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FE16 not being here means clearly that there will be a Fe direct, with it's trailer, new dlc for warriors, news about heroes and obviously an anime beause Lucina in heroes/s

I've lost all the hype, if the trailer at E3 isn't extremely amazing I doubt I'll get exited, and after this much disappointment I expect nothing from them. Also, announcing smash before FE sounds like shooting your own feet to me, people will watch E3 for it, and won't pay attention to FE.

You realize that Owain will likely have supports with Leo and Niles right?

Maybe you already know about this but here is a support between them that happened in the nohrian festival DLC. I think that Owain might have a support with Marth, for obvious reasons, or Navarre, being a legendary swordsman or something like that. Also, I wish Koei would't have taken the characters from the beginnig of awakening, they could have made Chon'sin references in their supports with the fates cast.

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Marth and Lucina had the same animations in Fates, that doesn't mean that they should have the same moveset. A shy character like Sakura, in a class like priestess, which animations at the end of each battle shows a kind of curtsy/ bow (pun 100% intended), with elegance and class, isn't suited to use acrobatic archery imo, it creates a dissonance between what I'm seeing and what I feel I should be seeing.

I ship RobinxLucina but even then I have some problems with it that I don't like to think about, it's not the usual "she is your best friend daughter", because she really isn't and he meets her when she is around his age. The problem is that if I remember correctly Morgan is implied to come from the future past DLC, if she were to be Lucina's daughter...

Technically, they did it at least once in 2012 or something.

No snail would stay alive after the sheer quantity of salt generated.

It definitely wouldn't be enough for me, if after all this wait they only show a title, my levels of saltiness wouldn't be measurable.

Navarre > Lyn forever.

Lucina will probably get one with Owain at least. And Lyn is a Navarre who isn't Navarre.

The fun part is that the awakening dlc characters will probably focus on fates too, Owain will have a support with Leo and Niles for sure, and Olivia with Azura because dancer and singer.

I have to say that I hoped that Minerva wouldn't be a clone, but I'm more disappointed in her specials, they seem kinda lame to me. Also, is Navarre a Lyn clone? I haven't played a lot with her, I don't even have her complete moveset, but I saw a reference to the swordmaster crit in SD and wanted to ask. It was great seeing Linde appear with her coat too.

Robin Hood playable confirmed.

I know it would be weird, but it would still be better than a random dress imo.

I know I'll be dissapointed, but I hope Minerva isn't a clone. When you think about it they did a good work with Camilla's moveset, a dragon rider should be unique by itself, and it would suit minerva, yet they gave her magic because malig knights use tomes, even more, they gave her fire magic, which she uses when you first fight against her, so it would be strange for Minerva to have it, even more when you think that she can't use magic at all. Anyway, I'd prefer pantless Marth, Gaiden Celica or Awakening Tiki over the skins we got, but at least they aren't that bad.

I hope they don't split the story in two games, they don't need to make two versions to have good map design, but I don't want to pay more to have a game that answers it's own questions, or to be able to use all the characters, at least not now that the game will be on the switch, and therefore more expensive.

Why chosing one when you can have both? Obviously camel ryders and lion ryders would be the promotions of dromedary ryders, duh.

I was talking in general, there are lots of manga with normal armor, specially if you go back a few years. It depends on the "trend", currently people seem to like more "modernized" outfits than before. When I talked about overdesigned characters I was talking about hair and face, which are a minority in Awakening (I'm not saying there aren't). In Flavia's case I always thought that her hair was like, having a ponytail with afro, I know it was just an example though. I personally liked more the realistic aproach to SoV than the modernized Awakening/Fates, though there are still some questionable designs in it too, but I suppose that people treat them as a lesser evil. And yes, Aversa was pretty terrible. There where characters with modified models, like Henry, but I see what you mean. I assume that they didn't want too many differences between characters because they didn't want the model to take a lot of space, and there's also the reclassing, but that's only me making assumptions so... To me his FE works are kinda in the middle, having characters like Gregor in the normal side and others like Camilla in the exagerated, but yes it's pretty 50-50, what shows us that his style isn't really over the top, he adapts it to the setting of the game/anime/manga, it just happens that his more known works are in the "too anime" zone. What I was talking about though, is the anatomical/proportinal thing, while some of the things I said are fanservicy, their body is correct, and the number of character with huge breast is pretty low. And for Lucky Chloe having a big rack, I'd say no. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4ShwgtCIAAUfMA.jpg I was talking more in an in-universe sense, that maids aren't really for combat so their uniform isn't either, but you are right, it's kinda like those movies that try really hard to seem cool but fail. As I said before, I also prefer real armors, it's just that love his artstyle, so it's balanced. There's also the fact that I'm easily pleased, but I remember seeing the SoV trailer and thinking "wow, their armors make sense!". He has portraits of Ogma, Navarre and Jagen, but they're only sketches. For Benny I'll say the same you said about Valbar, I can imagine how someone really strong would be able to move in it. I wouldn't really that say that it is more tipical anime than previous artist, from Senri Kita and some characters from Sachiko Wada I feel huge vibes of shoujo manga, which is not bad, they simply have different influences. Just asking, have you seen Kozaki's twitter sketches about the fates characters doing their routines? Oboro sewing, Effie eating, Takumi after archery practice, etc. If you don't like his style I suppose it won't amaze you, but it was a good change after their designs in the game.

Are you talking about his art style or his designs? If it's the former I want to see them (honestly), if it's the later the same can be sais about older FE character designs. In Fates, sure, there is a minority of characters clearly over the top, but most of them are "normal", and in Awakening there are even less characters with anime hair. As for the outfits, it has already been said that he doesn't design most of them. In most cases, he uses a slightly modified class design. What I mean is, he might be guilty of doing Camilla's outfit, but not of doing Kellam's armor or Sully not wearing pants, because that's part of their class design. As I said, he is the character designer, so more like "Camilla should look like...", I'm not saying that they told him to make her with huge boobs, but they probably descrived her as a seductress or something like that. Big Breast being a him thing though? Are you comparing them to real life breasts or anime ones, because if you don't pay attention to NMH there aren't that many, Fates has 4, but Awakening doesn't have and neither does heroes, Pokemon GO, Under the Dog, Speed Grapher or Lucky Chloe and Bubuki Buranki had one. He also participed in an anime about samurais I think, and some mangas too, which I haven't read because they aren't translated, but when I searched them a while ago they didn't have big breasted women, so much for a "him thing". Of course, if you are comparing them to real life breasts, the number grous up, but i'd say there are still moe characters with normal ones. As I said he isn't the character designer, but let's see, maids have ribbons because their purpose is being esthetically pleasing, not combat units. Male have a belt too, but I'm not going to defend a stupid decision. Again, he doesn't design the clases, and they use the same model for everyone in the same class, and Benny makes sense. He wears red because he is the Kain of the game. As I said before don't judge his work seeing only seeing NMH, he has more "grounded" works too and then come cat donuts. He used different colors though, Inigo/Gregor/Severa,Sumia/Cordelia/Cynthia, Selena/Laslow... Everyone likes defferent tastes, and it's perfectly fine to not like him, but I felt there were a lot of thing that could be corrected.

Well, M!CorrinxAzura is kind of pushed through fates, even if they won't make it like that here, it makes more sense to me to have Corrin as him than her.

Xane's design is as good as your best designed unit.

You know that he was the character designer, not the one for classes, right? So those last three lines are nothing when talking about Kozaki, but even if he had dedsigned them, you know that Awakening happened 2000 years after SD, right? Maybe your clothes are inspired by the roman empire, but I can tell you that mine do not. About who is better, it comes to personal preference, while I like both of them as designers, I much prefer Kozaki's style.

RIP Xane.