Shengar

Let's wait until someone posted verified summary for the game's plot caused I'm also confused as hell, but don't want to put any judgement on it yet. Is this related to buddy system?

I'm more in agreement with this. While indeed there is nothing wrong with lighthearted moment in a serious situation, I would hardly call the Amie part and other excessive fanservice. Lighthearted moment that add something into the characters, show how they are like human being, is like a stern character try to make a joke in a very grim situation, or how supposedly cruel and ruthless person loves animal and feed them every morning before the war. Rubbing their face is not. While skinship isn't bad on its own, they implement it pretty poorly in this game. This is why I don't have any objection with support conversation because they could opened up for those lighthearted moment providing the writer have the skills, but greatly irked when seeing amie feature (though I still laughed due to how absolutely stupid it is).

Me too! If anything, we need more character like Granny Gloria from VC3 in video games: Judging from Kozaki's past design works, I'm pretty sure the guy can make badass design for old man and woman alike. But I guess it's really depends on the director(s) on what kind story they want to tell. So even when the designer have the talent, if the director doesn't want it, it's just a pipe dream.

But I thought Next Gen unit are recruited from different world? Still not sure about this. While the inclusion of 2nd generation unit is absolutely optional this time, I really don't like their cheap way of implementing the concept. I guess FE4 way of 2nd generation unit implementation requires too much effort. No one likes old character in their game Plus it requires too much effort to create new sprites and design

An occasional commentary is fine, but let us and you, the streamer, focus on the game. Not to mention the music in this game. The music! Yeah, but 4chan is more likely known to spread falsehood in order to incite internet shitstorm. Still, if the line really that lewd, it wouldn't be surprising if Nintendo cut it in the western release.

Don't worry, despite selling 500k in Japan, FEA is pretty lacking in that department I can't guarantee on FEFates though

This is where I appreciate silent streamer like hanayama cause I can't concentrate on what happened on the chat map and the music while Maurice is talking >.< Always take anything from 4chan with a grain of salt though. I mean, do we have confirmation on the translation?

Is that the level where you have to defend certain spots? It was discovery run, so Hama just pick whatever unit he likes instead of perfomance. Also besides placement, the enemy have more passive AI behavior even in Chapter 27. As for Nohr, while it seems they have better growth individually, on average they are on par with Hoshido so it'll be much, much harder later on for Nohr player considering the enemy placement, map layout, and AI behaviour will be trickier.

Upon meeting with Foleo: "M'lady"

At least we all agree that Iago is the most responsible with anything bad in the game.

Yeah I keep reminding on the stream chat that "this is on normal guys". The enemy hits like a truck, our units have barely any HP, yet somehow it feels much fair that Awakening. Maybe it because the enemy stats and weapon aren't haxxed like the case with Awakening.

Yeah some Kozaki's best design actually shows on the supposedly generic character lol This is also true in Awakening case if you have the artbook.

Can we really trust this translation? What happened if it is a deliberate troll to stir older fans?

Indeed many criticism from the old fans on Awakening is reasonable and justified. You don't actually need to play previous games in the series to know that the game have bland map design, lack of variety in mission objective, the game being rushed after the first half, and absolutely awful story. But many older fans criticism seems to get into pretty disingenuous territory pretty fast especially regarding the characters and the art style. The worst thing is saying that the game somehow targeting the ever illusory "otaku"/"anime" audience and used "dating sim" to address Awakening pairing feature in a non-ironic manner. That have been used over and over by some vocal veteran fans, and undoubtedly irked newer fans who never considered themselves as part of the accused audience as liking anime doesn't mean you're into creepy, stupid pervy stuffs. Being accused of what you're not doing can get things personal real quick. Just because the game become more ridden with fanservice, don't scapegoat it to other group that barely have any part in this.

Exactly my thought after seeing that chart

While it is ridiculous on how it is presented in the game, skinship can actually heal emotional wound faster in many situation.

I honestly want to know what the director(s) think when they (or one of them) propose skinship mini game.

I'm bothered with how the presentation of the fanservice affect the unit cloth design like Camilla. Awakening have stupid design like Nowi but she is a side character and never featured in cutscene. It is more bothersome to me since Camilla exerts an aura of real authority which is real shame due to how I can't take her seriously because of her clothes. Things like incest or underage marriage (please, just please don't use pedophile since that is one hell of a strong word) while I don't agree with them personally, those never really bothers me as long as it is not shoved into my face and not the central thing in the game. But the prospect of the gameplay side like map design, more tinkered difficulty, balanced pair up and stat growth really offsets those fanservice aspect that I hardly think of them at the moment.

To be fair though, game development become more expensive as day goes by while the price staying the same. In the case of FE: Fates though, it's scummy even when the amount of content is quite tremendous.

I agree pretty much jarring inconsistency that IS want to make with this game, but this part is absolute hyperbole, unnecessary, and detract your post from your own argument. It denied people who do enjoy interaction between characters in itself and implied they enjoying it for sexual gratification. You said it yourself: It's hard to not take a game criticism personally when one get accused of something that they not do, even when that is not the actual intention.

I watch the stream but can't remember. How many turn it takes before Hama finally decided to finish the last boss?

I don't know if it's way better, but at the very least I guess it's more serviceable.