Reskin Mods (Character name spoilers)

[TepigIsHot]

I loved the art style of the characters in the first game and there are some really good designs in this one as well (Hecate, Chronos, Charon, Athena, etc.) but there are some really bad ones (Hestia, Poseidon, Dionysus, Hephaestus, etc.) so I'd like to replace the artwork for them. I couldn't find any online so I was wondering if anyone knew of some?

[Moo Cow]

Try not being a baby.

[Specific Beef]

Things like that are sure to turn up on Nexus Mods eventually, but I doubt anybody's going to bother putting in the effort until the game is finalised.

[Rws vi Britannia]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/hades-ii-alternative-portraits

Here's a mod that makes characters more anime. It looks pretty good.

Disclaimer: Might not work with recent patch
Disclaimer: Might be AI

[Specific Beef]

Kind of an insult to anime as an artform when anime is taken by gamers to mean "turn everyone female into white, large-breasted children".

[Rws vi Britannia]

Publicado originalmente por Specific Beef:

Kind of an insult to anime as an artform when anime is taken by gamers to mean "turn everyone female into white, large-breasted children".

Why mention children? Why is that the first thing you think about when seeing something like this? None of the images show any children or child-like characters.

[Specific Beef]

Publicado originalmente por Rws vi Britannia:

Publicado originalmente por Specific Beef:

Kind of an insult to anime as an artform when anime is taken by gamers to mean "turn everyone female into white, large-breasted children".

Why mention children? Why is that the first thing you think about when seeing something like this? None of the images show any children or child-like characters.

These are not adult-coded characters. They're teenagers, schoolgirl-age. You can't just slap exaggerated sexual characteristics on drawings of children and say that's an adult, or add a backstory that says they're 500 years old, but I am familiar with the tactics.

And tbh change the art if you want but it's rancid to take a character that is specifically designed as senior and/or fat and "correct" that inside of its own product according to what you find f---able.

[Rws vi Britannia]

Publicado originalmente por Specific Beef:

Publicado originalmente por Rws vi Britannia:

Why mention children? Why is that the first thing you think about when seeing something like this? None of the images show any children or child-like characters.

These are not adult-coded characters. They're teenagers, schoolgirl-age. You can't just slap exaggerated sexual characteristics on drawings of children and say that's an adult, or add a backstory that says they're 500 years old, but I am familiar with the tactics.

And tbh change the art if you want but it's rancid to take a character that is specifically designed as senior and/or fat and "correct" that inside of its own product according to what you find f---able.

You need to touch grass, dude.

[Calamity Heart]

Publicado originalmente por Specific Beef:

These are not adult-coded characters. They're teenagers, schoolgirl-age.

What the hell do you mean they're "not adult-coded characters"? o.0 Not a single one of the characters changed by this mod is written, behaves or presented as underage teenage schoolgirls, nor does the mod artstyle even try to present them as such. If you don't like that particular anime-esque artstyle, that's fair. But say that. Use a little common sense.

Publicado originalmente por Specific Beef:

You can't just slap exaggerated sexual characteristics on drawings of children and say that's an adult, or add a backstory that says they're 500 years old, but I am familiar with the tactics.

This road goes both ways. It's equally ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to look at a character that's obviously, inarguably an adult, from the way they talk/behave to their actual character traits and features to the way they're proportioned and presented compared to other characters in the setting, and call them drawings of children based on nothing but the artstyle. The subset of questionable anime tropes that you're "familiar with the tactics" of cannot and should not be applied lightly to any anime artstyle you come across that you don't like.

Publicado originalmente por Specific Beef:

And tbh change the art if you want but it's rancid to take a character that is specifically designed as senior and/or fat and "correct" that inside of its own product according to what you find f---able.

Partially agree, because it has to do with why I myself don't like the mod. Unwrinkling/deaging Demeter and just straight up replacing Hestia with a generic woman in bland jewelry and fire and smoke thrown in as an afterthought strikes me as... obnoxious. But that's just my personal opinion, which is why I won't download the mod or give it any more views. If someone wants that for their own indulgence because they think it looks better, I don't really care, as long as it doesn't involve any actual crime. Do with your copy of the game what you prefer to do.

[Kaczor24]

Publicado originalmente por Rws vi Britannia:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/hades-ii-alternative-portraits

Here's a mod that makes characters more anime. It looks pretty good.

Disclaimer: Might not work with recent patch
Disclaimer: Might be AI

Holy slop
this is AI as ♥♥♥♥ and it sucks

[Rws vi Britannia]

Publicado originalmente por Kaczor24:

Publicado originalmente por Rws vi Britannia:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/hades-ii-alternative-portraits

Here's a mod that makes characters more anime. It looks pretty good.

Disclaimer: Might not work with recent patch
Disclaimer: Might be AI

Holy slop
this is AI as ♥♥♥♥ and it sucks

Found a great (hand-made) reskin mod for Hades 1, but none for Hades 2 yet. We'll most likely get some good ones once the game is fully out.

On the other hand, found an even worse AI one for Hades 2. Didn't link that one because it's even worse than this one.

[TepigIsHot]

Publicado originalmente por Rws vi Britannia:

Publicado originalmente por Kaczor24:

Holy slop
this is AI as ♥♥♥♥ and it sucks

Found a great (hand-made) reskin mod for Hades 1, but none for Hades 2 yet. We'll most likely get some good ones once the game is fully out.

On the other hand, found an even worse AI one for Hades 2. Didn't link that one because it's even worse than this one.

Welp, guess I'll have to wait for that. Thank you to the people who provided feedback and didn't start fights

[Biscuits! Werewolves!]

My quick takes on those alternative images from the anime-style link:

Demeter - This one looks dumb as f*ck
Hestia - Looks okay, but is boring. I've grown to love my pyromaniac auntie
Hecate - Dude, Hecate has one of the best portraits in all of H2. This alt image doesn't even try for a different style - it just makes the good H2 art into a crap version.
Artemis - Okay this one I actually like, but mostly because it's got sharper contrasts and the colors /pop/ more
Aphrodite - Oh, please. The H2 Aphrodite art is also great. Gotta agree with Beef on this one, at least. Regular H2 Aphro looks like an adult woman and anime-Aphro looks like a little girl.

[davidb11]

Weird flex with using Anime style to change how this game's portraits are.
While some people have strange ideas about said Anime style, and making up stuff about it, I don't feel the need to change this game's sprite just yet.

Hestia looks like anyone who's been working in the hearth of a house for a long time would.

[Fire walk with me]

Beef is not completely without merit on their point though. There are very real cringey and problematic art styles that are prevalent on steam and the internet writ large. Sure, you can't say everyone/everything/monolith is a problem, but to say they aren't around and a problem would be an equally ignorant take.

Every time I read the news about all the Peter Files out there locally and abroad they are not the classic stereotype of a creepy old man offering candy at the bus stop. These criminals more and more are smack dab aged 24-28, utilize technology to assist their crimes, and there are absolutely real life examples to back it up.

I don't even click on steam game Art sections anymore strictly due to the overwhelming yikes factor.

[davidb11]

It's impossible to go and claim fully adult anime looking people are somehow children/teenager like.
LOL wut.

Good grief.
This is trying to get Chris Hansen summoned.

Yeah, there are bad people all around.