So I was discussing this with someone last night - what are some of the things that Final Fantasy is mocked for nowadays? Corridors? "Moms are tough"? FFXIII in general? More FFXIII sequels? lol, no versus?
And one thing that came up was fashion. Yes, fashion disasters. Which Final Fantasy characters do you think are victims of a warped designer(s) and their wardrobe of absolutely carnal evil? Which Final Fantasy characters look so ridiculous that you would pelt tomatoes or faeces at them as they're strutting their stuff on the catwalk?
1) which characters have designs that are just unmitigated disasters to you, or just generally awful and unlikeable?
2) visual representation of these characters is optional. But I will do it anyway just to truly convey the horror.
3) can you find out who designed this character? I just want to see which names come up.
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1
- Shalua Rui
- DESIGNER: Tetsuya Nomura
- WHY IT'S AWFUL: I...don't even - she's a one-eyed, partially cybernetic scientist with some sort of tragic story going on or something like that and Nomura felt the need to regurgitate that sort of design for her? Honestly, why even bother with the lab coat if she isn't even going to properly wear it? It's a terrible mix of "hi guys! This lab coat and these spectacles mean I am a scientist!...even though I look more like a street hooker. Mhm."
- AWFULNESS RATING: Please stop designing characters now.
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2
- Nooj
- DESIGNER: Tetsuya Nomura
- WHY IT'S AWFUL: our eminent candidate to be leader of the world in FFX-2 is dressed in his zip-up pyjamas with sets of random, unnecessary belts thrown across his body, his hair looks stupid and one of those impossible sorts for no reason either - yup, this is Nomura at his best when unrestrained. Belts and zippers. Yaaaay.
- AWFULNESS RATING: I could do better when I was six.
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3
- Lulu
- DESIGNER: Tetsuya Nomura
- WHY IT'S AWFUL: You don't see what's so wrong with Lulu's character design? Well, if you take a full render of her design and look down, you will see a dress pretty much made up of belts. A sea of belt buckles and straps. How is that remotely physically pragmatic? How does she run, let alone move in that? How would she get up after falling over? How does that dress even work? Are the belts glued together or something?
- AWFULNESS RATING: Final Fantasy deserves to be laughed at.
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4
- Seymour
- DESIGNER: Tetsuya Nomura
- WHY IT'S AWFUL: ....can you honestly take him seriously? And why is he showing plentiful midriff? Good grief, sir, you're a very distinguished high priest! I have grown to like the ridiculous hair though, because...it's just non-stop hilarious. He would have needed to bolt steel frames to his cranium first for that to be possible.
- AWFULNESS RATING: Hilarious.
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5
- Kuja
- DESIGNER: I believe it was Yoshitaka Amano
- WHY IT'S AWFUL: Speaking of Seymour's midriff, here's some real midriff. And look at that crotch. Look at everything. Manly.
- AWFULNESS RATING: So good I genuinely thought he was a woman for about half an hour while playing the game.
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6
- Leblanc
- DESIGNER: Tetsuya Nomura
- WHY IT'S AWFUL: it looks fantastically awful. It elicited about a few minutes of laughter from my eleven year self when I first saw it - to my mother's disapproval. And I am amazed that she can hold that outfit together. I don't know how cosplayers do it.
In fact, everyone in Spira is a fashion disaster.
- AWFULNESS RATING: Hilarious.
And one thing that came up was fashion. Yes, fashion disasters. Which Final Fantasy characters do you think are victims of a warped designer(s) and their wardrobe of absolutely carnal evil? Which Final Fantasy characters look so ridiculous that you would pelt tomatoes or faeces at them as they're strutting their stuff on the catwalk?
1) which characters have designs that are just unmitigated disasters to you, or just generally awful and unlikeable?
2) visual representation of these characters is optional. But I will do it anyway just to truly convey the horror.
3) can you find out who designed this character? I just want to see which names come up.
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1
- Shalua Rui
- DESIGNER: Tetsuya Nomura
- WHY IT'S AWFUL: I...don't even - she's a one-eyed, partially cybernetic scientist with some sort of tragic story going on or something like that and Nomura felt the need to regurgitate that sort of design for her? Honestly, why even bother with the lab coat if she isn't even going to properly wear it? It's a terrible mix of "hi guys! This lab coat and these spectacles mean I am a scientist!...even though I look more like a street hooker. Mhm."
- AWFULNESS RATING: Please stop designing characters now.
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2
- Nooj
- DESIGNER: Tetsuya Nomura
- WHY IT'S AWFUL: our eminent candidate to be leader of the world in FFX-2 is dressed in his zip-up pyjamas with sets of random, unnecessary belts thrown across his body, his hair looks stupid and one of those impossible sorts for no reason either - yup, this is Nomura at his best when unrestrained. Belts and zippers. Yaaaay.
- AWFULNESS RATING: I could do better when I was six.
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3
- Lulu
- DESIGNER: Tetsuya Nomura
- WHY IT'S AWFUL: You don't see what's so wrong with Lulu's character design? Well, if you take a full render of her design and look down, you will see a dress pretty much made up of belts. A sea of belt buckles and straps. How is that remotely physically pragmatic? How does she run, let alone move in that? How would she get up after falling over? How does that dress even work? Are the belts glued together or something?
- AWFULNESS RATING: Final Fantasy deserves to be laughed at.
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4
- Seymour
- DESIGNER: Tetsuya Nomura
- WHY IT'S AWFUL: ....can you honestly take him seriously? And why is he showing plentiful midriff? Good grief, sir, you're a very distinguished high priest! I have grown to like the ridiculous hair though, because...it's just non-stop hilarious. He would have needed to bolt steel frames to his cranium first for that to be possible.
- AWFULNESS RATING: Hilarious.
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5
- Kuja
- DESIGNER: I believe it was Yoshitaka Amano
- WHY IT'S AWFUL: Speaking of Seymour's midriff, here's some real midriff. And look at that crotch. Look at everything. Manly.
- AWFULNESS RATING: So good I genuinely thought he was a woman for about half an hour while playing the game.
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6
- Leblanc
- DESIGNER: Tetsuya Nomura
- WHY IT'S AWFUL: it looks fantastically awful. It elicited about a few minutes of laughter from my eleven year self when I first saw it - to my mother's disapproval. And I am amazed that she can hold that outfit together. I don't know how cosplayers do it.
In fact, everyone in Spira is a fashion disaster.
- AWFULNESS RATING: Hilarious.
I do agree that, from a pragmatic point of view, her dress would have been better without the belts, although I still quite like those as an aesthetic feature. 
His design suits his character and it works, but his quiff is crazy beyond reason. His yellow dungarees are very so-so... They should have stuck with the clothes underneath them. Black trousers with his golden yellow top could have worked! I can't find out who designed him. 