Well now we know why it's taking over 6 months to be localized in America...

Fanservice. (and don't forget the tharja-like too)

They took some of the most popular characters in awakening and bring them here.

Is this too much for me? No. Absolutely not. Like someone else mentioned it would be perfect for senran kagura. But for Fire Emblem it is a tonal shift that is completely out of line with previous Fire Emblem games (barring awakening maybe) and it shouldn't be divorced from it's legacy.

On another note the reason I don't think an outfit like this make sense is not because it's (of course) completely impractical on the battlefield, it's a fantasy setting everything is basically fine as soon as magic is involved, but because it looks ultra uncomfortable. And depending on the climate you're in, cold.

No woman in her right mind would wear something like this on a regular basis unless she wanted to impress someone with it. And even then, she'd probably be happy to be out of it as fast as possible. I feel like if you're going to war you'd want to be as comfotable as possible to be able to concentrate on the fight and not constantly have the thong that rides too far up your arsecrack, or the fact that your giant boobs are uncomfortably swinging all over the place, or your high heel stuck in the mud, occupying your mind.

Contrary to popular belief big boobs (at least natural ones) don't stand up by themselves. In fact the bigger they are, the more they tend to follow gravity. A friend of mine literally holds her boobs in her hands when she hurrys up or down stairs, while wearing no, or only a loose bra, because bouncing boobs actually hurt.

If you at all consts want to have a scantly clad girl in battle, give me one in a sports bra, a semi loose fitting shirt, panties, socks (maybe kneepads) and combat boots. At least she will be comfortable like that.

As I said in a previous post, I don' mind all of these things if the games setting and environement/story or lack thereof are over the top enough to suspend my disbelief. I don't mind Bayonetta or Senran Kagura at all, at least with those two it fits the setting and they're honest about what they're doing. With FE it feels shoehorned in to me.

I just read that you can make the Cordelia lookalike Severa's daughter. That would hurt.

Fire Emblem was never a game which was supposed to have "fanservice" in my eyes. It's one thing having a bit in DLC or having some vague hints, but this seems a bit much in the main story for what should be a reasonably serious title. Something like this is fine though, because it isn't so "in your face".

Sure it's an optional mode for the most part, which is fine and some others might enjoy it. Good for them. But this isn't what I played Radiant Dawn for several hundred hours for. So long as the core game is fine, then that's the most important thing. Everything else can be just brushed off, regardless of how needless it may be.

Wow. Well Fire Emblem has gone full anime. Not a good thing.

I don't care, namely when the franchise was saved from introducing the new style. Cannot hate something that allowed the franchise to exist and still have the core stuff still in it. 

Pretty much these two answers.  I have nothing against sexualization in games if it was conceptualize/created with that type of character (I.e Dead Or Alive, Bayonetta) But once you start becoming this excessive with a franchise that remained wholesome for 20 years then it definitely becomes a probable

Okay.

Pair up is straight broken, do I really need to explain that any further?   Pair up 6 units with S-supports at an advance class and you literally can pound through the whole game on Normal, Hard and Most of Lunatic once you get pass the first few chapters.  Emeny reinforements are broken and cheap difficulty forcing you play the chapters multiple times.  I dislike the episodic structure was removed from awakening, I understand this is a portable game so they couldn't bore with interesting texts and talking like in the GC/Wii game, but literally all the story scenes are too short, none of the characters get any non-support character development or screen time.  Reminds me of Naruto when they only focus on the starting 4 characters and the rest of the cast just get ignored.  The music wasn't appealing imo, but that's my opinion of course, the graphics were good in battle, the maps and map graphics are absouletly terrible, the maps are beyond basic (Yes, this is the biggest complaint any FE fan would have with awakening) comparing it to the deep maps and interesting, reinforce, shove, command,  tactic in the wii/gc game. s Awakening came off straight as a streamlined mobile spinoff of FE.  Sure there are some nice streamlined bits and interesting deep mechanics but the reason they are convient is due to how shallow the game design is. 

And do I really need to say anything about the plot and villians?  This might be one of the worst stories I've ever seen an RPG, the DLC is overpriced and not worth it, again not my choice to buy it, but some things on there were cool (bride class) but for the most part it piss me off the waste of effort, and literally all of DLC characters that were suppose to represent the older characters look just like generic solideres in the enemies army but colored differently. 

I'm not saying that me being religious is going to stop me from playing perverted games, but like with overly violent games that just play on gore scare tactics, things like sex appeal are just offputting to me because they come off as just trying to be edgy to get people impressive/intrigued with what is otherwise a very weak product.  Most of the time.  Game of Thrones is a clear example of something playing off of sex appeal and gore to be edgy and attract people to it.  The books were well done, but the show was completely ruined due to how much edgy elements they threw into it.

While I do like some gorey sexy games, but it has to be done right and artful.  Catherine was done well imo, this FE fan service is just coming off as cringeworthy fan service literally just slapped into what is suppose to be a very serious game just to get horny kids to buy it.  Like someone said in this thread if you want to get off, watch some porn, don't get why we need to see poorly done sex in everything these days,. 

I liked the earlier FE games because they had in interesting art style, strong characters and came off as wholesome.  

From what I've seen of fates and playing Awakening all three of these aspects are put on the backburner to make the game easily digestable to the general population, and to appeal to the vast amount of fans of animes which share similar art style.