And what do you think of the gameplay and difficulty (maps, strategy), compared to Awakening ?

Nintendo says that White is like Awakening (so, I will play Black Kingdom first I think), is it true ?

White is supposed to be for Awakening fans.

I'm pretty sure Black has the darker, deeper storyline for older FE fans

White is a lot harder than Awakening in Normal/Classic, believe me.

there is no line because over sexualization IS artistic freedom.  if the artist would choose to make everybody naked, thats totaly fine, its his vision and not the vision of some hardliners of the victorian age...  go to saudi arabia if you cant stand half naked women.

I wouldn't count on that. The girls in Black (Elise and Camilla) are much closer to Vita fan-service clichés than the ones in White (more or less the classic FE heroines). Same goes with the guys from what I've seen. 

and you haven't seen the stroking mini-game yet!

nah, seriously, this isn't "oversexualition" at all. This is just average fan-service in today's RPGs, people want that.

How do you think it sold so well? Many Vita folks came for the cute & sexy things.

It's just modern gaming, deal with it.

As a sidenote, I'm nearing the end of White and the storyline is indeed extremely weak.

And, something that I haven't seen here : about the children....

In Awakening, the children of our characters come back from the future, so it's important to marry your characters in order to have children coming back to help you. The "time travel story" is really poorly used IMO (no mention of that at the end of the story, really ?), but at least the children have a purpose and an explanation.

Now, in Fates, why do you need to marry in the story ? Why do we have the Waifu and kids system ? FOR NOTHING. The "explanation" about that, from what I've read on the internet from players, is :

Your characters marry and have sex, and then put the foetus/baby (I don't know exactly) in a capsule-thingy linked to another dimension where the time pass faster. So your kids grow really fast and come to help you when they come out of their capsule. Story ? ZERO. Explanations ? ZERO. Interest ? Besides giving an alibi for having sex with your characters, ZERO.


- "Hey guys ! Let's put in our game some naked chicks, to have sex and children with, it will help the sales !
- Yeah, it worked last time, but it has nothing to do in the story of this game ?
- What's the point ? We'll find a BS one-liner to explain that, no sweat ! Naked girls AND sex, nobody will try to think and understand !"

Your right, it's not really ecchi. Ecchi characters usually have panties, and she clearly doesn't. They didn't draw the sex, but she's still naked, seriously. Oriental dancer outfit ? For a battle mage ? Why ?

And because she's only a "side character", she can be naked without questions ? Like I said, it's just lazy fan service with no other purpose and not even remotely related to the game. 

The problem here is when talking about drawing the line it can simply be argued that if it's not breaking the law the's no line to be drawn but rather a form of acceptance that even if what you see is not to your tastes it's still someone's artistic vision.