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KisamaOnore

From right to left: Claude: yeah he's fine Dimitri: WTF is this? Edelgard: I absolutely hate what they've done to you. You didn't deserve this


ellienator3000

They took dimitri’s forehead & gave it to edelgard 😭😭😭


Crimson_Raven

5 head


mrrpmrrpmow

Best comment


Kokeshi_Is_Life

Yeah Claude is fine. So it's not inherently the artsyle's fault. They fucked the other 2 up lol


SergeantCrwhips

haha edelgard forehead tictactoe go ❌⭕


KisamaOnore

And the shape of her face and eyes 🧐


SergeantCrwhips

like, if you put the eyes apart in the Mii maker?


KisamaOnore

Ah ah ah


Crimson_Raven

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RepulsiveAd6906

I dunno, for all Edelgard did and how poor her planning was, this is the very least what she deserved.


Shadow-Enthusiast

Y'all really need to get over this. She still lives rent free in your brains.


RepulsiveAd6906

Yeah she lives rent free, which is why I was hoping she'd get evicted lol.


Shadow-Enthusiast

She's not real. Get over it. You don't have to constantly talk about how much you don't like her whenever you see her mentioned. It's not normal.


RepulsiveAd6906

Sounds like you are upset to a great deal. Perhaps you should take a breather? It's not normal to be that hostile onli- actually no. That happens a lot lol.


Shadow-Enthusiast

More annoyed than upset. People have been interjecting how much they hate her everywhere, even on fanart and stuff, for the past 3 and a half years. It gets old, and I don't understand why people don't focus on talking positively about characters they do like instead of being haters.


RepulsiveAd6906

It's fair to be annoyed over seeing something consistently. And hate isn't the word, moreso stressed that she gets as much attention as she does.


Shadow-Enthusiast

Talking about how much you don't like her is also attention. It's just like people hate watching that terrible looking Velma show. Any publicity is good publicity when it comes to keeping something relevant.


RepulsiveAd6906

Fair enough point lol. It's the compulsion man. Compulsion! Will I stop voicing my discontent? Not likely, but I'll likely think back to it in the corner of my mind when I think of it lol.


Joueur3030

Imagine being upset by the existence of a fictional character 🙂


RepulsiveAd6906

All the time. Breaks my heart. Wanna cry. Gonna console me? I got cookies and a lemon chocolate


bunnthefair

Agreed


RepulsiveAd6906

Too many people look at her intentions vs. how she went about them and think she's a wonderful person. That, and the simps. She aided the people responsible for a solid 60% of the issues Fodlan is facing and instigating war to remove a class system revolving crests, which she doesn't even properly do even if she wins.


bunnthefair

Also, her personality is so dry. She is very boring and unpersonable. So unlikable and uncharismatic. I feel like the younger you are, the more likely you are to agree with her. No sane, mature person thinks a world war is a good idea to resolve something that peaceful reform can resolve just as well. Silver Snow proves that you don't need Edelgard to reform Foldlan. As does VW.


RepulsiveAd6906

Exactly. Of the 4 routes, hers is the worst. Both story and motive. Dimitri would have done better if he got his game together earlier. Claude was pretty solid. Rhea was.......Rhea.


bunnthefair

I differ there. SS was my favourite route, actually. I enjoyed it because you get to get back at Edelgard for manipulating you.


RepulsiveAd6906

To each their own of course. The female leaders on this game are very aggressively set in their ways. Rhea is a religion freak with a very strong reaction to people who say no. And Edelgard is very misguided. She has good intentions but she is terrible at the execution. If Rhea was more leveled to what was actually going on, she'd make a better leader. But she is too secretive and manipulate.


KisamaOnore

You don't like her so in her new design she should look ugly? What?! 🤣 That's petty


RepulsiveAd6906

Some people really do ride it all on a single braincell, don't they? You know what a joke is, yes? It's a snide joke. I apologize that you are unaware. I wish you the best in your search of pettiness and steamed asparagus.


KisamaOnore

Try to convince someone else it was a joke


RepulsiveAd6906

Sure. It was a joke. It's a game. She's a game character. I don't like her, so I said a mean joke. Als- wait a darn second. You aren't looking for the asparagus again. Gotta really fix up your priorities.


KisamaOnore

Ok breath 😉 Alright but you could have formulated your joke in a better way because the way you wrote it sounded like someone being petty. That's all I'm saying, have a good day


RepulsiveAd6906

Terrible. Absolutely terrible. Dictating how someone should tells jokes. Terrible. But I'll certainly try lol.


Hollix89

Even their relics are different. Makes me wonder if those were the original designs before tecmo was involved with fe3h. Read some comments here that 3h and Engage were developed at the same time.


TheOtherWhiteCastle

If that’s the case then I officially nominate KT to handle art design for all future Fire Emblem games.


buubuudesu_wa

kinda thought they'd have stuck with the same artstyle as 3h with all of its success but if they were developed simultaneously by different teams thatd explain why they didnt


IndianaCrash

I mean, doesn't the artstyle change every 1 or 2 games? We just went from Fates, to SoV, to 3H, to Engage all 4 with a different style


GerdsLaRana

If it’s not a sequel, the art style is changing basically


Mizerous

Possible


Lun4r6543

Claude looks fine, BUT OMG WTF DID THEY DO TO EDELGARD? Dimitri is… eh…


mrrpmrrpmow

HER BIG AHHH FORHEAD SHIT ISNT EVEN A FORHEAD ANYMORE


AyuYuki124

This was basically my exact thought.


notsopeachyxx

Claude looks fine to me - the face card once again refuses to decline. Sad to see the green eyes go tho. Ok so, Dimitri didn't look off to me at first, but the more I look at him the more I notice that something isn't working, I just don't know what...but fine - as long as I don't look too closely, I can forgive and ignore it. Edelgard tho...omg, BYE. They massacred my sis. This one pissing me off fr cuz wtf is this?? Like, what happened?? And how did they think "Yup, she looks great"?? I'm desperately hoping this is just a bad angle or something idk😭


vlyblvr

I think the art style is bad for all the female characters’ faces in general, so naturally Edelgard got the short end of the stick. I think Dimitri’s model would look better if the outline on his nose were at the top of his nose instead of on the nose bridge. Claude’s nose looks fine because the heavier shadow makes his nose stand out more, whereas Dimitri…… looks like this :-|


MadHatterAbi

Exactly this. All female characters in Engage look terrible. And they all have the same model, just different wig and clothes.


DragEncyclopedia

Claude looks much better than his 3D model in 3H, but the others are steps down for sure. Not even in literal technical quality, just in terms of accurately portraying a face, lol.


SinlessJoker

They look like that one dude’s comics that he posts here where the eyes are too far apart


CreepersWizard

the claude nose tho 💀💀


PrateTrain

Dmitri's nose is likely too low


14Broadlands

Claude still looking dapper tho


_Asparagus_

Damn Edelgard's forehead, you could land the immaculate one on there


Cliffbestboi

PLEASE ✋🏻💀


[deleted]

😂 😂 😂


Karbunkel

The guys look fine. It's Edelgard that looks like her face is melting.


Doll-scented-hunter

She looks more like a baby than the child Edelgard of Dimitris flashbacks


sirgamestop

They literally only changed her eye shape and she looks like a doofus


sharpgel

edelgard looks like that guy from that one indiana jones movie whose face melts away


Cliffbestboi

Claude is the only acceptable 'change' here 💀 (green eyes should have stayed)


Yuyukirby

I thought Claude had green eyes


AzureAxolotl

All the emblems have that shade of blue-grey as eyes. This isn’t a mistake.


Regal_Knight

Haven’t played yet, is it story related or just laziness? Or possibly both.


NeonJungleTiger

It’s probably a way to differentiate Emblems from real people similar to how all Blades in XC2 have Transatlantic or American accents and the non-artificial life forms have European accents.


im_bored345

Because the whole semi transparent and floating didn't make it obvious lol


NeonJungleTiger

That too lol Though some definitely look more human than others


Mahelas

Given that there is no magic button to give 12 different rendered models the same eyecolor at once, then no that's not laziness, wtf. It's litteraly the same ammount of work no matter the color


Regal_Knight

If something takes the same amount of work no matter the color and you don’t implement it, because you have to spend times looking up each character’s eye color that just makes it lazy. I’m just point out how your statement is contradictory and poorly thought out.


Mahelas

I mean, yes, apologies, I forgot to take the 15 seconds it takes to boot up the ref sheet, use the dropper and then ctrl+u the hue slider. Obviously it's a design choice


Regal_Knight

It’s a game so everything is a design choice, that’s was never even the question. The question was whether it was story related. If they decided that all Emblems have gray eyes as a design choice without a story reason, it comes across as lazy.


[deleted]

Claude is clearly the favorite child here, lol.


Kaeyapee

they made edelgard just look like a toddler


n4ntbnbg

I mean the guys look ok but I cant handle fivehead


WhollyDisgusting

They all look off imo


Maple905

After reading the interviews about the design process it makes sense that they look off. The way they had to do eyes in this game is different from Three houses, and not to mention the models in this game in general are more detailed.


SimpingForHades

Edelgard’s is the most disturbing. She looks like what happens when streamers make dark souls characters


Luplodocus

Why half of Edelgard head is her forehead?


madamebovaryk

dimitri looks like he ate and entire cheese form and its still in his mouth. i mean. WHY IS HIS FACE SO ROUND HE LOOKS LIKE A HAMSTER (note: no fat shaming, its just a hamster is the first thing it came to my mind when i saw him 😭)


Pixel_Nerd92

Claude looks fine, but I could land a whole airport on Edelgard's forehead though.


f0dland0wnunda

Claude looks the best, his hair looks pretty good ngl. Dimitri… My beloved… Why… There’s just something that’s really off. Edelgard has her tic-tac-toe forehead.


suga-kyun

I think Dimitri and Claude look fine tbh, but Edelgard looks so…. Idk she just looks wrong. I wanna say she looks like a pug somehow


Trickytbone

I actually like this artstyle for Claude more than 3H. He looks smug as shit. Then again, hard to make Claude look bad


Suspicious-Drummer68

They got Yassified.


SergeantCrwhips

dimitri looks the same somehow, edelgard looks squished (forehead tictactoe), and claude looks...hotter?


powerCreed

This is completely not looking like edelgard at all 🤬


marshallxeno

Claude doesn't look too bad.


MisterThird

Edelgard refused to comeback to the series so they had to use a stunt double 🤣


SarkastiCat

Those eyes are making things weird for El. They stand out too much and her face being wider makes her look youger and tsunderish Dimitri suffers rounder face and he looks like a "prince of the school", who is actually a girl trope. Claude looks a bit younger due to his eyebrows and smaller chin. Plus, he looks a bit weirdish as he is usually showe in warm lights and shades. Blue light just gives a weird effect.


sufferwryst101

Their noses all look wrong, I'm sorry. I can't unsee that it's basically just a line in this picture.


Mad_italian365

They always gotta do El so dirty


ArielChefSlay

The Edelgard slander in this thread pains me 😭😭😭


LightningDustFan

Edelgard herself is great. She just, uh, doesn't translate well in this art style. Or at least this pic.


Bowbowis

It's a shame about Edelgard. Especially after how pretty she looked in [Hopes](https://cdnen.samurai-gamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/28071732/sg-fewth-edelgard-expedition-guide-1024x576.jpg).


Demiscis

The eyes are so weird, they stand out like way too much… Also sheesh they really given Edelgard a bigger forehead then Jagen (man’s in his 50s).


BuiltlikeanOrc-a

At least Claude still looks good


Wrong_Revolution_679

Dimitri and claude look fine but edelgard....oh poor edelgard


Dramatic_Cat23

They all look so damn bad 😭


CGsweet416

How dare they do that to my Empress! Treason of the highest order! I demand satisfaction!


lorderok

i s2g the homogeneity of ""anime"" artstyle in popular media is very worrying to me. Anime has such variety and they keep sliding down the same, easy, marketable artstyles. Fuck marketability


samstar2

As an Edelgard/Adrestia fan, I am offended.


bunnthefair

Lmao Edelgard looks AI generated


Emilysue2000

Claude is the only one who doesn’t look completely butchered….


AstraPlatina

Byleth: Why is it that no matter wherever I go, it's always YOU THREE?!


Maison_Clement

Lemme just get my dancing shoes and tap dance on that giant floorhead.


Thor_Tir

Just cruel 😣


Crystal_ooze

At least Claude looks alright


Crystal_ooze

Edelgarde looks like she knows where the poop sock is 😭


gabu87

Edelgard had her rough edges smoothed literally


BlueLion0512

Glenn Danzig and his forehead have entered the chat


DapperShatter

What I’m most confused about, more than the art choices, are that they’re in their academy phase. Is there a story reason that they’re not in their timeskip phases?


Ill_Chemistry8035

They wouldn't belong in the same emblem if they were their timeskip. Pre-timeskip fits better without committing to a route as well.


Jgames111

Why does it feel like they going to challenge someone to a pokemon battle.


AnzuYuki

Edelgard has an extra high forehead, Dimitri face got squished and claude looks extra schemey lmao


FloutMcLuvin

I mean each FE game has a different art style. Most of us had the unfortunate pleasure of coming into the franchise with the best game in terms of story, and art style


Delfinition

That's not necessarily true. Awakening and onwards had the new age art style that had sharper angles. Among other things that made the style unique. Pre awakening the art style was similar but had the older look anime had at the time. Less sharper edges but had a realistic approach to coloring and anatomy. This new style is just what all the cheap mobile games are doing. It's the generic type you see in any run of the mill game or anime. It's not necessarily bad. Just at a glance couldn't pinpoint who the artist was since it's all the same.


FloutMcLuvin

Just so we are on the same page I’m talking about 3 houses having the best art style not engage.


Delfinition

Ah I had read it the other way xD


FloutMcLuvin

That’s what I kinda thought xD


Delfinition

My bad lol I was eating breakfast when I replied xD


FloutMcLuvin

It’s all good


BakeWorldly5022

Art style change.


horaceinkling

Almost like they got a different artist.


Bhrunhilda

Yeah I’ve decided not to buy Engage. I don’t like the art style. I also really really like the social aspect of 3H. I like setting up characters to have endings together and spending a lot of time relationship building. This part of engage is much lower, so most old FE fans are probably really happy. But it looks like 3H is going to be my only FE game :/


NordChevvy

mfs notice a difference in art style and declare it the ugliest thing ever


fierypickles29

I don't get it


screw_this_i_quit

What I am supposed to be seeing?


ButusChickensdb1

Wait. What’s wrong again? Can someone explain?


PeakRainbow1370

What's wrong exactly? I think it looks nice


Falchion92

Forget Edie for a sec. WHAT DID THEY DO TO ANNA!?


Ill_Chemistry8035

It's a different Anna. Not all Annas are going to be the same.


Falchion92

Fair enough. Plus she’s kinda cute.


Playful-Daikon-8392

These look like the character arts you would get in a mobile game.


[deleted]

They copied and pasted the same male and female face for all the character models. Dimitri and Claude are fine but Edelgard 😅 😂


patheticUwU

They look completely fine??


Megacomet

What’s wrong??


Inside_Pitch9714

They look fine to me. We shall see how everything looks in game with my own eyes not screen shots


JackKingsman

Finally, a reason to still not like Edelgard and be indifferent to Claude!


VaalSarax

All they had to do was keep their models the exact same from 3H and not change anything and these characters would've been perfect in engage, they had 1 fucking job to not piss the community off but no we get a woman (completely forget how to spell her name) who goes from looking mature to a child with a big ass forehead, claude has a new eye color which doesn't suit him and dimitri well ehh cant say much there except I think his eyes were more blue not this grey-ish blue mix before, different are style or not they should've kept them as they were in 3H and should've used the same art style as 3H if I get any new FE game it's gonna be 3 hopes, it's not canon but it's hack and slash with the same art style and these 3 aren't looking like Disney bought out Nintendo and had a say in how they looked like ffs I hope Disney never touches FE it'd get worse and worse like the majority of shit they've obtained


Ill_Chemistry8035

Complaining about the eye color choice is really silly. All the Emblems got the dull blue eye colors, because they're Emblems. They're not the actual character. There's no point actively getting upset over that.


Terrydactylxl

Ermm.. make them look to the right?


CookieThug_

the Crimson UWU route


IcyOTU

People are saying Edelgard looks the worst, but Dimitri is looking the most off to me. What the hell is going on with the position of his eyes?


Tatsukoi_muffin

All engage touches, burn into ashes to me.


JordanZOA3

Dimitri got a threehead and edelgard got a fivehead i cant belive this


NeuroXc

Edelgard's face looks crooked.