>>2034>In hindsight it feels like it had much less staying power compared to a lot of the other gamesI'm not surprised tbh. People who started with the GBA games will always be biased and feel nostalgic over them, Awakening was the first FE game for a lot of people me included, and Fates had to deal with it's horrible publicity from the fucked localization to youtubers spouting random bs about it as if they were facts, to people not wanting to buy each route separately because different versions of one video game usually have very few differences like with Pokemon games and everyone thought it would be the same here. It's a shame, it's such a good game imo. Everyone shits on the game just for the story as if it were a novel and not a video game. It's jarring seeing people saying "Fates sucks so bad because it has fanservice and a bad story but the gameplay is good" like bitch the gameplay is by far the most important element! But yeah barely anyone posts fanart or fanfics of Fates nowadays. I used to follow a bunch of girls on tumblr and twitter around 2015/2017 who were super into it and would post very good fanart, not always with gay pairings but often enough, and they were harassed so much over their husbandos being Xander, Ryoma, Leo or Takumi that they all suddenly became less active online like in general or they made private social media accounts to compensate. In the Japanese fandom it seems like some girls have dedicated husbandos and keep posting art, and other artists just post more art when there's a new alt on FEH. I miss U_kumakichi's art sometimes but she's busy drawing her own BL now.
Although, I do hear way less about Awakening now than back in 2015 when I got my own copy and played it. Maybe I should replay this one as well and finally marry Chrom.
>Fateslandia STILL doesn't have a canon name.I don't think it needs one, just like how Europe and Asia are on the same landmass but are still considered distinct continents for historical and cultural reasons. I admit I'm a filthy casual so I don't get why it's so important to some people.