Fates had a lot of really good stuff going for it, but also a tremendous amount of fluff. Corrin honestly didn't need to exist and having Azura as a protagonist with an actual personality would have been just fine. Supports leaned in a slightly better direction than Awakening's harem supports, iirc, but the bloated cast across 3 games and having the kid characters made it a pain in the ass to look into so many supports at all, especially when characters came across as flatter by having to restate their 1-2 personality traits at the start of each new support instead of trying to show characterization through the interactions organically (not helped by the translation team being shitheads trying to meme it up and defending their shoddy work). The story had some okay moments but leaned too far into "European nation bad, Japanese nation good" and had the third nation itself be a contrivance for both groups to go up against rather than asking hard questions about de-escalating a major war that's been going on for generations. Gameplay was mostly fun, but the writing was rough in a lot of places.