He doesn't look worse than any of the others ,(like the main character)
Everybody looks super generic, Claude even has the worst students they look super nerdy
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Fire Emblem Three Houses characters look so wrong.
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Everybody looks super generic, Claude even has the worst students they look super nerdy
I know there are some commoners but we don't know what that really entails. Rich merchants are technically commoners. Being selected to go to an elite officers academy isn't exactly normal. It's way different from just being some foot soldier or farmer that get's caught up in a larger conflict and recruited into a party.
As for different cultures, that's a poor excuse, there's always ways to handle things.
Didn't they already confirm that Golden Deer has more commonner than nobles?
Also, while not being black, Claude is the first lord to not be white
There's definitely something off in the majority of the characters and the protagonists looks dead inside. I like the main trio tho
Shame that she's not doing that well in the character designer depart
Shame that she's not doing that well in the character designer depart
I also think the art style is a little off. I don't think it looks ugly, but there's something about the way they look that just feels off.
Claude is great and all but I wouldn't exactly say he's non-white, I would say he's ambiguous at best, which is good but they need more clear cut instances too. Basilio and Flavia were actually clearly non-white, Devdan was black. Claude could easily be said to just have a tan.
The only character that really stands out to me design-wise is Claude, who looks awesome. Dorothea's hat triggers me, if I'm being honest. I don't think the designs are bad overall, though, just a bit dull across the board. I hope that they'll show off some characters with more varied designs in the coming months.
I think the designs look pretty good overall. Some of the male designs are a little weak, but I think all the female character designs are pretty solid... though Fem Byleth's attire definitely doesn't look appropriate for her role. That amuses me more than it bothers me though, so overall I'm fine with her design.
Eyes are fine for me, it's clearly a different style. A bunch of the ears show the roughness in lineart/shading, but a great many players will probably view everything in handheld mode, so I dunno.
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It's the hair. I know, anime hair rarely makes any sense, but his hair is awful in a lot of ways. It looks bad, it covers his face and it looks like SFV's Ken banana hair all over again.
Haven't the past FE looked like a anime too?
Idk. Maybe it's the eyes but a lot of the characters look off.
Well, the art is generally rather unremarkable. The most distinctive characters are in Edelgard's team overall. Dimitri is just boring although some of the characters in his team are kinda appealing. Claude looks good by himself but the rest of his group is dull.
I REALLY hope they all have great personalities at least.
I REALLY hope they all have great personalities at least.
Hidari is far too busy. They were fortunate enough to hire him for Shadows of Valentia.
I see. Well, I still hope they manage to hire him again someday.
The eyes look empty. They all look soulless. Like shell puppets rather than people.
I don't think it looks wrong but I prefer awakening/fates, echoes, and heroes art styles more. It's definitely the worst style so far in a modern take even warriors looked better. The male characters seem to be all terrible although I need to see more full designs instead of just the portraits. I would have liked them to do more of a throwback art style and done some sort of retro anime look.
This is where I stand, don't love them or hate them. Awakening are still my favorite designs.
Before the game was shown I was really hoping they'd do something like Ni No Kuni. Those really 2D looking stylized character models in more richly detailed environments to really make them pop and stand out. But they went with something pretty bog standard. There's some degree of cell shading to the characters but not a lot. Which is a shame as the best thing we've seen from the game is some 2D animation segments which look awesome. Too bad the whole game can't look like that.
Honestly, I thought the designs looked like the SMTIV artist's work a bit especially Claude. Masayuki Doi, yeah. Except this game has better shading on the character designs than Doi's work in SMTIV.
Yeah, their pupils are waaaay too small.
Here made a quick photoshop with bigger pupils
2000+ years old I'm guessing like all the other "not children"
Many Mediterranean peoples exist who have naturally darker skin pretty much exactly like what Claude looks like. White Europeans aren't all pale as bleached paper. Olive and darker complexions exist. Yes he could be mixed race African, but he could also just be from Greece or Southern Italy. That ambiguity is fine and good, but him being the only real one that you could point to in the entire known cast so far and reasonably say he could be non-white isn't great. There should be a lot more diversity including multiple characters that are not at all ambiguous. That Danved is the only character in the series with unmistakable African features isn't great. These games like have routinely casts of 70-120+ when you include non-party member named NPCs.
Her dialogue in Japanese is an antiquated dialect that makes her sound like an old woman.
He being mediterranean would still make him non white, i never said all europeans are white either
The designs seem fine to me. Better than Fates, but not as good as Echoes. It is hard to beat Hidari's designs though.
I'm scared.sure
I'm already too used to how they look already. This is too drastic for me.
yup its the eyes i think
For those who keeps mentioning Hidari, as i read on Reddit a while ago, it's worth noting that FE 16 has the entire game fully rendered in 3D (the first entry in the series that has that), including characters even for dialogues.
it's not 100% guaranteed that Hidari's style would be better than this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fireemblem...is_fe15_style_would_not_work_in_fe16_a_brief/
it's not 100% guaranteed that Hidari's style would be better than this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fireemblem...is_fe15_style_would_not_work_in_fe16_a_brief/
All the FE in history "looked like anime/manga" as manga artists and illustrators are the character designers of the projects.
Yea, I'm aware of that.
Merely pointing out that while the past FE games have all "looked like anime", I agree with the OP that it looks a bit underwhelming.
I mean, that's the job of 3D artists to make the 2D character art look good and fit in. It ultimately is linked to this.
Hidari's artstyle has been used in multiple 3D games already (like Atelier), and it works well.
I'm on the side of thinking characters look good in FE16 anyway.