Idea for the Community: Zagreus Has A Wardrobe

[Ser J, Child of Chaos]

This would/could primarily be a thing that the community dabs with for now until the devs finalize the rest of the content they wanted to put in the game and place it out of Early Access.

On the subreddit, I had it as a casual mention since it'd be something that could be minimalistic and provide an extra "reward" to maxing the affinity on the characters Zagreus interacts with. Since Zagreus was a prince and the common trait with characters of wealth or royalty having a lot of material things, including choices of fashion for occasions or seasons, I thought having a "wardrobe" that was accessible and allowed you to play with different clothes or color schemes that was unlocked through either a change in affinity with a specific god/friend or doing a minor prophecy.

Won't lie, the idea spawned also when people (myself included) joked about Aphrodite gifting Zag a speedo and that was the whole outfit, since she is portrayed as a nudist, her hair covering the obvious spots of her body that would normally be censored in some art. I wanted to see if anyone here agreed or supported the idea of a little cosmetic thing that added something small but provided something interesting in dialogue and character interactions. And maybe throw out some ideas for outfits or color changes to Zag's appearance.

[C4RNIVOR3]

Alternate costumes or colour schemes are not planned.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1145360/discussions/0/1864993755183591660/#c1864993755185620425

[Ser J, Child of Chaos]

Originally posted by C4RNIVOR3:

Alternate costumes or colour schemes are not planned.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1145360/discussions/0/1864993755183591660/#c1864993755185620425

Well, that explains it. I'm curious if they have any further plans with the affinity stuff outside of minor dialogue. I thought the alternate color thing would be like with Lab Zero, where the recoloring was just changing the palatte.

[Memorizzi]

No thanks.

[Anderson]

changing Zag's clothes is too much work.

BUT, you could just have a wardrobe anyways that you can check out (just not wear), that fills up as you get friendly with gods.

[Niccolo']

just give him some hats...

[Anderson]

changing his clothing in any ways is a no no, since that would require reworking hundreds of sprites. The only way it could possibly work is if the hat was just put on top of Zag's sprite, and remain unchanged regardless of what Zag is doing.

[Ser J, Child of Chaos]

Originally posted by Anderson:

changing Zag's clothes is too much work.

BUT, you could just have a wardrobe anyways that you can check out (just not wear), that fills up as you get friendly with gods.

Yeah, when I joked about the idea, I was definitely thinking that the sprite/s was a 3-dimensional figure, especially with how fluid a lot of the directional changes and such appeared in-game. I still like the idea, though learning that it was 2-dimensionally animated does make the idea sound like something out of the artists' and animators' hands. Guess, I'll stick to maybe finding fan-art or something that would explore in-universe scenarios.

Originally posted by Niccolo':

just give him some hats...

Hehehe, hats. That would also be cute, though that would have been another thing I'd expect to be part of the outfits idea of mine. I'm curious if hats would even stay on his head with the flaming... leaf-crown-thing on his head constantly flaking and regenerating. I'd imagine it's a similar reason he doesn't wear shoes (technically).