Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
-CE Golbez's face is not revealed. Using a monster rig means he's a unique model (both Varis and Zenos also use unique "monster" rigs instead of using standard character creator models), but it is still highly unusual to not have revealed his face when they could have done so. The choice not to do so may have been to preserve the surprise that the Golbez we know in the present is Durante assuming his identity, but it was a transparent "surprise" that makes little sense to try and spring on people unless you're going for a different angle.

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Apropos of nothing, can we get Golbez's armor as a cash shop outfit? We've gotten pretty much every important NPC from Dawntrail and loads of IX cosplay gear (both in-game and as cash shop outfits). Give the dudes some fashion choices after Garnet, Beatrix, and Endless / Simulant Sphene got theirs added.
I mean, one of these kinda defeats the other. Getting technical, Golbez is a reused King Thordan; that means that, rigging-wise, there isn't a face in there and you'd have to basically make a whole new model to put one on. This is what the Blue Mage quests essentially did when they used the same model for Siegfried, but with more transparency; 'unmasked' Seigfried is just a regular roegadyn and we went in knowing that. While I can't claim to know the entire developmental process that went into that scene after the Lunar Subterrane, I'm sure 'it's mroe effort than it's worth for us to make Golbez a face' was a factor.

Similarly, Golbez's armor can't just be given to a player in the way that Sphene's could, becuase it's literally not built to fit a player model in there; you'd basically have to make a whole new armor for that. I honestly agree that we need more male-coded 'premium' outfits, but that is the struggle for a lot of them: there's a lot of male characters that just aren't built for that. The two I can immediately think of that we haven't gotten are Raubahn and Emet, and... you know what, why haven't we got their outfits? Raubahn's a normal highlander (albeit these days he has the 'left arm' scale zeroed out), and Emet's only morally and psychologically a monster.