I think overall, the new Kingdom Shader they'll be using should give more life to every character's appearance. Also, the game engine's better functions will enable more polys to be used, so we'll get to see things have more of realistic feel to them rather then just texture. I personally would like to see Sora in brighter clothes then KH II, but Nomura seems to like black and silver a lot, so I doubt he'll be willing to go back to that. Sora's design is supposed to be based off of Mickey, so it'll pretty much always have some black in it. Kairi's pink jacket vest thing, was a bit overkill in pink to me... hoping for more variety in colors. Kairi's a princess of heart, to me they should be a bit more colorful. XD Though yes the other princesses do share that similar theme of only having one or two main color palettes in their clothes. That's probably what Nomura was aiming for in unifying the princesses of heart's designs. Riku, I don't know what to say about him, lol. Riku's kind of a rogue figure, so Nomura will probably try to fit among those lines. Due to Riku's current status though, I think he kinda deserves a more unique look now.
The black coats of the organization... it added to the mystery and the inner chaos among those whom worn it. I'm kinda debating on how that should be handled. The cloaks have become a symbol themselves, and once something becomes a symbol, it's hard to get rid of without destroying everything it is tied to.
It would be nice to see Axel maybe switch between chakram form and keyblade forms while he attacks. Spinning around to use his chakrams first, then turning them into keyblade form for his finisher move.
All in all, I think the new shader and polys should take care of any staleness in design.
That's one of the things that botherd me in particular with Sora and Kairi's KH2 outfits-on top of rearranging their color pallete, for what ever reason they suddenly started leaning heavily on one particular color. I think Sora would look better in brighter colors as well and while the black doesn't bother me, his outfit had a sudden black-splosion. Same thing with Kairi, who always had pink in her design, but underwent a sudden pink-sposion. They just need to balance the colors out better. Reduce the black on Sora and bump up the red and yellow and have Kairi's primarily consist of white and purple again. They did balance it out better in 3D so that's good. As far as color consistancy goes, Riku's the only one who's gotten off scotch free, lol.
Nomura's over all outfit designs tend to be hit-or-miss with me. Mostly because his designs tend to be saturated with...
thingsssss. Just things he thinks look good, and aren't bad looking in their own right, but then he goes over board. It's like he has a million concepts in mind so he either decides to use as many as possible, tries to make certain concepts work even if they don't make sense in context, or both.
e.g.:
I can not for the life of me understand why KH2 Kairi is wearing clubbing/party/night attire casually. I understood her KH1 outfit, she looked like she was ready for a day at the beach because she spent all her time there. KH2 Kairi looked like she should be in Shibuya shopping with Shiki, not on Destiny Islands.
I also can not for the life of me understand the cluster diddly that is KH2 Sora's outfit. He's wearing chap/wadder styled pants, shoulder pads, and a hoodie. Kairi's outfit at least looks like something someone would wear (I have seen similar outfits), I don't know what I'm looking at with Sora's.
Aqua's outfit is sort of a mix of the previous two I mentioned: It's a cluster of things that should never be together nor do I understand why she would wear these things. It's a bit more concise though, I'll give it that. It's the epitome of too many ideas working at once, but fortunatly Nomura had gotten better at juggling ideas at that point. Her outfit has bits of a kimono, armour, a corset, what I can only assume is a mock-neck semi backless leotard, dancer shorts, biker gloves, school girl thigh high socks, and boob straps. Why all these things, especially her line of work? *shrugs* How she even puts this stuff on is beyond me. I've been trying to figure that out since day one, Aqua's outfit is the greatest mystery in all of KH.
TL;DR I just want the outfits to have a nice color scheme and be concise. Not over clutered with...
thingssssss. I get wanting to layer an outfit and make it look interesting, but I just want it to be done in a way that doesn't melt my brain trying to deciphere what I'm looking at.
*looks at Aqua's outfit*
Is that below the bust or over? Over would make more sense because she doesn't appear to be wearing a bra but the cups are so loose that there's no hold. Are the straps functioning as a bra? Why is she even wearing a corset in the first place, she's a fighter! Are the corset and shirt connected? They look connected. Does that mean it's one piece? How the diddly does she even get that on then? And what about the kimono/skirt/sash thing-*brain explods*
