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Release concept art/base cosmetics did skull merchant dirty

Leachy_Jr
Leachy_Jr Member Posts: 2,207
in General Discussions

A lot of people thought that skull merchant didn't fit the game when she was revealed, and it gave me flashbacks to trickster who went through the exact same thing.

Thankfully with the release of her cosmetics, in game animations and sounds, she definitely fits the theme of the game (this is also how I came to like trickster for the exact same reasons).

The issue was the attempt to build up hype, the concept art, teaser, and default outfit were not properly thought out to sell Adriana.

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What is this karen cut? It's missing blood from the hands and arms which are present in the default model.

I guarantee you that if the "lore" art or something similar was the chapters official art, there would of been a lot more hype for it.

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This was so much better at capturing the "intelligent, psychopathic rich woman" feel (also makes a great screensaver btw).

There's also her default outfit, which honestly is criminal. Needed more blood to be similar to trickster.

Compare this

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To this

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Or even this

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Had the other cosmetics been shown in the PTB then I know a lot of people wouldn't of had such strong opinions about her theme.

I really hope we get more killers like smerchant and trickster in the future, as they are some of my favourites thematically. However on smerchants release she was not sold properly which made a lot of people feel she didn't fit the theme of the game.

Comments

  • Chocolate_Cosmos
    Chocolate_Cosmos Member Posts: 5,734

    Speaking about skins, I like her weapon on her very rare skin. The extra weapon animation is great.

  • Pulsar
    Pulsar Member Posts: 22,954

    I hope we do not get anything like her ever again.

    I'd like to put DM and Knight behind us and go back to Wesker type Killers, you know, good ones.

  • leviivel
    leviivel Member Posts: 286

    her very rare head piece should’ve been default, it’s so good looking. From the really nice white hair that keeps her rich elegance in tact to the intimidating white eyes and the well detailed mask, it screams fancy femme fatale, which is partly what their goal was for her.


    A lot of her does feel very scattered as if the design, lore, art and gameplay teams where all bickering/fighting and so they didn’t wanna communicate a lot. And so we got this random rich girl that has a quarter of lore not even about her that doesn’t even go into her tech side with perks that make her seem like this aggressive hunter (even though she meant to be a quick stealthy strike character), with drones made out of skull because ######### IT have her be inspired by her father’s manga’s (i like this idea but it could’ve been done so much better). I’ve personally defended her before from people hating her visuals because 98% of her haters purely hated her because she was too human or “not scary” despite Wesker having been the most praised killer in a long ass time.


    I like that we finally have full evil female killer, her sound design is awesome and i like that we finally have a more sexy female killer (not attracted to women myself but Trickster could’ve used some competition).