Ah. Not having a PS3. It's not like I'm jelly or anything.
It's on PS2 also.
Enix characters can all be summarized as scandily dressed girls pretending to be men -- the tight gym shorts and outrageous over designed outfits are a stigma of their approach to design. One simply needs to look at either the characters of Final Fantasy XIII or Nomura's 'Batman' designs. Zippers have zippers, coats are sewn together on other coats with spiky and tacky angles everywhere, over-sized Mickey Mouse shoes, the characters of TWEWY for instance look like they ran head first into a trendy clothing shop and got a pair of underpants stuck to their head (which incidentally is what the main character of Nier wears on his head) or at least it looks that way.
I've always had a distaste for FF character designs. I've always preferred Atelier or Dragon quests. Also at the underlined that's not Square enix it's Cavia.
Modern FF is pretty screwball, but I kind of like the in your face kind of torn shredded thinga mabob for what it is, it's kind of like what's interesting in one area without necessary liking the whole presentation idea. Also, FF1-3, 4-6, 1, and 14 and half of 7 vs the other half of 7-13-3 are kind of world apart.
Actually I started thinking about this a lot, because I mean first of all what are the Tales designs that aren't especially anime or whatever.
I kind of see them as identical, I'm assuming the examples would come from either Symphonia or Vesperia. Destiny 1 and 2 I think are pretty unique but you don't see the images quite clearly, if anything they were closer to Star Ocean IMO. Anyway, Graces, Hearts, Abyss, Eternia, all seem thoroughly anime.
I also was just playing through the final parts of Symphonia also, probably why I was thinking about it. Incidentally it's quite a fun Tales game for sure.
vs for example
Seems like one is maybe more stylized compared to the other, but necessarily dramatically so IMO. Or for example
It seems like Tales has a consistent style really.
Ok but then modern FF designs
I don't know, I think there's a few cool things about both would be nice to see them both in one thing, perhaps why I think this Berseria concept is sort of intriguing it doesn't strike me as excessively Tales or FF.
For example as you mentioned Milla in Xillia 2
Finally, Enix was a company that made some fairly brilliant games at the time such as Robotrek, Illusion of Gaia, Actraiser, Terranigma, and other action RPGs mostly, but also I believe published early Dragon Quest games and also Star Ocean (which is the basis for pretty much all Tales games)
They merged in 2003 with Square to create Square-Enix and eventually the Enix part you could say drifted away, nontheless modern Square-Enix style is a very specific thing the product of Kitase and Nomura and Toiryama going hog anime wild in the center of FF7, cue Spikey hair guy.
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