To me, what we saw does not seem enough to get the "feeling" of this new Fire Emblem

I have the feeling that they did not present the whole plot. Who will the leaders of each house fight against, as they seem to be in peace with each other? Are they going to engage in an unexpected war? Will we see another kindgom trying to invade Fodlan ?

That said, in terms of visuals and style, I really like what I saw. It´s a different art style, compared to what we saw in the 3ds games. And we will for sure meet new battle mechanics, with the intriguing presence of troops for each character.

Another feature that caught my attention were those scenes where we saw the main character running through streets and corridors. So this game may well have something like a "hub", instead of a progression map as we saw in Awakening.

It will definetely be a different Fire Emblem. I´m really looking foward to it.

I agree that the Direct did a poor job of hyping up the game. They really should have shown off some of the more exciting parts of the game.

I'm unfamiliar with this school/academy kind of setting, so I have no opinion on it.
I love how they let you customize your units by choosing their classes and tweaking their focus. I also like that they are keeping the combat arts from Echoes.
Not too worried about the story right now. I'm actually quite happy that it seems to stay away from the overdone plot of country X suddenly invades country Y and prince(ss) Z has to train a bunch of rag-tag misfits to take back their country. All I hope is that it won't be as problematic as Fates' story was.
Biggest issue right now is definitely the character designs. Some of them just look plain dumb, particulary Female Byleth.

If Mario or Zelda isn't in a game, then lower your expectations for it.

I’ll give it that the main plot of the game has not been explained much at all the last two presentations it’s been in, but I’m still excited for Fire Emblem Three Houses. Call it generic or anime all you want, but I like the new art style and the gameplay, from my perspective runs pretty well. Sure the animated cutscenes appear to run like the ones in Echoes, but that’s more likely done as a style by the studio animating the cutscenes as they did with Echoes.

The battles look pretty interesting and I like the customization and training aspects for the students. The teacher/mentor aspect is also pretty interesting and I rarely see games have those types of story concepts.

I get if some are a bit turned off by some of these new features, but I think the game will still be great. I don’t really see how some of these features would be necessarily bad. Every other FE game have been well received by critics outside of maybe the Shadow Dragon remake. I think if they show more of the main story, it could bring in more interest beyond the fandom.

I need to see more, the trailer left me very confused. My favorite so far is Sacred Stones on the GBA and Awakening as a close second on the 3DS, Radiant Dawn was good.

I think it looks great, they could have played it safe but appear to be trying something new with this game. Trailer could have shown more gameplay, but overall I am excited.

I'm excited. I'm sure there will be some grand story that was completely omitted in the direct.

But been playing a bit of Harry Potter Hogwards Battle the card game and so the whole Fire Emblem Hogwarts seems neat. I feel you will really get to know the characters on a personal level before the game starts to get 'intense'

The training of characters looks cool and more thematic than just oh I'm going to drop this scroll on them and they went from a healer to a completely random class.

But you know there has to be some grand scheme, plot. You don't just have kids at school and them learning and doing assignments as a game. Also three houses means this game will immediately have 3 times replayability.

This trailer seemed very focused on the early parts of the game.I imagine something terrible will happen and you'll have to go on an epic quest and sort everything out with your students.

That's what I figure. I mean think of like Fire Emblem Awakening. That could have a direct solely focused on the children aspect and totally ignore that main plot, but when playing that game it is still very much a standard Fire Emblem game.

It's about high school.