Why does Mercia's in-game face look so different from header image?

[Maruzana]

Because in game she is something unpleasant to look at, I mean almost every female character is downright unpleasant to behold. Some SJW types will try to make me into some sort of sexist, by saying 'I should go play DQ if I want bikini armor warrior.' and try to be dumb as possible. So I will state that I am comparing in-game portrait to what I see in steam title header.

I was expecting Mercia to look something like this
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/607050/header.jpg?t=1549026718

You know... Like it is advertised in title image. I love this game, but jeeeez she looks.... ugly. Nicely drawn, but very different from image above.

[Sol]

Yeah all the different art for her is pretty jarring.

Doesn't help she looks 40, but everyone talks to her like she's a teenager.

[Ikagura]

Be careful, the lock is coming for you

[ZexxCrine]

yeah idk if i'd add all the pretense to the post, but at a base level every character's art is consistant except for mercia and its kind of jarring to go from the intro to her portrait. is she a slim figured woman or as her in game portrait suggests a very masculin woman? pick one please I really dont care which you pick, but I would like this to be consistant. it would probably be easier to change her in game portrait than the intro and other stuff, but if the devs wanted her to look more masculin that is totally fine just please fix it?

[Arachnofiend]

Originally posted by ＦｒｅＱｕｅｎｃｙ:

Yeah all the different art for her is pretty jarring.

Doesn't help she looks 40, but everyone talks to her like she's a teenager.

They talk to her like she's a teenager because she is one. The portrait art is a pretty serious problem for her, everyone else looks more or less how they're supposed to regardless of any individual opinions on the art style but Marcia is just outright drawn incorrectly for the character.

[Izanami]

Honestly if you just fix the nose she looks fine. Just be patient and wait for mods to patch it out (or the devs, but this seems to be a deliberate design choice).

The game is still good in spite of that though.

[Nostril]

Her face sprite doesn't match the promo/intro art, but I think it does match with the unit sprite. Probably because different people designed the art. Line art skills aren't transferrable to pixel art.

That being said, it is odd that she looks so old when that's clearly not meant to be the case. One of the yellow faction's commanders describes her as "fair" in the campaign dialogue, despite her face being covered in scars and wrinkles.

[Ikagura]

I didn't want to point that out but I need to say it now, why are every character's noses kinda redish (even Emeric and Sigrid), this isn't bothering me that much but they kinda looks drunk

[Sol]

Originally posted by Arachnofiend:

Originally posted by ＦｒｅＱｕｅｎｃｙ:

Yeah all the different art for her is pretty jarring.

Doesn't help she looks 40, but everyone talks to her like she's a teenager.

They talk to her like she's a teenager because she is one.

Yes.

She's supposed to be young, fair looking, and inexperienced. Yet looks older than most of the cast, and looks more battle-worn than the patchwork zombie.

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Someone made a "young" edit.
https://imgur.com/a/2JEIoXv

I suppose it's just the artist over detailing everyone's faces, and Mercia smiling just didn't mix well with it.

Originally posted by Ikagura:

I didn't want to point that out but I need to say it now, why are every character's noses kinda redish (even Emeric and Sigrid), this isn't bothering me that much but they kinda looks drunk

Didn't want to go there, but
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tumblr-nose

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by ＦｒｅＱｕｅｎｃｙ:

Originally posted by Ikagura:

I didn't want to point that out but I need to say it now, why are every character's noses kinda redish (even Emeric and Sigrid), this isn't bothering me that much but they kinda looks drunk

Didn't want to go there, but
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tumblr-nose

Yep that's it... to be honest it's not that bad for characters like Sigrid (even tho she's a pale vampire and it's kinda like seeing a red dot in the midle of a white circle) but this isn't needed, it looks like they catched a cold heh

[Kai]

Originally posted by ＦｒｅＱｕｅｎｃｙ:

Yeah all the different art for her is pretty jarring.

Doesn't help she looks 40, but everyone talks to her like she's a teenager.

Her bio says she's 21... And the artwork is due to the game being in development before the intro was made, meaning all the sprite and ingame content is different to the marketing content.

I think what happens is that the story for the game wasn't MADE until after all the characters were made and voice actors were given, meaning she may originally be a much older character, but was made into a young character in the flavor text.

It's what you expect from a indie development from Chucklefish, the quality of the intro animation means that they outsourced it to someone outside the company.

In fact, the idea that they even published games onto a platform more than PC and can include cross-platform connections means they most likely outsourced some expertise on the matter.

This means the need to make the art and marketing 'consistent' with their ingame concent isn't a priority.

[Ikagura]

The intro reminds me of Sonic Mania.

The sprite artist isn't the same in either game

[Petralicious]

It's kind of odd how she has some somewhat normal looking short hair ingame but in the intro she has a Lord Hector wig.