TurnipFritters
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tbf that was only 100 bucks and you got both raidou versus king abaddon and nocturne maniax chronicle edition
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Persona Community Thread: The Butterfly Effect
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Wow, I don't even spend that kind of money on waifus!
I don't spend any money on waifus.
But you bought Persona 4.
Maybe he does no-slink, solo runs
...post it.
The protagonist's side is used as the cover for Daylight. Aigis's side is used for the follow up drama CD, Moonlight. It's by far one of my favorite Soejima drawn images, perhaps second only to my avatar.
cj_iwakura
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SMTIV's success makes me happy.
You did good, Japan.
You did good, Japan.
The protagonist's side is used as the cover for Daylight. Aigis's side is used for the follow up drama CD, Moonlight. It's by far one of my favorite Soejima drawn images, perhaps second only to my avatar.
Wallpaper worthy.
Otatoptohami
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Awww yeah already added it to my desktop slideshow
The protagonist's side is used as the cover for Daylight. Aigis's side is used for the follow up drama CD, Moonlight. It's by far one of my favorite Soejima drawn images, perhaps second only to my avatar.
The protagonist's side is used as the cover for Daylight. Aigis's side is used for the follow up drama CD, Moonlight. It's by far one of my favorite Soejima drawn images, perhaps second only to my avatar.
I think this illustration is the first time Soejima used his current style. Super fine lineart and much better eye-shapes.
FES, Portable and Golden all had costumes. They were also all re-releases.
I don't mind paying for costumes. In fact, it's probably my favourite kind of post-release DLC.
That's the thing I wanna know most about P5: What the characters look like.
cj_iwakura
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And yet I'll always miss his crisp original style.
No question, something was lost in the transition.
And yet I'll always miss his crisp original style.
No question, something was lost in the transition.
Stealth "too anime" post.
Was this ever a doubt?
How much is a "success" in terms of sales anyway? Never paid attention to numbers, but want success for obvious reasons.
cj_iwakura
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For lack of a better term, I think that best describes it. His new P3 art style is borderline generic.
Well, his characters have been getting more... I don't want to say attractive, because that doesn't seem like the right word, but his female characters post-P4 have gotten more curvy, and he's started giving everyone these really long eyelashes and whatnot. If you compare, say, FeMC to Chie, it's immediately noticeable. I think it will carry on in that direction.
I'm also expecting mega stylish designs. Again, post-P4 it seemed like a conscious decision.
And yet I'll always miss his crisp original style.
No question, something was lost in the transition.
That's just Soejima imitating Kaneko though, whereas now he does his own thing. It's like when you look at Doi's Trauma Center work, and it's just a blatant Soejima ripoff, then in Trauma Team he got the chance to impress everyone with his own style.
TurnipFritters
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The protagonist's side is used as the cover for Daylight. Aigis's side is used for the follow up drama CD, Moonlight. It's by far one of my favorite Soejima drawn images, perhaps second only to my avatar.
Sadly ruined by Ken's presence.
Success is determined by number of copies sold relative to consumers who have the hardware to purchase the game and live in the region of the release. For Japan, upwards of 200k is great, yeah.
Ah, I knew it!
TurnipFritters
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man labrys's og look is weird
cj_iwakura
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I've never seen Kaneko do a perspective piece like that. To me that's the picture that defines Persona 3, and says that this is the new style.
I just wish I was good enough at photoshop to edit him out of the picture.
I think Catherine might be like that because sexuality is such a strong theme in it.
But yeah, it's totally gonna be stylish.
Sure, but there's only one other Soejima perspective piece that I can think of (The glorious Append cover). The way he colours, the way he draws his characters etc (Particularly the faces) are mega Kaneko 'inspired'. The composition is even the same as Kaneko, where it's drawn over a sketch, leaving the lines deliberately visible.
It applies to his Persona stuff too. He's stopped using Kaneko style lashes and body shapes and started using something more realistic.
Confession time: I'm not too big on Kaneko's art style. It works in some cases (Raidou) but usually, he makes his characters look really glossy and weird looking. I hate to be "that guy" but its really apparent when you compare Persona 2 character art to Persona 2 IS. I love Soejima's new style though, so vibrant and colorful.
(uses trafuri)
(uses trafuri)
cj_iwakura
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His creativity was definitely at an apex with DDS. My favorite design of his will always be Yuko Takao's.
Lucifer/Cypher is top shelf too.
Lucifer/Cypher is top shelf too.
I'm "good" at photoshop.
Teehee, you took my awful attempt at making a transparent image and plopped it on there.
You can tell it's bad because you can see all the little artifacts around it.
Mostly because I am lazy and you can't tell they are there on light backgrounds.
Although, it still looks better than having Ken in the photo.
He's slightly abstract. I like him though. I like Doi as well. Atlus has a great team of artists.
I admit, I like Kaneko's monster designs more than I do his human designs.
cj_iwakura
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Demons are his calling. His people look like vampires. (Only a negative if you consider it one though.)
What I do is just use the wand in Photoshop to select around the parts I want, then cut it all out, then select the leftover part I want, and paste it into an empty canvas.
But again, I'm no expert. No one notices anyways because it get's shrunk down.
B-b-b-b-but Maki!
Doi is a great artist, but his art is easily the most generic, I feel.
His Trauma Team stuff was great for what it is, but it doesn't have the same appeal as Soejima or Kaneko to me.
Doi is a great artist, but his art is easily the most generic, I feel.
His Trauma Team stuff was great for what it is, but it doesn't have the same appeal as Soejima or Kaneko to me.
I didn't say I outright hated them.
His Lucifier design is badass, as are the human designs in Nocturne. Yet I don't care at all for his stuff in DDS for example.
Well not always. His designs from Nocturne don't really look like vampires, they're pretty stylized.
I didn't say I outright hated them.
His Lucifier design is badass, as are the human designs in Nocturne. Yet I don't care at all for his stuff in DDS for example.
...Come again? :/
One criticism I'd put against Kaneko is that a lot of his characters look way, way too similar. Soejima's all have unique faces, but a lot of Kaneko's are the same with different hair.
Sure, not always. I wouldn't say it about the P2 cast either.
The DDS crew and Raidou in particular are full-on Twilight though.
I don't really like the character designs in Digital Devil Saga.
You both sicken me.
TurnipFritters
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honestly i think amano is a p. good character designer
next gen graphics really make them come alive!
next gen graphics really make them come alive!
Excuse me if I prefer my characters to not look like hideous monster vampires.
I haven't played it, but his stuff in Raidou Kuzunoha is good however.
I think his DDS stuff is the most otherworldly. I just feel a disconnect form it and the characters. :\
TurnipFritters
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i mean the only raidou character that's particularly white is the guy who is literally a vampire so
and i guess gerin and nagi
SatelliteOfLove
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Kaneko's characters always look touched by the Other, (culminating in the Demi-Fiend's marks of The Beast). Even with P2's and Raidoh 1's more down-to-earth characters, there's this unearthliness about them that makes the jump from the mundane and the fantastical possible.
Then there's the brilliance of his Maken X & beyond work, which translates to a cheap, low-horsepower 3D graphics engine smoothly and deftly with blocks of matte color, whereas less or more detail would throw things off and look cheap. Bonus points: also makes it wierd and alien!
Which is funny, with as how inhuman them, the narrative, and the place is, they were EXTREMELY fleshed out for most RPGs. Again, that bridge between the mundane and the fantastical.
Then there's the brilliance of his Maken X & beyond work, which translates to a cheap, low-horsepower 3D graphics engine smoothly and deftly with blocks of matte color, whereas less or more detail would throw things off and look cheap. Bonus points: also makes it wierd and alien!
Which is funny, with as how inhuman them, the narrative, and the place is, they were EXTREMELY fleshed out for most RPGs. Again, that bridge between the mundane and the fantastical.
I meant Raidou himself. I love his design, but homeboy is frosty.
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