The point is that it'd be a little gross to hinge a lot of appeal on the diversity of the cast and turn around and open votes on alternate sexy versions of your female characters. You inherently harm the validity of these characters as anything other than eye-candy, and you lose out on protection when it's not even the artist's 'call'.Umm
Alright, it sounds like the guest characters are going to be a lot more optional than the rest of the cast, but would a more sexualized err say Toko drive away people? More than it'd potentially bring in a choice your favorite design or something?
Still, respect to Lab Zero for doing what they want, not taking compromises from publishers or backers.
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Indivisible: Valkyrie Profile/Metroid, Indiegogo, PC/Mac/Linux/PS4/XB1 -- funded!
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Definitely. With such a large potential cast, it'd be a waste to not include one.
Does the Aztec (?) dude in the second spot on the first row count? I'm not entirely sure what counts as "bara" aside from a general sense of "beefcake".
Not really sure. I just want sexy characters. Sexy for all!
Are these the leaked incarnations?
I could understand some of the complaints about Shenmue because it wasn't really clear how the budgeting would work, but they are crystal clear here.
Baozhai of the Black Jade
A true demon of the sea, Baozhai of the Black Jade and her armada are feared and despised by the naval fleets of both the Iron Kingdom and the Jade Dynasty. Though said to be a crude, ruthless pirate, she calls herself an entrepreneur. For years her crews have routinely attacked illicit Soma shipping routes and blockaded ports involved with the Soma drug trade. Many believe she simply steals for her own gain, yet rumors of a more humanitarian motive persist.
Neither empire have yet been able to hinder her, but the sea can be a cruel mistress indeed. A recent encounter with a massive sea monster decimated her forces and destroyed many of their vessels. Land-locked but not deterred, Baozhai is determined to rebuild a new crew and head back out to sea.
CommandThrower
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Oh my goodness; pirate lady.
Love the design, and I was just thinking about wanting to see that design after seeing that other pictures up a few posts back.
darkblade77
Member
Harpoon being tied to her own waist somehow excites me even more than the shachihoko shoulder cannon. What kind of shenanigans are going to come out of using it like that?
SolarPowered
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Someone definitely used a blender on several characters to get her.
Baiken+Ruby Heart+Legend of Korra+Scorpion+Guts
We're gonna have fantastic reaction images when she impales her enemies with that harpoon, drags them in and blows them to smithereens with that bigass canon. My timbers have been shivered.
Baiken+Ruby Heart+Legend of Korra+Scorpion+Guts
We're gonna have fantastic reaction images when she impales her enemies with that harpoon, drags them in and blows them to smithereens with that bigass canon. My timbers have been shivered.
Someone has clearly been drinking their protein shakes. Now I really have to buy and finish Shovel Knight before Indivisible is out.
HellBlazer
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Awesome new character. :O
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
^^
That looks badass.
That looks badass.
If by "leaked" you mean "easily visible on the campaign video if you pause stuff" then yes....."leaked"
Can you shoot stuff out of her shoulder cannon?
PEW PEW PEW
so I finally backed for $60 and I saw the delivery date of jan 2018.
is it hard to change your shipping address later?
I plan to move in 2016 or 2017
The shipping address now, for all intents and purposes, is just so we have SOMETHING.
When it comes time to fulfill, we'll be using BackerKit. So you'll get a survey and a chance to make any corrections, etc.
thanks, I figured it was that way but this is actually the first indiegogo project I backed lol.
exmachina64
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Which still kills me.
SolicitorPirate
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Jesus, how are your characters all so consistently great? I'm going to have such a hard time choosing who to use in my party.
Also got a couple questions:
1) how is xp divided? I want to switch party members constantly but am worried everyone but Anja will start falling behind
2) Is Baozhai based on or inspired by Ching Shih?
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
Is Mariel the lead animator on this project as well?
TheChillyAcademic
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I'm sure this has been answered somewhere but, I'm assuming the incarnations don't have individual stories given how many of them there are?
HellBlazer
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I was wondering the same.
They do, actually. From what I understand, each can give you special quests similar to loyalty missions in Mass Effect.
The art reminds me of Gray Fox
now I cant stop imagining her saying
THAT'S IT AJNA! PRAY FOR ME MORE! MAKE MY FAITH STRONG AGAIN!
Dang. I really figured I'd only have at most a single team worth of favorites to choose from in this game, but I'm already loving faaaar too many of these incarnations.
Why do you make waifu selection so difficult?
Incarnations do have stories! They'll be collected along the path of the story for whatever reasons and from then on will hang out in Ajna's Inner Realm. They can then offer side quests for their own personal storylines. It's been mentioned they want to tie some sort of leveling up / unlocking special skills to finishing these stories.
Why do you make waifu selection so difficult?
Yup. She's also the Lead Art Director on this one. Alex Ahad had that role on Skullgirls.
Incarnations do have stories! They'll be collected along the path of the story for whatever reasons and from then on will hang out in Ajna's Inner Realm. They can then offer side quests for their own personal storylines. It's been mentioned they want to tie some sort of leveling up / unlocking special skills to finishing these stories.
Blood Diamonds
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Hey, did the campaign go up from 640somethingk to 673k just today??? That's pretty good right??
New Incarnation is fucking awesome, too.
New Incarnation is fucking awesome, too.
SatelliteOfLove
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Is a bear catholic?
spazchicken
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They'd have to make over 100K a day to reach their goal at this point.
They get to keep whatever they got even if they don't reach their goal right?
Nope. Fixed funding campaign = they only get money if they get every dollar they asked for. They do have the option of extending the campaign by some days, but they won't make that call until closer to closing.
I don't think so, since it's a fixed funding campaign. If Lab Zero doesn't make their goal, afaik it's either push for an extension or shut it down.
Art director and lead animator.
The plan is for all of the playable Incarnations to have side questlines that go into their personal stories. Sort of like Mass Effect's loyalty quests.
They won't all have major roles in the main story, though. Each region will probably have one or two main characters that are involved in that episode's story, sort of like how each Chrono Trigger era focuses on a character or two.
1) We haven't fully decided on how exactly that will work, but we don't want catching characters up to be a thing. Levels might just come from Ajna, since she's manifesting them from within her.
2) Yup, directly so.
That's the first thing that came to mind for me as well. But the unique touches here really make her stand out - the cannon shoulderpiece, the rope belt tied to the harpoon - she's easily one of my favourite designs mechanically as well as aesthetically. Can't wait to see her animations.
I'm kind of uneasy now that you've confirmed it, but I'm sure you'll be able to make it work. A single token character to pander to that demographic would be fine, but anything more would be a little alienating.
More_Badass
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Odd that you'd consider having a character like that as the devs pandering to some demographic rather than them simply wanting to put such a character in the game
They've spoken numerous times about how strong the reaction to Beowulf was - deciding to replicate that with a deliberately sexualised character would be very different from going with a design like Hubrecht or Big Band; though they could both fill the same niche.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Joke post?
It's kind of not good to have the whole thread just turn into an echo chamber of how much we all like the game. If you have complaints, let em out.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Alright, I'm in for $30 (£20 according to PayPal). I hope this goes though, but I may see how it goes and see if I have a bit more leeway to increase that amount.
Really? That's such a shame. I can't get too upset because Wei Shen was actually a great character, but still...
OH MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
Sheeeeeeeeeeeit
Do I have a new favorite? Maybe.
It's regrettable, but at least they didn't force them to go with a white lead as well. Considering he's Chinese-American, it'd have been depressingly easy for them to push to whitewash his portrayal.
Whens the spin-off Action RPG with Baozhai as the protagonist?
That art just gives me huge Kingdom Hearts vibes for whatever reason.
Baby steps, I suppose...
That art just gives me huge Kingdom Hearts vibes for whatever reason.
Baby steps, I suppose...
SolarPowered
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If today's numbers are anything like those of the last two days we'll be crossing 700k dollars sometime around 8-9PM EST tonight. Soon we'll unlock our Fencer version of Dudley and get some much needed class up in here. Can't wait to see a new take on Drifter or Calibretto too.
Just in time for Europe to join in for the final push. Makes me wonder just how big of a region it was for the SG IGG and how well represented they are so far contribution-wise in this campaign.
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