The tawdry female bosses are tiresome, and we could do with more male fanservice.

[Roda]

Actually that last boss is exactly what people want in this thread, no? If you take away the breasts, its just an androgynous fish person. Sure, they're probably biologically redundant (or who knows, there might be more eggs in there), but how else do you work in its gender into its visual design?

Guess I should rework my original statement: its hard to make non humanoid race genders distinct without using traditionally humanoid features. For the avarage Joe anyways, that only has a rudimentary working knowledge of biology.

As for humanoids getting uglier... we're in a JRPG. Ugly characters are few and far between in this trope, and usually need their own model when they do show up (and I think we used up the custom model budget for this expansion on Vauthry and Miss Chai).

Her over all design is good, but the breasts are just confusing. I don't think It was even a "these are boobies" mistake since she doesn't wear some kind of fish bra to cover up her fish nipples that feed her fish babies. I think those were there cause she's fat, and that's how we are used to distributing fat on bipedal bodies, even though it's really only a simian thing to place fat deposits directly on the mammaries/over the pectorials. She really shouldn't've had them.

And taking away the breasts wouldn't make her not a female. She has explicitly the role of mother for her people. She uses feminine pronouns. Story and context makes her a woman. Ifrit or Bismark doesn't need to have a full beard to be referred to as a male so why would non-human female creatures need human secondary sex characteristics when the male ones don't?


(also Dulia is adorable and I love her, but she iiiis partially using the lalafel body and rig so it's not wholy new)

so what is wrong about the games industry other than games being pretty bad currently, I have no idea really.

https://www.pcgamer.com/multiple-ubisoft-executives-step-down-amid-workplace-abuse-allegations/