Shantae's design itself in a vacuum is, eh, okay she's a belly dancer, whatever. But every female character in that series has the same body type with clothing designed to show it off and it bothers me
It's not just Shantae too, it's nearly every game they make at this point.
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They often have four variant portraits per class, typically two adults, two kids (something I've generally appreciated over the years as I prefer the less 'chibi' look). What's grim is not just that the women are typically sexualised more than the men, but that they rarely differentiate between the little girl and adult woman in terms of costume. It's kind of a double whammy in terms of depiction. Out of morbid curiosity, what do the other two look like for this class? Is that the adult bloke and little girl, or are both female options just as bad as each other (like with the infamous dancer from EOIII on DS)?Etrian Odyssey is a series I like a lot.
Unfortunately, a lot of its designs are complete dumpsterfires.
Take, for example, the newest game, out in Japan. I'm playing through it right now, and just unlocked something.
This is how the male version looks:
naturally, this is the female variant:
Sigh. It's a good game as such, but do they have to?
Oh, that's annoying. Agree on npcs in combat lingerie, at least with the portraits you can just avoid them, and I just don't see why the shitty designs need to be in at all either.
Yikes.
Etrian Odyssey is a series I like a lot.
Unfortunately, a lot of its designs are complete dumpsterfires.
Take, for example, the newest game, out in Japan. I'm playing through it right now, and just unlocked something.
This is how the male version looks:
naturally, this is the female variant:
Sigh. It's a good game as such, but do they have to?
Yikes.
What game was that, I can't see the image? (Or do I not really want to?) :D
Nice work man! The little pilot sprite reminds me of Metal Warriors.Hahah, so true. The character in my game doesn't even have visible breasts, although to be fair she's literally eight pixels tall, so even a single pixel makes her look like Pamela Anderson (you normally control the mecha she's piloting). This works in my favor as her gender can be left ambiguous sort of like in Undertale.
Hahah, so true. The character in my game doesn't even have visible breasts, although to be fair she's literally eight pixels tall, so even a single pixel makes her look like Pamela Anderson (you normally control the mecha she's piloting). This works in my favor as her gender can be left ambiguous sort of like in Undertale.
Yikes.
Is that literally a 'tits' mousepad along with an 'ass' mousepad? Jesus wept.
I was gonna say the lady front and center looks cool but then i noticed her jacket is burning off...
Yikes.
better than average for a DoA but .... what is different from the oficial art ? just the lack of crotch "armor" and the "death by snu snu" body type?
Remember this coming up in the old thread?
Hah. I don't even know why I'm surprised at any of this stuff any more.Remember this coming up in the old thread?
That this is even a thing in the first place says everything.
Yikes.
Which is exactly what I've been saying would end up being the case for months. No matter what Shimbori was on about. Players up in arms about getting rid of the fanservice were wailing over nothing, and anyone who had been hoping a franchise that had been set in its ways for 20 years now was somehow going to change placed entirely too much stock in corporate PR.
There will be a third one of those mousepads in that set reserved for the new female character they have yet to reveal, BTW.
What's depressing is just how well it works. You'd think more people would've wised yp enough to recognise blatant PR spin by now...
Checking the artist wikipidia page shows that he was artist of a loli hentai vn in the past , so i guess no surprise thereEtrian Odyssey is a series I like a lot.
Unfortunately, a lot of its designs are complete dumpsterfires.
Take, for example, the newest game, out in Japan. I'm playing through it right now, and just unlocked something.
This is how the male version looks:
naturally, this is the female variant:
Sigh. It's a good game as such, but do they have to?
Not only did they use a bikini outfit in their example, it's one of the worst possible combinations of armored limbs + literal bikini that one can ever create.
