How did Final Fantasy 9 get away with this?

Freya's face is so miniscule I didn't even know she was a furry.

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It's up there for sure, a nice return to high fantasy after 6/7/8

That looks pretty stupid but that render is so soulful. Reminds me of the Donkey Kong Country renders.

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>30-something brown haired white male
Japan hates this. They were going to make the SMTIV Final protagonist a 30 something man who already lost family members, executives completely vetoed that idea though and made it a 16 year old to appeal to Japanese fans.

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>Power of friendship bullshit with an adult instead
I don't think that is much of an improvement.

nice ass

CHEEKS

can't wait for the remake

If you choose Bonds over Anarchy then you deserve it.

CUNNY

I don't even hate JRPGs. In fact, I recently have been getting into them a lot more as I have beaten pretty much every great CRPG/WRPG. I like them, but one thing that almost universally sticks out is how terrible many of the character designs are. Not all of them are bad, of course, but so often they are insanely over designed and look retarded.

If they could've fixed the protagonist then they could've fixed the plot too

That thing look fucking based

CUT THE PIZZA

this one, while still retarded, is incredibly less so
granted i can only see the back and those perky asscheeks so the front might be just as bad

It’s playable and will fulfill any vore fetish you may have, enjoy.

>FE9 designs were so fucking bizzare, like what the fuck is this

Pink jumpsuit.
+
yellow overalls
+ red top
+socks
+shoes

Yes it's all dumb and over designed.

not unless it turns into a cute girl or shota

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Did someone say best FF9 girl?

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it's also a female (male)

Am I the only one who though Freya's nose was her goofy mouth and she was looking to the left? I thought that shit for years until I saw a larger picture of her.

It's a RAT.
And second to worst party member. Drown it.

Around 2000 Japan started to really over-design characters and this has shown up in anime and games. This is a gradual process where characters like in FF7 or 8 were japanesey but could still fall into a kind of reality. The simplicify of the designs in 7 is part of their appeal. But they kept getting more and more over designed. Overall I like Japanese deisgns the most but the last 20 years they kept adding more and more and more and more to make them stupid.

Vivi and Steiner are the only deisgns in 9 I like.

Literally all characters are drawf

Pretty much all of FF9's designs have weird problems that keep them from being great. It's like they didn't want to fully commit to the toony style so they kept the dumb anime outfits that fuck with the color blocking

and then there's this and Amarant, who are just ugly. Who thought they were a good idea?

Someone post Garnet ass. Not the off model inflatable shit. I've seen but not saved.

That skintight orange bodysuit...

I quite like most of the character designs in 7 and 8. I think Squall is a great looking protagonist (Cloud looks cool except for the fact that his clothes are bright purple for some weird reason) who is not over designed overall pretty sweet. Then you get into games like Xenoblade Chronicles where every protagonist has two pairs of pants for some reason (even though I like the games).

I hate Steiner’s shorts but love Vivi. Zidane looks good in any game except IX. Garnet has a sweet ass.

I like how Squall’s coat is supposed to resemble a lion’s mane.

Part of why Nintendo's characters are so iconic is that most of their designers understand how to make a character really distinct and memorable.

Bold forms, good use of empty space and silhouettes>Pointless, busy elaborations on a dull archetypal design

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Steiner's cargo shorts always bothered me and so does the fact that Vivi is apparently wearing a bigger white coat under his blue coat for some reason

Freya's design is the only one that I don't have any real problems with

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