We are all looking forward to the mashup that is Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem for the Wii U. We know a little about the designer ‘toi8’ who produced the artwork for .hack//The Movie and for a Chain Chronicle movie. However, he has revealed a little more about himself and his influences on the game’s official blog. Here’s what he had to say.
Hello. I’m toi8, and I’ll be in charge of the main character designs for Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem. As for when we began talking about this title, it was around the time I finished working on a piece of light novel cover art. It was around the time that I was handling one-shot work, and asked myself “what should I do next?”
As part of the generation that grew up on Nintendo consoles such as the Famicom and Super Famicom, the name “Nintendo” has a very special meaning to me. I remember being very excited upon hearing about the [Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem] collaboration.
Years later, I’ve finally been able to see it take form right before my eyes, and I find myself filled with deep emotion.
Now, let’s quickly talk a little bit about the character designs. The stage of the game is set in Shibuya, and the background shows a gorgeous world, so the character design’s direction will go with a highly saturated, gorgeous look.
Everything I’ve drawn up until now has been low saturation, so this will be a challenge of colors!
I’ve received help from all kinds of people, and as a result we’ve achieved the characters and the backgrounds shown in trailer, which is something I haven’t been able to do up until now, and I’m proud of it.
As far as characters go, we have discussions such as “what we should do in terms of bust size?” with suggestions like “they could be large and have glasses to go with them,” and “no, glasses are no good,” and so on.
Thanks, MasterPikachu6
The TV show is better
This is interesting.
Bust size is always important. No kidding.
Wii U Senran Kagura confirmed?
Well, it’s good to know they’re having fun with this. :)
Can’t wait to see more footage of the game.
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Weeaboo game of the year.More weeaboo than any other vita game.
This game suprised me,this along with star fox,splatoon,yoshi’s wolley world,zelda u,fatal frame V,and xenoblade chronicles x will help the wii u do better!
I still don’t even recognize any of the characters… I thought I would recognize a couple seeing as I played through all of Shin Megami Tensei IV and Fire Emblem Awakening (over 5 times…)
Guess they are using characters from older games in the franchise… sigh…
They’re new characters, except for nowi.
And Tiki
I wish they were using older characters. That was part of the reason why I was excited in the first place. That first teaser trailer that showed Chrom and Marth and Roy and the main characters from Shin Megami Tensei IV.
They aren’t even in the game, it looks like.
Chrom is in it, and the main character clearly looks inspired by Marth. Tiki was there as well.
Like I’ve told many people, you shouldn’t take that old concept trailer seriously. All it did was announcing the collaboration and not automatically meaning that they would be using old characters with no new ones.
How about you stop policing the way people discuss about this?
Add your two cents if you must, but stop telling others how to direct their arguments and what not to address.
Look at the gamexplain video and maybe look at other YouTube videos and look online but of course we have only seen a very small amount of the game
i wish i was dead
Can’t wait for this game
Oh, so this is the one to blame for this atrocity?
So… how long before this game even hits the US? Probably 6 months to a year after it releases in Japan, no doubt. When you think Nintendo is finally trying to give us a worldwide release date, or at least a month or two between region releases, they go backwards & make everyone outside of Japan wait a good 6 months to a year… or longer. Grr!