Dear Tetsuya Nomura: you're so vague, you probably think this song's not about you...

[SuperMillionaire]

I still can't get what's up with this guy; he's so vague, comes up with extremely odd character names, and loves to break original Final Fantasy traditions.

"You're so vague, you probably think this song's not about you; you're so vague, you probably think this song's not about you, don't you, don't you, don't you now?"

[PeneloRatsbane]

is he the guy with all the belts, belts on Lulu, belts on Yuffie, Belts on Nero, Belts on EVERYTHING

[Clo]

is he the guy with all the belts, belts on Lulu, belts on Yuffie, Belts on Nero, Belts on EVERYTHING

Oh god, I was talking to a non-RPG gamer once and said I was a huge fan of the Final Fantasy series, and the first thing thing he said was, "What's with all the belts?"

[qwertysaur]

Nomura has a belt fetish :p

[Jessweeee♪]

If we didn't break traditions now and then we'd still be having children with our cousins.

[black orb]

and loves to break original Final Fantasy traditions. "
>>> Since FF7, Nomura is already part of the tradition..:luca:

[Flying Arrow]

Vague?

[Mo-Nercy]

Vague?
:D.

I missed that when I read the thread title.

[Laddy]

I like Nomura because I like fashion. =/

Okay, I like things non-nerdy people like. IS THAT SO WRONG? :'(

[Jiro]

If we didn't break traditions now and then we'd still be having children with our cousins.

Just because we don't agree with what he's done doesn't mean it wasn't worth a shot

[Loony BoB]

I quite like the character design in recent games, I have to say. X was possibly the closest I got to "what?" with the character design (not that I didn't like it, just that I found some of them really weird - specifically, Tidus' pants), but I liked it in VII, VIII, haven't played IX yet, liked it in XII and liked it in XIII. I guess it's not a big issue for me, mind you. :p

[ShinGundam]

comes up with extremely odd character names, and loves to break original Final Fantasy traditions.
Butz Klauser :eep: ...Also what so bad about Noctis and Stella ?

[Jessweeee♪]

And that Lulu person. Goodness!

[Depression Moon]

I quite like the character design in recent games, I have to say. X was possibly the closest I got to "what?" with the character design (not that I didn't like it, just that I found some of them really weird - specifically, Tidus' pants), but I liked it in VII, VIII, haven't played IX yet, liked it in XII and liked it in XIII. I guess it's not a big issue for me, mind you. :p

Nomura didn't do character designs for IX or XII. I'm growing tired of him myself.

[SuperMillionaire]

comes up with extremely odd character names, and loves to break original Final Fantasy traditions.
Butz Klauser :eep: ...Also what so bad about Noctis and Stella ?

They renamed him Bartz internationally, but Nomura's names are even weirder.

And he's always very mysterious. He should AT LEAST give us HALF the answer to give us a starting foundation for our fan-made theories...

[black orb]

haven't played IX yet
>>> What?!?!?:eek::eek:..

Oh I get it, you are leaving the best FF ever for the last..:luca:

[Roogle]

I like the artistic style that Nomura uses over the artistic style that Amano uses.

I thought that the character designs that he have done as of late have been lacking, but I really liked the character designs in Final Fantasy XIII, so I guess this can go either way. I think that a lot of the character designs vary greatly depending on the setting and the environment that the game takes place in.

[Laddy]

I think it depends on the setting.

Traditional fantasy, let Amano do it.
Sci-Fi, Nomura's your man.

[black orb]

>>> Nomura did some traditional fantasy designs with Dissidia, but yeah Amano is better..:luca:

[SuperMillionaire]

I think it depends on the setting.

Traditional fantasy, let Amano do it.
Sci-Fi, Nomura's your man.
That's right; Nomura's the oddball in the group because his Final Fantasy games are sci-fi, whereas Amano, Yoshida, Itahana, and everybody else are medieval-style fantasies.


>>> Nomura did some traditional fantasy designs with Dissidia, but yeah Amano is better..:luca:

That's because he was told to draw the characters in an Amano-like style. But seeing medieval-dressed Amano-created characters alongside modern/sci-fi-dressed Nomura-created characters at first seemed rather weird.

[Digital Phoenix]

I don't really know much at all about the people behind the Square Enix games, but this Normura names come up a lot, and he seems to get a lot of hate.

The characters in Final Fantasy XIII looked fine, except for maybe Hope. Fang, Serah, Vanille, and, to a lesser extent, Lightning, were good looking. All of them seem to have weird clothing choices, though.

And I can definitely tell that someone else worked on the characters for XII. They look a lot different from XIII and X.

[SuperMillionaire]

The characters in XII were designed by Akihiko Yoshida.