Honestly I think the first or second "spirit" event was literally FE part 1 (during December), where it said Part 2 will come next month. Both already passed, and FE was already shoved in my face that way. The waifu thing definitely troubles me indeed. I suppose it's a major thing society's into now, or at least gamers/anime people these days, and that's kinda not fun, and some tend to go overboard. I can't say things about the games themselves as I never played an FE game at all, nor will I ever.
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... I know it's popular because it felt like ppl had to push it because of that one blasted picture Nintendo posted... but it's still going strong now. Meanwhile, you know how jealous I can get when my
flagship gets little to no content without my influence somehow... and I'm still wishing I can encourage nice creative art to happen with my ideas. Though before that, let's just say Pit was shipped with males a lot during the Brawl times, and from the FE branch, it was Marth, Ike, and Roy. Not a fun thing.
So adding all that, and looking at Smash, Pit tends to have problems with specific FE characters matchup-wise. In Brawl, Marth beats Pit due to range (though Pit actually beats Ike for camping/gimping power), I don't know much of Smash 4's situation for Pit against FE characters. And don't get me started about Ultimate, with Ike's changes making it seem like Pit's the one with the disadvantage this time due to Ike's new speed to add to his range with little landing lag.
When I'm not talking about matchups, then comes tiers, and each game, except 64, had at least one high/top tier FE character. Melee Marth, Brawl Marth (well, he was high tier, not top), Smash 4 had Marth, Lucina, Corrin on the higher half of the tiers for that. And Ultimate? Looks like Ike, and Lucina are the high tier flavors at this time though most other FE characters are also powerful. Meanwhile, poor Pit's always been mid tier (except JP Brawl, where he was great).
Now for me, I've always had problems fighting FE characters, except like maybe Brawl Ike in a way, but alas, years of frustration has me very likely to get steamed up if I'm fighting an FE character.
And I'm gonna skip the thing about how we got a surge of FE characters starting from Smash 4 and Ultimate because this argument has been done to death,
So in short, lots of frustration towards Fire Emblem, and I'm sorry if it was a long rant. It's just one of those things I had to get off my chest, while being honest about my feelings. I sometimes try not to say things in fear of being attacked by some of the fans. That's also the curse of being a minority in opinions and thoughts.