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Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Manages to feel like one of the most packed Fire Emblem games while also feeling incomplete. It has 4 routes, but the first half of the game feels very similar in all routes, and two of the routes are also very similar in the second half. Master Classes are horrible, as are gendered classes. The game should have done Divine Pulse via save points instead of a turnwheel, and should have left the weapon triangle in the game. The graphics/animations are not great, and considering what they did with Shadows of Valentia it's shocking how a switch game feels like a downgrade compared to a 3DS game. Last thing I'll mention is Byleth and queer representation. Should have been more queer people in the game, and while Three Houses is better than the rest of the avatar characters in terms of characters being avatarsexual, it's still present. I feel like the game would have been better if Female Byleth were the only Byleth (I do not like Male Byleth), could not have her name changed, and was made more of her own character who's one of the co-protagonists to the other 3 protagonists (depending on route choice), rather than being a (not so great) stand-in for the player. Also the story, while pretty good, leaves things to be desired (they did Edelgard DIRTY).

Tears of the Kingdom: "Demon King? Secret Stone?"

This was not a well-researched post, and I'm not going to try to make one. I haven't played through either of these games too recently, I could be forgetting things or misremembering things.