And yet somehow FFXII managed it:
Our kind doesn't speak of this.
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Square Enix reveals the FFVII:R designs for Chocobo Chick, Carbuncle, and Cactuar (Note: Something went very, very wrong.)
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Our kind doesn't speak of this.
I feel like they did this on purpose.
There is no fucking way this was greenlit for final release.
They want the retweets and the memes.
There is no fucking way this was greenlit for final release.
They want the retweets and the memes.
I'm glad I am not the only one who thought they all looked so weird. Eek.
Cactuar is still cute at least.
Cactuar is still cute at least.
Haha that's a bit of a stretchThe Chocobo Chick is intentionally meant to look like its has Cloud's hair as a throwback to Tifa telling Cloud his hair looks like a chocobo when you find a nest of baby Chicobos on the Corel train tracks.
I don't think so, the chick's hair really looks like Cloud's one.
It's a tea leaves explanation to justify a bad design of something you're excited about.
carbuncle art is not so bad the translation to 3d looks bad imo, i think the ears position and the forehead looks differenthere is the artwork of Carbuncle and Chocobo chick
I figured it was something like this, but they didn't have to make it look deformed with a head like 3x too large for it's face :(
It's a minor disagreement on a design of a paywalled summon that the average consumer won't even see. No need to throw your toys out of the pram.
Nah, please just stop quoting me. I never said the design looks good, just said it's a possible explanation for the way the chicks's hair looks but then you came with the "justifing something you're excited about it" bullshit.
Some of that shit looks Lovecraftian.
Just fuck it up a bit more, add in some scary music in the background and they'd be enemies in Bloodborne.
Just fuck it up a bit more, add in some scary music in the background and they'd be enemies in Bloodborne.
Horrid design. FFXIV is basically an Eevee evolution, but it's basically perfection.
The FFXV fennec-inspired Carbuncle is great too.
Dunno how you go from those to this.
The moogle is really bad too. Looks like a teddy bear. Not sure how you can even mess that up when a blueprint of what it's supposed to look like is right in the name. Its Japanese name is a portmanteau of mole and bat. They're molebats.
The FFXV fennec-inspired Carbuncle is great too.
Dunno how you go from those to this.
The moogle is really bad too. Looks like a teddy bear. Not sure how you can even mess that up when a blueprint of what it's supposed to look like is right in the name. Its Japanese name is a portmanteau of mole and bat. They're molebats.
This is a Cactoid, not a Cactuar. It doesn't even use 1000 Needles.And yet somehow FFXII managed it:
saw an quick edit from online and I think it looks better
Muuuuuch better....
Those aren't Chicobos, they are Cockatrice chicks. You are given the option to take the treasure or leave it be. If you choose the latter, you get the above dialog, but if you choose the former, you are attacked by mom Cockatrice, and in a dark turn, you kill her and leave the chicks without a mother.The Chocobo Chick is intentionally meant to look like its has Cloud's hair as a throwback to Tifa telling Cloud his hair looks like a chocobo when you find a nest of baby Chicobos on the Corel train tracks.
I just don't care for the cutey "puppy/fox/kitty wiht a gem on its forehead" Carbuncle. To me, it's supposed to be a fantasy creature, not a known creature just with a red gem on its head. I mentioned in the other thread, original Carbuncle looks like a rabbit-lizard, and the MORE different animals you can use to describe a fictional creature, the more "fantasy creature" it is, especially animals as different as a rabbit and a lizard.
A bit more generic sure, but I would take it over that abomination
Red XIII is a wolf-lion. If he just looked like a wolf or just like a lion, that would ruin his fantastical nature, IMO, EVEN with the firey tail.
Besides, we need more hulked out Carbuncle, like in FFV. Such a failed opportunity to never see this one again, and yes, totally a fantasy creature. Instead of just being a rabbit-lizard, it's a rabbit-lizard-sloth-horse. Shoot that fantasy all over me.
I prefer that kinda hodgepodge critter Chimera alchemy over the more Pokemon-looking "pet Carbuncles".
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The chocobo chick is superbly adorable, and Cactuar is the usual fare. I don't wanna comment on Carbuncle.
Except FFXV's Carby looks much better imo.
And let's not forget XIV Carby!
Yeah I know, but I always just assumed the cockatrice was just stealing the nest, because the little chicks are so yellow like chocobos (and because of what Tifa says).
Or it was them putting the cockatrice in as the nearest enemy they could for the battle because they didn't want to make you kill an actual chocobo.
I understand the assumption, but Cockatrices have always been "chicken-monsters" and chicks ARE yellow (even though when they become full-grown chickens, they lose those yellow feathers.
It always irked me to see baby chocobos being represented as looking LIKE chicks (or being as small as chicks, like in FFXIII). I'd figure baby chocobos to look more like, in comparison to adults, as baby ostriches do. Baby ostriches look like big ostriches, just considerably smaller.
In my opinion, baby chocobos should be similar. FFVIII and FFIX have my personal ideal take on baby chocobos:
Funny too, Nomura drew that art for FFVIII's Chicobo. Looks, basically, like a mini-version of the Chocobos you see in both FFVII and FFVIII.
True.
It's all the other stuff they got wrong that's gonna stop me from buying this.
Why does Carbuncle look like a dog? I guess there is nothing wrong with that, but almost every incarnation he looked like a fox-like rabbit hybrid. I guess the lack elongated face like his previous incarnations.
