Her context was “it’s uncomfortable territory”, my context is “but it was already uncomfortable territory”.

“positions the Brides as collectible conquests.”

I’m just surprised the mixed feelings weren’t there from the start, that it took the removal of the male characters to get noticed.

Kotaku has even had articles about how fan-service-y this game is. I’m also struggling to understand how this event is any worse.

“Flattening characters that are fleshed out in the main series has always been at the core of Fire Emblem Heroes for men and women alike, but adding the context of matrimonial imagery…

These seem to have a target at boys/men who are inexperienced/naive/childish about “love”/relationships. It presents sort of these “women” who you are absolutely obtainable*, as long as you jump through the right hoops. Which ignores sort of one of the most important, yet devastating things about real life; you can’t…

Ehhh?

I’m aware my brain is a bit broken in regards to this ‘sex sells’ stuff but I just see lovely art with lovely dresses here. I don’t see the shame of it.

So it was all fun and games until they took the men out for a single event?