My problems with the SG-Skins:

SaltyToplaneGoat·8/10/2017, 1:06:37 AM·2 votes·401 views

Some skins on the group just feel like a lazily done after-thought. Like, two or three skins are really well made, and then it feels like they kinda ran out of motivation. When I first saw that Soraka was getting a skin I was really excited, but I'm not gonna swap from my beloved Celestine skin to this loveless knock-off. And I feel kinda the same with the Ezreal skin - comeon Riot, this was your big "tuxedo mask"-chance, and you blow it on... THAT?!

Generally there is now also the problem of color identities: Magical Girl shows usually put one color to a character, this is a tradition that stems from the japanese superhero-genre, and that makes the character easily identifiyable. It's not really a crime to run with a bigger palette of colors, but now we have several of them hogging different shades of green/blue, and both Ahri and Miss Fortune being "somewhat orange".

If you wanted the idea of two mirrored SG-squads, then why not take over the colors 1:1 with some minor variation? Right now it just looks like an unstructured mess, barely worthy of the genre it pays homage to - and that's also one of my biggest reasons I'm not gonna spend a penny on them.

And not to mention: Syndra should have gotten the skin with the VO, not Ahri. I mean, Ahri's VO is not perfectly fitting either, but I can imagine a playful fox in such a role, as opposed to the character that Syndra is.

4 Comments

Winterkill8/10/2017, 1:10:32 AM3 votes

Agreed.

Sukishoo8/10/2017, 1:13:02 AM3 votes

And I feel kinda the same with the Ezreal skin - comeon Riot, this was your big "tuxedo mask"-chance, and you blow it on... THAT?!

You know all the Star Guardians don't just have Sailor Moon as their influence. They use plenty of magical series to get these done. Ezreal has clearly got some inspiration going on from Star Driver http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/697/550383-tsunashi0.png

Krigjer8/10/2017, 1:14:55 AM2 votes

I like that they didn't go the Tuxedo Mask route. It's so obvious and overdone- especially with Lux basically denying any romantic involvement with Ezreal with her new VO lines. They went with Star Driver and Earth Defense Club instead.

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Concerning the colours: There are only so many colours in the world before you have to start using different shades and hues. Did you really want Lulu to be the only green SG ever?

MrHaZeYo8/10/2017, 1:16:53 AM1 votes

I like em. Will buy em all eventually, for sure will get Ahri and Syndra.