chaos is indeed rocking the hot pants, but in reality his outfit looks pretty abysmal. The tacky orange and blue color scheme doesn’t really go with his white hair and scary green eyes. And what the hell is up with the goddamn bulge in his pants? It’s downright wrong.

In the future, everyone will wear really tight pants. And there’s nothing we can do to stop it…

Anyhow, it is absolutely amazing that the costume designs for the Suikoden characters are all unique in their own way. I mean, you think you’d run out of ideas eventually, but no! They just keep coming up with more and more ideas! We’ll give this guy some arm gauntlets! And that guy’ll have a scarf! We need more accessories damnit!

It’s really is amazing when you figure that’s 324 different characters they’ve designed so far. And those loose silky tunics really make for some hardcore yaoi snuggling (Don’t click if you value your eyes in any way).

Kilik sure does rock the shirtless style pretty well, but I was always more partial to Kilik’s yellow outfit, I don’t know why. I always thought it made him kind of look like Squall from FVIII. But I agree that his new cloak thing in SC2 just isn’t as cool as his old outfits. I mean, he still looks pretty cool, but he doesn’t look as original now. He’s just guy in red cloak #25. He didn't even get a 3P outfit...

Random Thought of the Day: I have a Kilik t-shirt I never wear… I got it for like $10 at a flea market.

The red mages have always been the complete pimps of the Final Fantasy world. I mean, fighters and black belts are nice but they just don’t have any class when it comes to looking stylish. The red mage kicks some ass yet still keeps his crimson cloak velvety smooth for the ladies…

Dante really does look completely bad-ass. I mean, the formula for making a bad-ass character is pretty simple these days. Take one well-toned late teen to young adult, add a long flowing cape or jacket – perhaps a scarf, maybe throw in a nice pair of tight pants and a fancy belt or something, add some leather boots, use a lot of red, black and white for the color scheme, and then make sure the hair waves in the breeze just right. Extra points are added for things like white hair and unbelievably overpowered weapons. I don’t know about Dante’s new shirtless look for DMC3 though. He looks like an over the hill rock star, like “I’m still sexy! Look at my chest! Please?”

Anyway, Link has also always looked cool. I’ve always coveted his cool outfit, back since when I first saw him looking all angsty in the Adventure of Link instruction booklet. But his new look defines awesome. It’s so hard to rock the green right but he does it so nicely. I really think he needs get a new hat though. The one he has now makes him look like a lawn gnome. Also, Samus’s power suit is still the coolest battle suit ever. The red and orange colors look perfect, and those gigantic shoulders of doom strike fear into the hearts of all space pirates everywhere. Best of all, the whole thing turns into a ball for easy storage. How cool is that?!

And I think all Ninjas should have to wear a red scarf. It’s just so badass.

I think that outfit made the plodding randomly generated dungeons all the more bearable.

Thanks for the heads-up Imran. I don’t think you need to worry about the whipping though. I already burnt his lord’s castle to the ground and pissed on the ashes.

Take that you ninja bastard.

Wow, this is called being a good letter writer. See how Graham actually took time to find examples, host them on his own server and do all the HTML work for me? Graham Johnson, if I wasn’t so sure you were a figment of my imagination I would quite possibly make love to you. Then I’d steal your stereo while you slept. It’s just what I do.

Now, Persona 2 had some goddamn crazy character design. The first two men you showed us, Guido and Katsuya, look like rejects from some 70s spy movie. Nice clothes guys, I’m sure you’d fit in well at the local fondue party, but get the hell out of my horror RPG. 20 points for mentioning “Melty Blood” by the way. An awesome doujin fighting game with a weird engrishy name. I do love the character designs though, but you really have to give credit to the digital novel Tsukihime where the characters came from.

As for Ivy… all of her outfits are honestly ridiculous dominatrix get-ups, but I guess her 2P version doesn’t scare me as much as the other two. Seriously though, Persona 2 has some absolutely crazy costume design. I wouldn’t call it “good” as much as I would call it “interesting.” But I guess it fits the game’s whole “this doesn’t make any goddamn sense” atmosphere perfectly.

I really hope you aren’t referring to Ivy’s ridiculous old English style outfit. I can understand liking her little revealing type get up, but when she started dressing like a guy in SC2 I started questioning my sexuality. I’m convinced some programmer at Namco is living out his crazy sexual fantasies through the various outfits he designs for Ivy. What a guy.

And I don’t watch Witch Hunter Robin because it’s one of those animes that tries to force me to think. And it requires I know all this stupid roman mythology before I even try to tackle the concepts it throws at me. I mean c’mon, they fight witches with really fancy paintball guns, stop getting so philosophical.

I’ve taken some Japanese and I’m aware of their various sentence modifiers which only serve to confuse the hell out of me. I guess it was better than Xenosaga’s approach of “Well, if their mouths move while talking happens nobody will notice a thing, right?”

Why did it take them like two years to translate that game? They obviously didn’t spend it on re-animating the lip-synching. Lazy bastards.

And for the love of god can there be a little girl character who isn’t voiced by the insufferable Sherry Lynn? When I first heard Momo’s voice I screamed “Oh god no! It’s Sasami!” and ran to my room to cry.