Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170217011737/@comment-25936766-20170226214738

WC-83 wrote:

The same dilemma is used in Fire Emblem Fates I'm told where you have to pick between your natural family and the adopted one you were raised/kidnapped in, except that's an actual dillemma, since you were kidnapped and your natural family remembers you and missed you, but your adopted family loved you as their own and have been there all your life, so it's an actually hard choice. Oh, so many problems with that bit though....

1) It's never an actual choice because whatever family you chose depends on which version you bought. So you made your choice from the start. The only way to actually have a choice is to buy the other routes, which includes the Third route: Revelations. Made even worse by how, well, it reveals quite a lot of important plot points.

2) The Japan Over-Nationalism that bleeds into Hoshido. For example: If you pick Nohr, the Avatar constantly questions the decision and even tries to switch sides multiple times. If you pick Hoshido, he never does and overall acts as if it was the perfect choice.

3) The third path, Revelations. Lucas calls it DLC but it isn't, it's a 3rd Route, you're just forced to buy it to play it. The actual DLC is less "plot important".

Technically, you choose to side with neither Nohr nor Hoshido, since you can't bring yourself to fight either of your families. But it quickly turns into siding with Both, forging an alliance to fight the real third faction.

So overall, that game is a bad example of "hard choice between Blood and Family" because it screws that up before you even get started.

Just saying.