Three Houses IV [MINOR Spoilers][Black Eagles]

Loved the Black Eagles route way more than I thought I would! While I didn't love all the characters in the house (linhardt 😒) I had a blast. The maps were same hat as the Blue Lions route, but playing on hard was so much better. I had a lot of fun. Tell me why the paralogue maps are better than the main campaign though lmao. The game was so much harder without a pegasus knight and a dancer lol. (Decided not to make Dorothea a dancer again since I had recruited her & made her one in the Blue Lions route.)

I didn't recruit anyone this time so the very last map was almost impossible to get through with everyone alive on classic. Peg knights showing up on my backline and to the right, SO ANNOYING!!! 4 mages, 1 fighter, 1 cav, 1 wyvern, 1 tank, and 1 bow all with bad growths since midgame almost all got WRECKED by those bastards LMAO terrible.
I eventually did it after several tries though (yay) and even got my preferred end pairs heh.
I love love love Hubie and Bernie together 😊 (also I didnt get to see Hubie & Ferdie's A support so I still don't know why ppl ship them lol)

There were some things that Black Eagles lacked, like a cool cutscene before Byleth goes into the 5-year coma and ( map_spoilers )

However, I loved the ending so much more than the Blue Lions one. I S Supported Edelgard too and it was amazing. (Didn't S Support Dimitri in the Blue Lions route bc I played as a man. Maybe S Supporting him would have made it more impactful 🤔 but that's lazy writing lol). I actually believed Edelgard's reliance on and love of Byleth more than Dimitri's. Also Edelgard's "lets return in 5 years" speech hit me harder than Dimitri's, but Dimitri's timeskip reveal was way better.

Though the Black Eagles initially had a group dynamic that didn't feel as fun and cohesive as the Blue Lions , I fell in love with them and grew to like some of them quite unexpectedly, namely Hubert & Caspar (I already loved Ferdie & Bernie was easy to like) but some of them I didn't quite ever care for (Lindhart... & Petra was a little meh). The storyline was great, I loved it a lot. Rhea was hot when she wanted to rip my heart from my chest 😅💦. And yeah, I liked killing the Blue lions lol. Sylvain's confrontation dialogue for F!Byleth was funny. Oh my god, Dedue tho wow he did that. But I didn't feel as sad killing them as I did when I had to kill Ferdinand in the Blue Lions route lol. Maybe because I just missed recruiting him by a hair and then he was the very first unit I had to kill lol. I love Ferdinand von Aegir.

I have to say that even though I loved all the Blue Lions characters and they had great growths and killed everything on sight and the storyline did make me real emotional at times, the Black Eagles route is my favorite so far.
I am going to replay the Blue Lions route again with a female Byleth after I finish all the other routes and maaayyybbbee will replay the other routes a second time as the opposite genders too. Just started my Golden Deer playthrough though in which I think I'm going to recruit my favorite characters in contrast to my no recruitment BE run and my one recruited unit in BL lol. Also I'm thinking about ranking my favorite characters when I finish the Golden Deer route. ( Route_Spoilers? )