FF X-2 Illustrations - Art's cool!

Cobalt Katze · Uncertainty Gender: Joined: 05 Oct 2002

While the game itself might not be as cool as it could be, I was browsing thru IGN tonite and found some cool lil illustrations of characters other than just Yuna. Seems the theme of the game is skimpy and akimbo (everyone stole my style! *sniff*)
But you've gotta hand it to the two designers for some great character art, no matter if it's fanservice or not. So with further ado, the drawrings:

Yuna:

Rikku:

Le Blanc (evil seducting lady):

Henchman #1:

Henchman #2:

I'll update if Square ever releases more info on that mysterious third character! I wanna see her! Well, you can kinda see her back in this lovely bit of CG:

"OMG! Sun! Whee! Sun! Oh, we're supposed to save the world? Okay! Yaay, sun.. sun.. Trains! I love trains!" er, wait.. wrong character..

Sperrit · Chosen of Earth Gender: Joined: 16 Oct 2002

Who is that mysterious masked woman? From where does she come from? Who does she work for? Who know's what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! Or... wait....

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Senkir · inward singing since 1983 Gender: Joined: 21 Sep 2002

Oh my misterious love goddess Rikku, how you taunt me with your adventurous ways. >_>;

*teh flee*

Sperrit · Chosen of Earth Gender: Joined: 16 Oct 2002

If by adventurous you mean risque and by love goddess you mean hot girl, then yes. Though her new hairdoo is a little out there for me.

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Minosheep · Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 2:19 pm Post subject:

They sluttified the game...

Bastards.

D-Trix · Senior Otaku Joined: 04 Nov 2002

i gotta agree with Demonic on this one. fanservice is great in theory, i have nothing against using a little sex appeal to sell games here and there.

what i object to is fanservice that turns lovable female characters into slutty-looking bimbos - character that were lovable because of their personalities in FFX, not for their cleavage (although they did go a bit overboard with Lulu's cleavage)!

what sort of message do these character designs send? i imagine an advertising slogan running under these pictures: "well, if you liked Yuna for her adorable shyness, or her quiet leadership, or her determined bravery in the face of impending death...just wait until you see her in a halter-top!"

the message is clearly, "We like good girls, brave girls, ass-kicking girls, initiative-taking girls, basically girls with personality, we like them and all; but all we really care about is seeing them in skimpy clothes!"

or, to put it in an even more demeaning fashion, "Who cares about her personality? Show some leg, baby!"

...

This. Is. Disgusting. And. Despicable.

...

i would not blame Square at all for creating 3 all-new female characters, dressing THEM in bikinis, and putting THEM into a new game, even if it was set in the FFX world. as i said, fanservice is fine by me. but when they create a character solely for the purposes of exploitaion, like Lara Croft, i don't have a problem when they exploit her (it's a separate issue whether they should be creating such characters in the first place). when they take characters that have actually garnered players' respect and affection through their personalities and character traits, reducing them to sex objects is just about the most sickening thing Square could possibly do.

now i love Square, and i seem to say things like this about their upcoming games as often as i say "wow that game looks incredibly good." i continue to love Square because when i think a game looks incredibly good, it turns out to BE incredibly good. but every time i've said to myself, "they should not be making this game, it will be horrendous," i have been right on the money.

so, yay for cleavage and whatnot, but there is no way in HELL that i am buying this piece of trash.

~Ted

ps - i actually have a theory that FFX-2 is nothing more than a practical joke from some bored Square employees. like, the art department had nothing to do until R&D finishes plans for FFXII, so they're wasting time rendering scantily-clad pics of FFX characters. then someone says, "hey, what if we released these over the internet and claimed it was a sequel to FFX? oh man, that would be hilarious!" and every time they see a forum thread like this one, where people are actually treating it like it's going to be a real game, they all roll around on the floor of their offices laughing like hyenas. i would too if it turned out i was right.

pps - lord, i hope i'm right...

Akira · Ambers biotch Age: 35 Gender: Joined: 27 Oct 2002

Yuna 2.0 is off da hizzo....she looks alot better than that wimpy one outta FFX ....but i never played FFX so how can i say that....idk but n e ways

Sperrit · Chosen of Earth Gender: Joined: 16 Oct 2002

Ted, you took the words right out of my head. I agree with you completely. Such perversion of characters to get money is deplorable to the highest level. I mean, I was seriously excited when I first heard that they were making a sequel to FFX. I was SO stoked! But this is just terrible! It has no integrity! *sigh* This is why they have never made a sequel, and I hope that if they ever decide to do it again that they do it better than this.

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Akira · Ambers biotch Age: 35 Gender: Joined: 27 Oct 2002

Rikku is HOTT i mean she makes me drool at the sight of her...but yuna 2.0 looks like angelina jolie.

Minosheep · Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2002 12:02 am Post subject:

Akira... shut UP!

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