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I feel bad I don't post much on this blog anymore, especially because I still see people newly following it. The last few Fire Emblem titles, Three Hopes, Shadows, and now Fortune's Weave are just NOT ones I can get excited for though so after Engage I feel like there's just been too much of a FE drought.

Hopefully we'll get another decent Fire Emblem game someday 😩

#the same thing happened to my interest in Zelda after BotW #i just cant get into the new ones #theres still a chance that MAYBE fortunes weave might be good and ill play it #but multiple lords/routes and the setting bei g the same world as three houses is an abysmally bad sign #ill have to wait and see what others say about it

I want fodlan to go away

mood

I'm so sick of that game too

Hnnghnngnng

#tired of itttt

:(

#i want fodlan to go awaaay #i never want to hear “crests” or “nabataens” ever agaaainn #looking forward to rhythm heaven

Did Intsys put out the full results for the CYL furry cup? I do t care about the winners but im curious about how other characters placed.

#fire emblem heroes

The total number of votes was even smaller this year huh? And how many of the votes were from people like me who don't even play FEH anymore?

Nobody plays FEH anymore?

What was even the point of doing the Furry CYL when its obvious that any voting event where they haven't already won is just going to be a 3 houses house moron sweep.

What a waste of time.

furry cyl is happening rn and we can vote for Soren!!

The furry game is having its own CYL? Neat! Everyone vote for Soren so we can get dragon Soren!

#i dont play the game but i would love to see it.

briochelapin

wanted to do this meme for ikesoren, but i feel like they would both be angry

#yeah

have you heard of the hit game fire emblem shadows?

I have heard about it! The concept looks pretty interesting but I don't really like social games or pvp/co-op games so I haven't tried it.

illiaccrest

New Years request: My favorite guy

I dont have time or energy to draw anything for this blog right now and I'm not playing any FE games right now but FEH somehow always manages to give me such good Soren content.

Soren finally gets his best outfit (purple version)!! He's on the banner by himself without Ike and he isn't a demote! His forging bond event has him talking to a whole bunch of characters who aren't Ike!!

And his level up dialog has him mentioning Dheginsea and Ashnard which is just neat bit of dialog but maybe also a tiny nod at his relationship with both of them?

#listen ikesoren is otp but im always so glad when soren gets to shine on his own merits #cause hes super interesting even without the ship!!#very happy to see it even if i dont care about feh anymore #honestly its so ironic that im trying to write a romance comic right now cause i get SO TIRED of shipping #like if thats the only context i ever see a character being portrayed in i just get tired of it

Funny enough, Fire Emblem Engage's character design philosophy is a lot more similar to Genshin Impact's than the new Three Houses 2's is but ive never really seen anyone make that comparison because theyre too distracted by the vtuber thing.

Genshin's design philosophy is built around the idea of a bunch of characters who come from various nations that all have very different and very distinct culture and appearance. The designs are also more concerned with communicating each individual character's personality and role rather than trying to make them all look like they belong to one homogeneous culture. That's what I mean when I say the designs speak more to the character than they do to informing the world building.

Engage does something really similar. You have a bunch of characters who come from different nations with very different cultures and appearance. There are some throughlines that make the different characters feel like they belong in their country but the focus is more on the design telling the story of the character's personality.

This design philosophy tends to produce characters who are less grounded/realistic looking and more exaggerated/theatrical. That's not a bad thing its just a different approach.

#just design thoughts #i think genshin is actually more successful at this than engage was #but the whole design process must be very different for a live service gacha game vs single release a console game

For the record: do I like the designs of the Three Hiuses verse games or think theyre the best or anything? No

I still think Kozaki is the best FE character designer we've seen barring the thigh windows. But, I don't think the Three Houses designs are bad designs.

#i dont think the designs in engage are bad either #they were just focusing on the designs speaking to character rather than the designs speaking to the world building #yes i do like kozaki's designs even more than kita senri #shes stil very very very good though

fiery-emblems

While I'm not interested in the new Fire Emblem game whatsoever and very disappointed that its going to be Three Houses 2 there's one criticism I've been seeing that I just don't agree with. Like, why are we saying that the designs "look like Genshin Impact"? For one thing they...really don't look anything like Genshin and for another....why would that even be a bad thing?? The character designs in Genshin are not, in general, bad designs and actually many of them are very good.

Is this where we're at? Any game that comes out that has an anime inspired style is immediately compared to Genshin Impact and that's automatically treated as a bad thing.

So we're really saying Anime=Bad

elluia

Because I could always tell a game was Fire Emblem from the first seconds of a trailer, from Awakening up to and INCLUDING Engage, but for this new title... I couldn't. And I don't think that's a good sign when the series has known so many varied designs...

Oh well, that's the current artistic direction for the Switch 2 era so I'll have to live with it -_- so far it's pretty, but it's not Fire Emblem enough to me.

fiery-emblems

That's just as you said though, a difference in artistic direction. It's not a bad thing for a series to evolve artistically over time. That's a good thing actually!

Maybe im just someone who prefers novelty but if a series looks exactly the same in every installment for 30 years that can get pretty boring imo.

And its not like Fire Emblem had "good design" simply because it was going for a DnD style knights and wizards aesthetic. Good design comes from having a solid idea and making sure the look of the characters follows that idea whether thats having the whole thing look drab and grounded, or having everything be vibrant and fun. From what little ive seen so far this newest title does have a solid and consistent direction.

#plus this vampire guy everyone is going gaga for looks just like a kozaki design #wouldnt be surprised if theres more of that too #so they are calling back to previous fire emblem design philosophy #just not the oooold design philosophy

While I'm not interested in the new Fire Emblem game whatsoever and very disappointed that its going to be Three Houses 2 there's one criticism I've been seeing that I just don't agree with. Like, why are we saying that the designs "look like Genshin Impact"? For one thing they...really don't look anything like Genshin and for another....why would that even be a bad thing?? The character designs in Genshin are not, in general, bad designs and actually many of them are very good.

Is this where we're at? Any game that comes out that has an anime inspired style is immediately compared to Genshin Impact and that's automatically treated as a bad thing.

So we're really saying Anime=Bad

#i hate that #same way i hated people comparing engage designs to vtubers #at least in that case there was an explanation #because the character designer actually had created vtubers before #that shouldnt automatically be a bad thing

You know what else sucks? Everyone is out here crying about how they have to buy a switch 2 in order to play the new Fire Emblem but I already have a switch 2 and that announcement is making me feel regret.

#not really actually #this is mostly a joke #ive played several games on switch 2 already and i like it

Ah ah sad for you, Fodlan is back!

Yes. It is sad and I'm very disappointed.

#is that funny to you somehow?#weirdo

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