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I can definitely say this. Design aside, the videos they're releasing aren't giving me high hopes for Alear's personality. I mean, their dialogue in that video talking to Etie can be basically be summarized: "I was staring at you because you're so positive and it makes me feel good." Obviously I paraphrased that but that was the general case. My reaction was basically "Wow" to how bad that dialogue was.

The moe thing is a big part of why I'm bugged by the design of the females in general in this game so far. especially with how the faces are being drawn. Chloe in particular, whose face looks way younger than the rest of her body would indicate.

So Sigurd, a lord from a Japan exclusive game, gets formally introduced by Nintendo of America first before the Japanese Twitter says a word about him. Now that is hilarious irony. 😄

To be completely honest, I would hate something like this. It's probably just a me thing, but I want characters to be characters first and fanservice second. To me, making all characters bi just for the sake of allowing the Avatar to romance either of them regardless of gender feels like pandering to me. Like, I'm perfectly okay with it for characters like Dorothea. Her bisexuality is a natural part of her character, not something that's there purely for player amusement. I fully support that, and I support any Engage characters to be naturally bi as well. But going bi for all of them is a big no no for me. I don't care for the "it's a video game, who cares" excuse that I commonly see on the internet. I want characters to be characters first, not something subject to the whims of the player. That's actually what bugs me about Fire Emblem Heroes and Genshin Impact so much. Because dialogue isn't adjusted for gender, any character who shows an interest in the Summoner or the Traveler is essentially bi by default, and it doesn't feel natural.

I'm all for things being molded around what gender protagonist you have, such as with P3P. It bugs me in games like Fire Emblem Heroes and Genshin Impact where nothing changes regardless of what gender you pick. Makes things feel weird to me.

Doesn't sound like him at all to me, but I've been wrong before.

Wow, her outfit is hideous. And that conversation isn't giving me high hopes for her personality. I'm getting Monica (simp) or Camilla (overly doting) vibes from her and I'm not the biggest fan of either one of those.

To add my take on simple stories, yes simple ones can be good. Heck, Sacred Stones and Path of Radiance are both very simple and I think they're 2 of the best stories in the franchise. The reason for my own pessimism is a lack of confidence in Intelligent Systems writers these days. I have not been impressed with them, as I consider Awakening to be a poorly paced, underdeveloped mess of a story and the less said about Fates story the better. I can't even praise them for Three Houses despite how much I loved it's story because most of it was written by Koei Tecmo. So, that's my stance on it. Simple is all well and good but it doesn't automatically excuse everything. Echoes story was okayish so hopefully they learned a little from that.

If you want to hear more of her, she's Tanya in Fire Emblem Heroes as well as Barbara and Xinyan in Genshin Impact.

Definitely not Erica Mendez. As a huge Bernadetta and Ayaka fan, I'd recognize her voice in a heartbeat if it was. Popular guess I'm seeing around reddit and other places is Laura Stahl.

As far as footage goes, feels like NoA is leaning more into showing off older characters as opposed to newer ones.

In case you didn't already know, both the original tweet and the redone tweet are there.

Nice! A brand new image! 😄 Also, NoA, please learn how to spell "Zofia".

I honestly don't have a clue. Looking around, the most popular guess I'm seeing from others is Erik Kimerer. In any case, I am glad we are getting some English versions of the Twitter footage. I hope that continues and they show the other characters, or at least a few of them.

I hope there's lore to it. I liked the library parts of the Monastery with bow extensive the history was on Fodlan.

And that's probably it. They're likely intentionally not showing anything that wasn't in the trailer. I'd settle just for them at least showing some English versions of the character intros we've been getting.

"Hey, they like Marth, right? Let's just show Marth again with nothing else, even using the same visual we just used the other day." NoA (probably).

Pretty much a direct translation of the Japanese tweet that introduced Marth but with an image from the trailer. Would be nice if it meant some new video is coming, since this is pretty far out for them to be doing daily tweets.

Yeah, both screenshots that NoA has shown off are brand new, even if the information associated isn't.

As for my opinion on art takes, I'd say debate is fine so long as no one pulls the objective card. Personally, I hate Engages art style and have found very little from Mika Pikazo that I like in general, but that is merely own subjective opinion and represents no views but my own. As for the section here, renaming it to Twitter information sounds good, and we can leave updating the first post to if NoA shows anything major.

Well at least it looks like they're finally doing something. And if nothing else, we're getting screenshots of stuff outside the trailers, even if it is predictable stuff. 🙂

I can at least handle what looks like a regular skirt, compared to the awkward cut of Female Corrin's armor that feels out of place. And after dealing with how absurdly massive they made Female Byleth's chest, at least somewhere less than that is alright.

I would prefer that as well, though I suppose I can at least praise Female Alear for not being fanservicey compared to Corrin and Byleth.

Well I guess that counts as new content since it wasn't in the trailer. 😄 Yeah, "striking". That's... certainly a word to describe it.

I understand that these are basically just meant to be previews but....wow the dialogue between Alear and the Emblems is super generic. Like wow, probably the most basic stuff they could have come up with. I'm really hoping they don't heavy hand the whole "peace and love" thing as much as they did with Corrin. That was one of my biggest complains about him.