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Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes (2022)

Duration: 38:05

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4:57 - Final Battle

This is the final battle against the Church of Seiros. We don't have to contend with Catherine on this stage what with murdering her back when we sacrificed Randolph. Good times. But we do have every other member of the church to fight, which is Cyril, Flayn, and Seteth. And they all come back after being defeated the first time. Flayn and Seteth will buff themselves after the other has been defeated on their second appearance. If we didn't recruit Byleth and Jeralt, we'd also have one more knight to fight.

Mercedes is also here, deciding to stay back to help the church because she's just that nice. But this gets Jeritza to show up on our side, pretty much out of nowhere as he hadn't appeared in this story before now. He'll recruit Mercedes and that gives you two more allies to help defeat the church.

Rhea will rain magic down on you partway into the stage, and respawning phantom soldiers will appear until you disable the thingamajigs that produce them. Your party is split at the start of the stage, but you join up towards the end and can fight Seteth, Flayn, and Rhea with your full force.

Once you reach Rhea and fight her, she'll transform into the Immaculate One, which is the most dangerous monster type enemy I've encountered thus far. She has some massive AoE attacks and your allies are probably going to struggle dodging them. On harder difficulties, her attacks have outright killed party members that I couldn't take direct control of. (Which is why I start playing on Casual Mode instead of Classic Mode after this, because fuck losing a character because the AI can't play properly.) Her attacks do have a pretty big charge time though and the AoE markers make it pretty easy to know how to dodge them. The only risk you're really at here is if you get too greedy and try to get in too many hits before she finishes her charge on her next attack.

Once we kill Rhea, we get a very brief ending cutscene that says the war between the Empire and Kingdom is still ongoing and who knows what they're gonna do now. Which is...pretty unsatisfactory. The endings in this game are not great and they all reek of either "we ran out of time" or "we're planning for DLC". Possibly both. After the credits, you get a short scene where you hear a few lines from whoever you gave the Merc Whistle to. Or you hear lines from Shez, if you didn't give it to anyone because you completely forgot to when replaying to see the alternate versions of stages.

Speaking of, we've got three more videos before I'm done with Golden Wildfire, for the stages that changed depending on if you recruited Byleth and Jeralt.

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