I've played Awakening, i loved awakening. Lucina was in fact my favorite character. Voiced by my favorite voice actress Laura Bailey.
Sweet! Yeah Lucina's a really cool character, but I really do hate how a huge chunk of the gaming community looks upon Fire Emblem like a bloody dating simulation, which there isn't any simulation to it, but you introduce a support system in the form of characters having a conversation and all of a sudden, Waifu Emblem. It's a Tactical RPG dammit, it was at some point
FE awakening was already nearing the dating sim. Seriously man.
Anyways FE fates really tops it off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMN-MU-1e5k. Besides the love/marriage scenes for relation ships if not removed are way more apparent than in FE awakening wich also had them
I know it has been removed in the western countries and It's more like awakening now but It's definitly pretty logical that people see it as a dating sim. In my opinion even though I'm a big FE fan I agree with this being a dating sim. Awakening is good but It's not in the same ball park as the older FE games.
Furthermore the Fe games after the wii and ds release FE awakening and FE fates have been animated in an anime style unlike the more traditional style of the older FE games wich I find to look way superior. I like the old style look of an rpg wich the older wii and pre era FE games I love gave to me.
Aside from the more classic timeless visuals the difficulty has been decreased big time. I know that allot of people prefer to max out there characters and train unlimited times but this hurts the difficulty of the game. The older Fe games had limited items, exp and money wich made the game fairly hard, you could also not be to OP especially in the hardest difficulties since the opponents are just as strong with capped stats and limited amount of special abilities. Some of the older games are more challenging than others (shadow dragon and radiant dawn) but the newer FE games lack the ability of being hard thanks to the unlimited options.
Tactical RPG sure but It's pretty easy unlike the older FE games. The newer FE 3ds also definitly lost there classy visual art style of the older FE games wich I loved. Also the simple stories of the older FE games are way more enjoyable than the stories of the newer Fe games. Gimme back the days with cheesy stories of a jalous king who wants to kill his own son who is better than him in every way, or a rival/old friends who one has to murder to go through the battlefield.