All this does is make me wish for a Wii U version. Looks like I'm stuck waiting for SMTxFE.

Well both are coming until 2016 so we are stuck waiting either way.

What. That's nowhere near good enough for SK. Too modest, too appropriate, too tame.

I personally have no issues with fan service in games or any other media nor do I have issues with what some call "tasteless" non-art that has no intellectual or artistic value, as if having intellectual and artistic value are mandatory prerequisites for something being created.

That said, I can understand why some longtime fans of the series would be disappointed with it. After all, it's a sudden change and not everyone will be pleased. It's a series that has, for the most part, been relatively wholesome in its designs for sometime now. Is all of this optional for those players? I would not support blatant censorship of this for the West, though I fully expect NoA and NoE to censor some parts of this even if I don't support it at all.

This is all outside of the main missions, kind of like a Pokemon Amie if you have played Pokemon X/Y, one could just ignore all this content, which it's just like a distraction if you're not advancing in the story.

Huh? This is a first party Nintendo game. Always has been.

How old are you, 90?

I've always wondered that too.

The OP has more problem than just that, but this stark overnight change in art and direction.  I can post a bunch of problems I had with Awakening (Which I state in the OP but don't clarify all  the details)

If you want all my complaints about the game and not just the art, setting, direction, story, ect here.

HERE YOU GO.

 The story is awful, the characters are flat, Pair Up breaks the game, the maps are repetitive, there's way too much pointless sexualization, the soundtrack really isn't that good, the DLC (other than Future Past, I've heard) is bad, some of the new official localizations we got are dumb (if you're going to make a point of removing Thracia's references, actually do it instead of half-assing it), the difficulty is either the new dumb fake stuff we're getting now or is just nonexistent, the world is horribly developed, the main protagonists and villains are a special brand of unacceptably awful horrendous terrible quality...

I mean, the gameplay follows the basic FE formula, so there's fun to be had, but all this game has over the other FE games are little streamlining bits - which partially are only helpful because of this game's faults. I shouldn't want to skip enemy phase because I should care what happens on enemy phase. Automatic restocking and such are nice additions, though. The interface is pretty solid, too. Way better than the SNES one.             

I'm not against sexuality or boobs in games or media as a whole, it would be damn near impossible to get away from it in this day and age.  Literally everything has a piece of sex appeal in it, especially  It's offpointing to FE imo because of how much of a stark difference it is from the modest and aunthetcity of the earlier games.  

 Now it just looks like slice-of-life anime Fire Emblem eddition.  It's only when it gets to the point of Game Of Thrones do I see sexualization as a real detrimiment and completely offputting to something. Like I said, I was raised away from stuff like this, same for many of friends who also play FE, have similar complaints that I do, but of course they are going to play the game away

That being said, I'll probably pass on this game for a while because I probably won't enjoy it due to the setting, characters, plots, aesthetics, sexualization ect.  Again this is a maybe, so I can't judge, but based on what I'm hearing from people who have played the JPN version, they kinda confirms all my problems.   Also this is coming from the perspective of a fan of the older games, to newcomers who haven't made any associations I'm sure this will be a great game to them, especially if they're into anime, and anime of this type.