This review contains spoilers
General:
I kinda like Three Houses and kinda like Warriors games occasionally but neither are something I super care for. That being said I was still interested in seeing the story alternatives. Shez is a much better protagonist than Byleth and the new characters like Arval are nice addition. Somehow this game managed to swap my favorite storyline order.
Blue Lions:
I like how Edelgard's situation is handled in this more than in Three Houses. Writing feels more consistent between routes. Also I like how Thales is actually fought this time. That being said Dimitri not going insane makes his character development nonexistent which makes me mixed on considering this better or worse than Three Houses's version.
Black Eagles:
Edelgard feels like a much better person this time. She no longer wants to kill for the sake of killing. She now teams up with Claude rather than wanting to destroy him and his country. She now doesn't want to kill Dimitri. Heck she doesn't even want to kill Rhea unless she has to. This feels like a completely different character to me which I like. Like she actually talks things out rather than being a "oh you disagree with my ideology so you must due" character which I hated in Three Houses. Also Arval lore, actually seeing the inside of Zahras, and other new stuff is nice. Three Hopes fixed almost everything I disliked about Black Eagles in Three Houses. The only thing I'd change is I wish the ending implied she made peace with Dimitri instead of continuing to fight.
Golden Deer:
I like the extra Claude lore but I like the story execution in Three Houses vastly more. Claude goal doesn't appeal as well as it did before, it lacks a lot of TWSITD lore, no Nemesis, and it just all around wasn't as exciting for me.
I kinda like Three Houses and kinda like Warriors games occasionally but neither are something I super care for. That being said I was still interested in seeing the story alternatives. Shez is a much better protagonist than Byleth and the new characters like Arval are nice addition. Somehow this game managed to swap my favorite storyline order.
Blue Lions:
I like how Edelgard's situation is handled in this more than in Three Houses. Writing feels more consistent between routes. Also I like how Thales is actually fought this time. That being said Dimitri not going insane makes his character development nonexistent which makes me mixed on considering this better or worse than Three Houses's version.
Black Eagles:
Edelgard feels like a much better person this time. She no longer wants to kill for the sake of killing. She now teams up with Claude rather than wanting to destroy him and his country. She now doesn't want to kill Dimitri. Heck she doesn't even want to kill Rhea unless she has to. This feels like a completely different character to me which I like. Like she actually talks things out rather than being a "oh you disagree with my ideology so you must due" character which I hated in Three Houses. Also Arval lore, actually seeing the inside of Zahras, and other new stuff is nice. Three Hopes fixed almost everything I disliked about Black Eagles in Three Houses. The only thing I'd change is I wish the ending implied she made peace with Dimitri instead of continuing to fight.
Golden Deer:
I like the extra Claude lore but I like the story execution in Three Houses vastly more. Claude goal doesn't appeal as well as it did before, it lacks a lot of TWSITD lore, no Nemesis, and it just all around wasn't as exciting for me.