Re: male/female armor design - gotta say, I'm glad there are some franchises (such as Soulsborne) which stick heavily to a chosen aesthetic that works for all genders, rather than divides masc-options into pure, functional armor and femme-options into "skimpy battle bikini with frills".

As a girl wanting to (usually) play female characters, it's incredibly tiring when my only options are various levels of skimpy or otherwise lovely armor sets ruined by not even tastefully-designed skin showing. Look, I'm a heavily femme-leaning bisexual - I appreciate T&A as much as anyone, and sometimes I don't mind the armor sets if I'm making a character I want to look at and ogle a bit while I play! But T&A out-skin everywhere-body suit type 'armors' aren't the only thing ladies can look good in.

Dunno about most of you, but to me there is nothing hotter than a woman in full plate mail. I will die on this hill.