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[NHarmonic.]

Awful looking character design, the rest of the pictures are amazing though...

 

[cw_sasuke]

Gameloft developed ?

 

[Nudull]

I love how some people are complaining up and down about the character design. If it was a woman, dudes would be silent.

It's a fairly ridiculous design, but considering longtime trends in character designs, it's somewhat refreshing.

 

[JordanN]

Are those bullshots?

No way mobile has gotten to the point of perfect anti-aliasing.

 

[Nirolak]

I added these two to the OP since some people seem to have missed the game announcement.

Previous info: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=906515

Interview: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143742373&postcount=267

To note by "automated map movement" they mean between areas (think FFX). The areas themselves you walk around like you would normally in a JRPG IIRC.

 

[glaurung]

Hello new phone wallpaper!

This is a mobile device game I presume?

Sorry, I've been offline during the holidays.

 

[UrbanRats]

Vaan (slightly up thread) is closer to sane male sexualisation (though much like this guy he seems to excessively value his legs' protection). It's more than the outfit is hilariously ridiculous. I mean, is that an apron or what?

Looks like sort of swimsuit to me.
It's obviously designed around being sexy looking, and the armor doesn't make much sense, but it doesn't necessarily have to, is my point.
And male sexualization is not as pervasive as to be an issue (the opposite, i'd say), so i'm kind of finding this interesting, myself.

 

[Parakeetman]

Looks like what happens in FF14 when you cant finish your artifact set lol.

 

[Nirolak]

Gameloft developed ?

Internal Square Enix first production department game.

Apparently their largest team ever internally for a mobile project (though that's probably pretty inherent just looking at it).

 

[TheJollyCorner]

They have Nojima writing it so I guess it depends how you feel about him.

Nojima/Kitase teaming up again is great in my book.
I just hope the future of their collaborations isn't kept strictly to mobile games. As good (technically) as this is looking, I just can't imagine myself ever getting as excited for a cell-phone/tablet game as I would a console game. :/

 

[pixlexic]

I lIke squares approach to sexualization.

Everyones sexy! Lol

 

[Adaren]

I'm liking the new direction they're taking the plot.

 

[Eternal Gamer]

That character design is horrible, ugh.

 

[ScriptedReality]

Uhhh guess I'll grow used to his skimpy attire lol.

Is this really on mobile? That's wild.

 

[Dark_castle]

Character design by Toshiyuki Itahana, who was the character designer for FFIX.

What the hell happened?

 

[SerTapTap]

Honestly, this looks like a literal translation of some of Amano's designs.

....Waaaay too literal.

Most games based on Amano's designs have been about as faithful to the designs as possible given the respective console's abilities (and a different art style of course...an actual game looking like Amano art would be pretty amazing though). FF design's pretty often crazy, but there's different types of crazy.

Not really getting Amano out of this anyway.

 

[glaurung]

I lIke squares approach to sexualization.

Everyones sexy! Lol

LOL

I dread it, but I know that if I googled "sexy ff behemoth" I'd find some highly disturbing images.

*shudders*

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Looks like what happens in FF14 when you cant finish your artifact set lol.

LOL that's actually spot on

 

[dramatis]

I love how some people are complaining up and down about the character design. If it was a woman, dudes would be silent.

Dudes weren't silent, they were straight up championing Cindy's design in FF15.

 

[Extollere]

If I catch my wife playin this she gonna be sleeping on the couch lolol!

Spoiler

jk

 

[F0rneus]

Cannot be complaining. This and FFXV aren't targeting me and that's all right. I love me some scantily clad ladies, and this is the opposite version. Everyone is happy. Chicken dragon is phenomenal.

 

[Ezalc]

Better? Worse?

Same level of awful. Now we just need to see if he's the same level of whiny character.

 

[Ombala]

Lol that character is so awful would never be able too play this game.

 

[thelurkinghorror]

Horrible

 

[SerTapTap]

Looks like sort of swimsuit to me.
It's obviously designed around being sexy looking, and the armor doesn't make much sense, but it doesn't necessarily have to, is my point.
And male sexualization is not as pervasive as to be an issue (the opposite, i'd say), so i'm kind of finding this interesting, myself.

It's just sort of weird that him literally not wearing a top would look less awkward by quite a lot. The shoulder/leg armor's kinda funny too, even chainmail-bikini style armor is at least consistent with not actually providing proper protection.

Don't mind male sexualization at all, just don't care for this particular design. Mostly just the...shirt? really, just stands out compared to the rest.

 

[Twookie]

the hell is this

 

[Adaren]

It's kind of interesting to see the exposed armpits/exposed back design that's applied to so many female characters on a male.

As far as sexy JRPG designs go, I don't think it's too bad. I kind of like it, in fact!

 

[Acquiescence]

Just when you thought they couldn't do worse than Vaan in terms of character design.

 

[Haunted]

Did they outsource the character design to Korea?

 

[GoldandBlue]

Character design by Toshiyuki Itahana, who was the character designer for FFIX.

What the hell happened?

You mean the guy who did designs like this?

Seems on par with what he usually does.

And yeah, I think if it was a woman wearing that you wouldn't see most people here complain.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

Character design by Toshiyuki Itahana, who was the character designer for FFIX.

What the hell happened?

Based on FFIX's hero-worship around here, I wonder if some character design opinions might change based on this bit of info.

 

[dramatis]

Same level of awful. Now we just need to see if he's the same level of whiny character.

You're probably remembering a different FF12, because while there were a few bad scenes, Vaan wasn't all that much whiny. He was just not that much involved in the main plot, and that was his main weakness as a character.

 

[Kresnik258]

Ha. The outfit was the first thing that stood out to me too. That's... quite something.

He's just begging to get stabbed from behind.

Lol. Intentional?

 

[Ran rp]

Yikes.

 

[cackhyena]

Holy shit that clothing is laughable.

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

ewwwwww horrible MC design.

 

[wanders]

People always wanted a game with Amano's character designs come to life and now that we do people complain

Though I do think it's a little too much

 

[Ezalc]

You're probably remembering a different FF12, because while there were a few bad scenes, Vaan wasn't all that much whiny. He was just not that much involved in the main plot, and that was his main weakness as a character.

Yeah, it's just his voice that comes across as super whiny to me.

You mean the guy who did designs like this?

Seems on par with what he usually does.

And yeah, I think if it was a woman wearing that you wouldn't see most people here complain.

You take that back, Kuja is fabulous as hell.

 

[Ran rp]

People always wanted a game with Amano's character designs come to life and now that we do people complain

Though I do think it's a little too much

Show me Amano's original concept art for this character.

 

[shark sandwich]

Finally a chance to play as a less masculine Edge Maverick with less clothing too.

All kidding aside though, this looks impressive. iPhone 6 and especially iPad Air 2 are packing some seriously powerful hardware. It'll be cool to see what can be achieved when a big developer like Square Enix put real effort into an original title.

 

[chris3116]

Is that the new kind of metrosexual that SquareEnix wants to make for the next Final Fantasy games?

 

[Triplicates]

They should abandon any pretence of real gameplay and give us pure undistilled homoerotic smut.

 

[fabricated backlash]

It's kind of sad that rarely a blip would be heard if that outfit was put on a female character.

Looks shit to me, but nice textures.

 

[Scientist Supreme!]

Does anyone else think that the MC looks like raiden from Revengence?

 

[Cavalier]

What. The. Fuck.

 

[Cizeta-Moroder]

What's the problem? We see that kind of armor all the time on females.

 

[Oregano]

How does Square model their character's hair?

The MC's character model doesn't look that detailed/complex apart from that glorious hair of his.

Other than that on a technical level this looks pretty damn great. The environments look like there's a few rough textures here and there but overall it looks superb.

 

[Banana Aeon]

Man, this is male sexualization gone wrong.

At least FFXV looks good in that regard.

 

[Caronte]

They should abandon any pretence of real gameplay and give us pure undistilled homoerotic smut.

This isn't homoerotic at all. For me at least. Just bad.

Man, this is male sexualization gone wrong.

At least FFXV looks good in that regard.

I agree.

 

[HeelPower]

His outfit really does look like an LR outfit.

I like the quality of the pics.Its really surprising for a phone game.

But I don't think the western phone game market is looking for a game like this.

In Japan idk.