Fashion Souls

[proximityAlert]

I've seen this game compared to dark souls and other souls likes a ton, which is honestly great for me. I love that style of gameplay. I also love the massive amounts of armor and weapons that come with those games and the fashion over usefullness of various armor sets.

Does this game have a lot of different armors and weapons to customize your character with or are you going to be wearing the same outfit throughout? The demo ran great and im honestly really close to pulling the trigger on this one.

[Xengre]

It does not have it for armors. Instead, aside from your weapons your veils are the main equipment cosmetic change from gear (veil, aka that cape on the back). However, the character customization screen you see when making a new character can be freely accessed at the mirror in your home base. There you can swap between several outfits, change your hair (IIRC), have tooons of accessory options all over the body, and a very large selection of color changes that can make even the same outfit look very different. It lets you save presets so you can create your own presets and swap quickly there. I believe the only thing you can't change on an existing character is physical body size (and probably gender).

[PlutonArioch]

In terms of clothing, you can customise you basic look at the start of the game, and after the tutorial any time at your home base. Armour comes in some variations, but it is not as diverse as in Dark Souls, since it is always only one piece, and covers your upper body. There are four main types of Blood Veils (Armour) each of which has a certain visual style and a certain type of drain attack. There are if I recall correctly about five variations for each style, and two colours for each variation.
They added an option a while a go that lets you hide the Blood Veil, so you can just see the upper body of your selected clothing.

The weapons are pretty similar to Armour, in regard to variety. A few basic types and some variations for each type.

I played through the game the first time with mostly the same equipment until about halfway through when I switched out my main weapon. Your mileage may vary. I am not a big fan of most of the weapon designs in this game, so it was hard for me to find something that I liked the look of, and liked using. The same with armour. Nowadays I mostly turn off the Blood Veils and customise my looks with normal clothing.

[PlutonArioch]

Originally posted by Xengre:

I believe the only thing you can't change on an existing character is physical body size (and probably gender).

You can actually.
You just need to save a character appearance from the character creator, and then load the appearance from the mirror. The customisations you save at the mirror are tied to the character you currently play, but appearances (saved from the character creator at the start of a new game, or from the mirror) are available to all characters to switch to.
So you can not freely change body size or gender at the mirror, but you can start a new game, and change a previously saved appearance freely, then save over it or save it in a new slot, then exit and load your game to apply the changes at the mirror.