It wouldn't make sense why she's the same height as her daughter though. she would technically be taller. But it doesn't HAVE to be perfect. Or Leixia could just become taller (It wouldnt be noticed in gameplay anyways. Just like how Natsu and Pyrrha have the same face but Pyrrha's is just always sad and has minor freckles (To me anyways))
That'd be the easiest way to put it, but online mode would be so broken it'd be unfair.
Not if they were correctly balanced. I'm not saying they could just slap it together, of course it would take work but look at some of the other fighters out these days with huge rosters. It can be done and I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't have more characters had Namdai not rushed Project Soul to get it out the door before Tekken.
If that happened this game would be the most unbalance piece of crap and not have much character variety. All the characters would eventually end up being roughly the same like Tekken.
But Sophitia, Pyrrha, Pyrrha Omega, Cassandra, Patroklos, and S&S Lizardmen? That sounds like awful bro. And Hwang and YunSeong together seems pointless. And Li Long and Maxi. *Lists*
I was just about to say that, thanks for beating me to the point. To continue this list, there would also be Kilik, Seong Mi-na, and Xiba. Two Yoshimitsus. Natsu and Taki. Xianghua and Leixia. Edgemaster, Charade, and Olcadan. Viola and Amy for double the brain dead. This amount of characters would be redundant.
And? If you had that many variations on themes, would that really be so bad? Nobody says you have to play all of them, and if there were only minor differences between them it would only speed up learning to fight against them. And personality comes across in a moveset; just taking your example of the S&S characters, that would give you styles that move like a confident veteran fighter (Sophitia), scared amateur (Pyrrha), angry and violent (O-P), confident and playful (Cassandra), Arrogant and unique, compared to the others (Pat) and wild psycho (Lizardman S&S). You might only see six styles with swords and shields but I see six distinct personalities that come through in everything from their stances to win poses and thats a boon for character creation.
Only problem with that is with so many movesets being so similar there would be one of them that has an edge over the others and people wouldn't even bother playing the other 99834827 which would make including them redundant. Also personalities are just attachments to a moveset skin.
If you were to be able to select different intro/win/lose poses for CaS' would that make things better?
Honestly it would. And perhaps to condense things, they could do something like Samurai Showdown and Last Blade did in their later installments, where you could choose a style and then choose a neutral, aggressive and defensive sub-style that had the same attacks but animated them differently.
Well, I don't really think they're mutually exclusive. You can appease both, but I don't pretend to think it wouldn't take a lot of effort and time to pull off. If they did though, they'd be my heroes, programming and design wise.
I agree with all that minus the changing animations part. That would make combos look weird and make moves harder to react to after you get used to seeing the default animation. Oh well, since I actually attempt to support this game outside of my house my opinion is void.