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Skullwaker on 12 October 2015
Kotastic said:
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. 

You do not have to watch the full Treehouse to understand what this game is about. You can't complain about not having enough information about something when there is in fact information out there and you just refuse to look into it. That's not how it works.

Furthermore, there is nothing misleading about this game. It was introduced as a crossover a long time ago, obviously very early in development, and underwent changes since then. Hence, the change of the name (no, it is not SMTxFE anymore). They've been very upfront with how this game is since the trailer back in April, and I can't believe that people are still trying to claim that they're misleading us, when that's not the case at all. 

This isn't a traditional crossover in the sense of Project X Zone or Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright. It's more like Kingdom Hearts than anything, and it's about time people understand that. This isn't Fire Emblem. It's also not Shin Megami Tensei. However, it is a new game with gameplay elements and characters from those games. If Persona or anything like Persona isn't your thing, then you won't enjoy this game. And that's okay.



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Kotastic on 12 October 2015
Skullwaker said:
Kotastic said:
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. 

You do not have to watch the full Treehouse to understand what this game is about. You can't complain about not having enough information about something when there is in fact information out there and you just refuse to look into it. That's not how it works.

Furthermore, there is nothing misleading about this game. It was introduced as a crossover a long time ago, obviously very early in development, and underwent changes since then. Hence, the change of the name (no, it is not SMTxFE anymore). They've been very upfront with how this game is since the trailer back in April, and I can't believe that people are still trying to claim that they're misleading us, when that's not the case at all. 

This isn't a traditional crossover in the sense of Project X Zone or Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright. It's more like Kingdom Hearts than anything, and it's about time people understand that. This isn't Fire Emblem. It's also not Shin Megami Tensei. However, it is a new game with gameplay elements and characters from those games. If Persona or anything like Persona isn't your thing, then you won't enjoy this game. And that's okay.

True that is my fault that I don't know what's going on because I'm not willing to watch a 45 minutes of a Nintendo Treehouse video, but I'm saying that an average person (the general audience) wouldn't either.

It doesn't help that Atlus gave no information about the crossover since the reveal 2 years ago, and crushed many people's imagination of what an epic game (in both fanbases's fanboy minds, not saying that this isn't epic to some others so who am I to judge) it could've been. And yes, I did notice the name change. However, I can't read Japanese and that huge #FE in the title doesn't help separate the crossover image, which still misled me until you just told me. 

Whatever, I can see that this argument is going nowhere so i'll just stop here.



stpaulmagic on 12 October 2015
Kotastic said:
stpaulmagic said:


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.

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.

I will admit it's a controversial game for both fan bases since it's basically a brand new IP that's not quite like FE or SMT. I also agree it's dissapointing there are basically no FE elements in the game other than characters and the weapon triangle being used.

I guess I was just trying to say it is what it is at this point love it or hate it. When I saw the first trailer last year I was not feeling it at all, so I decided to play SMT IV to get a better idea of what gameplay might be like and I ended up loving it so I'm still giving SMTxFE a chance.

Hey at least we have a new classic Fire Emblem game coming out soon and it's looking freaking amazing, gotta look on the bright side.