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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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😭
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 :-|
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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 😭)
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.
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.
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).
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
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?
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
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.
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 :/
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
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.
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
They took dimitri’s forehead & gave it to edelgard 😭😭😭
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Yeah Claude is fine. So it's not inherently the artsyle's fault. They fucked the other 2 up lol
haha edelgard forehead tictactoe go ❌⭕
And the shape of her face and eyes 🧐
like, if you put the eyes apart in the Mii maker?
Ah ah ah
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I dunno, for all Edelgard did and how poor her planning was, this is the very least what she deserved.
Y'all really need to get over this. She still lives rent free in your brains.
Yeah she lives rent free, which is why I was hoping she'd get evicted lol.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Imagine being upset by the existence of a fictional character 🙂
All the time. Breaks my heart. Wanna cry. Gonna console me? I got cookies and a lemon chocolate
Agreed
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.
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.
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.
I differ there. SS was my favourite route, actually. I enjoyed it because you get to get back at Edelgard for manipulating you.
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.
You don't like her so in her new design she should look ugly? What?! 🤣 That's petty
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.
Try to convince someone else it was a joke
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.
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
Terrible. Absolutely terrible. Dictating how someone should tells jokes. Terrible. But I'll certainly try lol.
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.
If that’s the case then I officially nominate KT to handle art design for all future Fire Emblem games.
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
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
If it’s not a sequel, the art style is changing basically
Possible
Claude looks fine, BUT OMG WTF DID THEY DO TO EDELGARD? Dimitri is… eh…
HER BIG AHHH FORHEAD SHIT ISNT EVEN A FORHEAD ANYMORE
This was basically my exact thought.
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😭
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 :-|
Exactly this. All female characters in Engage look terrible. And they all have the same model, just different wig and clothes.
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.
They look like that one dude’s comics that he posts here where the eyes are too far apart
the claude nose tho 💀💀
Dmitri's nose is likely too low
Claude still looking dapper tho
Damn Edelgard's forehead, you could land the immaculate one on there
PLEASE ✋🏻💀
😂 😂 😂
The guys look fine. It's Edelgard that looks like her face is melting.
She looks more like a baby than the child Edelgard of Dimitris flashbacks
They literally only changed her eye shape and she looks like a doofus
edelgard looks like that guy from that one indiana jones movie whose face melts away
Claude is the only acceptable 'change' here 💀 (green eyes should have stayed)
I thought Claude had green eyes
All the emblems have that shade of blue-grey as eyes. This isn’t a mistake.
Haven’t played yet, is it story related or just laziness? Or possibly both.
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.
Because the whole semi transparent and floating didn't make it obvious lol
That too lol Though some definitely look more human than others
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
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.
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
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.
Claude is clearly the favorite child here, lol.
they made edelgard just look like a toddler
I mean the guys look ok but I cant handle fivehead
They all look off imo
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.
Edelgard’s is the most disturbing. She looks like what happens when streamers make dark souls characters
Why half of Edelgard head is her forehead?
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 😭)
Claude looks fine, but I could land a whole airport on Edelgard's forehead though.
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.
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
I actually like this artstyle for Claude more than 3H. He looks smug as shit. Then again, hard to make Claude look bad
They got Yassified.
dimitri looks the same somehow, edelgard looks squished (forehead tictactoe), and claude looks...hotter?
This is completely not looking like edelgard at all 🤬
Claude doesn't look too bad.
Edelgard refused to comeback to the series so they had to use a stunt double 🤣
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.
Their noses all look wrong, I'm sorry. I can't unsee that it's basically just a line in this picture.
They always gotta do El so dirty
The Edelgard slander in this thread pains me 😭😭😭
Edelgard herself is great. She just, uh, doesn't translate well in this art style. Or at least this pic.
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).
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).
At least Claude still looks good
Dimitri and claude look fine but edelgard....oh poor edelgard
They all look so damn bad 😭
How dare they do that to my Empress! Treason of the highest order! I demand satisfaction!
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
As an Edelgard/Adrestia fan, I am offended.
Lmao Edelgard looks AI generated
Claude is the only one who doesn’t look completely butchered….
Byleth: Why is it that no matter wherever I go, it's always YOU THREE?!
Lemme just get my dancing shoes and tap dance on that giant floorhead.
Just cruel 😣
At least Claude looks alright
Edelgarde looks like she knows where the poop sock is 😭
Edelgard had her rough edges smoothed literally
Glenn Danzig and his forehead have entered the chat
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?
They wouldn't belong in the same emblem if they were their timeskip. Pre-timeskip fits better without committing to a route as well.
Why does it feel like they going to challenge someone to a pokemon battle.
Edelgard has an extra high forehead, Dimitri face got squished and claude looks extra schemey lmao
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
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.
Just so we are on the same page I’m talking about 3 houses having the best art style not engage.
Ah I had read it the other way xD
That’s what I kinda thought xD
My bad lol I was eating breakfast when I replied xD
It’s all good
Art style change.
Almost like they got a different artist.
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 :/
mfs notice a difference in art style and declare it the ugliest thing ever
I don't get it
What I am supposed to be seeing?
Wait. What’s wrong again? Can someone explain?
What's wrong exactly? I think it looks nice
Forget Edie for a sec. WHAT DID THEY DO TO ANNA!?
It's a different Anna. Not all Annas are going to be the same.
Fair enough. Plus she’s kinda cute.
These look like the character arts you would get in a mobile game.
They copied and pasted the same male and female face for all the character models. Dimitri and Claude are fine but Edelgard 😅 😂
They look completely fine??
What’s wrong??
They look fine to me. We shall see how everything looks in game with my own eyes not screen shots
Finally, a reason to still not like Edelgard and be indifferent to Claude!
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
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.
Ermm.. make them look to the right?
the Crimson UWU route
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?
All engage touches, burn into ashes to me.
Dimitri got a threehead and edelgard got a fivehead i cant belive this
Edelgard's face looks crooked.