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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2468 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for October 3, 2025

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I think Three Houses is good but overambitious. The idea of multiple story routes through the game is neat, but having to do four playthroughs to get the full story is just absurd. In my playthrough, I did the church route and the story with the people pulling the strings completely fizzles out (apparently it gets handled better in the Golden Deer route, but you should resolve the main villains competently without requiring multiple playthroughs). And as you said, it's not like the routes differ enough to make them interesting every time. I hope that in the future they don't try the multiple routes thing again, and stick to telling a single coherent story.

I did the church route and the story with the people pulling the strings completely fizzles out

Yeah, agreed. For me, this part went like this: everyone arrives at the huge and mysterious underground city and gapes in wonder. What could await us down there? Danger? Treasure? Answers?

Followed by electronic music of all things. And then the battle starts and Warp -> unlock door -> kill the end boss in literally <1min. And that was it for TWSITD, apparently. A thousand years of scheming and all that buildup for what?

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