Recently in FE3H:
- Remire Village
- Tales of the Red Canyon
- Advanced classes, sob
- Goddess Tower (ooooohhhhhh)
It’s funny, I (feel like) I’m flying blind here. I pulled up a list of chapters but of course the titles are so vague that they spark absolutely no memory. I stopped yesterday before the battle at the end of the month and I looked ahead but have no idea what the battle actually is. I keep going back to “I don’t know what’s coming” and “I don’t know what I’m doing” because even though that’s in the back of my head, there’s less anxiety about “getting it wrong” and missing out on story.
Side note: that’s one of my big structural annoyances with BG3. The main scenario quest(s) are huge and the side quests are many, but the side quests aren’t really optional. I’m in that FFXIV mindset where the side quests are truly side quests and if you don’t complete them, it doesn’t affect the main scenario quest. Side quests give you exp, lore, special rewards, but you’re not missing out on an entire chunk of the game if you miss those quests. Yes, I would like a spoon-feeding option that gives me quest markers. (In game; I already keep this third party map open on my second monitor to make sure I’m not missing anything.) I’m working to accept that I’m not chill about this and I don’t want to be!
Detour over! The point is that I appreciate FE3H being another game that’s up front about what’s available and what’s at stake, especially with things like the paralogue battles. Is this relic worth getting? Is there another battle I should prioritize? Do I care about this character’s lore? (No, Hapi, all I want is Balthus’s relic, please.)
Month 12 is the chapter with the Goddess Tower. I think I’ve played a male Byleth in every playthrough but one, so the guy-on-guy S-rank options are very limited: Lindhardt and Yuri. However! Yuri is a character from the DLC, so he is not an option for the whole Goddess Tower thing. Cue my character running to the fishing pier on the last free day before the event, stuffing Lindhardt with tasty baked trees, fishing floats, and a tea time to speed-level him to relationship rank B and meet him in the tower. Could I have ~romanced a female character? Probably, but I won’t. Did I realize in this moment, as I’m writing this, that I could have blown some NG+ renown points and level up the relationship quickly for the Goddess Tower? Unfortunately. Oh well!