XoPachi wrote:Agreed. I fucking hate the boxart for this honestly. Totally tosses out the classic look for that safe, squishy gacha anime look. What is it with anime and making the girls look so dramatically helpless? She looks so stupid. Like she's about to cry while slipping on a fucking banana peel.
Edit: Oh wait she IS crying. Man what a strong protagonist. Right on the cover. Sobbing like a big pussy right up front.
Have you played the game? If anything she might be less squishy on that cover.
The tears are because she's sad her father's trapped by the enemy far off in space, and the military's essentially told her they have to let him die because they don't have the strength to go directly at them yet.
It's only when pink-haired imouto girl tells her there's a GleyLancer prototype on board the capital ship they're on and convinces her to steal it and go after him that she gets determined. The pose symbolizes her reaching out, trying to get to him in time as transmissions reveal he & his crew are on the brink of dying.
If you were going to try & encapsulate what the game's about and represent the dramatic angle in a single image (Masaya clearly devoted a lot of cart space to the cut scenes as a selling point and to give it personality), I think they did a solid job with it. She's portrayed as an ensign who's still just a girl freaked out about her dad, who may or may not be future Geese Howard. She's not meant to be Eleanor Ripley.