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Cosmetic Descriptions
I know this may be an annoying take but i feel very disappointed by recent cosmetic descriptions.
It's been screamed about all around Twitter (or X if you feel like it) but i haven't seen much talk about it here.
Even though recent cosmetics have been lovely and the larger quantity and more diverse characters being chosen (although with some outliers, i.e. David), the cosmetic descriptions have become just that... descriptions.
They just say whatever the character is wearing. "She thrifted this top"; "She wore this to terrify her victims"; "They wore this at a costume party"...
It feels very... Bland. These are just saying what the clothes are, and give us very little information about a character. We get one piece of info, and that may have already be pretty explicit in their lore "Skull Merchant likes to terrify her victims? We couldn't tell!"
I'm kind of a lore buff. The things i like about this game the most are it's characters and the world they created. Yes, i do enjoy the gameplay a lot too, but i doubt i'd have stayed if i wasn't so captivated with these virtual people that i can kill (or get killed as).
So i've always seen cosmetics as some kind of glimpse into their life, one that we didn't get from their base lore or their tome stories. We learn that Jake was a cosplayer, we learn Feng's favourite game, we learn Adam took his students to a Trickster concert, we even learn how Jeff got his eye scar.
And lately... It fells like we don't get a glimpse at all. We don't learn about the character, there is no fun fact. We don't come to understand a bit more about them in any way, shape or form.
"They wore this once"
That's what we get.
Characters become simply that. They become an amalgamation of garnments and acessories and there's no more person to be found within that. It's making mannequins of the characters we should enjoy.
This may be meaningless, but it's disheartening to see that when a character gets a new cosmetic, there's nothing new about it, other than this:
This is no major complaint of any kind but i do hope they give more love to these little details, as that's part of what kept me in this game for as long as it did, and i'm sure would be enjoyed by many people out there
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Why the hell do people care about it in the slightest? Seriously who really goes out of the way to read them, they do not even have much lore implications to begin with. I've seen it spammed on Reddit too for karma farming a non-issue.
"YEAH BUT LORE..." come on, shut up people. I've seen more complaints about the cosmetic descriptions than the tome changes and low quality tomes.
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I've made clear why i care about this but about the tome things they are completely wack.
I feel like they could be tweaked tho. Moving them one tome away would let characters sit for a while before they can write the tomes. And giving an extra slot for a "Legacy character" so to speak, at least until all the characters get tomes, would be nice so we didnt have to wait for a licensed chapter to have the slightest chance for a Slinger or Adam tome.
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have you met any dark souls lore guy? they will tell you about the importance of item descriptions...
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I'm with you, OP. The recent descriptions are laughably lazy. Honestly, I laughed when I saw the description for Haddie's new head piece.
Pretty sad to see people acting like expecting even minimal effort in salesmanship is "nitpicking".
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In 2025: "She like blue color."
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I found the same thing. I was quite excited to read descriptions about earlier cosmetics (tho not all of them was fun). But recently i find more being too shallow.
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