LunarWeaver
12-20-2006, 12:01 AM
This is spawning from two friends I have online. One loves the Dragon Quest series, and a great part of that love is Toriyama's style and character designs. Another friend I have hates playing them because she can't stand his designs. Personally, I think it's silly to avoid an entire game series because you don't like the character look, but whatever.
So now I'm curious how the general public feels about them :O. I think he does a fine enough job, and anybody who makes me Angelo (*cough and Lucca from CT cough*) is great in my book. I am, however, admittedly astonished that Nomura gets more "characters the same" flack than he does. Good grief. But all artists have similar features...And I think his characters do look distinct, most of it is just in the face that gives him any criticism, that's all. His faces are very similar :O_O:
In fact, I think if he stopped working on Dragon Quest games the whole series would suffer an enormous blow in Japan. Since they worship the feces that he produces, they would not be happy folk in the East if he quit working on the games.
Well, how do you all feel about Toriyama? Does he hurt or help the series, or is he just a character designer and therefore has no substantial effect?
So now I'm curious how the general public feels about them :O. I think he does a fine enough job, and anybody who makes me Angelo (*cough and Lucca from CT cough*) is great in my book. I am, however, admittedly astonished that Nomura gets more "characters the same" flack than he does. Good grief. But all artists have similar features...And I think his characters do look distinct, most of it is just in the face that gives him any criticism, that's all. His faces are very similar :O_O:
In fact, I think if he stopped working on Dragon Quest games the whole series would suffer an enormous blow in Japan. Since they worship the feces that he produces, they would not be happy folk in the East if he quit working on the games.
Well, how do you all feel about Toriyama? Does he hurt or help the series, or is he just a character designer and therefore has no substantial effect?