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With the various topics we've had about re-designs recently, I thought we should expand on it elsewhere. Here you can put your favorite and least favorite metamorphoses.
THE BEST
Fox McCloud
I love the 2002 design from StarFox Adventures, but that doesn’t take away that 2005’s design was twice as bad-ass! Shoulder pads are my weakness on sci-fi armor. He’s a little less furry, but that is compensated by his more grown-up look. It’s a great mix between the old and the new. Too but that they brought the old-school look back after this one.
Crash Bandicoot
Haters gonna hate, but I loved Crash's Titan design. He became more huggable and animal-like. His smaller eyes made him look older, which was a nice touch.
Commander Shepard
Mass Effect 2 might be the best example of fan-feedback in gaming history, which is the main reason it was so successful. A piece of feedback that kept coming back was the armor that Cmndr Shepard wore. In the first game it was very subtle and skin tight. BioWare didn't want the Vanquish/StarCraft sci-fi armor. So the Onyx armor now lives on as this slick piece of hardware:
Sly Cooper
Exectly how I expected a next-gen Sly to look like, maybe even better. His posture looks a lot more realistic and they’ve added a lot of details. My favorite is, once again, the fur.
Lara Croft
Between you and me.. I freaking HATE braids. They are the ugliest thing in universe. When Crystal Dynamics took the Tomb Raider franchise from Core, they did some housekeeping. First of all: un-canon the Core TR’s and then: No more braids. In 2006 the braid came back one last time to then be terminated by the glorious Underworld re-design.
THE WORST
Captain Qwark
The redesigns from All4One were a downfall compared to ACiT. But the biggest miss was Qwark. He reminds me of a troll-face\
Elena Fisher
I love the actress Emily Rose, I bought Uncharted for her in the first place! They even look like twins. But when I saw Elena enter the scene in 3, I wasn’t even sure if it was her. I heard many people complain about it so I’m not alone here. Her eyes hint more to a Asian heritage and her irises changed from hazel to brown-brown.
Knuckles the Echidna
Huge fists weren’t good enough, he needed steroids to show how strong he is. He also grew twice his height.