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With the starting roster of ARMS revealed, which character is your favorite DESIGN?
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They explain it (or don't) in the first 1.5 minutes of the Direct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY2_Xu3f8Bc
I missed the very beginning of the direct, that explains it
James Scott
Banned
It's weird that these are like cell shaded despite being the same character models
QuantumSquid
Member
I disagree with the notion that twintelle isn't purposely sexualized. She wasn't born that way, she's a videogame character. A team of designers spent months deliberating over every detail of her model, and they purposely chose to make her butt that big.
I'm not complaining, but let's be real here.
I'm not complaining, but let's be real here.
James Scott
Banned
As a big fan of Bayonetta, Twintelle is pretty great...she's unusually close with her lower half looking straight out of Bayo 2. She even attacks with her hair and has witch time.
She's designed that way to project her character as a huge movie star. Celebrities like that are supposed to look good and have that strong appeal appearance-wise. So of course it's part of her design to have certain body parts to be a looker.
SO ANYWAYS.
Nintendo has announced the characters you'll be able to try in the Global Testpunch:
And remember: You can download the Testpunch right now on the eShop. Can't do much with it at the moment, but you CAN listen to the music, and if you wait at the title screen, you'll see randomly generated attract reels. I've seen every character and game mode in action on my TV this way!
Side note: The volleyball mode looks amazing. One attract reel I watched featured 2v2 volleyball and the match was very close. Also, I can tell from the camera angles that there's a MKTV-style replay mode in this game, something also confirmed by Game Informer (or maybe it was Edge?).
Some other notes: Watching the Direct carefully, I see options to play pretty much every mode in single-player, and you can turn off items, increase round time, increase the amount of HP, adjust the rate at which the Rush Gauge fills, and more.
Nintendo has announced the characters you'll be able to try in the Global Testpunch:
And remember: You can download the Testpunch right now on the eShop. Can't do much with it at the moment, but you CAN listen to the music, and if you wait at the title screen, you'll see randomly generated attract reels. I've seen every character and game mode in action on my TV this way!
Side note: The volleyball mode looks amazing. One attract reel I watched featured 2v2 volleyball and the match was very close. Also, I can tell from the camera angles that there's a MKTV-style replay mode in this game, something also confirmed by Game Informer (or maybe it was Edge?).
Some other notes: Watching the Direct carefully, I see options to play pretty much every mode in single-player, and you can turn off items, increase round time, increase the amount of HP, adjust the rate at which the Rush Gauge fills, and more.
Did someone say that? Pretty sure the point that was being made was that her design is completely fine in the context of this game for various reasons, not that she isn't sexualised/sexy at all.
Hot diggity, I love me some GameXplain. Didn't see this watching now!
QuantumSquid
Member
a few pages back someone said it
DragonGirl
Member
I have to give props to Min Min for how well her design pulls of the noodle theme: from her ramen bowl hat to her noodle hair.
After that though Spring Man and Ribbon Girl are my favorite designs with Ninjara and Kid Cobra following up.
After that though Spring Man and Ribbon Girl are my favorite designs with Ninjara and Kid Cobra following up.
Cuningas de Häme
Member
Min Min is lovely. I love quirky girls.
My wife has Twintelle's bodyshape, it is not uncommon at all. I had to show Twintelle to her immediately, they are like two berries (well, this saying is not working in English very well...). My wife is better looking, but I may be a tad biased. I like short and feisty ones. Glamour divas don't do much for me. I like the concept anyway, it oozes film starry arrogance. Character model suits the personality really well there.
But anyway, it is so nice to have proper women in games. I don't like the big breasted fetish blonds at all. So American concept (Baywatch etc.). What my wife has told me, breasts tend to be bouncy and hurt like hell if you try to do any exercise without them properly supported. Hate all the big titty game characters who clearly are not wearing any support. And silicons, yuck. Most awful thing I know, unless a woman absolutely needs them for a medical/psychological reason.
Never understood why men love big titties, it must be because they didn't get enough breastmilk while young. They miss their milk. Wide hips tho, that signs that a woman is a good birther. Speaks to my most ancient instincts.
Yeah... Nintendo has nailed all the individual charaters in my opinion, everyone suits their background story really well. I like when that happens.
My wife has Twintelle's bodyshape, it is not uncommon at all. I had to show Twintelle to her immediately, they are like two berries (well, this saying is not working in English very well...). My wife is better looking, but I may be a tad biased. I like short and feisty ones. Glamour divas don't do much for me. I like the concept anyway, it oozes film starry arrogance. Character model suits the personality really well there.
But anyway, it is so nice to have proper women in games. I don't like the big breasted fetish blonds at all. So American concept (Baywatch etc.). What my wife has told me, breasts tend to be bouncy and hurt like hell if you try to do any exercise without them properly supported. Hate all the big titty game characters who clearly are not wearing any support. And silicons, yuck. Most awful thing I know, unless a woman absolutely needs them for a medical/psychological reason.
Never understood why men love big titties, it must be because they didn't get enough breastmilk while young. They miss their milk. Wide hips tho, that signs that a woman is a good birther. Speaks to my most ancient instincts.
Yeah... Nintendo has nailed all the individual charaters in my opinion, everyone suits their background story really well. I like when that happens.
The Omega Man
Member
Cuningas de Häme;237410544 said:
Well
That poll is going exactly as I expected.
Poor the rest of that bunch of basic girls, boys, robots and whatever that Neelix thing is.
lol, does she sniff the aroma of her tea before sipping?
that is a great touch
NipplesAndToes23
Member
Twintelle is slaying honey!
Why Japanese creators love giving dark skinned people white hair?
Why Japanese creators love giving dark skinned people white hair?
don't defend that b*tch
Geminosity
Member
NipplesAndToes23
Member
Most of the cast is pretty ugly though. Aside from Twintelle I like Helix and Min Min. The robot is okay and the rest look awful to me.
Also it's about damn time a game has put in a black girl with some ass.
Also it's about damn time a game has put in a black girl with some ass.
Hey, I've got no dog in this race! I'm more of a B&B/Min Min/Helix/Spring Man kind of guy.
(At least right now. I suspect that Ribbon Girl, Kid Cobra and Twintelle might be the most fun to play.)
AquaWateria
Member
You better not be talking shit about Spring Man lol.
OK, I technically have a dog in this race... An aviators-wearing robo dog-head on a wheel with a boxing glove tongue.
traitor
if you're going down this road, i'd go full (dog) robot.
But one of them IS the mech.
It's like Squares and Rectangles; all mechs are robots, but not all robots are mechs. Byte and Barq are a pretty solid number 2, but Mechs > Robots still.
LOL
I think the idea is the alien god can make any part of you stretchy, so that it now functions like an arm. This is what they call ARMS, in all caps.
For most people, they're abducted, wake up the next day of no memory of what happened, and they find their arms are now ARMS.
But for Twintelle, her hair was given ARMS functionality.
Geminosity
Member
Mister Wolf
Member
Blame Storm.
I assume its the contrast.
That being said I will give them a pass with Twintelle because I would assume she dyed her hair and that color is slaying me rn
Like, she is an unholy fusion of Beyonce and Rihanna
I think the poll is about favorite design rather than best butt. Also male gaze etc.
The hell? This ain't a splatfest, you don't get credit for winning, lol.
So I've known for a little while that Kid Cobra's proportions and movements feel kind of weird and another part of it occurred to me a while ago, the odd bend in his posture. He almost never stands upright like most of the other fighters but instead has somewhat of a lean to one side (he even shifts which side he's leaning to when charging punches!). I thought it was kind of odd at first until I realized that they designed his uneven posture to more closely match that of actual cobras, who similarly tend to have that sort of bend to them when their heads are raised rather than standing straight up. It's a bit of subtlety that I tip my cap to Nintendo for, they've done a great job using body language with some characters as a part of their design and personality.
His legs still look too short though.
Similarly I like that for Byte's dash, rather than a quick strafing step, he literally just rotates the whole lower half of his body and walks "straight" in that direction while his upper half continues facing forward. Fun stuff. I bet there are gonna be some killer DLC ideas coming in the future.
JB-the-Hunter
Member
"ARMS" mostly refers the weapons they have though, not just their stretchy limbs. It's a double entendre.
Ragnorok64
Member
I thought Twintelle used her hair to support herself, but does she straight up just float?
