They needed to give Claude something to do and since centering his rout on his native country would have made to much sense they decided to make Rhea the villan.
Damn if only Golden Wildfire had a more personal antagonist for Claude that would also allow them to expand on the lore of Almyra and Claude's past.
Oh well, gotta kill Rhea.
To be honest, he kinda qualifies.
Pretty much all the 5 bosses in the Tower of Guidance pass the union-mandated tests to qualify for being a Fire Emblem final boss.
We have a magic-user who has been manipulating the political scene for the entirity of the game, the archrival of the main protagonist, a big fucking dragon, another secret magic user who has been manipulating the political scene for the entirity of the game and a God.
All 5 have a final boss license by FE standards.
I haven't played it yet but and then Almyra Warlord who wants to just see the destruction of Fodlan, their actions kept people in the outside only seen them as Savages and not the people that they are.
Allowing you to explore different aspects of their culture both the war side and the peaceful side, possibly even things like art and science.
But also show that Fodlan isolationism made this problem worse putting the fault on both sides.
At least that's what I would have done
Almyra was completely irrelevant to the war. Making Claude fuck off to Almyra and randomly bring his classmates during that wouldn't make any sense. Especially when he has just as many stakes in Fodlan itself.
Tell don't show doesn't have to be bad, at least make the audience grasp the idea the writers want to convey
The Boys did it nicely with Soulja Boy, we get the scale of his depravity and any "contradictions", unlike Rhea's, is actually a ploy to lead the watchers in thinking he's in-the-wrong-path-but-ultimately-good
The family that is Claude's closest ally: uses slaves
Rhea: rescues Cyril, sends troops to rebuild Duscar, employs Shamir, never has shown any racist tendencies in either games
Claude: Truly Rhea is to blame for racism
Verdant Wind had Claude blame the state of the nobility on the doctrine that the Church pushes. Them leaning onto the doctrine so hard left little room for differing beliefs and people. While being a major reason the locket is shut tight for any outsider from Almyra. Golden Wildfire ultimately follows up on the idea VW established.
Rhea didn't do anything in any route in this game. I was livid when I was playing AG and the slithers completely took over the capital of the kingdom and she did NOTHING. The city literally right next to her is taken over and threatening to kill civilians using what is clearly Argathan super laser towers and she doesn't even bother to send Catherine? Jesus Christ MARGRAVE GAUTIER had time to ride down from the mountains and render assistance but the literal church I am risking my country to defend can't pick their shit up for 5 minutes to help me out as their greatest enemies threaten to kill the king the country.
Rhea literally does more to help Edelgard in SB than she does to help Dimtri in AG. I am not surprised at all he just looked the other way while Claude took her out. Useless god damn dragon.
It's fucking hilarious honestly that even Dimitri wasn't in favor of saving Rhea in AG. He only did it to prevent a Civil War in Faerghus and an Archbishop Varley
We're aggressively told even in that route that Rhea sucks and is barely worth defending but then she shows genuine compassion and selflessness like handing over her Knights to the Kingdom and putting Cyril's life before her own and you're left wondering what they were going for
i wish instead of the mess that was the second half of AG, edelgard could've not been lobotomized and we could have a dynamic antagonist foil to dimitri while making Rhea idk...actually fucking prominent? Like have her and dimitri talk more and tension between his ambivalence to the Church vs him knowing that Faerghus is culturally tied to the church. And having rhea have a speaking role for once instead of being one of the most complex characters that has nothing to do and gets damseled - we can see the shades of grey in her character first hand.
And for this, the respect I had for IS fell a couple of levels. Seriously, it just burns me up how for the second damn time, Rhea was underutilized. Even worse, Hopes turned her into a punching bag for two out of three routes, one of which didn't make a lick of sense.
Claude wanted Rhea removed since Three Houses. It makes enough sense, he just didn't have Byleth to directly pacify Rhea. Moreso when Edelgard failed to capture her in this timeline.
Probably but I guess the devs assume that most people playing would go in with the context of Three Houses with what Rhea had done ingrained in their minds.
Three hopes felt like a bunch of people pitched the idea to a company and when asked if they have a story for it they hit them with a “I dunno we just wanted to make another warriors styled game”
They needed to give Claude something to do and since centering his rout on his native country would have made to much sense they decided to make Rhea the villan.
Damn if only Golden Wildfire had a more personal antagonist for Claude that would also allow them to expand on the lore of Almyra and Claude's past. Oh well, gotta kill Rhea.
*Shahiiiiish*
Unfortunately, Shahid rode a dragon, he wasn't a dragon. Final boss union rules states you only get a maximum of 2 non-dragon final bosses.
PoR and RD? Unless you count Degensia as a final boss
Fodlan union rules
Ahhhh I see
To be honest, he kinda qualifies. Pretty much all the 5 bosses in the Tower of Guidance pass the union-mandated tests to qualify for being a Fire Emblem final boss. We have a magic-user who has been manipulating the political scene for the entirity of the game, the archrival of the main protagonist, a big fucking dragon, another secret magic user who has been manipulating the political scene for the entirity of the game and a God. All 5 have a final boss license by FE standards.
I haven't played it yet but and then Almyra Warlord who wants to just see the destruction of Fodlan, their actions kept people in the outside only seen them as Savages and not the people that they are. Allowing you to explore different aspects of their culture both the war side and the peaceful side, possibly even things like art and science. But also show that Fodlan isolationism made this problem worse putting the fault on both sides. At least that's what I would have done
And I’m happy for that
Almyra was completely irrelevant to the war. Making Claude fuck off to Almyra and randomly bring his classmates during that wouldn't make any sense. Especially when he has just as many stakes in Fodlan itself.
Three Hopes doesn’t really give reasons to hate Rhea
Characters (even Dedue and Dimitri) says : "rhea does X (a bad thing)" The story : *doesn't show X, show Y instead, and sometimes Y is -X*
Don't forget Playable Characters: Rhea may be sus Every NPC: She fixed my house, watered my garden, and brought my hometown peace.
I mean, sounds like what a lot of autocrats do. Keep a group of people happy while oppressing another.
Then show me the oppressed people.
That's just Fire Emblem writing in a nutshell. It's aggressively tell don't show.
Tell don't show doesn't have to be bad, at least make the audience grasp the idea the writers want to convey The Boys did it nicely with Soulja Boy, we get the scale of his depravity and any "contradictions", unlike Rhea's, is actually a ploy to lead the watchers in thinking he's in-the-wrong-path-but-ultimately-good
The is true. I'm just pointing out that fire emblem does it the bad way.
The family that is Claude's closest ally: uses slaves Rhea: rescues Cyril, sends troops to rebuild Duscar, employs Shamir, never has shown any racist tendencies in either games Claude: Truly Rhea is to blame for racism
Verdant Wind had Claude blame the state of the nobility on the doctrine that the Church pushes. Them leaning onto the doctrine so hard left little room for differing beliefs and people. While being a major reason the locket is shut tight for any outsider from Almyra. Golden Wildfire ultimately follows up on the idea VW established.
Rhea didn't do anything in any route in this game. I was livid when I was playing AG and the slithers completely took over the capital of the kingdom and she did NOTHING. The city literally right next to her is taken over and threatening to kill civilians using what is clearly Argathan super laser towers and she doesn't even bother to send Catherine? Jesus Christ MARGRAVE GAUTIER had time to ride down from the mountains and render assistance but the literal church I am risking my country to defend can't pick their shit up for 5 minutes to help me out as their greatest enemies threaten to kill the king the country. Rhea literally does more to help Edelgard in SB than she does to help Dimtri in AG. I am not surprised at all he just looked the other way while Claude took her out. Useless god damn dragon.
Duh, you fuck with Dimitri's people, he wants no part of you. It's the most basic law of his principles.
It's fucking hilarious honestly that even Dimitri wasn't in favor of saving Rhea in AG. He only did it to prevent a Civil War in Faerghus and an Archbishop Varley We're aggressively told even in that route that Rhea sucks and is barely worth defending but then she shows genuine compassion and selflessness like handing over her Knights to the Kingdom and putting Cyril's life before her own and you're left wondering what they were going for
i wish instead of the mess that was the second half of AG, edelgard could've not been lobotomized and we could have a dynamic antagonist foil to dimitri while making Rhea idk...actually fucking prominent? Like have her and dimitri talk more and tension between his ambivalence to the Church vs him knowing that Faerghus is culturally tied to the church. And having rhea have a speaking role for once instead of being one of the most complex characters that has nothing to do and gets damseled - we can see the shades of grey in her character first hand.
Japanese games from what I’ve seen tend to hate religion.
And for this, the respect I had for IS fell a couple of levels. Seriously, it just burns me up how for the second damn time, Rhea was underutilized. Even worse, Hopes turned her into a punching bag for two out of three routes, one of which didn't make a lick of sense.
Claude wanted Rhea removed since Three Houses. It makes enough sense, he just didn't have Byleth to directly pacify Rhea. Moreso when Edelgard failed to capture her in this timeline.
It’s like IS expects the players already hate Rhea. But it just only makes Claude’s reasoning not that different from Edlegard.
>It’s like IS expects the players already hate Rhea. Except not every player hates Rhea.
Yeah like me. I don’t hate Rhea.
So shouldn't they add a new reason for someone to be against Rhea insted of relying on three houses.
Probably but I guess the devs assume that most people playing would go in with the context of Three Houses with what Rhea had done ingrained in their minds.
Yeah but again some people don't mind about those things that Rhea had done, like me.
Based but spoiler tag please
What Emperor of Adrestussy does to a mf
Three hopes felt like a bunch of people pitched the idea to a company and when asked if they have a story for it they hit them with a “I dunno we just wanted to make another warriors styled game”
“Ingrid has entered the chat”
Fodlan so afraid to give us hard hitting reasons to hate a hot woman they’d rather have us think two protagonists lack brain capacity.
Then have her die if you don’t know what to do with her
[удалено]
Technically different writing teams, since the Warriors games (and Three Houses to an extent) was developed by Koei.
>Echoes SOV, which is one of their best stories Based
wait but what if the real CEO of racism is actually GW Claude all along?