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5063918 No.5063918 [Reply] [Original]

Who the fuck was he?

>> No.5063945

A magitek experiment

>> No.5063964

>>5063918

Would love to see the concept art. Maybe he was a rejected Kefka sprite.

>> No.5063967
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5063967

>>5063964

Ah there it is. Magic Master. Western Translation wins again.

>> No.5063975

>>5063967
Yeah Magic Master the boss of the Fanatics tower. Number 024 is in the Magitek Research facility and uses the same sprite.

>> No.5064004

>>5063918
Someone designed for composite video.

>> No.5064017
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5064017

Just a magitek experiment. Probably a guy who was enhanced. You fight "Number 128" later on.

>> No.5064329

>>5063967
Looks sort of like a more steampunk version of Frankenstein's monster, with the hair and the things on the side of the head.

>> No.5064394

>>5063918
Magitek David Bowie

>> No.5064462

>>5063918
A fancypants

>> No.5064974

>>5063967
Nghhh I love this Amano art style so much. I hope some day we move away from today's pointlessly "realistic" graphics in which it takes 10 years to make a game that still looks fake as fuck (see: FFXV) and move to a classic FF watercolor look but done with modern hi powered hardware.

>> No.5065643
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5065643

>>5063918
One thing that always annoyed me about FFVI was that when you fight humans their sprite is so much bigger and better than yours

>> No.5065665

>>5064394
The amount of shit involving this guy...

>> No.5065674

>>5063967
He looks straight out of JoJo

>> No.5065687 [DELETED] 

Why did FF6 have so much better character designs than FF7?

>> No.5065714

>>5065687
Amano did the character designs in FF6, Nomura did the characters for FF7.

>>5065643
I hate it too especially how your party is chibified in the battle screen.

>> No.5065730

>>5065643
>>5065714
just imagine the camera is angled so your party is further away than the enemy

>> No.5065754

>>5065643
the alternative would be underwhelming...

>> No.5065916
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5065916

>>5063918
As far as I can tell, he's an experiment on a similar line as Kefka, not quite a normal person anymore, but able to use powerful magic. That in itself is speculation though, beyond looks, he might actually be quite rational.

Other than Celes, did the empire ever actually manage to infuse normal folks with magic without them coming out exceedingly wrong? I think there was a boy in Vector that could cast cure, but I can't think of anything else.

>> No.5065921

>>5065643
Would you rather just fight tiny regular sprite people? It makes the enemies look cool, unique, and intimidating. Meanwhile, the protags are small so they can be expressive and animated. Wouldn't it be pretty boring for your party to be made up of those big detailed sprites that just stand there and blink?

>> No.5066345

>>5065916
What game is that magimaster from?

>> No.5066348
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5066348

>>5063918

an asshole

>> No.5066367

>>5065916

They did, but all turned up as mutants.

>>5066345

XIV, or "Hey! Lets fill this online version with stuff from the first 12 games!"

>> No.5066373

A candelabra

>> No.5066507
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5066507

>>5066367
>"Hey! Lets fill this online version with stuff from the first 12 games!"

Honestly the only thing that really keeps me around, I'm a fucking sucker for that kind of shit, especially FF6 stuff. I really hope some of the towns near the Imperials have the same kind of design as FF6's.

>>5064017

>> No.5066524

>>5063918
>>5063967
So, Magic Master in the Fanatics tower, was he a "natural" monster of the FFVI world of ruin or was he an escaped experiment that managed to climb it? Was he there under Kefka's orders, or was it just somewhere he decided to take up residence for no particular reason?

And speaking of that, what sort of reasoning do the humans piloting the (still functioning and improved) magitek armor in Kefka's tower have for staying around there? How do they even survive in such a place?

>> No.5067058

>>5065643
Yeah and have zero the amount of animation as your sprites

>> No.5068391

>>5066507

>Wait for the remake of 7

>Meanwhile, 6 gets sort of its due in 14

Its not really irony in as much as poetic justice.

>> No.5068585

>>5066507
Too bad the world of XIV has no personality of its own.

>> No.5068705

>>5063967
All my life i have unironically thought that Amano's art looks like absolute steamed horse shit. Once again I feel justified in my belief.
This is such fucking trash. It's not "imaginative" or creative or fantastical or whimsical. It just looks like ass.

>> No.5068708

>>5063918
And why did his sprite look like utter dogshit compared to everything else?

>> No.5068726
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5068726

>>5068708

>> No.5068736

>>5068726
That looks fine, but I'm referring to that hideous battle sprite.

>> No.5068737
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5068737

>>5068736
I guess it's just because he's skinny and they couldn't fit as much detail. Here's the iOS version.

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>>5064394
Joke's on you, this is an actual portrait of Bowie by Amano

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>>5065643

>> No.5069260

>>5068705
t. Faggot with no taste.

>> No.5069559

>>5065674
Holy shit, could you imagine if a FF6 anime was made by Hirohiko Araki, using the Jojo art style? That would be tits! Though, I think Sabin would end up looking too much like Polnareff.

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>>5068705
Amano's art is popular only because his works are associated with Final Fantasy. Without that association, it's 100% garbage.

>> No.5070724

>>5069559
The JoJo artstyle is garbage.

>> No.5070767

>>5065674
GESTAHL SCIENCE IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD!

>> No.5070769

>>5068737
why do the iOS battle sprites for enemies look so good while everything else is shit? it's not fair

>> No.5071371

>>5070514
Idk. It reminds me quite a lot of Gustav Klimt and there are few who'd say Klimt sucks. In fact, if I didn't know any different and someone showed me Amano's work and told me it was Klimt's, I'd at least be skeptical, but open to the possibility, if not believe outright. His work is derivative as all get out, but I wouldn't say it's bad.