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'Fire Emblem: Three Houses' is Nintendo at its most flirtatious

The drama comes quickly in "Fire Emblem: Three Houses," the latest in Nintendo's wonderfully weird, soap opera-worthy sword-and-sorcery fairy tale franchise.

A teacher introduces her medical practice by also noting that she's single and ready to mingle. A student lays the groundwork for doubting that you're truly your father's daughter. An academic administrator says, "We try to avoid discrimination based on social status," but, well, you know how the upper class can be, so get used to it.

And then there's the professor who can't borrow a book without returning it full of crumbs and grease stains.

Who has time for what may or may not be an oppressive religion, a tenuous peace agreement that threatens to send an empire into

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