I feel like this game had SO MUCH wasted potential, I feel like it wanted really badly to be Three Houses. While it had the heavily politically focused plot, it lacked the heart of what makes these type of games addicting. While this games real-time combat had a chokehold on me for the first half, it got repetitive real quickly. This game had absolutely no likeable characters, everyone felt very surface level and their designs were lacking any type of uniqueness, a lot of the characters even looked the same (Light almost white hair and pale complexion).
The plot was moving too quickly to even fully understand what was going on and what I did understand, I just found bland and uninteresting. While the characters seemed to have different opinions about the political side of things, there were no branching paths or choices to be made, a lot of the dialogue just left like "I morally don't agree with you but I'll follow whatever you say because I'm loyal to the Blue Foxes", why have differing opinions if we don't do anything about it? I feel like the game wanted to have all these features but it just fell short in the long run.
I ran into a difficulty curve around chapter 5, I think the fight was called 'Waltaquin in Purgatory" where I was getting my ass kicked, and I reluctantly decided to grind, after about a dozen or so mid-level fights, I was able to complete the mission but after that, I felt like I was over-leveled and all of the fights felt way too easy, mind you, I only gained about 3-5 levels per character, I think I was around 37 or 38 for every character.
This game has a ton of upgrade systems (perhaps one too many) and offers some game-breaking items late-game, including a Sages Hat that gives 2 EP for any damage taken which is absolutely ridiculous but incredibly helpful and it also gave legendary weapons for a pretty penny, but especially late-game, money is not hard to come by.
I felt pretty lukewarm about this game overall, I felt like it had so many elements missing, if a sequel ever does come out, I'm sure I'll try it, but I'm going to hope its executed better.