🔥 Fire Emblem: Three Houses
I've heard several people saying Claude's final boss being Nemesis doesn't fit him narratively and that they should have swapped it with the berserk Rhea from Silver Snow, but honestly? I could not disagree more.
Beside the fact that from what I know about the SS final boss I kinda hate it narratively, Nemesis and the Elites rising from their graves are a pretty neat symbolism of Fodlan's true bloody history that got just uncovered, but also stand for everything wrong about Fodlan that Claude stands against, the greed, lust for power and most importantly sheer hatred for anyone that isn't them, especially the Nabateans. Fuck's sake, they committed genocide back when they were alive and the first thing they do when they rise from the dead is destroying everything on their way to Garreg Mach.
The two huge problems are the lack of build up (because apparently they weren't a part of the Agarthans' plans at all and they just kept them in their refrigerator for Sothis knows what reason, and you find out about them at the literally final chapter), but also the incredibly poor execution.
It's just, no one has anything meaningful to say about the whole thing, Claude doesn't even recognize the Elites and they don't talk either, Nemesis just keeps yelling about Seiros and how he'll kill everyone and it's just such a colossal waste.
Gimme Claude actually recognizing the Elites and having something meaningful to say, give me special boss convos between the Elites and their descendants (if you don't want the Elites to talk that's fine, just have their descendants monologue on how they feel about the whole situation because COME ON we were robbed of things like Catherine, Sylvain and Lorenz and so many others), give me special convos between Seteth, Flayn, Catherine and Cyril against Nemesis. Hell, maybe you could even have Byleth's one and only voiced line when they face him. It's just, there's so much you could do with this idea and they chose to do nothing and it drives me insane.
Oh, and Claude calling Nemesis a crusty old bastard is one of the funniest lines of the whole game. 10/10.
But if you want a spicier hot take, Dorothea should fucking hate Edelgard on non-CF Part 2