Tetsuya Nomura - Your Thoughts?

[cloud21zidane16]

The handful of decent character designs are most likely total flukes as the rest of his work is pure garbage.

Agree'd. With like Seifer and Auron, you have to understand that he prolly actually toned himself down with them because they look like they fit into the game. Meaning the character artist director prolly gave certain guidelines for the look and feel or the charas.

Looking at Seifer and Auron versus characters in which he has -all- control over, (like Kingdom hearts series and FFXII).. well.. you can see a slight if not obvious difference.

Either way, I just think he's over rated. Not only that, but he does what I see many teenagers do on DeviantArt. Granted they're prolly copying his general style with belts and punk + "modern" styles, but either way his artistic skills are really that of a good amount of people I've seen on DevArt who draw the same things that are only 17.

And because of that, it makes me wonder -why- he's so loved, it can't be because of his art skills and style crossovers arn't really that new.

Thats a good point.

[Avarice-ness]

I'm sure you meant XIII, Ava, not XII. xD

I like -SOME- of his designs, but the rest I think are just downright ridiculous.

Whoops! I stand corrected. Yeah FFXIII. XD

[scrumpleberry]

He's pretty talented technically, but his designs aren't brilliant. Nothing on Amano, but I don't hate him. Overuse of belts mebbe. Sometimes he does something like Nooj and fails instantly.

[Polaris]

He's a genious to me! I love all the stuff I've seen of him so far!

[Necronopticous]

The problem with Tetsuya Nomura is not that he is creating boring, uninspired characters, but that he is now allowed to decide what these boring, uninspired characters do. If he was only making dumb-looking characters, he'd be back where he belongs, and we wouldn't be stuck with games like Kingdom Hearts (3456+43)/24 Days on the horizon.

[Bolivar]

^ um, there are games where he is "back in his place."

[Nifleheim7]

I liked his character designs especially the ones in FFX but i think he is a bit overrated and takes more credit than he deserves.

[Vivisteiner]

He's a mixed bag. I really like some of his designs whereas others are just really lame. Im not a fan, but to say he hasnt come out with some of the most well-known video game characters of all time would be a lie.

[NeoCracker]

Well, he's got nothing on Persona 3's Character Design, thats for sure.

But more on topic, I think he's pretty good. Nothing special, but I do enjoy his work.

[Relapse]

op3.

[Momiji]

As I expected, the options are far too biased to get my opinion across.

Most of Tetsuya Nomura's character designs are overused and show a lack of variety (you can only use so many zippers...). Because of this, pretty much all of his characters look ridiculous in such silly costumes. I liked a few of his designs, but that's about it. I'd like to see more RPGs where the characters dress normally.

As for Tetsuya, 5% okay, 95% dull, overused, stale repetition. I voted option 2 nevertheless.

[Fynn]

His works don't bother me. He has a decent drawing style and I don't think that his designs are as bad as other people say. I don't really have any feelings towards Nomura's drawings and I like his stories. Of course, when it comes to art, no one can beat Amano, 'cause it actually IS "art".

[Nifleheim7]

Of course, when it comes to art, no one can beat Amano, 'cause it actually IS "art".

I agree.I would love to see a Final Fantasy game that is more directly based in his style...Hell,if i was SE i would have made the guy an art director in one second!A game that visually represents his style would have been a dream come true...
Also,as a concept artist i prefer much more Akihiko Yoshida than Nomura.

[Northcrest]

I liked all of his ideas.

[Dr.M]

since VII the party has always been the same kind of characters. proganist, hot chic, other hot chic, old wise guy, teenage girl, other guy thats a best friend of some describtion, and maybe other guy. all of his designs do look the same and yeah, he dose re-use and exploit what looks cool (rikku and yuffie are practically wearing the same thing in swapped colours). i think all of his main male characters have an ear ring like he dose, its his trademark. its kind of cute and i think he's made final fantasy his own game. the way the characters look is a hugh thing to concider when it comes to how they want to present the games and the world in which the characters live in to us. they have to appeal to us and i think he dose that well but its just not original anymore. i love his work. its really easy to identify.