Fire Emblem: Three Houses lets itself down a bit with too much downtime

Opinion by Matt S.

I want to say this upfront: I'm having a great time with this new Fire Emblem that Nintendo's releasing on Nintendo Switch. I'm looking forward to getting my review out there later on in the month, because there's a lot to love about it. But there is one element that I wanted to discuss as something emblematic (hah) of a wider issue with the games industry - Fire Emblem Three Houses has some destructive bloat in it, and it achieves that via a mandatory hub that players need to spend time in between missions, is thematically and dramatically empty, and which provides players with far too much downtime to labour through.

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