| ToraTiger said: Plenty of the characters in POR were deep, or at least not cliches like everyone in Awakening. Jill was a noble girl, who idolized her father even though she was a bit evil herself, he wasn't. Henry is just a typical shockgag dark humor anime character. Gregor and Vaike were literally the worst written characters I've seen in a RPG in a while. Devdan had a dark side, you have to recruit him and only reason he does is because of his soft spot for children. Tormod was a badass rebell kid who liked the Laguz, and Ricken was a typical weak underconfident mage who wants to help. Fredrick = Typical authority figure and guardian. Well mannered and distrustful. That is his whole design. Soren= unconventional, racist, dark, brash, rude and only opened up to like 2 people throughout the game. More deep than everyone in FE:A. I've seen Naesala like characters in other games, but regardless he is still probably the deepest character in the FE series. How he gets with the other bird girl and everything. And honestly after hearing you comparing the characters with similar roles makes me 2x sure as how bland Awakenings characters were compared to the games with Ike in them. |
The strength in Awakening's characters was through the endearing and entertaining dialogue between the characters when improving their social links. This brought out a lot of aspects of the characters personalities and backstories in a surprising organic way, making all of the relationships feel like the true pairing, no matter who you chose. I think that the pallete of pairing brings out diversity in pretty much every character, pushing them past cliche and into something more believable and human.
While the story doesn't really lend itself to character studies, I think you are hyperbolizing the gap between Awakening characters and characters elsewhere in the series. I understand that you don't like the tone, but that really doesn't make your point overly strong.
