Um, In 1958, 14 Years Before Pong, There Was A Game Called “Tennis For Two”. It Was Created By American

A quick Kirby animatic

Yeah I do think they one of the best designa kaneki has ever made (also dds:at is like the First megaten game I actually love playing and I want to finish first, I may even do new game plus, but I don't think I want to fight demifiend)

People always asks "what's your favorite demon design", but rarely character designs. In a series known for its "unique" character design (mostly Kaneko's). What's your top 10 SMT character designs, regardless of story? (doesn't have to be the protagonist)

I answered Aleph a number of weeks ago but to be honest? I might have to add that my favorites overall might be this ensemble.

Add Roland, Jimenez, and Zelenin, too.

this outright looks like it comes from devil children/demikids, hey maybe it WAS a design for aitvaras that would appear in those games but they scrap it and i guess either doi or atlus we’re lazy and just re used it

Aitvaras. A.I.T.V.A.R.A.S AiTvArAs

What the fuck is this

The 2003 PlayStation 2 RPG Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne contains unused dialogue seemingly spoken by Luigi in its files. It is part of a text file containing placeholder messages for a negotiation system, with the Luigi message being called "DUMMY_SUCCESS_INFO", indicating that it was a placeholder for succeeding in persuading a character to divulge information.

Why Luigi was chosen for this is unclear, especially due to the lack of Mario references in the rest of the game and code.

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i'm just going to ask, what's your opinion of Tzaphkiel's design?

It's fine! Essentially a clever reuse of the quad-wing template seen on other Heralds. (T)Zaphkiel is a Throne, so an Ophan, and thus the eye seems okay even if I still prefer anthropomorphism.

...Akira Toriyama died, honestly, of all the people i i thought we might lose this year, no, THIS DECADE, that man was definitely the very last one. Rest in Power

I really thought he would experience Shigeru Mizuki levels of longevity. This one hit me hard, not like any artist or celebrity death in my lifetime. Just instantly felt numb and empty. As a toddler, drawing shovel-faced Dragon Ball caricatures in spiral bound notebooks was my formative experience with visual art and the bedrock for anything I've drawn or observed about art ever since. Only Kenji Watanabe's early TCG work had a comparable hold over me. Growing older and realizing that he was genuinely one of the greatest comic draughtsman and designers who ever lived ensured that impact would survive into adulthood. Can't believe he's already gone.

R.I.P.

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There are so many different Amazons (I am very sorry Wikipedia).

(I am not entirely sure what "vinaceous" means, was not in the dictionary. But I think it means "wine-colored".)

you know, thats why metatron has a cross despite him being a jewish character.

This made me curious, so I checked out all the books I have that note Metatron's origin and almost all of them at least say "Israel." Metatron is in a Jewish angel section of Devil Summoner World Guidance with Sandalphon and Lailah. But then Pandemonium:

It says he's Christian, lol. The Pandemoniums are the only books I have that list origin via religious affiliation rather than geographical location, and this seems only for the angels. Sandalphon is listed as being from Judaism; it's inconsistent though, as Lailah's stated origin is Israel again. I would chalk this one up to a goof.

The crosses on his eyes and sash might just have to do more with the Messian/Center aesthetic than Christianity, though.

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For me, it’s tied with Valigarmanda (not Tritoch) and Ultima Weapon (not Atma Weapon, as much as it hurts me since i love DDS but i digress) both from FFVI

Valigarmanda is such a underappreciated Summon, Esper, Eidolon, whatever. i love this Quetzalcoalt-looking thing (i don’t know if would be a better feathered serpent design for quetzalcoalt than smt 1 quetz but that’s beside the point) despite how much important it is for FF6′s plots (being the first Esper you encounter not counting the half-esper herself, terra, which speaking of which, it also help her to unlock her esper form) it’s kinda of a shame that outside of it’s debut game, it barely appears, and most of it’s other “appearances” are just reference to it (which an antagonist from world of final fantasy being probably it’s most important non-ffvi “appearances”) i think it’s gimmick being a “tri-elemental” summon would atleast make it stand out for most other summons in the franchise.

Ultima Weapon is also very badass design and (thankfully) it does appear in more FF games (thought sometimes other i can be a pain trying to refer specifically to this thing since i usually refers to the weapon (both the FFVII and the literal definition of the word) of the same name. (also Battle to the Death slams)

honorable mentions, in not particular order:

The Weapons from FFVII

Odin

Behemoth

Typhon

Sprite Gilgamesh (yeah, i’m kinda weird)

Diabolos

The Four Fiends from FFI

The Four Archfiends from FFIV

Shinryu

Sefer Sephiroth

Alexander

Leviathan

Deathgazer

The Warring Triad

so what's your favorite Final Fantasy Monster? (whatever if is "myth accurate" or just looks cool)

Accuracy to myth is definitely not something that figures into my appraisal of FF designs. Anyway:

this was the most freak shit that a preadolescent soren ever saw. still unfuckwithable to this very day. god this shit is sick. fuck!!!