Fire Emblem's new anime direction (RANT)

[ToraTiger]

sundin13 said:

DerpSandwich said:

I actually enjoyed the demo quite a lot, but all this we're talking about has kept me from taking the plunge.  If I'm going to invest so much time into a story I want to actually care about it.  Egh....maybe someday if I can get it cheap I'll give it a shot, though it hasn't gone down a cent since its release.

Its not even nearly as bad as Mr. Tiger Tiger makes it sound. In fact, it doesn't even really feel overly Japanese. The tone of many of the character interactions are fairly light, but I think it very rarely ventures into anything that would be considered cringeworthy and when it does, I think it does so as a joke. Overall, the gameplay is the main strength of the game and it is amazing, the story as a whole is interesting and carries you along but isn't earth shattering and the character interactions are fun and light for most of the characters.

I think the majority of people would say that the interactions range between innocuous to funny to endearing. Certainly nothing intrusive enough to push you away from an absolutely fantastic game if the gameplay elements sound like they would interest you. Since you enjoyed the demo, I would heavily encourage you to actually try the game for yourself.

I got a challenge for you.  

1. Charge your 3DS.

2. Put in Awakening.

3.  Start game and load up a save with all the characters still alive

4. Go to a shop.

5. Look at everyone's buying comment when you're buying weapons/items for them.   

I promise you I can, and anyone remotely familar with anime can see what cliche trope the characters have, and name 5+ characters in other popular animes with even similar appearance and design just by reading their comment.  Lissa is the typical girly girl, Maribelle is typical rich girl, Vaike is typical tough guy, Lon'qu is typical tough hard guy with a small soft spot ect.ect.

You can literally tell everything about them and how they will react to eachother just by reading 7-10 words of their dialog, and some case much less.  If that isn't one dimesional weak characterization than I dont know what is.