It really doesn't need to be emphasized how bad her original character was, as I am strongly one to say that everything that made her character stand out was exactly the worst aspects of her entirely. If they reboot her character, then they should really just dump all of that and write her more alike their prior characters. Setsuka was a preferable addition in SCIII compatibly for being the exact opposite direction they took with Natsu in her inception. No modern slang, no americanized valley personality, no obnoxious immaturity. Even those things clash with her own concept being a 16th century Japanese ninja. Seriously. If you are in any contact with PS please remind them to go back to their character-concept roots. Remember Setsuka. Remember drawing from real history. Not anime.
Oh I agree. My point was more that Natsu was so bad on SCV, that parodying and taking the piss out of how bad her design is on Project X Zone 2 was actually funny and entertaining. Apparently she used modern Japan slang on SCV, but that wasn't even included in our version with an equivalent.
So PXZ2 carried that aspect over to the localization like SCV didn't, but couldn't use Japanese slang obviously, so they had to find a suitable replacement, so they used modern American slang and way of speaking. But she was hanging out with people in the modern world and future on PXZ2.... so maybe she actually just learned it there in the first place?
Ok, now I'm just trying to apply logic in making sense of the stupid, but you get my point by now. lol
I'd ditch that whole slangy aspect entirely if I was in charge of bringing back if it was me.
The thing with her is, being cursed with Japanese demon inside of herself, a blonde ninja doesn't help things.
At least if they make and highlight that she's European, they can make the whole thing a little less bad anime feeling.
It's one those things where because of the concept, it's still gonna be there without intentionally changing her visual design to look Japanese instead. So, tackling the design and concept better would help.
They could have her parents be Europeans who traveled to Japan. Their kid got possessed while there. Parents get scared, try everything they can, but ultimately have to leave her with an exorcist and under Taki's care in particular. Taki will have accepted that if the day ever comes and the demon takes over, then she'll kill Natsu. It's pretty much the "general idea" they had for her, but better structured and more believably grounded.
The only change between SCV and SCIV was the lighting, really. IV was the shiny one though, and they had actual facial animations in V.
@Vergeben are you able to share who is all working on the game? Like the Producer and Director?
SCV had a more muted and dull color palette I noticed between the two.
Some character faces in SCIV and V were just bad, awkward, and/or off looking.
ZWEI was mentioned in this topic already as one of the bad ones (I'd say worst overall). I don't know what the fuck happened between the character art and translating that to a 3D model, but whoever did that and those that just thought that was ok is beyond me.
His mouth was too close to his nose, face and nose look smushed in too. Just bad. Really bad.
Somewhat surprisingly, I actually don't know who's the producer and director yet. I'll probably find out when you do at this rate.
