by Roterblitz May 16th 2010, 1:42 pm
The Justice Striker wrote:Why does everyone love Battle Network so much?
Like I said, better character designs. But if you thought I was being too vague about it, lets look at the fire-themed bosses.
Heat Man (classic)
Some might argue "less is more", and I usually prefer something silly over something too elaborate, but this guy looks like a dopey-eyed Mega Man wearing a zippo lighter. There are Bomberman characters with more variety than this.
Heatman.EXE
The Battle Network redesign still follows the same silly premise, but he actually looks threatening now. He also looks nothing like Megaman.EXE, or anything humanoid for that matter, but it's still a simplistic and straightforward design.
Flame Stag
Now looking at the opposite extreme, the MMX characters just have too much going on. Elaborate designs can work, but there's just nothing memorable about one like this. I guess the "antlers of fire" are pretty creative, but the design as a whole looks like they took a bunch of good designs and put them in a blender.
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