You should watch the E3 treehouse footage.

It plays almost exactly like SMT IV. Dungeon crawling (added simple puzzle elements) with monsters running around, appearing and disappearing. You have to slash them to stun them etc. 

I'll check it out.  I had mixed feelings about SMT IV.  A lot of things I liked, but it rREALLY dragged in certain parts.  Specially if you wanted a neutral ending.

You just gotta ignore the loud voices of the treehouse staff though. But be patient and watch it all cause it's pretty awesome IMO.

Fire Emblem Awakening Trailer - Got me excited with the continuation of Marth's bloodline, story, mechanics, and loved the new artstyle.

Fire Emblem Fates Trailer - Got me hyped to the max with two sides to chose, seems very story-driven with grey areas between both sides, story seems to be intense, new mechanics, and the cgi cutscenes is gorgeous. I still watch the trailer at least once a week to keep myself pumped for the American release.

This trailer - wtf is still going on...why is it trying hard to be edgy...and why are there so many characters half-naked.

My opinion still doesn't change about this.

...I come here to say that the battle system is far closer to Persona.

Character-focus turns (each character gets his own turn), a chance to land more hits if the enemy is weak against your attack, how the chain attacks work...and even the way the battlefield is done all point to Persona rather than SMT.

That said, it's a really fun-looking battle system. Just tedious if you're grinding.

So much information about this game has been made available at this point that the "wtf is going on" complaint no longer holds water.

I don't even get the edge comment, and the character designs are just how they're meant to be. It's like asking why everyone in COD wears military uniforms, or why Mario wears overalls.

You just need to accept this is really not a fire emblem game whatsoever. It's a SMT/Persona game that just happens to use some FE characters.

Yep, it is like any character making a cameo in one of the Namco X Capcom/Project X Zone games, except less faithful to the original art styles, since they are mixing the brands so all the FE characters look a little more demon/monster looking.

Yup, I already knew that the moment they revealed the first trailer. My problem is that they're actively using the Fire Emblem spirit and logo to advertise this game, and it just doesn't rub me the right way. This also proves my point that this game does not cater to fire emblem fans at all, dunno about SMT fans but I'm guessing it really doesn't appeal to them either based on YouTube comment sections.

This is going off of first impressions from looking at the trailer alone, and what I can convey out of it. So far, i'm still scratching my head what is the deal with SMT x FE to begin with, and why it's doing an abysmal job at trying to appeal an audience that has never played a Persona game or whatever like me. I got a lot of vibes from the first japanese trailer of fire emblem fates despite not understanding the language, and i'm not feeling it for this one. I'm sorry but i'm not going to bother watching a 45 minute nintendo treehouse video just so I can get a grasp of what's going on when my first impression of the game is just...urgh. I guess my problem with this game the most is how inaccessible it is and how misleading it is.

In fact, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK5-EIzDtKo this got me more excited about the "crossover" than the current trailers.