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Fire Emblem: Three Houses Tip - How To Soft Reset The Game

If I could turn back time...

Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a game with a lot of different choices, and a game where things can go terribly wrong--your favorite characters can die permanently on the battlefield or you might accidentally waste a whole day of free time in the dining hall with people you don't like. You could accidentally offend someone in a conversation, or you might have a disastrously embarrassing tea party with someone you're trying to get closer too.

Thankfully, Fire Emblem has an autosave function and it prompts you to manually save very regularly. But the one thing it doesn't tell you is how to boot back into the main menu to load a previous save. That's what we're here for.

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To soft reset the game and go back to the main menu, press and hold: [-] + [+] + [L] + [R].You're welcome.

For more in-game know-how, check our complete collection of essential advice and tips for Fire Emblem: Three Houses. It's a huge game, and after our multiple playthroughs, we have plenty of guidance we're dying to give you.

For a behind-the-scenes look at the game, read our interview with the directors of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, where they talk about the series' increasing popularity in the West, the dramatic changes they made to the combat system, and the refreshing new character designs.

In our Fire Emblem: Three Houses review, Kallie Plagge concluded: "When all was said and done, all I could think about was starting another playthrough… whether you're managing inventories or battlefields, it's the kind of game that's hard to put down, even when it's over."

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