Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance

[No One]

Holy shit, fuck no Mzo. If you're counting those as some of the best games, then we might as well include The Bouncer in that bunch.
Nomura is Everything wrong with Square.

As always, Serious Finch speaks the truth.

My 11-year-old stepdaughter thinks the characters in those games "look kinda gay".

[Finch]

LOOK AT IT.

GOD, JUST LOOK AT IT. One day, i would love to punch Tetsuya Nomura in the face.



His face just BEGS to be punched.

[No One]

I'm surprised he resisted the urge to give him an earring. Every character he draws (male or female) looks exactly the same. Only the impossible spiky hairstyles differ.

Seeing all those gorgeous Amano characters in Dissidia rendered in Nomura's "style" made me want to cry.

[Finch]

Nomura is one of those guys who's fine, sometimes even really good, when he's given some kind of oversight, when there's someone saying "This is what we want, no, not that, more like this."
When he's given COMPLETE CONTROL, like with Kingdom Hearts, that's when his garbage starts to stink.

[No One]

[MechDeus]

Seeing all those gorgeous Amano characters in Dissidia rendered in Nomura's "style" made me want to cry.

Back when making KH2 Nomura has stated he doesn't like redoing characters that he didn't design in the first place. I think it definitely shows, as the stuff of his own that he updated in that game (Cloud, Squall) looks a million times better than the stuff that he didn't (Vivi).

Although I'm not entirely sure how you can say all his characters look exactly the same and then point to Amano, as if Amano has a weak point it's that most of his characters (male and female) have the same face. Well, sometimes there's more eyeshadow than usual, but still.

[Finch]

I'm not up for arguing which artist draws more similar faces. Because they're both pretty close. If you want to get down to it, most character designers and funny-book artists in general tend to have a certain way about faces. Let's talk about Akira Toriyama.

It'd be neat to see a current or next generation title with an attempt to make the characters actually look like Amano designs though, with little orbs and stray lines everywhere.

[MechDeus]

If someone made an engine that used 3D to really convey 2D (vaguely similar to the SF4 openings) for Amano's work it would be cool.

[George]

Yeah see, Nomura came into the scene when we were able to actually translate character designs to the actual end product. Having a game that would make use of all the pale lanky people in Amano's art WOULD be kind of neat.

[No One]

Back when making KH2 Nomura has stated he doesn't like redoing characters that he didn't design in the first place. I think it definitely shows, as the stuff of his own that he updated in that game (Cloud, Squall) looks a million times better than the stuff that he didn't (Vivi).

Although I'm not entirely sure how you can say all his characters look exactly the same and then point to Amano, as if Amano has a weak point it's that most of his characters (male and female) have the same face. Well, sometimes there's more eyeshadow than usual, but still.

Fair enough, although I'd still argue that Amano's designs show more variety. I just find it more distracting with Nomura's stuff (Amano's elegance vs. Nomura's garish bucklefests).

I'm not up for arguing which artist draws more similar faces. Because they're both pretty close. If you want to get down to it, most character designers and funny-book artists in general tend to have a certain way about faces. Let's talk about Akira Toriyama.

It'd be neat to see a current or next generation title with an attempt to make the characters actually look like Amano designs though, with little orbs and stray lines everywhere.

I've been wishing Square would do this with Final Fantasy for years now, and not just with the characters. I want an entire game that looks like his paintings.