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[Lionel Richie]

Lin was 13 in Xenoblade Chronicles X. It's not an assumption because it's a japanese game, but because they already pulled that kind of shit.

She didn't have melon tits though. They got pervy with her clothes but the character itself looked like she was 13. The ones here? They look young but not nearly that young.

The main girl is drawn to look like a child with the body of a porn star.

It doesn't look like a child, the in game art is pretty much chibi like so they end up looking younger anyway but even then you're sort of pushing. Wait until we any kind of confirmation from the devs to be outraged.

 

[Sophia]

Lets talk about the battle system that was shown. 3 party members?

I actually wonder if that's the case. Rex's HP and stuff are shown above in the upper left. Maybe it's like you have primary party members + party members who become those Monado like weapons?

 

[Death Penalty]

Platinum'd a game you didn't like? Wut

I waited ten fucking years for it, I was gonna do everything regardless. But in all honesty it's not that hard to Platinum a game that's barely feature complete.

 

[Copper]

It's just that by this logic if the previous games had emitted a constant aroma of rotting sardines, they should keep doing so. After all, it's consistent.

Welp all the previous games have been quite successful and highly praised so your comment doesn't really apply here.

Remember the amazing character designs of FFX?

 

[azyless]

Don't play dumb, come on. She has the face of a child. No need to beat around the bush, these girls are traditional fap bait designed by a hentai artist. To me, hentai designs belongs in hentai.

No no, you see, this girl that obviously looks 13 except for some physics-defying large breasts ? Actually a 500 years old dragon. So it doesn't count.

 

[Rodin]

Will they show gameplay at Treehouse? I really hope so. Hopefully it's just a really really bad edited trailer. The first Xenoblade looked gross in the first couple of trailers, so who knows...

Yeah i remember people saying that X looked like crap after the story trailer that showed the faces of characters in mechs, but changed their mind after seeing the open world.

I read that it should show up, they're still on Metroid 3DS now.

This also appeared on the Spanish stream... I would like the Japanese voices, but oh well. Not a fan of the main character English voice.

I like the rest though, especially that OST.

Same. The thing is that the main didn't sound great, his voice seems too adult, but i didn't mind other characters. Need to hear it again though.

 

[Machina]

The VA was legit awful but people getting on their high horses yet again about the sexualization is getting really tiresome. This is Japan, this is the way they are and have been for decades. Time to get over it.

 

[AppleSautts]

I don't mind the designs but the giant boobs look pretty bad.

Can't wait for to see the gameplay.

 

[Rncewind]

People complaining about Homura's boobs.... what say you about Tifa? I'm actually curious.

Dude you trying like a litte bit to hard


like you activily must be trolling to not know that tifas cleavage was the source of ridicule and jokes and criticsm when FF 7 launched

 

[ThatChairMan]

Pretty satisfied with what I saw. No "wow" factor like X had with its mecha, but I can probably guess it'll have a stronger main narrative. That aside, everything else in terms of design is what I've gotten used to with previous Sagas and Blades. Looking forward to more.

 

[Red Devil]

Surprised this is still coming out this year, but good. If Mario comes out on October 27th I can see this being late November or an early December release.

 

[BigEmil]

Story ruined. I can't take this seriously.

LOL wtf with those tits on a person that looks 13 years old

 

[sanstesy]

People complaining about Homura's boobs.... what say you about Tifa? I'm actually curious.

It's not that big boobs are inherently bad but these look like two water melons duct taped on a female body.

 

[And_Gignac]

I hope they "censure" the shit out of it down to the size of the tits.

 

[Augemitbutter]

voice acting is meh. why are they going one step back again and straight up delete the japanese one? doesn't feel next gen at all.

the first blade made a better first impression. this main kid....lol.

 

[The Giant]

I always believed that this was coming this year. So happy.

 

[Niraj]

Definitely getting this. Hope we get more footage soon.

 

[OmegaX0]

Don't play dumb, come on. She has the face of a child. No need to beat around the bush, these girls are traditional fap bait designed by a hentai artist. To me, hentai designs belongs in hentai.

It's an unrealistic anime style. Generally everyone under 30 has the "face of a child" here.

 

[Harpoon]

Best character design is clearly the Nopon with a drill-shield.

 

[moustascheman]

Lets talk about the battle system that was shown. 3 party members?

The original had 3 party members as well. The new arts UI looks really weird IMO, I honestly prefer the Xenoblade X/original look to the battle UI.

 

[soultron]

The VA was legit awful but people getting on their high horses yet again about the sexualization is getting really tiresome. This is Japan, this is the way they are and have been for decades. Time to get over it.

And I'm tired of being told to get over it.

 

[Aaronrules380]

It's not that big boobs are inherently bad but these look like two water melons duct taped on a female body.

Have you seen Tifa lol

 

[antibolo]

Dude you trying like a litte bit to hard


like you activily must be trolling to not know that tifas cleavage was the source of ridicule and jokes and criticsm when FF 7 launched

But FFVII is one of the most beloved games ever made so obviously it doesn't matter in the end.

 

[Aters]

How were you able to know how the writing will be?

Xenoblade 1 has the best writing in all of JRPGs since forever.

...what?

 

[Lunafreya Nox Fleuret]

Dude you trying like a litte bit to hard


like you activily must be trolling to not know that tifas cleavage was the source of ridicule and jokes and criticsm when FF 7 launched

Oh, it just feels like people are acting like it is the first time they see gigantic boobs in the thread. I'm not trolling.

 

[Deleted member 752119]

Looks awful to me. But I didn't like Chronicles much and hate this type of artstyle and art design so I'm just not the market for this at all.

 

[Mory Dunz]

Why cant you copy and paste this???? Smash shulk suh gud

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[Ledsen]

The VA was legit awful but people getting on their high horses yet again about the sexualization is getting really tiresome. This is Japan, this is the way they are and have been for decades. Time to get over it.

Ah yes, of course, if something shitty stays around long enough, the best thing to do is simply to accept it. That's how progress is made.

 

[jj984jj]

Best character design is clearly the Nopon with a drill-shield.

Already 500000x better than Tatsu. lol

 

[Death Penalty]

Welp all the previous games have been quite successful and highly praised so your comment doesn't really apply here.

Remember the amazing character designs of FFX?

A highly praised game can have flaws, such as character design. Just because the game was successful or praised does not mean that these aspects should not be criticized or improved upon. Aforementioned sardine-smelling game could be great. They should still probably get rid of the fish stench. Maybe decades ago, fish stench was more appreciated in the medium, but these days audiences don't receive it as well.

Whatever the case, the point was that just because it was done before doesn't mean it's a good choice now. There's no logical basis for that.

Seriously. It's fine if you like the designs but neither of these are arguments against why someone doesn't like them:

- This character from a different series had a bad design (irrelevant)
- This character from Xenosaga had a similar design (irrelevant)
- You hate anime (irrelevant, presumptuous and silly because different anime look different)
- You must not play other JRPGs (presumptuous and irrelevant)
- You have not played any Xeno game (presumptuous and irrelevant)

Thanks for this post, it's really great.

 

[Zomba13]

Best character design is clearly the Nopon with a drill-shield.

The heropon that will pierce the heavens!

 

[DrLazy]

The woman (girl?) design is so terrible. Whole thing feels holy and bad

 

[Iriscomeback]

It's definitely in need of a long treehouse demo because the compressed trailer/voice acting isn't doing it favors. It has worse voice acting than the other Xeno's and oddly the graphics look like a step down as well, but that could be the video.

Agreed. I need to see more.

 

[sanstesy]

Have you seen Tifa lol

That is a PS1 game with now awful graphics. Weak comparison.

 

[crinale]

But it didn't have to go down like this, that's my point. Are there really people out there who played the previous Xenoblade games and thought man these games are fun! But it needs more fanservice!

Go check Japanese Internet forums and you'll see many gamers are digging the design.
One thing you have to keep in mind is that main target audience is Japanese male teens:
They sure love female characters look like supermodels.

 

[Rncewind]

But FFVII is one of the most beloved games ever made so obviously it doesn't matter in the end.

....

Am i getting trolled right now? Do you telling me we should not critize things because they are "beloved"!? He clearly stated something false to make it appear that people are hypocrites which is not the case

 

[Mortemis]

Torn on this, the music sounds amazing and it kinda looks fun, but damn that red haired girl's design really pushes me away from this. I'll probably wait for reviews and word of mouth to see if it blows people away.

 

[Machina]

Ah yes, of course, if something shitty stays around long enough, the best thing to do is simply to accept it. That's how progress is made.

The Japanese are likely to tell you where to stick your "progress" dude. What use is your protest if nobody is listening?

 

[fly high ~ayunite~]

Stop sexualising big breasts. Her character happens to have big breasts, lets not make it into something its not.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Best character design is clearly the Nopon with a drill-shield.

Yeah, he will definitely be in my battle team.

 

[whyamihere]

voice acting is meh. why are they going one step back again and straight up delete the japanese one? doesn't feel next gen at all.

the first blade made a better first impression. this main kid....lol.

The first Xenoblade was literally announced in a folder on the E3 press site and everyone thought it looked like crap because this was the first screen shot.

And this was the first trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcflgnLmgms

OBVIOUSLY Xenoblade 2 needs to make a better impression since this is a bigger franchise now, but to say that the first Xenoblade made a better first impression is... wrong.

 

[And_Gignac]

...what?

Other than FF Tactics and SMT 3-4, what is there? Persona is cliche anime too. Theres not a single FF as good as Xenoblade 1.

 

[UtterlyPerplexed]

The VA was legit awful but people getting on their high horses yet again about the sexualization is getting really tiresome. This is Japan, this is the way they are and have been for decades. Time to get over it.

No, fuck that.

Just because this is seemingly the status quo it does not mean that criticisms of character designs are suddenly invalid.

 

[WhiskerFrisker]

This voice acting is fucking woeful. I haven't laughed out loud at a dub in a while but this did it.

I was dying dude

 

[Gentleman Jack]

The VA was legit awful but people getting on their high horses yet again about the sexualization is getting really tiresome. This is Japan, this is the way they are and have been for decades. Time to get over it.

"stop discussing things that I don't want changed!"

 

[Hopeford]

While I understand that this isn't that much of a leap from usual anime styles, it frankly just isn't appealing to me. It especially jumps out as a weird style because I'm looking it from Xenoblade 1's perspective(which I adored) and being like "...Huh. Okay. Designs went into a direction I don't like."

I'm sure there are people who are happy with this type of design or at the very least don't mind it. But the art style is vastly different from a previous game in the series, so I don't think it's difficult to see why people aren't receiving this positively.

Personally, my issues with the dfesign vary from finding it bland(main character) to finding the female lead looking just...odd. Like she doesn't look proportionate to herself. I'll probably still pick this up at some point assuming I don't hear it's awful, but the designs do certainly put me off a bit.

 

[Rmagnus]

Seriously. It's fine if you like the designs but none of these are arguments against why someone doesn't like them:

- This character from a different series had a bad design (irrelevant)
- This character from Xenosaga had a similar design (irrelevant)
- You hate anime (irrelevant, presumptuous and silly because different anime look different)
- You must not play other JRPGs (presumptuous and irrelevant)
- You have not played any Xeno game (presumptuous and irrelevant)

Tbh if it bothers you so much just don't play it? Save you the anguish of looking at it

 

[kunonabi]

She didn't have melon tits though. They got pervy with her clothes but the character itself looked like she was 13. The ones here? They look young but not nearly that young.



It doesn't look like a child, the in game art is pretty much chibi like so they end up looking younger anyway but even then you're sort of pushing. Wait until we any kind of confirmation from the devs to be outraged.

Nintendo didn't get pervy with her clothes. She just had access to the same stuff every other female did. You could easily not use them if you didn't want to.

 

[Ledsen]

The Japanese are likely to tell you where to stick your "progress" dude. What use is your protest if nobody is listening?

Could you elaborate on those scare quotes?

 

[Plinko]

The VA was legit awful but people getting on their high horses yet again about the sexualization is getting really tiresome. This is Japan, this is the way they are and have been for decades. Time to get over it.

"It's been like this for years therefore you should be fine with it" is one of the absolute dumbest arguments I've ever heard.