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How to design a character the Square-Enix way

Originally posted by: Deeko
Originally posted by: Dumac
Really old and overdone.

Also Basch, Auron, Jecht, and Dark Knight Cecil would like a word with you...

Oh come on - (Paladin) Cecil, Cloud, Squall, Tidus, Vaan....all main characters....you don't see any similarities?

Of course I do, the same way I see similarities with bro-like gun-weilding facial hair-toting musclemen in western shooters.

The point is, not only is the joke years old and repeated so many times that it has lost any humor value it may have once had, but it is also simply a trend, one that is not always true and is no worse than the trends of any other types of characters in any other genre.

It all just deals with values of beauty, heroism, and other iconic attributes.
 
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