JackFrost2012
Banned
I just got a White Mage strap in the mail from Club Nintendo (yay!) and am posting my photos here for folks to see. For those who want them, slightly larger photos are available at my blog.
Nintendo sent 10,000 straps out to gamers who registered their copy with Club Nintendo: 4,000 White Mages, 4,000 Black Mages, and 2,000 Red Mages. The White Mage is actually the one I wanted most, as the Red Mage sucks (the Red Wizard, he's cool, but before the class change? not so much), and the Black Mage has been more-or-less ruined for me by 8-Bit Theater.
The strap is quite a bit nicer than I expected; the strap itself is faux leather, and the crystal, though plastic, catches the light nicely. The pixel art of the White Mage isn't just "suspended" in the center, but actually formed from prismatic distortions of varying lengths inside the crystal itself; the longer the prism, the lighter the "pixel" appears. The upside of this is that the White Mage looks like a cool digital blur as you rotate it.
Nintendo sent 10,000 straps out to gamers who registered their copy with Club Nintendo: 4,000 White Mages, 4,000 Black Mages, and 2,000 Red Mages. The White Mage is actually the one I wanted most, as the Red Mage sucks (the Red Wizard, he's cool, but before the class change? not so much), and the Black Mage has been more-or-less ruined for me by 8-Bit Theater.
The strap is quite a bit nicer than I expected; the strap itself is faux leather, and the crystal, though plastic, catches the light nicely. The pixel art of the White Mage isn't just "suspended" in the center, but actually formed from prismatic distortions of varying lengths inside the crystal itself; the longer the prism, the lighter the "pixel" appears. The upside of this is that the White Mage looks like a cool digital blur as you rotate it.
Maybe we're all just lucky gaijin.