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Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems with Koei Tecmo and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch on July 26, 2019. The player becomes Byleth, a mercenary who is handed a teaching post at the Officers Academy inside Garreg Mach Monastery, and must choose one of three houses to lead: the Black Eagles of the Adrestian Empire under Edelgard, the Blue Lions of the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus under Dimitri, or the Golden Deer of the Leicester Alliance under Claude. The choice locks the campaign into one of several routes, and the story splits across a five-year timeskip that turns the students from classmates into commanders on opposite sides of a continental war. Between battles the game runs on a monastery calendar in which teaching sessions raise each student's skill ranks, which in turn gate class certification, combat arts, and abilities. Combat replaces the series' weapon triangle with weapon durability, combat arts, battalions, and gambits, and adds the Divine Pulse turn rewind.

• House Selection: the campaign opens with a choice between the Black Eagles, the Blue Lions, and the Golden Deer, and the picked house fixes which students the player teaches, which route the war follows, and which of the game's endings is reachable.
• Monastery Calendar: each month is spent on a calendar of free days, and every day is assigned to exploring Garreg Mach, fighting an auxiliary battle, holding a seminar, or resting, so the teaching plan and the battle plan compete for the same time.
• Instruction and Skill Ranks: Byleth tutors students one on one or in groups to raise their ranks in weapon, magic, and movement skills, and those ranks are what unlock combat arts, abilities, and class certification eligibility.
• Class Certification and Seals: units sit certification exams at the academy using Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Master seals, satisfy the skill and level requirements, and can then reclass freely between every class they have passed.
• Combat Arts and Weapon Durability: weapons carry limited uses instead of a rock-paper-scissors triangle, and combat arts spend extra durability for guaranteed hits, bonus damage, or added effects such as poison and armor breaks.
• Battalions and Gambits: every unit can be assigned a battalion for stat bonuses and a gambit, a limited-use group attack that hits an area, applies rattle effects, and can be boosted by adjacent allies for extra damage or accuracy.
• Crests and Heroes' Relics: crest-bearing characters wield the Heroes' Relics without the health drain that afflicts everyone else, and each relic carries its own crest-locked combat art and passive effect.
• Divine Pulse: a limited-use rewind that rolls the turn back a set number of actions, allowing a misjudged move or a fatal enemy phase to be taken again without restarting the map.
• Two-Part Story: the academy half of the campaign ends in a five-year timeskip, after which the same students return as rival commanders and the map roster, the monastery state, and the available paralogues all change.
• Monster Battles: giant and monstrous enemies carry multiple health bars and breakable barrier tiles, and destroying a tile stuns the monster and opens it to a gambit finish for extra rewards.