Fire Emblem's new anime direction (RANT)

[ToraTiger]

Airaku said:
You have a somewhat compelling argument on your hands. Your fallacy is simply that you are turned off by the "anime" art style. Fire Emblem has always had a classic Japanese art style to it. Even Fire Emblem: Path or Radiance had it (phenomenal game btw, it was my first FE game). The interesting thing about Fire Emblems cut scenes is that it is a blend of both cel-shading and 3D. It's hard to call it one or the other as it is a unique blend of both that you can't really find else where. It adds a very special layer of depth to the visuals that really stands out and defines the cut scenes. Of course this is completely personal tastes but I love it!

I don't get how you see the whole marriage system as a "waifu" simulator, but you sure gave me a laugh and a smile. Thank you for that! :) I absolutely loved the whole "waifu sim" as you call it. It added a whole new gameplay mechanic to the series and honestly I have yet to see a game do it better. Getting characters married and then they have children who come back in time to help you. If they don't get married, well then I guess the children can't be born. Besides I freaking love Tharja! Her crazy insane obsession with me made her use some seriously messed up voodoo magic and then suddenly I had this crazy insane obsession with her! -_-

The Fire Emblem series is debatably Nintendo's darkest franchise. At least one of them, the games are incredibly mature in terms of subject matters. Not in the sense of blood and gore, but a different form of violence. The games are very political and heavily focused on geo-domination, conquest, and power. I liked how Awakening shaked things up and went back to the roots with Grima. While still having conquest with Walhart, though he does not come remotely close to Black Knight. Black Knight while not being a major villain, he was one of the series most formidable foes and a serious threat to Ike and the world he lived in.

The Fire Emblem series is phenomenal and Awakening in my opinion was easily one of the best and the story was without a doubt one of my favorites in video games. Plot has always been a strong point for the series and Awakening was no different. The plot twist blew me away, and I know it blew many other fans away as well! These games are quite dark and gritty at times and that is a huge part of it's universe.

It's more than the art style.  You see the older games while obviously japanese didn't look like the typical low budget anime shows you see now a days () Older FE art was considerably more realistic in how they draw the face and with the details.  In awakening there is almost no details, the characters are skinny as phuck and they're facial expressions are typical and pronounced.  e.i mad face, sad face, shy face, sexy face, bland face, ect.

On the topic of art style, compare the art on Path of Radiance, compare the cutscenes in both games to awakening and you will see what im talking about with the simplified anime kiddish art.

I like the marriage mechanic, but the conversations and were bland and the characters weren't very deep.  If they had this dynamic in Path of raidance I probably would have liked it, since that game had actually good deep characters that I liked. 

I agree about the maturity, but Awakening was basic and kiddy regardless of how dark it was.   In awakening the characters didnt even have conversations about the dead characters after they die like in POR (Get everyone killed in the first 4 chapters of POR and the whole tone of that part changes, freaking awesome) Also in awakening the characters usually dont even die or change the story they just "retreat" and remain in the  cutscenes just the same.  I loved the permadeath feature it made for some great outcomes in some chapters, but in awakening like that. 

I bet Tharja is into some weird kinky sh!t btw.   50 shades of Robin