Retromelon
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monolith soft should hire me as character designer, i could supply them with #iconic designs all day
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Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Switch) is on the NA Press Site, PR and HQ screens in OP 2017
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monolith soft should hire me as character designer, i could supply them with #iconic designs all day
StreetsAhead
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monolith soft should hire me as character designer, i could supply them with #iconic designs all day
Anyone can copy. Not everyone can design.
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Retromelon
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Excuse me, that is not xeno x 2 girl, that is my oc naruha chan and how dare you insult my work? How could you not tell them apart by their memorable facial characteristics? You gotta get your eyes checked dude
StreetsAhead
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Oh, well in that case please forgive me for taking your earlier post at face value:
Of course, lovely as your naruha chan is, I'm not sure why she's relevant unless you meant to point out what a coincidence their appearances are.
Yes, it's clearly not. How can it be when there's no Xeno X 2?
How About No
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Holy hell if stupid anime doodles in my school notebooks could get me a job...
Well I could have gotten a job 10 years ago
Well I could have gotten a job 10 years ago
Fixed that for ya
Your assessment of sword girl sounds pretty accurate though.
No, that's the character who actually beats this one in the polls. Sorry.
Fixed that for ya
Your assessment of sword girl sounds pretty accurate though.
This sounds dumb but so less obvious that you know you're making it up by this point. Honestly, duckroll's assessment of "Naruha-chan" is probably dead on and I don't think he even had to try
BaraSailey
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I doubt this is coming out this year like they say, but this will definitely be one of the games that'll make me get a Switch down the line. Not sure how I feel about this art style, but if the game is fun and plays well I can deal with it.
Retromelon
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Thank you, perhaps you aren't as uncultured a lout as I originally surmised. Idk if I can go into this, but
naruha chan is actually the secret clone of xenoblade chronicles 2 girl that was created by the nefarious Villain San. She carries out her duties with the precision of an S Rank swordmaido, but deep down all she secretly wants is Villain San's approval, which he has been unfortunately unable to provide, preoccupied as he is with the apprehension of Meinkarakta to sacrifice to Shin Ebiru, demon-gentleman of the abyss
Lmao
I'll be honest I don't really care much about the designs cause I play these games for the rpg mechanics/exploration/monster hunting, but the people trying to defend these designs are in some deep denial. They are bland/featureless and very disproportionate.
I can definitely see where the complaints are coming from. XB1 and XCX both shot for an anime/realistic middle ground art style. This one has gone full LN as duckroll said.
Oh well as long as they give us a big world to explore and plenty of unique monsters to kill I'll have lots of fun with the game
My feelings exactly. This
is preferable to
Its completely generic and uninspired, flat, featureless and doll like. You might as well draw some big googly eyes, a period for a nose, and a small straight line for a mouth. Trash.
There is nothing less generic about the first one, you just prefer it.
The anime facial features aren't that big of a deal to me, but going for a flatter anime look will certainly make the game look and age better on the Switch's more-limited hardware.
Retromelon
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The guy actually has a nose and lips, dorsn't have googly eyes, has stubble which is a facial characteristic, and his face isn't the generic heart shape that is the hallmark of many shitty uninspired animes.
You were saying?
Preachhh
Like i said, reject media.vision characters by Tony Taka
I don't have an issue with those types of designs at all. but coming from Xenoblade's original art style and even Xenoblade X, it feels so uninspired.
I don't understand why they changed the entire character art style and got rid of the original illustrator.
I would say that anime has been pretty ingrained into the Xeno meta-series' DNA since its inception. As per your comparison, it's just "older anime tough guy" versus "anime waifu." I don't think either face design is more or less generic than the other.
I have a feeling she's evil.
screaming
Don't tell me. Or maybe I should really try and apply somewhere, good as I am.
I'm not sure I'd call them that, T2's style is immediately recognizable after all, while this game's design are as "generic LN" as they can get. But yeah, they're certainly in the same "family".
moozoom
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You mean like most "realistic" Final fantasy characters since FFVIII, right ? Or most western games characters who look like Poser basic dolls ?
How did I not notice this. Wonder how this'll affect the story?
StereoVsn
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The twist is that they are also Battleships!
I find the concept amusing though. What was that Senran Kagura look alike game with the concept?
Didn't like the realistic approach and the brown haired, rough and tough male model western characters too. My problem with XBC2's current is that it looks similar to the slight 'moe' style that has been used in anime in the past decade.
That generic how to draw an anime girls face looks almost identical to the Monado waifu. I preferred the style where it took a lot of influence from anime, and not straight up look like characters very low budget animes that have to use the same style.
I enjyed the first game because I enjoyed all the characters and the world around them. I want to enjoy this because everything but the character's looks are appealing to me. Hopefully this game uses another British cast instead of what they used in X
-shadow-
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It was the first thing I thought of when the sword came on screen. It's rather obvious they have something to do with each other.
It's only been mentioned 60 times since the trailer aired. Plus it's confirmed in the script pages in the trailer, which was also discussed several times now.
There's more than one Blade.
DarkLordMalik
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Terrible character designs aside, hoping the story is good
It's basically super animu Fi.
StereoVsn
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You have anime girls turning into swords, how do you think this is going turn out on the scale from Neptunia to Steins;Gate?
That's ok because power of friendship will triumph! This is going to end Tales of Graces F, Xenoblade edition but worse, isn't it?
MatrixMan.EXE
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You know, I don't mind the anime visuals, if only because Monolith are finally providing half decent character models. Having said that, it would have been really nice if they could have just translated this:
Into in-game graphics.
Into in-game graphics.
I haven't completely played either of the past two games (even though I own copies/2 copies of the first game) and trying again to get in the first one right now since I have 2 preordered. I've noticed that I find myself enjoying the game a lot more after I realized it has Japanese voices in it too.
<- this is a joke, but still... spoilers (I think)
Yeah, but Blade Trinity wasn't very good.
blue_phazon
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...holy shit this is so spot on 💯👌
I'd still take generic Mass Effect character though
StreetsAhead
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I kinda get the complaints about the characters looking generic here, but also, I feel like Shulk is pretty darn generic looking too.
And before anyone points out that that's not what he looks like in-game,
And before anyone points out that that's not what he looks like in-game,
He looks like a finger-puppet in an Alolan-Dugtrio wig in Xenoblade.
I agree with you all on this one. Character design in the first Xenoblade looked very unique and detailed. I think that it was a big part of the game's appeal personally. It was a type of visual design that's been missing from many JRPGs for the last decade or so. Immediately recognizable and unique characters, even with the ability to swap armors in and out.
Dark Cloud
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I really want to see Xenoblade Chronicles games sell atleast a million consistently.
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