I just finished my final route of FE3H and if I had to rank the four of them I’d have to place them as following:

Golden Deer - Verdant Wind Black Eagles - Silver Snow Black Eagles - Crimson Flower Blue Lions - Azure Moon

They were all wonderfully done to me and just morally gray enough for me to care but I did fine the Moon and Flower routes lacking because both ended without me ever confronting ‘Those who slither in the Dark’.

Knowing they’re there and never defeating just makes it feel like these routes ended on an incomplete note. I also didn’t really enjoy the cast of the Blue Lions till the last few chapters so I didn’t really get attached.

I spent the most time with the Eagles but never confronting the true enemies at the end of Crimson Flower made it lacking to me. In contrast, I love the alternate route of Silver Snow.

The fight with the empire feels personal since I was Edelgards teacher in this story. I was able to care about the class and feel sad when I struck her down. The whole appeal of Crimson Flower was finally giving her a happy ending as a result.

Of them all I still enjoyed the Golden Deer most. The kids were down to earth, I grew attached to them early and I liked having Claude as an ally. Over all, I just enjoy more of that class as a whole and I liked the story of unification it brought.

I believe I’ll even play one more go just to revisit the Golden Deer~

As for the DLC side story, I didn’t hate it nor like it but I will say the final boss annoyed me just enough to never play it again.

That’s all, bye bye~