I'd say it goes by pairs. You have the NES games, which looked similar between those, the two GBA games, which had the same art style, the two console versions, which had their own same art style, and now the two 3DS games, which also feature their own same art style.

So, it is really like Zelda!

I wish to see a FE like the first cutscene in FEif announcement. It would be so epic.

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.

*Sees avatar*

Nothing you say is credible here.  Go. 

Warned - Leadified

^^Yes XD

Western fan gets angry that a Japanese game is made to appeal to Japanese tastes. Accuses the developer of trying to appeal to "weeaboos" instead of, you know, Japanese people.

This is awesome and hilarious.

I get your frustrations with SMT x FE. I was hoping for something a little more... Shin Megami, and not Persona. And what`s worth, the game doesn`t seem much like either game. It seems like its own thing, but I was hoping for more... of a cross I guess. Hardly anything seems recognizable. I`m at least glad it`s still around, and I`ll give it a shot.

I don`t get the hate for the marriage system in FE:A. I thought it was great and was a nice twist to the series that we never got to see. (Marriage was in FE 4 for the SF) The conversations were great and really fun to read. I`m not sure what you were hoping for, but I enjoyed them. Seems a bit of a bummer you are dropping FE and SMT x FE over small issues in one game. The next game may end up being really great.

Imagine Lucina summoning a terrific Demon in FE style battles. All in HD. Oh god.