The man in that group, Rikken, also wears a thong on top of his pants.
Staying true to its Ghibli roots then! :)
I'm a dude, but I always find "boob outline" armor to be a little silly. Practically speaking, there's no legitimate reason to have armor around the boobs like that. Boobs are squishy, they fit behind armor just fine.Without context, what are your opinions on this character design.
The front of the armor makes it look like her boobs are popping out of the mouth of a monster and the way the back frames her ass is tacky. I'm not a fan.Without context, what are your opinions on this character design.
Im fine with it aesthetically other than the color scheme and the mike tyson tattoo I guess.Without context, what are your opinions on this character design.
Without context, what are your opinions on this character design.
Yeah, it still looks dumb.Here's a different colored version of the same armor. Can't find a back shot but it looks the same in the back as the female version.
Without context, what are your opinions on this character design.
What these two have said and also as for the color scheme of it, it's a mix of too Samus-y when she's in her Power/Varia Suit and Iron Man, just without the green.
Right? It's like Samus' Zero Suit but with a bit of "seemingly" armor plating.
Without context, what are your opinions on this character design.
"Is this what Pyra should have looked like?"Without context, what are your opinions on this character design.
It's my immediate reaction to body suits.
I feel like that armor is pretty close to being decent though. Like I did this quick mock up by just swapping some colors:
If you made the "chest plate" thing fully cover the upper chest, and didn't make the butt a separate color, it would go a long way.
I mean ok, but bodysuits are generally created for functionality underwater, and their purpose is largely to reduce friction. I don't really see bodysuits serving any functional purpose inside a giant mech (though there was one anime or game where some sort of liquid was what helped them sync up with the robot or something - which was also weird for different reasons, but it's more justification than, "because I want them" - though yeah, still dumb).
*shrug*
My response to that bodysuit in particular is just kinda "meh". But that does factor in my general distaste. It's definitely not the worst I've seen, but I don't think it's particularly compelling either.
Well, that's fine. I'm not making an argument for bodysuits. I'm making an argument for better bodysuits if you're gonna bodysuit.
I am indifferent to it. It doesn't make my eyes bleed but I can't say "wow looks baller" either (her face is cool though). But I'd need to know what function it serves. Scrolling through the posts, I see that it's meant as a "body suit", and the male version is similar, so I'm cool with it.Without context, what are your opinions on this character design.
I'm not sure how big a spoiler this is since it was highlighted pretty early on in one of the game preview trailers, but I'm super worried about the usual anime/Ghibli/All Media theme of:
I don't know about Ni No Kuni, but Ghibli movies not only don't have this theme usually, they typically have a female protagonist anyway.
Yeah, that cheap plot motivation is not a theme common to Ghibli movies. Female protags are also super common in Ghibli films and they are frequently some of the best written characters in anime. Like, even in movies like Princess Mononoke, where the female isn't necessarily the focus, there's also basically no central protagonist since you're constantly switching between PoVs.
Ghibli Spoilers?
Thanks for the recommendation, but Grandia never clicked with me as a series and I decided not to pursue it further after the first two games. They were great games, I just had a hard time connecting with them. Perhaps I should have specified my desire to see more of that type of character in contemporary works instead of things which are a decade or more old.
Stuff like that and the later part of Dragon Quest V are right up my alley (although parents being subjected to awful stuff is a big part of DQV). Sounds awesome, maybe I'll watch a Let's Play of Grandia 3 at some point.
Games with generations of protagonists are awesome. I tried Romancing SaGa 2 recently and it's kind of like that, you're royalty and each time your character dies permanently (you do have a set of lives before that happens) you have to choose a successor among your descendants to keep playing as.
Right, I completely forgot how Japanese devs handle DLC in their JRPGs lol.
Hadn't seen the cast before, but this is a post-Ghibli work and all the characters are halfway to chibi town. What the fuck is this travesty?There's still hope. We have Ni No Kuni II, a modern JRPG with no girl in sexualized outfit in its cast.
It's the only one in my recent memory. I honestly couldn't think of any other, at least the big ones that adapt anime direction. Valkyria Chronicles 4 and Kingdom Hearts III seem promising as well.
at least you don't need to pay for dlc to get garbage like this:
