JRPG monster designs of recent years that intimidated or otherwise impressed you
>>343553805
>holy fuck a behemoth so soon, what the fuck
>MOTHER OF CHRIST IT STOOD UP AND GOT ITS HP BACK
Scary shit
>>343553805
FF13 Behemoths were the shit. I don't think there was anything as cool as that in the past years. Not in JRPGs at least.
Where did they all get shorts that manage to fit them?
>>343555475
Magic?
Don't think this count but I love most of the Monster Hunter monsters.
>>343553805
besides the OST, the monster design was one of the best things in FF13 games. Really liked the bio-mechanic foes especially.
Scylla. FFXIV
>>343553805
>wields a pizza cutter that can't spin
>>343553805
>>343556851
XIII had so many of the makings to be amazing but the actual game part fell so flat on it's face, the entire thing was wasted potential.
>>343557414
but the blade spins on its own, automatically!
>>343557065
kek.
Just slap those tits on it.
I don't care how impressive or bestial they make their Behemoths, they'll never be as horrifying as the various incarnations of this thing.
>>343557541
I still enjoyed the game a great deal. Way more than I'd ever imagined myself, after years of witnessing nothing but bash.
The sequels were better gameplay and pacing-wise though, and are some of my favorite modern JRPGs out there.
>>343555493
cool. looks like a warrior ghost possessing and re-purposing a bulls body.
>>343553805
absolute shit taste, the only good XIII designs were any machine enemies
the behemoths look like garbage
>>343557541
If anything it was potential that was made to overreach itself.
The game did not need two sequels, and I fear it irreversibly damaged the brand. And even if XV is amazingly successful and revives the popularity of the franchise, it'll be Kingdom Hearts' soul inside the shell.
>>343555493
>The skull's eyes are the bulls nostrils.
IT NEVER STOPS BEING CLEVER
>>343557065
But that design is like 30 years old. It's from FF3.
>>343557985
>the behemoths look like garbage
Negative. Majority of the XIII's re-designs look absolutely superb.
The mech versions are just the cream on the top
>>343556851
I thought it was really interesting seeing them sleek and clean as bio weapons first and then only later seeing their actual bodies.
It gave a very unique impression of the world that other games haven't imparted, it's not the usual horrific fusion of tech and nature often seen but there is a corruption of life going on. Maybe it was even worse since the process seemed so refined and advanced since the final product was seamlessly mechanical that it appeared completely artificial.
Or maybe it was a corruption at all. In some cases (the imps for example) designs went from cute to disgusting. Perhaps it's an improvement.
It also added a layer to the interpretation of Sanctum. You do hear lightning say they are bio weapons early on and you know what that means but seeing the mech bits pulled back later really makes you went damn
>>343557754
>In the FF14 Scholar quest line, you learn that Tonberry's were lalafell that were mutated from a virus
>This is what Tonberry's used to look like
>>343554919
3scary6me
>>343559018
Same here.
In general, I found the "world and gods created by men, taking over, and being forgotten by men" themes very fascinating. While the game obviously still has its supernatural & magical elements being an FF title, it was quite fancy seeing that old saying of "high enough level technology being indistinguishable from magic" get adapted as an entire world and plot point for a game.
It also made a nice contrast with the Pulse's overgrown, natural environments and foes, plus the old and clunky machines of long gone yesteryears.
>>343559069
What?
What?!
WHAT?!
>>343560391
Yup. They couldn't stop the virus, so they locked everyone who was infected inside the wanderers palace, and flooded it to stop the virus from spreading. Those infected loathed and hated those who sealed them away, and that hatred consumed them, making them murderous, forgetting even their own identities.
