I.... don't want to be able to marry my family.
Like, I know it's not technically your family and that's okay with some people, but it was just rather weird for me. And the children system was just like... maybe not... because it seemed incredibly thrown together and stuck in the game for not really any reason? It was really cool in Awakening because you know, future past, save the world, time travel. But it just seemed forced here.
I mean, if they took out the children system and made them adults, we could have had so many more (LESS AWKWARD, because for some reason it is also okay to marry your brother's child who is technically like a month old) marriage options without even having to marry our family. Like:
If you play Hoshido with a female avatar: Kaze, Silas, Azama, Izana, Hinata, Jakob, Shura, Saizo, Subaki, Hayato, Kaden, Yukimura, Rhajat, Dwyer, Grey, Hisame (16 options)
Or a male avatar: Felicia, Mozu, Kagerou, Setsuna, Oboro, Hana, Orochi, Reina, Scarlet, Sophie, Midori, Selkie, Mitama, Caeldori, Rhajat (15 options)
And like, looking at Nohr:
Female avatar: Kaze, Silas, Izana, Jakob, Shura, Laslow, Odin, Niles, Arthur, Benny, Keaton, Gunther, Dwyer, Ignatius, Percy (15 options)
Male avatar: Felicia, Mozu, Pieri, Selena, Beruka, Effie, Charlotte, Flora, Niles, Velouria, Soleil, Ophelia, Nina, Midori, Sophie (15 options)
I'm not even going to mention Revelations because there are So Many Options. ... So many that I may have missed some.
Obviously I've got no beef with people who did marry the royal family but GOOD LORD IS DON'T WE HAVE ENOUGH POSSIBLE PAIRINGS. JUST GET RID OF THE CHILDREN SYSTEM FOR A GAME THAT DOESN'T NEED ONEEEEEEE. I even left out a few possible options and the Very Important Children (also the royal ones) because I
guess we might need them.
Also: (spoilered for minor revelations/families spoiler)
DID THEY REALLY, TRULY HAVE TO MAKE AZURA YOUR COUSIN. I swear to god, I went to the greatest lengths I could to make sure I didn't marry someone I was related to (like I said before because personally I don't really dig that) and I went with the safest option at the time, only to find out that SURPRISE WE ARE COUSINS. AND THE ONLY ACTUAL BLOOD-RELATED FAMILY IN THE ENTIRE GAME.
On another note, I like the new variety of modes. And by that, I mean I like the fact that they included Phoenix. I'm still gonna stick to my normal/classic because that's how I went through Awakening and I feel like that's about the extent of what I can handle, but I like that they added the option to go Phoenix. I mean it just seems kind of nice of them in a sea of... uh boobs.
Which is something that I also like slightly less, like Foleo said.
Like why do we have to have a several-second-long cutscene... just to look at Camilla's bust? And her butt? And her
shapely legs? Like I get it IS. Please. Stop shoving this in my face (literally in the case of that one cutscene, which I'm not sure made it into the English version but I know is in the JPN, where the avatar is running down the hall with Elise and smacks into Camilla for a face full of boob). I love Kozaki's art and I love the cutscene styles BUT FILL THEM WITH SOMETHING OTHER THAN ONEESAN'S BOOBS ALL RIGHT.
Also please give us better map models. Tales of the Abyss for 3DS came out years ago and the models look more defined! I understand that TotA functioned relying heavily on the 3d scenes, but kind of so does FE. SO PLEASE MAKE THEM LOOK NICEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER. YOU ALREADY MADE THE ANIMATED SCENES SO PRETTYYYYYYYYYYY.
This turned into #salt, I am so sorry.
But also there were many good things about this game. The good things are: Niles, Niles's voice, Niles's face... Yeah, just kidding. But I totally married him in my Nohr file with no regrets (only slight regrets. Regrets that I DIDN'T GET THE CHILDREN). Also I actually legitimately jumped a few times while face-petting. Because I didn't know that if you wear decent earbuds it actually sounds like he's right behind you so I almost screamed on a crowded bus the first time it happened.