While her kit certainly isn’t as bad as say, Cindy’s, it’s safe to say that Aranea Highwind’s battle gear has a lot of room for improvement – mostly due to some questionable priorities. The most baffling of which being headgear that would stab her in the throat and/or chest if she looked down in a panic.
And while it’s certainly true that they boys on the road trip are wearing some very nice, very tight fitting black leather there’s two important points I’d like to bring up:
- They’re supposed to be dressed to go out on a nice road trip which will end in a wedding and it’s the whim of fate that puts them on perilious adventure.
- Their clothes are actually clothes, this is a weird fetish outfit.
Final Fantasy, as always, continues to be a very oddly mixed bag.
– wincenworks
@blackiochronicles submitted:
Tickled to see retro-fantasy RPG C&C inadvertently serving up a PSA on the sadly, entirely predictable consequences of adventuring in a scale bikini.
“If only they’d given her a sensible hauberk, all this could have been prevented! Why, gods? WHYYYYYY?”
(In fairness, the fact that her shield was just about to scale with her fist probably didn’t help matters.)
Having looked at Castles & Crusades catalog I am beginning to think that their art direction is very loose. I’m not sure what the brief for this one was, “Adventurers take over Scrooge McDuck’s money bin but suffer tragedy.”
Still… it’s less confusing than this one:
Though as a side note, shields that small are usually referred to as bucklers and do have lots of practical uses – but was generally used in circumstances where you couldn’t be armored or carrying a full sized shield without video game inventory system.
So, perfect for when you’re at a party or out shopping – not so appropriate for when you’re planning to go on an adventure…
…maybe the real story here is that he found she was attacked during a party inside Scrooge McDuck’s money bin and now he just doesn’t care about anyone else who was killed.
– wincenworks
@3dphoto submitted:
The two “android investigators” available as KS exclusives look strangely dissimilar.
More fun here (see “Diver”): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/diemensiongames/deep-madness
(it’s a co-op board game, which comes closest to “RPS” in your tag list. Mayebe time to add a “board game” tag?)
We received this submission a while ago but wanted to wait until the Kickstarter had expired. Not only is this game a textbook example of double standards, it’s also a textbook example of the creativity we see in so many of these productions:
The canonical blonde Black Widow is Yelena Belova and a completely different person to Natasha Romanov (played by Scarlett Johansson in the movies) and looks, almost exactly like this model:
So I’m not sure if they just outright stole or if they had the some genius idea for how to make them “totally different” that Marvel did. Either way, she’s still a better design than the fore-mentioned “the Diver”:
Even there shameless Ripley rip-off has to have boobsocks:
And the worst part is, based off the default Investigators that come with the game’s most basic package – it looks like they started with an intention to make all the designs actually just… be good.
I guess somewhere along the way they got led astray by Creepy Marketing Guy and lost in an old myth with no basis in reality.
– wincenworks
(Also in response to the suggestion in this submission, we’re now using the tag “tabletop games” for all board games, tabletop wargames and the like.)