ARMS continues that trend, with little in the way of excessive or pointless detail. Each character has a gimmick, with an aspect of that gimmick reflected in their ARMS, and to a lesser extent in their secondary traits. Spring Man is a boxer with spring arms, but the trait also manifests itself in his spring shaped pompador, and his ability to bounce back from a beating, as seen by his powered up critical state in combat. Minmin has a Chinese theme going on, her arms are a reference to Dragon Noodles, and her hair is a bunch of noodles that flow from beneath her hat, which is an overturned ramen bowl. Naturally, she uses flying martial arts kicks to defend herself in the air, as a proper stereotypical Chinese fighter should.
Boiling the designs down further, we can see the use of color is fantastic. Its really reminiscent of the way Street Fighter II used simple color schemes to distinguish its characters. To highlight this, I stole the idea of Ashley Brownings minimalist Street Fighter II characters, and applied it to a few members of the ARMS cast.
