Rockythechao wrote:
Metal (Gold Demo, Silver Iris, Pink Gold Kood, ____ raocow, ___ Sheath)
I've already expressed my concerns with this idea to SAJ in the Skype group, but I'll re-iterate this here.
We've had a bunch of neat suggestions for costumes, and it seems both lazy and downright boring to reject those in favour of what is essentially a monochrome recolour. This is perhaps the most boring costume you could possibly imagine, and I for one would rather put something interesting in there.
On top of that, we have a lot of costumes that are just "classic style graphics!" - We have both 8-bit style and "dressed as SMBX characters". While those are both cool, as is rocky's suggestion of original WTH sprites, it feels kind of tired that this occupies almost 50% of available costumes.
I was asleep while all this discussion was going on, which is why I didn't make my concerns clear at the time, but I think costumes are one place we can forgo the idea of consistency. We don't need 5 costumes for every character, we should have a minimum of say 3 alt costumes, but beyond that, whatever fun ideas work can be produced for any character, even if it means Demo and Iris have 10 costumes and Kood has 4.
I would direct people to the Tales of _ games for examples of costumes done really, really well. Each character gets a bunch of alternatives unique to them, but they're often not at all consistent. Most characters will get an alt colour in the more recent games, but then a bunch of alt costumes which tend to be just "whatever seems like a good idea for that character", rather than trying to find something that works across all characters.
While I agree with keeping scope manageable, costumes are one place where you need to "go big or go home". If you only have a limited number of options, there's barely a point in having them there in the first place, especially if we're limited to things that can only work for every character. Of course, I don't mean to say we should come up with 100 costumes for each character, or even to implement every idea that's been presented, but discounting ideas because "we already have 5 costumes" or "we don't have an alternative for all the other characters" is downright idiotic, to put it bluntly.
Lastly, I went and finished off the bobble hat Demo. Use it or don't, but it's there.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/308 ... leDemo.zip