Why dpes everyone hate Bartz

[TasteyPies]

Originally posted by ShivaBlizzard8
Yoshitaka Amano has been the offical concept artist for, I believe, all of the Final Fantasys to date.

But....all those people look like butch lesbians

[Takara]

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, I guess. Granted, most of Amano's men look effeminate, but his art style strikes me as being rather goth-like (or maybe pale skin and dark lipstick was only trendy over here when I was in high school). Dark elegance.

Personally, I don't hate Butz, but as it was said, he wasn't the most developped of characters, so it's hard to sympathize for him.

[DJZen]

It's not really a goth thing. Goths are very attracted to his work because the people are very pale and waifish, but Amano's style is more influenced by Art Nuveo... Neuvaux? Bah, I can never remember how to properly spell French words.... But yeah, it's mostly a result of using watercolors. Also, just to clarify, Tetsuya Nomura DID do the character design for FF7 and 8. Amano was commissioned to draw the characters, but...... Well, his drawings weren't anything like the character designs. He made Cloud look like Robert Smith, and Red XIII just looks like a rust colored blob in some of the pictures. Amano's designs are usually along the lines of mysterious looking people wearing exotic clothes. Nomura prefers to draw spikey haired Ministry fans with gigantic weapons to compensate for.....

I should say something about Bartz here. I think he's developed better than Squall, personally, whose entire personality (and backstory!) can be summed up by the word "Whatever..."

[DocFrance]

Another thing is it's really hard to translate Amano's complex designs into simple 2D sprites. If you ask me, Tetsuya would have been better for the NES-SNES games, with Amano handling the Playstation era.