Fire Emblem: Three Houses review – fantasy combat meets college soap opera
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/jul/25/fire-emblem-three-houses-review-nintendo-switch
Nintendo Switch; Intelligent Systems/NintendoThis boarding-school daydream is grandiose and silly, but a gorgeous look and revised combat help it sing
At a time when the egotism and idiocy of a generation of private schoolboys threatens to plunge Britain beneath the waves, there is something strangely comforting about Fire Emblem: Three Houses, a fantasy role-playing game in which you essentially train up a bunch of budding Etonians on behalf of the Spanish Inquisition. Set in the “olde worlde” of Fódlan, the game casts you as a young professor at Garreg Mach Monastery, a warlike religious school for the offspring of princes from three rival nations.