I'm on (plus, like, that's definitely a criticism you can level at FW more)

Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

By comparison, Act 2 of Three Houses plays exactly the same as Act 1. The game tells us that you're in a continent-wide war and the school is now a home base for an army, but, in practise, you're doing the exact same school routine

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

Act 1 has the social schedule and world map stuff, Act 2 is just a gauntlet of back-to-back battles with no fluff, and Act 3 brings back the social schedule/world map, but does new things with them

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm a good way into the second part of Three Houses (on Claude's path), and, overall I'm enjoying it, but it's made me appreciate Fortune's Weave more. Particularly the way the three different acts play slightly differently

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

(but, by process of elimination, I assume Claude's?)

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

I meant which was the one you'd never try?

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

FW probably the same, though I made it more difficult on myself by juggling so many units

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

I like it in general, I just think there needs to be a break from it to signify the passage of time

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

To be clear, I am enjoying it and I think its part 1 was better executed than FW. But I am kinda glad I played FW first all the same

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

And I think I also prefer the way FW spreads out progression across the whole game, instead of front loading it in the first half. I was a little thrown by already unlocking intermediary classes at level 10 in Three Houses

Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Also think FW made a wise choice in including the War Arc as a bit of a break from the social stuff. In Three Houses, a cutscene tells you five years has passed and then you’re immediately back to the same old routine

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

I feel like FW does a better job at aging the kids too. Maybe it’s just the specific house I went with (Claude’s house), but none of them look *that* different here

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Like, none of the adults look different after five years? It makes me appreciate more that FW gives a lot of characters who were already adults changed in attire and hairstyle, not just the kids who became adults in the interim

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Reached the timeskip in Three Houses and I appreciate how much quicker I’m at this point than in Fortune’s Weave (even if it’s not quite the same structure), but the stronger execution of it in FW set my expectations too high

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

(Honestly, IMO that take is outdated when the contestants in Season 4 of the regular version treated it as a game too)

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Emotions on display in that one are kind of funny due to all the stuff about the Celebrity version being better because they treat it as a game

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

They missed an opportunity to plant a seed of doubt on Miranda there

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Hannah almost Season 4 Ross’d herself there (at least from the edit)

Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah, I’d have the same reaction as Miranda to that toilet