Re: (Nutaku) Milenium War Aigis (English Version)
Oh, yes, Anya's AW is amazing, if nothing else because her sword(s) are actually pretty awesome, I know on some level they're more or less "sword chucks," but it'd be pretty cool to see a character in like an actual show or brawler or something wielding those things...
Yuyu's is really silly, just because she gets that swarm of pumpkin familiars, though I'm pretty eh on Cloris's, the design is... Really strange in places.
Of course, then there's ones like Camilla and Iris too where... It's like "Oh, well I was standing before, but I'm kneeling now! Behold AW transition!" Though I kind of don't like those because their pre AW art is a lot... Crisper? I dunno, I find AW art to be a really mixed bag.
Though, I mean, I do find some stylistically cool. Shunka's is actually kind of neat, I... Actually kind of do like Imelia's black and... rose-neon pink axe. For all that it's super silly. (If we want to get into it, Conrad's is actually a rather significant improvement =P) I'd say the winner for "Best looking AW: Not likely to be AW'd" ratio award is probably Momiji, and Rita's is actually pretty sweet but... But...
Does Bashira really use identical art? No changes at all?
You know, I think that might be my real issue. They have this problem with AW designs where some of them are cool extensions of the starting character, but then a lot of them are either... Almost not different at all (Like the aforementioned Priestess, Maribel to a degree, in that I have to flip back and forth between them to go "Oh, she's holding her shield up and applied some armor polish" to nail what the differences even are, Zola... Stand slightly straighter? Odette... Sits down?), or they just swing too far away from the character's design to the point that, if you like their original design... You, er, aren't going to be happy. Like Cypria suddenly turns into a pirate. Sophie's thing. Some of the Dark Knight stuff, uhm... Honestly Len, I don't think I'd realize they were the same character without help.
To be fair, really looking at these did help me notice that I'm at least "okay" with more of them than I thought, or some of them had neat quirks I missed, but I feel like my negative overall impression is because "Wow that's bland" and "Wow that's really bad" stand out more in my head than "Oh, yeah, that's okay, got a cute quirk there," and... Well I haven't seen THAT many I thought were GREAT. (Though see Anya. Anya forever.)
Also... I almost never use Samurai? Though I have 3 (partially because Anya preformed a terrible SAMURAI ECLIPSE due to her... Being her), and I don't know if I should bother with any of them (My highest is currently... Kojuro? Because he's an okay unit I can deploy on male only maps). Like, will there come a time where I'll end up regretting I don't have, you know, a 50cc60 or 70 or w/e Kojuro or Akane or something? Because as is they're going to be hanging out in like CC 30-40 limbo forever, since... Yeah still have barely ever used them. They have a bad case of "Too expensive to rush, not strong enough to validate their placement when I can snag Anya or something down if I have about 30-ish points sitting around." Though, much like my "I dun know what Artillery does" thing earlier, I am prepare to be very wrong.