Or maybe people just have different opinions? I genuinely think her face looks fine and I’m not just gushing over it because it’s just KI, I could care less about Kim wu.
Never before have so many people outside of these forums had issue with the face of a female Killer Instinct character. I’d wager it has more to do than just having ‘different opinions’…
Her body seems fine, but her head and face are poorly modeled and animated. I don’t think the issue is lighting and shading.
They whinged about likes of TJ too… theyre just being too pernickity IMO. she looks fine. Besides hard to moan about character faces when theyre aliens, golems or a dinosaur. Kim look normal, not a bad thing (esp in a FIGHTING game)
And what was the end result? A better-looking TJ…
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Exactly, TJ looks worlds apart after people brought up the issues about his wooden facial expression and lack of skin texture. It is incredible how much more expressive his face is now.
because cosmetic issues matter in a fighting game…
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to a point, they do - but I’m not sure the fine details of someone’s face qualifies.
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Yeah the face is only noticed in intros anyway. Who cares.
Does anyone have a link to the Iron Galaxy reveal of Kim Wu and their run through of her moves? I can’t find it.
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Max put the Rash/Kim Wu stuff into a single video on his Youtube yesterday. I don’t have a link at the moment, sorry.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Welcome to the killer instinct forums. We had a guy quit the game because Jago blinks on the vs screen…,
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*shrug * I like Kim Wu’s face. And while I liked the extra details/expressiveness added to TJ, all the community’s whining about the size of his arms gifted us the stupidly massive arms he now sports. Honestly comes out to a wash for me…TJ’s arms are just ridiculous.
But whatever. IG will touch things up how they wish to, and I’ll keep on playing this amazing game. I consider KI’s art style to be one of my favorite things about it - I’d honestly put it against the prettiest fighters in the business without a hint of shame.
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Don’t be ridiculous – cosmetic issues matter in every game.
I don’t know about you, but I like to be as immersed in my games as possible and consistent graphics are critical to achieving that.
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Exactly, why did graphics improve since Intellivision and Atari days? It is natural for there to be progress and with progress comes a new standard since the bar gets raised. It isn’t about nit-picking but we expect things and expect things to be addressed. The more it feels and responds correctly, the more immersed you are.
They ARE consistent. I will say it agaim theres NOTHING wrong with her face!
Waste of IGs assets if we demand they redo a perfectly fine character model when they can be working on other things…
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I hate TJ’s atrocious arms as much as you do, but while people wanted them to be bigger, I feel that MS/IG made them too big. There was a misunderstanding.
Inconsistent in other ways, like in animations (Maya) and design (Omen) of other characters and features.
The reason why people are talking about her face is because thats what everyone else is talking about but to be honest she has a normal face imo and I think her face is 10x better than Orchid. If somebody would’ve said her moves looked cheesy thats what everybody would’ve been saying on every site they just running with one topic
So everyone is mindless and only follows whatever the first person to talk said? That’s highly unlikely, especially on a forum, and its not constructive to dismiss the opinion of everyone else by saying they are nothing but bandwagoners.
Her face is strange. No matter who said it first or who will say it last, my personal opinion is that there is something strange about it. There is something about it that makes it seem … unnatural? dead? low quality? I dont know what word to put on it, but it definitely looks off to me.
Other people have mentioned that TJ had a similar issue on preview and it changed for release. Perhaps something similar can happen with Kim, and hopefully the end result will be that both parties arguing about her face can be satisfied by the end.
Either way, this is a fighting game and her gameplay and attack animations are much more important than her face, so if it doesn´t end up changing, its not a gamebreaker. However, I do think that part of the point of these forums is to give the devs some feedback, and that’s what’s happening here.