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I'm honestly not offended since I seriously doubt they're going to pull something like having a twist involving future-nazis, just found it to be a surprising resemblance.

That's why I said I might've been looking too deep into it. But that image doesn't show what I was referring to, here's what I mean. It could just be a weird visual effect but it bears a weirdly striking resemblance to the logo.

Yes. No matter how I look at it, that looks like a modern building to me, which is bloody weird.

It most likely is a coincidence, but I'm still extremely surprised of the visual in general. A skyscraper of all things? Does this mean we're getting some future-sight stuff at the end of the game? So many questions from a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot, god damn.

Fair enough. I can see the reasons to be disappointed and your justification for the way you feel towards the wlw choices, though I don't really get the same vibe from them as others. I do have to disagree though, I feel like the mlm options are a much bigger step forward both for the series and for queer representation in general since I can count perhaps on one hand over the past few years the amount of times we've seen games have actual queer grown men that weren't exaggerated or treated like the butt of some kind of joke. I understand though that this is just my personal preferences, but for me I was expecting another 1 or 2 queer options for this game in general with them obviously going to the "hottest" characters, so my excitement comes more from seeing how IS plan on handling mature gay relationships. If it's done well I think it'll be a surprisingly big step for the series since being able to write queer characters without the typical tropes that come with most of the other supports in the series between younger characters will show some genuine maturity in the way IS does its writing. While I love Leon and Niles and do like how progressive the series was with their characters, to me it felt like they were treated as somewhat different in terms of handling solely because they were bi/gay. Alois and Gilbert don't give off the same sort of vibes at all to me, which I think is a great thing because I love seeing characters who you wouldn't even know whether they're gay or not because they're just ordinary people like the rest of us, if that makes any sense. Then again it's entirely possible it won't work. After Fates I don't want to get my hopes up too high, but to me this marks a hell of a lot of potential for queer characters in the series, and I hope IS only continue to learn and move forward with this. Ah, is that so? I personally want to take it with a grain of salt since people have said before they're avoiding giving details due to spoilers. Would there be as big of an issue if Claude was found out to not have S supports with either gender Byleth due to story reasons?

I can see what you're saying and I do understand why so many people are upset over the choices, but I'm personally happy with them and think overall it's a good step in the right direction. I'm not sure what you mean with the insinuation that the female love options cater especially to straight men, though that might just be because my friend is quite happy with the amount of variety in the female choices for her to pick (Rhea and Sothis in particular, which surprised me, especially Rhea since I was wondering if the game was going to be a bit more... Conservative with her considering her ties to religion in the game?). I'll admit I'm a bit jealous there though since god, Raphael checks all the boxes for me aside from being younger than Byleth I wish the choices were equal for both sides, that I do agree feels a bit like a double-standard on their part, and while I do see what you mean with the lack of a young alpha male-like character as a gay option being a shame I personally feel like Linhardt seems like a good choice as is in terms of being a bisexual student. In terms of Alois and Gil's status though I'm almost certain it'll make a lot more sense why they're bi options when we actually get the game and see how the story unfolds in relation to their characters. While I believe everyone's complaints here are valid, as a gay man I'm just happy to see two gay reps that are unconventional, it feels a lot more natural in a sense since they didn't seem like the types to be "obviously gay" if that makes any sense. I'm more than intrigued to see how IS handle their supports, who knows, they might turn out to have the best gay representation in the series up till this point. If this marks progress that IS will go forward with including more diverse queer representation in their future titles I'm completely for it. Also, just a bit off-topic here but do we actually know if Claude can S rank female Byleth at all?

I might be looking a bit too deep into this but... Is it just me or does the skyscraper at the end of the opening cinematic look like it has the SS symbol on it?

Absolutely love this change, hopefully the support quality is great too since hearing them fully voice-acted and not just being a static conversation should make them a lot more enjoyable.

Well this is surprisingly refreshing. My fear was that the game was going to go the pandering route of making the obviously hot students bi. I can understand why everyone's upset but to me the idea of romancing your students seems a bit gross (post-timeskip is still a bit iffy with me but more acceptable) so seeing them go for making less conventionally-attractive adult men as the gay options is pretty good. That's the sort of genuine diversity I was hoping for considering it's an even rarer sight to see in general. If their supports are well-written then god damn I'll be quite happy. Linhardt is cute too though.

Okay I admit I was not expecting Leo/Takumi to end up in a complete bromance, I'll be damned. That was a funny read.

Well I suppose for one, I'm honestly pleasantly surprised at how well they handled the same-sex S-Supports for Zero and Shara, it didn't come off as badly as I thought it would. Anyways aside from that I really liked Lazwald/Pieri for explaining Pieri's backstory with Lazwald of all people, Kaze/Luna was pretty nice but the ending left me feelsy, still a great support though. Aqua/Harold was a pretty big surprise and is now one of my favorite supports currently. Aside from that, I've found some of the Hoshido royal's supports to be a bit boring if anything, only exceptions that come to mind are Asama/Hinoka and Takumi/Oboro but that's literally it.

I wanted to resist seeing spoilers about the game but I really wanted to see if the game lived up to all the story hype it was advertised for. And it looks like it flopped pretty hard, so I wanted to know is there any chance at all that the translation could fix things? I mean, they do have about 6 more months till the game is localized.

I could easily see Inigo being the son of Virion, since they're both quite the ladiesmen, but that's too obvious. Also I feel like Noire would be the daughter of Kellam, can't put my finger on it but they both seem to match up to me, maybe because they're both timid?