Axel fat hobo Character/Art problems

[The Gut]

So, looking at what is going on here, and I am thoroughly annoyed by this...
Why is Jack from SOR2 exactly the same but somehow Axel has a flannel tied around his waist, wears a dumb vest jacket on top of his white shirt, and has high water ripped pants showing off his ankles????

If you guys made this game from scratch, why put in these new looks for a favorite main character making him look stupid, but then take your college class deviant art Jack and pop him in the game as is? There is no consistency here and it makes you guys look lazy, and out of touch with what is good and what people like.

Another consistency note, WHY IS BLAZE NOT OLDER AND FAT TOO!? Oh because you didn’t want you make your Waifu age guys? What happened?

Then there is still the ugly out of place Cherry to consider as well. She doesn’t look like any black woman, she just looks like a thing that nerds would want a black woman to look like to be as non threatening as possible, while at the same time they can feel good and woke at the same time saying they are progressive for putting a black woman in the game. Can we just have a black guy instead, who isn’t a lab assistant baby faced cyborg?

[skald]

Originally posted by Haradasanz' Gut:

Can we just have a black guy instead, who isn’t a lab assistant baby faced cyborg?

Hell yeah, let's put Beetlejuice in there

[The Gut]

Originally posted by skald:

Originally posted by Haradasanz' Gut:

Can we just have a black guy instead, who isn’t a lab assistant baby faced cyborg?

Hell yeah, let's put Beetlejuice in there

Or something dangerous looking.

[Jeremy]

From cutscenes it's clear axel's not actually old and fat, just in-game he kind of looks like a big chicken nugget.

[randir14]

Axel looks like a power lifter or NFL linebacker, I don't know where you're getting fat from. He doesn't even have a gut.

[Ash735]

Axel is bulky and beardy not fat, he's just wearing baggy clothing as a way to show his mind is still into 90's styling (very grunge influenced).

[Warxa]

Because Axel was literally just Cody from Final Fight with a bandana, he should have been redesigned a long time ago.

[dafirus]

Axel is the only character in the game that has become sucks, both visually and in gameplay!
He is a former police martial arts trainer, he now dresses like a hippy beggar, with small torn pants and is apparently fat! He is ridiculously pathetic visually!
The Producer have a video they show us what the design did to him, even the first version (No beard, skinny and in a jacket) and the sixth (Which is almost the final version, only without the redneck shirt in the waist and smaller pants cut), which are acceptable, but could not be Axel visually with SoR2's clothes with SoR1's gloves / gauntlets ?? Is it too much to ask to make the character visually well done?
He is the worst of the characters, his short jump, (His jump was always short, but why not choose him to give the aerial knee of SoR1, to differentiate him from other characters, instead of the basic flying kick ?!), he don't have running (just Adam's daughter, by the way, why not put this ability for all the characters, just like in SoR3 ?? Instead of improve and add they decreased from SoR3 to SoR4), his "GrandUpper" is ugly ridiculous and he doesn't even raise his arm to the upper ... come on ... the blow calls "GRAND UPPER" what a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ uppercut it is that?!
And why did the game design of the game choose to slow down the movement of ALL characters? Why doesn't everyone run? Where is the SoR3 rolling dodge with up + up or down + down? Where are the individual weapon attacks that each had in SoR3? In a new version of a game, you should not subtract, just add more good things. This is not what happened here at SoR4.

[helldraco]

Originally posted by SerialHugger:

From cutscenes it's clear axel's a hobo

FTFY.

[Ash735]

It's actually hilarious how a lot of people don't know Grunge fashion that was around in the early and mid-90's, good grief.

[The Gut]

Originally posted by SerialHugger:

From cutscenes it's clear axel's not actually old and fat, just in-game he kind of looks like a big chicken nugget.

Well when I see him, it’s when I’m playing the game, so they should change that garbage look. Just give him normal length pants, a shirt and gloves. The beard is whatever but it doesn’t need to be there, they didn’t give Blaze a female old lady mustache, why give Axel a beard? So he looks like a game developer who doesn’t partake in personal hygiene? No thanks.

[A Bar of Soap]

This version of Axel is my favorite iteration. He's built like a mack truck despite his age starting to show. He's grizzled and I love it.

[The Gut]

Originally posted by Saturnstales:

Personally I like Blaze's new design. It was one of the main things that made this game catch my eye.

She could be a little more hard, and the jacket wasn’t necessary. She was a well designed character to begin with. Notice they took the old enemy designs and just kept them the same.

[ZédaCoina]

I´m the only one who likes the new design?
I love the 80´s 90´s vibe in his style also i like the way he looks weary from age and fighting crime but still has that badass persona

[The Gut]

Originally posted by apatheticVigilante:

This version of Axel is my favorite iteration. He's built like a mack truck despite his age starting to show. He's grizzled and I love it.

Oh do you like his flannel shirt around how waist? And his new boring jacket? It makes him look like a create a character that some bozo put stuff on to make him bloated with stuff for no reason other than to change it so they can say, “we did that, LOOK!” and try to gain some SOR relevance.
Not impressed.

[Sir Jack]

New design is cool.
The problem is that he is useless.