What Are The Worst Character Designs You Have Ever Seen?

Local Degenerate said:
Bit of a hot take, but I find Akira Toriyama's works to be fucking ass.

Not because they're bad, they're fine, hell, some were even good.

But because the man can only draw three characters, and one house. Dude is a fucking hack, and I don't know why people crowd around to kiss his feet.

Kind of naturally leads on to Dragon Quest, which I feel has the absolute worst designs in the biz today. At best, they're simple and generic (I.E. Dragon. Bunny girl.) At worst, their lazy and stupid as shit. (Bag with face. Mushroom, but the top is hair.)
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yeah he only has a half dozen characters at most, but they're a really good half dozen characters
sorta like Leiji Matsumoto
 
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This is supposed to be a Native American from the 1930s. Normally I don't mind skimpy outfits (within reason), but at least make her face, eyes, and hair look like she's from that race and era. Not a modern Caucasian theme stripper with a tan.
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Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
This is supposed to be a Native American from the 1930s. Normally I don't mind skimpy outfits (within reason), but at least make her face, eyes, and hair look like she's from that race and era. Not a modern Caucasian theme stripper with a tan.
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Eh, besides the overly long legs, that's basically how every native American waifu is shown in anime, plus she's hot and her transformations are even hotter
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I want to say the main protagonist of Shadow Hearts 3 has too much of a baby faced but that's justified ingame.
 
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Local Degenerate said:
Bit of a hot take, but I find Akira Toriyama's works to be fucking ass.

Not because they're bad, they're fine, hell, some were even good.

But because the man can only draw three characters, and one house. Dude is a fucking hack, and I don't know why people crowd around to kiss his feet.

Kind of naturally leads on to Dragon Quest, which I feel has the absolute worst designs in the biz today. At best, they're simple and generic (I.E. Dragon. Bunny girl.) At worst, their lazy and stupid as shit. (Bag with face. Mushroom, but the top is hair.)
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Indeed. Chrono Trigger is one of my favorite games and Toriyama is the artist for that game but something that occasionally gets to me is the same-face syndrome.

Regarding the same faces, I am willing to admit that I like girly shit. I do not like the direction that the girly show Winx Club has taken.

Never mind writing, the art has gotten blander over the years.
Back in the day, all the girls used to have photogenic, sure, but distinct looks to them in the way they were drawn. My autistic mind noticed eye shapes, nose shapes, and lip shapes.

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Shallow as it might be, I did like it.

Come season 8 and we get a really homogenous and same-faced art style. The characters lost their individual traits and really just look like clones of each other. I'm not gonna scream diversity bullshit but I could appreciate the little things that put the girls apart.

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The samee goes for the boys too with their various headshapes and whatnot.

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Keep in mind and everyone here are in their mid 20s.
So the fact that this happened....floors me.

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It's not Calarts at least but fuck me.
 
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(Copied from a post I made in the Sony Hate Thread because it is worth repeating).

Frey Holland - Forspoken:

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Frey looks like a hobo who raided a dumpster full of dirty carpets and granny curtains found in an abandoned storage locker. The player is going to be looking at this character's back for hours and this is what you are getting: an inconsistent bundle of fabrics flopping about as she moves all over the screen. She also has this disheveled rat's nest of a hair style and a complete lack of femininity in her body proportions and motions just makes her character design an unsightly mess.

Solid character design, visual consistency, aesthetics and indeed beauty factor a lot for me when I'm choosing the games I want to spend time playing. Frey is purposefully designed with "modern western sensibilities" spurred on by industry grifters and the end result is visual garbage.
 
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Belvedere said:
(Copied from a post I made in the Sony Hate Thread because it is worth repeating).

Frey Holland - Forspoken:

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Frey looks like a hobo who raided a dumpster full of dirty carpets and granny curtains found in an abandoned storage locker. The player is going to be looking at this character's back for hours and this is what you are getting: an inconsistent bundle of fabrics flopping about as she moves all over the screen. She also has this disheveled rat's nest of a hair style and a complete lack of femininity in her body proportions and motions just makes her character design an unsightly mess.

Solid character design, visual consistency, aesthetics and indeed beauty factor a lot for me when I'm choosing the games I want to spend time playing. Frey is purposefully designed with "modern western sensibilities" spurred on by industry grifters and the end result is visual garbage.
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I think she would look a lot better if she wasn't just wearing a t-shirt and jeans with her overly-flowy shit and shang-chi bracelets. Otherwise I don't really see an issue with the hair or what Sseth would call a "germanic fridge frame body".
I'm still not gonna play this stupid game but I don't think her design is that bad, just lazy.
 
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A-Stump said:
One Piece has some of the ugliest character designs I've seen in anime. Hell, I'd say all of media. If they don't look like fucked up Picasso paintings they look generic as fuck. People saw its awesome but I can't get into it purely because of the art. Its fucked, I'm sorry.
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yea but nami's bazongas

proud family revival is a good example of one. in fact pick anything from the past few years, including the new velma
Belvedere said:
(Copied from a post I made in the Sony Hate Thread because it is worth repeating).

Frey Holland - Forspoken:

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Frey looks like a hobo who raided a dumpster full of dirty carpets and granny curtains found in an abandoned storage locker. The player is going to be looking at this character's back for hours and this is what you are getting: an inconsistent bundle of fabrics flopping about as she moves all over the screen. She also has this disheveled rat's nest of a hair style and a complete lack of femininity in her body proportions and motions just makes her character design an unsightly mess.

Solid character design, visual consistency, aesthetics and indeed beauty factor a lot for me when I'm choosing the games I want to spend time playing. Frey is purposefully designed with "modern western sensibilities" spurred on by industry grifters and the end result is visual garbage.
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its weird because the actual lady ive heard isnt bad looking?
Gutpuke said:
Loadout had this disgusting beast
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is she meant to be horrifying?
 
Belvedere said:
(Copied from a post I made in the Sony Hate Thread because it is worth repeating).

Frey Holland - Forspoken:

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Frey looks like a hobo who raided a dumpster full of dirty carpets and granny curtains found in an abandoned storage locker. The player is going to be looking at this character's back for hours and this is what you are getting: an inconsistent bundle of fabrics flopping about as she moves all over the screen. She also has this disheveled rat's nest of a hair style and a complete lack of femininity in her body proportions and motions just makes her character design an unsightly mess.

Solid character design, visual consistency, aesthetics and indeed beauty factor a lot for me when I'm choosing the games I want to spend time playing. Frey is purposefully designed with "modern western sensibilities" spurred on by industry grifters and the end result is visual garbage.
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So this is the Mystery Meat hero in the new Isekai game? Looks like the truck-kun that hit her was carrying a bunch of thrift store crap that spilled all over her.
 
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