Next Art Style For Metroid

[Nuvendil]

spemanig said:

Nuvendil said:

When it comes to great art for Samus specifically, there's a lot.  This one probably captures the Samus character best imo:

But I really love this art syle right here: 

She looks way too young in those though, especially the first one where she looks like she's a teenager. Samus is at least in her early 30's. I also have never liked how they've changed her hair to being straight, since originally canonically wavy. I at least like the second picture better because she looks a little older, and looks like she might actually be fit, unlike the current frail-looking Samus. Samus is supposed to look like a blond Wonder Woman and her hair is a distinct product of it's time, when volume was an important seen as more attractive than it is now.

Getting hung up on wavy hair is silly, imo, since it is a more or less meta element.  It was there cause it was popular in *our* world, not the setting :P . 

The first one I always viewed as her being younger anyway.  But it's her character that I think it represents best.  Strong, determined, fearless.  The latter one I'm not as down with the tone of the character (more reflexive, not sure if that would fit her even in her thirties), more with the style of the art with its detail and sense of "weight."  Also, she's genetically altered, so they can always handwave visual anomolies :P Also, helmet hair.