Sup new scans?

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

http://www.gamesarefun.com/games/gba/ffv/1.jpg
http://www.gamesarefun.com/games/gba/ffv/2.jpg
http://www.gamesarefun.com/games/gba/ffv/3.jpg
http://www.gamesarefun.com/games/gba/ffv/4.jpg
http://www.gamesarefun.com/games/gba/ffv/5.jpg

The character portraits for the playable characters look kind of ridiculous, since they're based on the Amano artwork, from which the sprites differ radically. It'd have been nice of them to make new sprites for the sake of congruence, but actual effort doesn't seem to be an area in which they're taking too much interest for the FFIV-VI ports.


Edit: GamesAreFun must have realized that they put their FFV scans in their FFIII directory, causing the links to break when they fixed it. The new links are up now.

[Elpizo]

Eh, I can't see any of them. It always says 'Not found'. :(

[Nasarian Altimeros]

I could see the first four

The portraits are silly xD

Lazy SE, as usual.

[Lilliputian Hitcher]

Can't see them, but I've probably already seen most of them on FFO.

I agree with Kawaii; they should have either changed the sprites to match the original artwork (this is the preferable option) or drawn the portraits to match the sprites. As it stands all the portraits do is remind us what the sprites might have looked like if they even tried to make the characters look similar to the original artwork in the first place.

[Crossblades]

Kawaii, I can't see any of them:(

[Lilliputian Hitcher]

http://www.gamesarefun.com/games/gba/ffv/1.jpg
http://www.gamesarefun.com/games/gba/ffv/2.jpg
http://www.gamesarefun.com/games/gba/ffv/3.jpg
http://www.gamesarefun.com/games/gba/ffv/4.jpg
http://www.gamesarefun.com/games/gba/ffv/5.jpg

For those that are having trouble with the other links.

[Crossblades]

http://www.gamesarefun.com/games/gba/ffv/1.jpg
http://www.gamesarefun.com/games/gba/ffv/2.jpg
http://www.gamesarefun.com/games/gba/ffv/3.jpg
http://www.gamesarefun.com/games/gba/ffv/4.jpg
http://www.gamesarefun.com/games/gba/ffv/5.jpg

For those that are having trouble with the other links.

awesome:)

But I like the new portraits. Even if it doesn't match with the sprites:p

[Zeromus_X]

What on earth is up with the whining? The portraits are looking smexier and smexier. I especially like Butz's, it even looks like his sprite (the hair, at any rate.) Of course, we have to whine about something, don't we...:cat:

[rubah]

no ;.;

I would've preferred no portraits and just the sprites. I hate amano's original designs>:[ they don't look like anything! They're just a figure with a bunch of swirls around them >:[

[bipper]

no ;.;

I would've preferred no portraits and just the sprites. I hate amano's original designs>:[ they don't look like anything! They're just a figure with a bunch of swirls around them >:[

Blasthphomy.

[Angi-Kaiser]

I can't say that I particulary care for the face portraits they did for this one, but they're okay. Still, I do love Amano art, and it's always nice to to see his work in-game.

[Necronopticous]

I quite like the new character portraits.

[Sefie1999AD]

I think the character portraits are alright. The problem is that I have a terribly hard time recognizing them. Since Amano's art is so much different from the sprites, I'd think some of those portraits are Kefka's or Setzer's or something like that if the game didn't clearly show you they're Butz, Lenna or Faris. Anyway, who are the two people on the 5th scan, where the other one is holding a sword and the other one is leaning towards that person? Are they Faris and Lenna, Butz and Lenna, Butz and Faris, Butz and Cara or some other combination? :D

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

It's Faris and Lenna. Butz and Klulu are off to the right, and to the left are Galuf and some long-haired dude. King Tycoon, maybe.

[Vyk]

I can't remember from the older games. But didn't FF6 use Amano's portraits in the status/inventory menu stuff? Pretty sure it was like that for FF4 too. It shouldn't be too weird to see Amano's work in-game. It's just using it in a style like Lunar and Xenogears did with dialogue

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

FFV's sprites differed from Amano's designs much more than those of FFIV and FFVI did.

[Slade]

I quite like the new portraits, but I wished they would have based them off the sprites instead. Oh well, it's an awsome game no matter what :)

[ScottNUMBERS]

I was too busy squinting to see the screen shots to worry about the Amano Art

[Aria28]

I think the character portraits are alright. The problem is that I have a terribly hard time recognizing them. Since Amano's art is so much different from the sprites, I'd think some of those portraits are Kefka's or Setzer's or something like that if the game didn't clearly show you they're Butz, Lenna or Faris.

I don't know about you, but I had an even harder time recognizing Squall, Rinoa and Seifer in the arts Amano did for FF VIII, for instance :p

That being said, I love Amano's work, and not just for FF (Wolverine and Elektra, Vampire Hunter D....). But I can see how that's not to everyone's taste ^_^

Still, thanks for sharing the scans with us!

[Paul]

does anybody know what it says about FFVI Advance in the bottom right corner of http://www.gamesarefun.com/games/gba/ffv/4.jpg this one?!

FFV looks sweet and i'll be getting it, i was just wondering...

[Sefie1999AD]

I don't know about you, but I had an even harder time recognizing Squall, Rinoa and Seifer in the arts Amano did for FF VIII, for instance :p

That being said, I love Amano's work, and not just for FF (Wolverine and Elektra, Vampire Hunter D....). But I can see how that's not to everyone's taste ^_^

I haven't seen those, but I vaguely remember seeing FFVII's Amano art, and the characters looked like nothing they are in the game. I also like Amano's art, it's just that sometimes (like in these FFV pics) the characters look so much different in the game compared to his artwork. FFIV characters were quite recognisable for me, though, and so were FFVI characters.

[Vyk]

They made the world of FF5 look kinda cartoony I think is why. Though I'm not sure why they decided to do that. FF4 and 6 had a serious look to them. And Amano's art has a serious tone about it. So it meshed better. Didn't Amano design all the characters pre-FF7? Why did they stray away from him when designing 5? x_x;

[KoShiatar]

Brand new Amano art. *orgasms*
It also looks like there's gonna be more brand new art for Final Fantasy VI Advance. *orgasms again*

[Zeromus_X]

I don't know about you, but I had an even harder time recognizing Squall, Rinoa and Seifer in the arts Amano did for FF VIII, for instance :p

That being said, I love Amano's work, and not just for FF (Wolverine and Elektra, Vampire Hunter D....). But I can see how that's not to everyone's taste ^_^

I haven't seen those, but I vaguely remember seeing FFVII's Amano art, and the characters looked like nothing they are in the game. I also like Amano's art, it's just that sometimes (like in these FFV pics) the characters look so much different in the game compared to his artwork. FFIV characters were quite recognisable for me, though, and so were FFVI characters.

Yeah, but then again, that was just conceptual artwork. Amano didn't design the FFVII and VIII characters, just did illustrations.

[aquatius]

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a210/gyrus/WSSO.jpg
What kind of weird skimpy footless fetish outfits are these?!

[Paul]

what does it say about FF6, somebody here must be able to translate japanese :(