Edgy Ella's Extra Epic Essentials

I learned of Medievil's existence and now low-key its in my top 10. I have no clue why this game isn't more popular or got a modern day sequel like Crash 4 or something (im aware of the 2019 remake but that's a remake in my mind).

Where do I even begin. Second highest base strength in the game and tied with War Master and Barbarossa (Claude’s personal class, which is basically just Wyvern Lord with bows) for the highest strength growth. Tied with Falcon Knight and Barbarossa for highest base speed. Passively grants Avoid +10. Can Canto in and out of enemy range. It’s a flying class. Weakness to bows can basically be toggled on and off by dismounting. There are few notable mages across all four routes that can take advantage of their alleged magic weakness, and the few that exist can mostly be dealt with via Canto hit and runs. It’s not gender locked. It’s not DLC locked. Promotion requirements can be easily fudged by soft resetting. You’re not actually locked to just axes and lances and can still use whatever weapon you want. It shares almost all these traits with its preceding class, Wyvern Rider, which also has the benefit of being way easier to get into than Warrior do you might as well funnel your axe users down the wyvern route while you’re at it.

It’s comically overtuned. The only things I can think of that hold it back are the fact you can’t freely equip whatever adjutant or battalion to them, but the former is mostly irrelevant and the latter isn’t that big of a deal—even without NG+ or DLC, there’s still enough flying battalions to mostly fill your deployment slots with. The minuscule list of problems that Wyvern Lords can’t deal with (like Meteor Mages) can usually be handled by your mages, basically the only units in the game you’ll want to keep out of a flying class (unless you have the DLC in which case flying magic units!)

All of this unfortunately hinders Three Houses’ open reclass system, which otherwise feels tailor made to cater to people who like making weird, out there unit builds. Which is a shame, because I like making weird, out there unit builds! Fates got this down almost perfect with its reclass system. Give me tryhard builds like Hero Xander and Life and Death Ophelia and goofy shit like Great Master Benny and Sniper Beruka any time. But the problem with Three Houses is that anyone can access any class as long as you train them properly (which the game makes trivially easy to do), and when there’s one option that’s so clearly better than all the rest, there’s no reason to want to mess around and experiment with the other classes. Why should I ever invest in Great Knight or War Master when the returns I’d get from them pale in comparison to what I’d get out of that same unit as a Wyvern Lord? Why bother keeping Edelgard in her slow, heavy armor personal class when she can literally solo the multi-health bar final boss of her route as a Wyvern Lord with minimal investment? Why waste a precious deployment slot on my poor sword infantry units when they’ll just fall behind my high movement, Canto-boosted fliers? All of this is elevated by the fact that Three Houses really wants you to play the game at least four times, once for every route, so you’re bound to venture off the beaten path and experiment with reclassing at least a little bit. The second you figure out how powerful fliers are, the game snaps in half.

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