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Dragon's Crown (Vanillaware PS3/PSV) Sorceress Trailer
- Thread starter Takao
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this awesome image is also another of Kamitanis works. It was in fact the cover of a play magazine. And Yknow what? His wife approved of it.
This isn't possible nor factually correct. She's being retained by both legs while the octopus has a full grasp on the cooch...
She would have crumbled in pleasure....
EDIT: My 2 cents XD
~Devil Trigger~
In favor of setting Muslim women on fire
Win
Rickenslacker
Banned
lol the direction this thread went.
Tits, Ass and Dickgirl Doujin Requests apparently.
Whelp.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
I was not expecting anyone to ask for it, you guys are awesome. I even got several PM's from people that didn't want to post that they wanted it
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
This has to be the sexiest neo gaf thread of all time? lol
and for some reason hearing the people complain about the artwork makes me think of footloose. Just let them dance people.. for the love of god let them dance!!
There was probably a more sexy one in Off Topic at one point.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Someone made a subtitled version of the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jFmCf3Qrns
"Transformed through powerful magicks, she is an entrancing witch whose forté is to toy with her opponents."
"Transformed through powerful magicks, she is an entrancing witch whose forté is to toy with her opponents."
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Damn it she toyed with everyone in this thread!
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Karsticles
Member
There you go, she made her boobs big with magic. Now everyone can relax. She's just another victim of society like Neiteio was talking about. Don't you all feel bad for saying such mean things about her now?
Is it just me or do the Wizard and Elf just seem COMPLETELY boring due to everyone else being so exaggerated? Like, they don't fit in with the rest of the team.
Also, Vanillaware makes awesome looking monsters. Why can't I ever play as them? Let me play as a skeleton or a ogre or orc or something.
Also, Vanillaware makes awesome looking monsters. Why can't I ever play as them? Let me play as a skeleton or a ogre or orc or something.
Elf has thighs idunno.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
this awesome image is also another of Kamitanis works. It was in fact the cover of a play magazine. And Yknow what? His wife approved of it.
I use that for my phone wallpaper. I've used it for ages
mysteriousmage09
Member
Damn, she really needs to shave down there...
Angelus Errare
Banned
I love Kamitani's art style, The ghost chick OST cover is what I have.
It's a tail.
It's a tail.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
I just hope this game doesn't end up as repetitive as Muramasa, having skill tress and different attacks to do will help a lot
I CAN'T WAIT
I CAN'T WAIT
AdawgDaFAB
Member
Sad indeed. Also sad is we've had 19 pages and still no gifs of Amazon's hilarious walk animation from the end of the vid.Also, 9 pages to get a combo gif, that's sad
Don't you mean Fire, Ice, Life and Hometown?
Lord Mara does not submit to any censors.
Necromanti
Member
My problem with the character design isn't so much the sexualized aspect of it, but rather, the outrageously comical proportions.
I mean, a lot of Odin Sphere's art was clearly sexualized.
That hopefully won't matter if the gameplay is good, though.
I mean, a lot of Odin Sphere's art was clearly sexualized.
But I always felt that Kamitani's artstyle and it's detail-oriented focus shone through more in art like this.
The exaggerated proportions makes sense within the style they are going for, I guess, although the hyper-sexualization looks a tad ridiculous.
That hopefully won't matter if the gameplay is good, though.
Maybe he wanted to try something different after GKH's less-exaggerated designs.
Naaa, the fact that they're more "normal" in appearance makes everyone else look even more ridiculously buff/strong/etc, they're perfect foils for the rest of the cast.
I'm really glad Kamitani & Co. Are going all out with the variety of designs. It's something that often gets lost in HD works, 2D or 3D, becuase things become more complex and/or time-consuming to bring to life properly, with more varied body styles. They don't seem to care at ALL with this game though, and I truly appreciate that, as it's one of the things I loved about old SNK games. They'd have Characters like Mickey (AoF), Earthquake, Caffine Nicotine, and Sieger (SamSho), or Chang and Choi (KoF), and these guys had builds and motions unlike anyone else.
You see such celebrated less and less in gaming, so it's pretty nice to see it respected and exploded all over, with this game.
This is what I truly wanted out of "HD": I didn't want the same art, worse animated, but with more sharp, little lines; I wanted similiar to what we had with sprite / pixel work, if not better, with lines that actually DO something. I feel Higher Definition is wasted, when motion LOSES definition and character, as a trade for sharper artwork. It's like working out to get in shape, but somehow lowering your stamina and strength, while becoming more chiseled. Makes no sense!
And it would be nice to play some of his beast; but you're getting to play people that look like Odin Sphere's NPCs and background characters with THIS game, so maybe you'll get a chance to play a Lizardman or Huge Oni in DLC / The next game...
But crazy propotions like this have existed in basically all his works that allow it. I think it mostly comes through here so much because of 2 things:
- The Animation.
- The fact it's on the main characters.
But this isn't suprising for this game's genre: The best Beat 'em Ups are always like that.
While platformers had us playing tiny Megaman, BEU's had us playing Haggar VS Andore. One of the biggest jumps between Streets of Rage 1 and 2, came from the detail and size of the character sprites. Much like the Fighting Game genre, the BEU genre always put more time and effort into it's player characters; it's a traditional hallmark.
Kamitani is following long time game design tradition, just with his own style, and the freedom to push it to 11.. heck, probably 14. Even when you look back at the characters he helped create for Princess Crown (As the Lead Designer / Planner):
You can see the beginnings of the style he matured into what we've seen in his latest games.
But it's the fleshing out of things in this game, that's getting so much attention; if the sorceress acted in ways that didn't put her sexy body parts constantly on display, as the center of her movements, stances, artwork, attacks, etc... there'd probably be little concern beyond the character artworks.
Most of the time, once you get past the art, such oversexualization only showes up in a move or 2, or in "stage clear" poses or something. But in this game, Floppy Sorcerror Jiggle, Amazon Booty-Quakin, Dwarf's bulging thighs and Rock-like Musculature are going to be exaggerated in everything they do. At least every character has SOMETHING the animators get to over-do in this game; Knights armor motion, Wizard's flowing robes and Hair, and Elf's nibleness, arrow-spending, and mini-cloak movement...
As an aside, I'd love to see an HD version of Princess Crown's Gradriel in this game as a guest player character, as well; PC was published by Atlus (also in part by Sega, though)... and she'd be 80% over-done fanservice free!
Until she transformed into her adult form... Then she's be Sorceress 2.0! Oy.
On George Kamitani's facebook account, he responded to Jason Schreir's Kotaku article by drawing this awesome piece:
From https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...925660254.85466.100002565488533&type=1&ref=nf
I LOVE IT!
From https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...925660254.85466.100002565488533&type=1&ref=nf
I LOVE IT!
On George Kamitani's facebook account, he responded to Jason Schreir's Kotaku article by drawing this awesome piece:
From https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...925660254.85466.100002565488533&type=1&ref=nf
I LOVE IT!
Like a boss.
I still have to buy 3 additional PS3 controllers. The way to play this game is with three friends on the couch quaffing ale and all.
On George Kamitani's facebook account, he responded to Jason Schreir's Kotaku article by drawing this awesome piece:
From https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...925660254.85466.100002565488533&type=1&ref=nf
I LOVE IT!
All Mr. Schreir needs to do is share this beared glory in a follow up Kotaku article.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
Everyone should buy the game because of that
michaelius
Banned
Help - someone posted somewhere in this or other Dragon Crown thread an amazing article about artwork in Vanillaware games and it's inspiration - someone have it bookmarked ?
mysteriousmage09
Member
Haha, that is how you respond to shit like this. Mad props!
But it's kinda dumb though, the reverse sexism card doesn't mean shit in the reality of things.
To me the female character designs in this game are hilarious but they fit the general art direction so whatever.
Dwarf was already posted : http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=543057
Next one should be up friday/saturday.
Teknopathetic
Member
"I heard levels are static over multiple playthroughs in this... I hope I heard wrong."
I hope you heard right. It's a requirement for any action game that has a score counter.
I hope you heard right. It's a requirement for any action game that has a score counter.