{"id":208083,"date":"2021-03-04T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/attack-titan-game-fire-emblem-three-houses-problem-branching-narrative\/"},"modified":"2021-03-04T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:58:00","slug":"the-next-attack-on-titan-game-has-a-fire-emblem-three-houses-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/03\/04\/the-next-attack-on-titan-game-has-a-fire-emblem-three-houses-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Attack on Titan Game Has a Fire Emblem: Three Houses Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In its first few arcs, smash-hit manga and anime Attack on Titan<\/em><\/strong> portrayed a straightforward struggle between the remnants of humanity and the\u00a0enormous Titans. While at times a gruesome and depressing journey, this struggle was undoubtedly compelling. That straightforward nature of the conflict especially benefitted\u00a0the transition to the most recent Attack on Titan<\/em><\/a> video game, Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle<\/em>.\u00a0Players created their own character to explore cities, and it wasn’t hard to establish the custom character’s motivation. Like everyone else, players were\u00a0driven by the goal of reclaiming the world from Titans and avenging their loved ones.<\/p>\n

However, with the most recent anime and manga installments,\u00a0Attack on Titan<\/em> has moved into more morally ambiguous territory. This has caused a dramatic tone shift, and if the developers of the video games decide to make a final game covering the story’s final arcs, it will be harder to integrate a custom protagonist, as that character will be at wrenching moral crossroads.\u00a0In this sense, such a character would have a lot in common with Byleth, the protagonist of Fire Emblem: Three Houses<\/em><\/a>. By comparing the two franchises, it will become clear why integrating a choice-based narrative will be very difficult in a future\u00a0Attack on Titan<\/em> game, and should not be a priority.<\/p>\n

WARNING:<\/strong> Spoilers for the\u00a0Attack on Titan<\/em> anime and manga are found below, up\u00a0to the most recent manga chapters.<\/p>\n

RELATED:\u00a0Attack on Titan Gets Final Season Trailer<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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While\u00a0the tone is quite different, the mechanics of Attack on Titan 2<\/em>‘s story mode bear a strong resemblance to those of Fire Emblem: Three Houses<\/em>. The military barracks operate in a very similar fashion to Fire Emblem: Three Houses<\/em>\u2019 Garreg Mach Monastery<\/a>. The player builds bonds with canon characters, which improves their efficacy in battle.\u00a0To do so, the player can invite others on missions, give them gifts, and so on, unlocking vignettes\u00a0that show the characters’ bonds deepening.<\/p>\n

Where the two stories diverge is how the player’s relationship with fellow characters evolves. Like their fellow Survey Corps members, the original character wants to see what is beyond the walls. To that end, the character ultimately sacrifices themselves for a heroic last stand against a surge of oncoming Titans so their allies can live.\u00a0On the other hand, Byleth\u00a0discovers that several of Garreg Mach’s students have irreconcilable ambitions for the future of their continent, meaning Byleth must\u00a0choose who to side with in a massive four-party civil war that ravages Fodlan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the final arcs of Attack on Titan<\/em><\/a>, the island of Paradis finds itself the target of an imminent global invasion. In the chaos, the Survey Corps\u00a0splits into\u00a0two main factions.\u00a0One is\u00a0the militant Jaegerists, who support Eren Jaeger\u2019s cataclysmic Rumbling,\u00a0killing every living thing outside of the island to ensure the island’s inhabitants will finally be safe. The other is an alliance lead by remaining Titan Shifters like Armin Arlert, who want to stop Eren’s plans.\u00a0While the manga\u2019s narrative principally follows and supports Armin and his allies, a video game could allow the player to support Eren and explore an alternate plotline.<\/p>\n

If\u00a0the player character could align with Eren, this would be similar to one of the most striking moments from Fire Emblem: Three Houses<\/em>.\u00a0Namely, this would be\u00a0the moment when Byleth\u00a0can choose to align with newly-exposed\u00a0shadow agent and revolutionary Edelgard<\/a>, unlocking a story route called Crimson Flower. While Edelgard\u2019s actions are framed as villainous on any other story route, this changes in Crimson Flower; Byleth\u2019s involvement helps to temper Edelgard\u2019s more\u00a0sadistic tendencies. Edelgard’s war is still very destructive, but with Byleth’s counsel, she refrains from the needless violence that condemns her to an\u00a0untimely death in every other story route.<\/p>\n

To be fair, there’s a major difference between Byleth joining Edelgard, and a player-created character joining Eren.\u00a0Edelgard wishes to create a meritocratic society free of its current obsession with family lineage. Even if she must take down armies and a theocracy to succeed, this is only incidental to her goal. For Eren, however, his endgame is to activate the Rumbling and kill the vast majority of all life on the planet. There is no way for Eren to be merciful en route to his goal, as his goal is to cause death. This almost by nature precludes the possibility of a satisfying ending for this route,\u00a0unlike\u00a0Crimson Flower and other classic Nintendo stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RELATED: 10 Nintendo Games Where The Ending Is Darker Than The Story<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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While the role-playing aspects of\u00a0a choice-based narrative for\u00a0an Attack on Titan<\/em>\u00a0character may be exciting, it\u00a0is probably\u00a0more satisfying to just align the player character with Armin’s anti-Rumbling alliance. By the time Armin and his allies confront Eren, almost every surviving major Survey Corps member<\/a>\u00a0and Marleyan military member is working together. This would give the player the chance to experience iconic moments first-hand next to iconic allies. Given how elaborate the manga’s climatic set pieces become, it is probably better to focus on one route, rather than split development time among multiple routes.<\/p>\n

Plus, any route aligned with Eren would be difficult to populate with meaningful allies. Eren\u2019s role in the series becomes much smaller after he activates the Rumbling, so he himself would probably not be playable. While some\u00a0important characters do become Jaegerists, like Floch Forster, they simply aren’t as iconic as the alliance that forms to fight Eren. Plus, any opportunity to play as Eren in\u00a0his final\u00a0Founding Titan form would introduce the chance for him to lose. While there\u2019s no guarantee Eren’s plan will prevail at the end of the series, dying prematurely due to player error would be a pathetic way for any villain to go<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although pre-existing Attack on Titan<\/em>\u00a0games adhere to the pattern of Fire Emblem: Three Houses<\/em> in regards to building bonds between characters, it\u2019s probably best for a hypothetical\u00a0Attack on Titan 3<\/em> game not to adopt a choice-based narrative. Even if the player could justify their original character joining the Jaegerists and aiding Eren in world annihilation, it simply wouldn\u2019t be a satisfying experience. The series has so far produced some great video game gems<\/a>, and it\u2019s not worth risking a sour conclusion just to offer fans a Three Houses<\/em>-style branching progression system.<\/p>\n

Attack on Titan 2; Final Battle<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>is now available for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PC.<\/p>\n

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