After just recently playing through Awakening, (Started last week), and seeing the new trailers for SMT x Fire Emblem and Fire Emblem: If, I can honestly say I am so appaulded at how they pretty much changed the whole feel and tone of the game from fantasy epic to anime-waifu-similator with magic.  The amount of Anime cliches I seen in Awakening completely addauld me at how little they were trying on the characters, and just using tired anime character tropes to appeal to weeaboos or something.  

Why Nintendo?  What happened to the Path of Radiance Fire Emblem that was deep, concious, well paced and had good characters?  

Also as for awakening its not a bad game, but I feel as though its weaker than most games in the series for several reasons.  

1.) Tired story elements.

2.) No deep plot devices

3.) The "waifus" literally made me want to pull my hair out at how stupid and unrealistic they acted. The whole game and all the female characters just came off as a 40 year old okatu's dream of marrying unrealistic anime women.   I honestly couldn't stand to listen to support  conversations, it was like I was reading a bad haram anime.

4.) Map navigating is inconsistent as well.  (Not much of a flaw, but stil..)

5.) The pairup/dual strike menachinc is unconsistant as hell

After seeing how Japanese'y and chiki chiki SMT x FE is I am now certain I am done with this franchise.  The way nintendo just cok slaps its fans by changing everything on some series to appeal to a certain audience is annoying as fuk for the hardcore fans we appriciated their games since day one.  

Congrats Nintendo you have officially lost my money. Not that it matters with all the otaku people sworming to buy this game for all the wrong reasons, they can afford to piss off their original fanbase.  

Nothing to see here. I misunderstood.

But I disagree

You pretty much lost me at that point.

Art direction/story can certainly be a turnoff. That's one of the things that turned me off to Final Fantasy... I knew I'd reached the end of my FF career during FF X when I found myself turning the TV screen off during certain cutscenes as the thought of my father seeing it embarrassed the heck out of me.

That seemingly endless scene with Tidus and Yuna playing around in some lake at night with some corny romance song going in the background... That was my limit.

Thankfully Fire Emblem's changes have not yet been nearly so dramatic and they're still great games, but I've been wary ever since ffx lol

Btw, I don't mean to offend anyone who likes the path FF has gone down... If that's your thing then great! The transitions from the sprites and less linear gameplay of NES/SNES to whatever you call FFX on was a bit much for me (though FFXI was fun :D)

So off topic... My bad.

How so?  I meant to say harem not Haram btw lulz

Care to elaborate?  Because all my friends who played Awakening and weren't Anime fans said the exact same thing about the waifus and their characterisation. 

Plz

I never really understood the whole waifu thing... I thought it was a joke @_@

While I understand that there may have been a tonal shift, I do not think that made the series objectively weaker in any way. It is merely a question of taste and while it is unfortunate that the new Fire Emblems don't fit yours, I personally adore this direction, as it has some of the most interesting social elements I have ever experienced in a game.

On top of that there is the great combat and interesting story which really makes it feel like the complete package of amazing.

Good post brah, and I agree to a degree.  Final Fantasy X is pretty much the only final Fantasy game like that with all the lovey stuff and hot anime chicks.  FF XII was amazing and got me back into the series.  13 was a dissapointment.

But going through the history of FF, you would know that romance always played a big part in the games, not so much with FE beside one on the SNES, and the characters were never anime-esque to the point were literally every character was a cliche like they are in Awakening