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Originally Posted by shadow1296
^maybe only on the nohr side since they are not blood related
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Originally Posted by GDB
Children might not even be a thing on the Nohr side. We've only seen it on the Hoshido side, and the way they seem to be implemented wouldn't work on the "traditional FE gameplay" of Nohr.
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The trailer makes sound like a universal system however since it's tied to the My Room feature which both sides have access to. Plus it's weird to only give you the option of marring you you blood family, but not your foster ones.
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Originally Posted by Shadow5YA
To be fair, there really is no better way to do it. If it was a traditional story, then like FE4 you would have the majority of the first cast either dead or retired after a time skip to make room for the children.
And if you didn't have the children's parents married properly for inheritances, the child would be too weak to keep up.
There would also be the problem of fans getting too attached to the first generation, only to find out that the majority of them die off or are nowhere to be found after the timeskip. It's also not fair to first time players who aren't aware of the time skip since they haven't made the proper preparations.
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IS could choose not the have children system at all and have something else in it's place for S rank supports. Part of the fun and novelty of having kids in FE4 and FEA wasn't just their impact on gameplay, but how differently they came into being and were handled plotwise. FE4's storyline spanned a generation so it made sense, the fate of the future was core to Awakening plot so it made sense there too. IS cleverly included this feature in past without it feeling like a retread, but Fates sounds like just aping it because it was popular in FEA regardless if makes sense or it's effect on the plot. Basically it's become purely a generic game mechanic now instead of special defining trait supports the game's theme as it did in FE4 and FEA. Worse yet aside from it's copy&paste nature, it's probably going to unbalanced the game as it did in Awakening, by making pretty much most the kids better than their parents again. :/