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You know me too well.I know your trying to keep people happy with a fake trailer.
Pat watching the trailer be like...It would have been funnier if it featured Patroklos. 2/10. Cassandra isn’t justice enough for fake trailers.
That was highly unappreciated.
I read this in Xiba’s voice:Fret not, it's coming soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon.
that staff looks super short.Xiba definitely has that creepy uncanny look. I personally find his look in game unappealing compared to his concept art.
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Have you not seen Dragon Ball or the Monkey King in general? His staff can extend to practically infinite length. Hualin’s style from SoulCalibur III really would have been more appropriate for a base than Kilik. If we see Xiba again, I really hope that’s the route they take, as it would be far more interesting.that staff looks super short.
I don't know: is he really meant to be a Monkey King analog, or is he just meant to be a monkey-like boy? His standard outfit and moveset aesthetic certainly are meant to ape (forgive the unfortunately confusing, but necessary choice of verb there) simian movement, and the character reeks of goofball irreverence--but again, all of that could just be meant to be suggestive of monkeys in general rather than the Monkey King, right?Have you not seen Dragon Ball or the Monkey King in general? His staff can extend to practically infinite length. Hualin’s style from SoulCalibur III really would have been more appropriate for a base than Kilik. If we see Xiba again, I really hope that’s the route they take, as it would be far more interesting.
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Yes, and there are also tiger (or in any event, some large cat) claws. But the tail is consistently shown as black and grey, for unclear reasons...I mean, other than the obvious meta reason: expecting realism and self-consistency from Soulcalibur concept art misses the entire point of what it is and how it is approached.@Rusted Blade I wouldn’t say lemur, but tiger is the motif behind his clothing, something else the Monkey King is often seen sporting. This is also evidenced by his theme song being “A High-Spirited Tiger”. His jacket also has some tiger skins on it, not just the tail.
Yes, and there are also tiger (or in any event, some large cat) claws. But the tail is consistently shown as black and grey, for unclear reasons...I mean, other than the obvious meta reason: expecting realism and self-consistency from Soulcalibur concept art misses the entire point of what it is and how it is approached.
Interesting: thank you for that detail. Doesn't make much sense and it may be more a technical matter regarding the modelling of the object based on the concept art, rather than any artistic decision in it's own right, but it's food for thought. Of course, if it is meant to be one animal, it only raises the confusion factor further, since there is no such thing as an otherwise phenotypically normal tiger with an albino tail.1) The in-game model's texture file shows the tail and the tiger paws as one file. The colouring is done via a mask layer, but nonetheless the artists designed it to be all one animal.
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Yup, that was the main thrust of the very joke that took us down this line of discussion:2) Ring tailed lemurs are geographically isolated to Madagascar. It would be a stretch for Xiba to get his hands on one, even if you throw realism completely out the window.
Interestingly the tail utilized in Xiba's outfit is pretty clearly that of not a monkey, but rather a ring-tailed lemur: which poses a series of interesting questions: when did Xiba go to Madagascar? How did he find a lemur some twenty times the size of any ever known to exist in the anthropic era? Did he immediately express his sense of affinity for this wild and carefree creature as an expression of the natural order by killing it and taxiderming portions of its body?
he looks manlier in this art compared to his in game model maybe its that the difference ???Xiba definitely has that creepy uncanny look. I personally find his look in game unappealing compared to his concept art.
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Actually, the tail is surprisingly accurate. Tigers have pale undersides, extending from the head of the animal all the way to the tail. Xiba's artwork only shows the underside of the tail, which is why there isn't an apparent orange hue.Yes, and there are also tiger (or in any event, some large cat) claws. But the tail is consistently shown as black and grey, for unclear reasons...I mean, other than the obvious meta reason: expecting realism and self-consistency from Soulcalibur concept art misses the entire point of what it is and how it is approached.