Aesthetic Critique Challenge

[Alucard135]

I'm surprised no one mentioned the Elezen sprint.

[347SPECTRE]

I'm surprised no one mentioned the Elezen sprint.

It looks like they have a rod up their b**t when they walk/run.

[Jybril]

No mention yet of female midlands run animation? This must be a young thread lol.

Umm... Don't really have one. Thighlanders are a little burly... I guess. Still sexy AF, so I let it go.

Hey! I love your "Princess" run. xD
I want it myself. It looks so cute to me.

I don't really like how male Au ra look at all.
Their body is too bulky or something and they're too tall
so the proportions look weird, most hair don't really fit them well either.

On a side offtopic thing - I for some reason laugh really hard when a Lalafell is sprinting for it's life sometimes. xD I dunno it's just funny see the cute potatoes.
Same with Roes. It's even funnier if their a BLM or WHM because the way they run with their staffs is funny.

[GenBroadaxe]

I dislike how there's fewer distinct female face options during character creation and how we don't get cool scars. Guys for the most part get a choice of distinct options including an 'older' variant and scars that look like actual scars vs a paper cut on their cheek.

[MikkoAkure]

Sometimes I feel like male au ra with their weird faces and over-the-top hairstyles are so aesthetically different from everything else in the game, it takes me out of it whenever I see one. Like if you’re looking at a painting with a consistent style but one completely different artist came in after it was done and randomly doodled an anime character in the corner.

Female viera need more hairstyles. I love Ivalice and I love being able to play a tall strong-looking woman as opposed to the waifish hyur/miqo/au ra waifus, but I also love changing my hairstyle every couple of days.

Other than that, I think I’d they fixed elezen proportions, people would play them more. I don’t feel like their appearance matches the artwork and that the only reason they look like that is because FFXI elvaan looked like that. Elves in any other MMO are one of the more popular races and most of the more popular NPCs are also elves here in this game. But no one wants to play someone who looks like their limbs were stretched out on a torture device so PC elezen are strangely rare.

[Rhus]

I’m thinking male aura only have two options. Loook like sid or look like sonic. You talk bout viera and hrothgar hair styles begin limited but male viera only have those two options afaik
They also just look really awkward in everything they do. Every picture of a male aura he just looks like he is thinking “wtf am I doing? Why am I so tall? Why do I only have two hairstyles? Why are they taking photos of me? Why do they cAll me an edge lord? I just wanna be loved!”

[Allegor]

Let's see...

• Sprint animation and actual speed don't match and looks uncharacteristically goofy.
  
• Both male and female Roe have literally rectangular torsos but the lack of curves is more noticeable on females - give femroes male Au ra waist/thighs and there will be a lot more of them. As for males...they can be summarized with this quote from someone on twitter - "[He] was designed by the unfortunate "artist who doesn't draw muscles was asked to draw what they think people who like muscled characters look like" shtick."
  
• It's 2019 and dadlanders still have no eyebrows.

[Makeda]

Female Hrothgar just look... invisible... I don't know why... but I can never see mine...

(I think she's hiding behind a tree along with my Tauren Rogue...)

[NessaWyvern]

Female Viera need nicer mouth shapes. only like, 1 mouth each on them look normal-ish, which results in everyone using it, resulting in a lot of same-face syndrome.

[Gemina]

Hey! I love your "Princess" run. xD
I want it myself. It looks so cute to me.

I don't really like how male Au ra look at all.
Their body is too bulky or something and they're too tall
so the proportions look weird, most hair don't really fit them well either.

On a side offtopic thing - I for some reason laugh really hard when a Lalafell is sprinting for it's life sometimes. xD I dunno it's just funny see the cute potatoes.
Same with Roes. It's even funnier if their a BLM or WHM because the way they run with their staffs is funny.

I love my princess run too xD It's just gotten so much hate in the past, so I was surprised to not see it mentioned.

There just isn't a whole lot that bothers me about any of the races. Male Miqo's idle poses are kinda creepy, but the surprise/aback emote they have makes up for them. I definitely agree that male Au Ra are a little bulky, but it's really how they are so disproportionately larger than the females. It has me waving my arms around like a puzzle asking a couple, "So... how do you.... do... you know???"

Potatoes are just adorable in every way. I really like the way they just walk, with the whole 'no knee joint' thing. All their emotes are adorable, but they are like koalas, meaning the thought of holding one is usually better than the actual experience. I had a maximum height roe WHM in one of my duties recently. While I am not bothered by that in any way; it didn't stop me from thinking, "that's a whole lot of healer."