Originally Posted by
Kawaii Ryűkishi ^
Originally Posted by
Elpizo ^
Originally Posted by
Nasarian Altimeros ^ Even if she looked that way in the original art, putting character portraits into the game that look almost nothing like the sprites they are associated with is an incredibly stupid move.
Err... no? I don't see anything stupid with it, having run through the entire game in english again and never bothered with the character portraits. You guys take away the enjoyment of the game yourself by always thinking the character portraits are horrible and bad. Get over it, enjoy them and have fun with the game I would say.
There's no getting around the fact that the style of the portraits is irreconciably inconsistent with that of the sprites. They either should have drawn the portraits to match the sprites or redrawn the sprites to match Amano's character designs.
And also, when you've beaten the Optional Boss and bonus dungeon, you can do boss-rush mode! I'm not exactly sure what it is, but it ahs something to do with fighting all bosses up until the rift bosses after each other, or something liek that. I'll tell if I ever get there, but for now, I'm going to retreat out of the bonus dungeon to spend some time leveling up.
I covered the boss rush in
this thread.
It's because it's human nature to complain that everybody detests the character portraits. So what if they don't match the sprites? Sometimes I feel like the only person on the planet who can always accept things without needing to complain about it. Here everybody screams about the character portraits, on other fora they are complaining that they wanted Exodus instead of Exdeath, and actually, for what? The game's out, Square Enix isn't going to change it anymore. I just would take the good and the bads (like there are in this game), and like the game. And it's not that Square was stupid by adding these thing cause there are people who like em. And besides, I can't imagine a Lenna portrait with Pink hair or a Lenna sprite with blond hair. But oh well, who am I to defend the portraits, anyway?
Question, cause you seem to know quite much, if not everything about the new dungeon, do you have to beat the Omega wathever-it-is2 and Neo Shinryuu to go to the optional boss? Or are they optional like Omega and Shinryuu?