Byleth

Whereas, you know, Three Houses was just like, hey, like just meet like a like and stat requirement and like you have a chance of succeeding.

And I personally hated the stat requirement because I was like, why am I going to train Byleth in like a weapon type? I'm never going to have them use.

Yeah, like that's that's stupid.

I don't like that.

Yeah

... you start the game off and you, you are playing as your avatar character, Ishmael, the Byleth of the game.

A player created character, for one, which I, I thought was kind of wild, just the fact that it's like-

Mm-hmm

... hey, you can change their, their clothes and their skin color and, um, their hair color and, you know, whatever.

Which I mean, it's not like super robust, but you couldn't do that with Byleth.

Like, you know, you-

Yeah

Mostly because the prologue of this game decides to open a few years after this game takes place, in the bad ending of the game, you could put it, and centers around trying to reincarnate Eshmel, the Pale Raven Herald, this game's player insert character.

Uh, well, a- a la Byleth or, uh, what's her name from Engage.

And Character Creator Light means you are definitely picking girl Eshmel, because the boy version definitely looks like they made the girl Eshmel first, and then th- they just fan-arted it later.

I feel like that's what every...

I think I really narrowed in on it.

This game's character, the protagonist you play as, Eshmel, is not Byleth.

And it's not like...

You're not a part of the game until the end.

Boom

... uh, your Byleth becomes, uh, becomes a what you call it? Your Byleth becomes a teacher, and also it turns out is also connected with the progenitor, uh, god, dies at the midpoint-

Oh

... of the, of the thing, and then becomes Super Saiyan and gets resurrected.

[laughs] Uh, uh, well, so you...

It, it also gives you the thing where you get to create your main character again.

Like, you can choose your, your design of Byleth, uh, whether it's masc or fem presenting, but, like- Oh ... you don't get to design Fire Em- Byleth.

You do get to design, uh, Asriel, with, who is your main character in this game.

So there are some things that, that this game has in common.

Sothis, which is, uh, the, the dragon character that was, uh, that was Byleth's...

Like hanging out with Byleth for, for a while in, in Three Houses, she is back.

She is, she shows up in this game and she looks older.

Again, she's a god, maybe she can just change her, her shape at will, but she looks like an older version of Sothis.

I don't know if it's-

Weren't you...

Wasn't Byleth a dragon?

Lore accurate.

Yeah, so that is, I guess that's the equivalent of, like, Byleth.

I like-

Byleth, yeah

... call, I didn't call my character Byleth in that game.

What'd you call yours?

But yeah, Ben.