No, I don't think so.
Do we know the price already? If it's around 30 bucks I wouldn't mind getting it day one
>>736836053I'm an idiot I forgot they have their own web store>$40Sorry Iffy, but I'm gonna wait for a sale
>>736835580Damn they fell off. Who are those designs supposed to appeal to? Maybe foids are into it.But that screenshot looks like one of those cheap ass mobile jrpg games from kemco. kek
Bruh, japs have more pozzed designs than westoids now. Crazy.
>>736835580Idea Factory and Compile Heart deserve a swift death. Absolute slop for bottom feeders.
>>736835580Eh idk. Lemme pirate and finish it once before buying it.
>>736835580Can I play as the brown girl? if not I don't care. What's with all of these jap games and having all of the interesting character designs be side characters, while the protag is boring as fuck and generic in comparison? Happened in that last Inti Creates game too, Majogami.
>>736835580Can they just put out death end re quest 3 already before dying
>>736836159>see non-white skin>lose your fucking mindYou people are absolute jokes lmfao
>>736837150Bro?https://store.steampowered.com/app/2914490/Death_end_reQuest_Code_Z/
>>736837184The fuck are you talking about? This is your mind on burger I guess kek.I was talking about the body frame. Looks like a buff boy, eww.
>>736837449Is the buff boy in the room with us? There's literally nothing wrong with her design
Gameplay looks like Ender Lilies with how you set 3 attacks on face buttons
why would I want to save idea factory?
looks not interesting
>>736837743This looks weird man, I dont know what to tell you.Why would you design a character that way?But again, maybe the foids like a look like that. It feels like this is a game targeted at them.
>>736835580Maybe. The designs are cute and I'm hoping she'll play like Charlotte or SHANOA.
Kino art. Gameplay is kinda mid tho ngl.
>>736835580I have no idea how Idea Factory and Compile are still around. They've been churning out nothing but shit for like a decade now. And those designs look like absolute ass, who's this supposed to appeal to?
>>736839446>have no idea how Idea Factory and Compile are still around.The same way most AA companies do, they have a dedicated fanbase who knows what they're buying and get what they want out of it even if that's not much, along with a small trickle in and out of new/returning fans. Low cost development, lower profit margins, etc.>And those designs look like absolute ass, who's this supposed to appeal to?I assume you mean the other idea factory games and don't just have bad taste?
>>736839641I'm sorry but I have no idea whoa this design is supposed to be.
>>736838169I get what you mean, and I might agree if that was the default female body in the game, but the MC's design is clearly focused on her very visible tits. Nips love their flatties.
>>736835580It's insane to me dev companies that make heartfelt games like this with cute anime girls live and die on sales, while companies that pump out endless woke slop flops full of intentionally ugly mutts have unlimited funding to keep doing gay shit forever.
>>736839750That's Ariana Virellis from the hit new videogame Ariana and the Elder Codex.
>>736839750Not sure if i am onto something.But in the past you had genuinely good and/or interesting character designs.Recently there is this focus on over-designing or focusing on the clothes. Is that a female designer thing to do maybe?Like they put in effort not in the character itself but the clothes. Yet if you look at that
>>736840113That's crazy! Where can I buy it?!
>>736841435>Recently there is this focus on over-designing or focusing on the clothes. Is that a female designer thing to do maybe?That's an every single good character designer thing, anon. Why do you think so many school uniform designs from older anime are memorable and distinguishable at a glance despite being largely the same outfit overall?
>>736839912The problem is that they focused too much on a franchise nobody outside of a very niche scene cared about because it was low-effort slop (Neptune.)
I paid up for mado monogatari and it was pretty ass. the ariana demo was pretty fun atleast. i'll probably pick it up when it comes to pc but i may not start it right away. My current april list is kind of packed.Calamity Angels: Special Delivery - Apr 15, 2026OPUS: Prism Peak - April 16, 2026Pragmata - Apr 17, 2026Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster - Apr 23, 2026Ariana and the Elder Codex - Apr 29, 2026
>>736841616Maybe I can't describe it well. But the designs back then were more simpler. Pic related for example.Its like my eyes focus more on the character itself. These days the clothes are really elaborate, its like the girl itself is a afterthought.
>>736841435>Recently there is this focus on over-designing or focusing on the clothes.That's just because AI now makes it easier to overdesign shit with zero actual aesthetic sense.
>>736835580That art looks kinda cheap, even for IF. I think they should've concentrated more on texture instead of this lazy single-pass digital emulation if they were going to go that route, and at least extend it to the environments a little. Looks a little ass. Bad digital hatching, stiff poses, Atelier/Vtuber generic designs, mobile game environments.
>>736841706That's not really the problem, is it? You're talking about their bad business decision punishing them. I'm talking about why much, much worse business decisions still get endlessly funded without any punishment whatsoever.
>>736841862Just calculate how much they spent on Neptune games overall and how much they got back in sales. Its grim.
>>736835580coombait worked 10-15 years ago during neptunia's prime but it's hilariously quaint given the proliferation of pornography on steam nowmake with the tits, IF
>>736841435Is there any connection to Lona RPG? Has similar art aesthetics going on with design.
>>736835580Okay, anon.>Compile HeartNo, anon.
>>736841893Okay, and Concord?
>>736841820you have no idea how bad IF has gotten with its quality. mado monogatari is supposed to be a flagship IP from compile heart but its the most absolute quality jank still. a bunch of the 2d artwork is compressed to fuck and looks terrible in game. also the art style is not consistent, they probably got different artists and a lot of the 2d artwork looks like it was frankensteined together from multiple games.
>>736841814I think you're just misremembering the olden days, anon. Remember that's back in the era of magical girls who were entirely defined by their outfits that expressed their personalities, even the anime girls of the 90's to 2000's were mainly focused on hairstyles and clothing to make a unique silhouette or impact. Same with the fantasy genre where they had exaggerated designs like giant spikey shoulders and gigantic impractical capes.I think in this particular instance it's just a mix of the sort of modern shoujo sort of style art mixed with the Castlevania aesthetic that's usually very old style shoujo yet is drawn in the style of a storybook that's giving you a weird feeling. Personally I think it's beautiful, but it's definitely a bit odd.
>>736842247Sort of nonsense I'd expect from a cheap chinese or russian studio, that's pretty bad.
>>736835580>Infamous for exclusively releasing the lowest quality games and anime>Still exists in 2026How??? Total Idea Factory death
>>736842252I miss the LodossWar/Berserk/FMA/Bleach/Eatman98/DBZ era style of anime/manga. Back when people still cared about quality.
>>736841814there have been tens of thousands of new characters since then, people need to go further to make something look original now I guess.
>>736842252Ah well, fair enough. I still disagree but I'm hitting 40 this year, so I am an oldtimer now and my memory might be fucking with me.>giant spikey shouldersmhmm Urushihara comes to mind. (pic related)Thankful for the nerds who gave me emulation.
2000s gust was peak for jrpgs.
>>736841945What's wrong with Compile Heart?
>>736842464Obviously there's also the fact that characters designed for females typically tend to be more overdesigned and fashionable overall, like the Castlevania, Final Fantasy or Atelier game type character designs for example. But it's just a general character design thing too, especially for anime which needs to lean way more on expressions, motions, personality and visual style to differentiate characters.Besides, you're really going to disagree while posting the most generic old man character design ever with the coolest overdesigned outfit?
>>736842705Well I dont see it as overdesigned. And I dont think his face is generic really.Maybe I just can't explain it well. But with those designs the character itself is still distinct.But with >>736841435 you see so much going on with the clothes, but if you focus on the face its kinda..sterile? Not sure what the correct word is. Its like the design wants my attention on the clothes. I'm willing to admit that I could just be a weirdo tard and its a me only thing.
never got into those games.Litteraly all of them played the same with a few mechanics here and there.if they make an actual rpg that isn't yurishit i might buy it otherwise fuck no.
>>736842854You are supposed to focus more on her clothes because that's most important and visible part in a game like this, your eyes being drawn to the centre of the model is a good thing when the model isn't 1:1. She looks great in the dialogue portraits imo and the head on portrait works okay for a stylized menu, I don't really see your issue myself.
>>736842542you're supposed to eat the nuatelier slop and like it anon.
>>736844235Ryza is good. Source: My dick got hard.
>>736846275thicc thighs tard detected.bring back the slender 90s teenage legs.
>>736838169Again, I don't see anything wrong with it, but I like flat chests so that might be it
>>736847081finally someone who gets it
>>736842854It's fantasy adventure garb. I wouldn't call it even remotely overdesigned. In fact, it's pretty restrained. I think you just don't like the way the faces are drawn and are trying to rationalize it as the clothes being offensively distracting.
>>736838169unironically mentally ill. /pol/ programmed you in the worst way imaginable. stupid fucking nigger
