Love Interests

[Dream]

Not trying to be mean, but why are the love interests designed to be so unattractive? (From the concept art)

I am just trying to help, but if you want more people playing this game.. the characters have to be attractive. Some of the characters look like they haven't seen the sun in 3 years.

If you can, I would advise switching the style of the characters out to a more Rune Factoryish anime style. Either that, or just improve upon the attractiveness of the characters you have thus far.

The game has one of the best ideas for an MMO, switching out fighting for farming/social life. It will do good if you can make the characters cutesy/cool if you know what I mean, like from a Harvest Moon / Rune Factory game.

Anyway, the thing that killed this game for me was when I saw the concept art for love interest pages 1 and 2 . A lot of new people who come on here will think the same.

[Eiburine]

Attractiveness is subjective :3 What you find attractive may not be the same as what other people find attractive.

For me personally I think the npc designs are very fresh and unique :D A nice break from the generic-ness that npcs are typically known for :3

If I may ask, what exactly do you find unattractive about them? :3 is it because of the unusual design or the art style or something? :3

[Jymaru]

Well, I like the current style, and I believe so do most other people here

[Dineosoar]

The current style is different, and I like it. There are tons of Love Interests and I think there are some that aren't even released yet.
Sure some of them aren't as attractive as others, but there are always exceptions.

If it's the art style that makes them unattractive, then frankly, that's your own problem.

[Doctor Glasgow]

Not trying to be mean, but why are the love interests designed to be so unattractive? (From the concept art)

I am just trying to help, but if you want more people playing this game.. the characters have to be attractive. Some of the characters look like they haven't seen the sun in 3 years.

If you can, I would advise switching the style of the characters out to a more Rune Factoryish anime style. Either that, or just improve upon the attractiveness of the characters you have thus far.

The game has one of the best ideas for an MMO, switching out fighting for farming/social life. It will do good if you can make the characters cutesy/cool if you know what I mean, like from a Harvest Moon / Rune Factory game.

Anyway, the thing that killed this game for me was when I saw the concept art for love interest pages 1 and 2 . A lot of new people who come on here will think the same.

thank you

[Raltz]

I personally have a lot of the love interests that i am interested in. Finding one character attractive or not is always going to be in the eye of the beholder. Like there are some characters that i would love to get to know better and maybe even court later, but other ones just dont cut it for me. Doesn't mean there bad characters, just means that very specific characters i find more attractive (personality wise and physically).

[carrotcake]

In my opinion, I think the ideas are great and the designs are interesting but I think the presentation could be polished up more. Hopefully it will be later on. It does not necessarily need to be a different style, just cleaner and more consistent.

[Sakura02]

I'm ok with criticism like this but, like.... they made 1 post on the forum back in April.... just to tell us that :/ and leave? That's not very nice.

Although when it comes to aesthetic the main visuals will be the game models so that's where most of our budget and work is going to go, since we're not going to have 2d avatars. Also I'm not sure we explained, but anime art styles change every decade if we went full anime it's going to be outdated.



The concept art can always be improved upon however, this is reasoning why we're not trying to ape the anime style of the current Harvest Moon games is we want to bring in people who may not necessary like the anime aesthetic, so we're trying to have some kind of combination. Now I'm still confused about this comment because is it the quality of the concept art that is the issue? Or the fact that it's not anime enough like otome games?

[Raltz]

I'm ok with criticism like this but, like.... they made 1 post on the forum back in April.... just to tell us that :/ and leave? That's not very nice.

It really isnt, honestly i think the designs are okay in my opinion. I actually love going through them all and see how diverse they really are compared to other games were so many of the NPC's are so very similar. Keep your chin up, you guys are doing great

[Moraela]

I love the designs a lot!! Some of them may not be conventionally attractive but that doesn't mean they aren't attractive. I really like what ya'll got going! I love the diversity, too!!!

Also, OP, your comments are not constructive criticism. You want them to be more attractive, but as so many have pointed out, attractiveness is subjective. Basically, you want the designs to look one way, and they don't, so you're mad and you're being rude to the artists because of it. However, not liking someone's style ISN'T constructive criticism, and it's not helpful, you are just being downright rude.