I'm pretty sure Alex dropped a hint a while ago that the woman on the side of the box is his contest entry.
Well this is a "time and space" expansion so there might be a quantum boob window that materializes over the chest of a character, displaying cleavage from another moment and dimension.
A heroine with a boob window just begs for flavor text reading, "My fist is up here!"
>Games deserves kudos for many things. The fact that my four year old daughter noticed that there were so many "girl heroes" on daddy's cards than she sees on superhero shows is one of them. (The fact that I can safely allow my four year old daughter to look at the cards due to the classiness of the costumes is another.)
Well, now that La Capitán has been posted, I guess I should concede on this point. It looks like she is indeed not a Target on at least one side.
I agree with Flex Apollo. I'm glad this game actually puts the female heroes in practical outfits. It's a respectable touch. Honestly, the most revealing costume seems to be Visionary, and even then, hers isn't overtly revealing. I can respect their choice to do this. And I like it; it's a more honest depiction of what a female hero would dress like.
Heck, I think there's more bare-chested men showing off their muscles than women in barely-revealing costumes in the game. But I mean, hey, if I was built like Apostate, I wouldn't wear a shirt either.
Apostate is pretty vain… I hear he uses just for men to hide the gray in his wings.
The other thing about Sentinels is that if your daughter plays she runs the risk of growing up to be a CEO (Wraith), Scientist (Tachyon), Ingeneer (Unity). I might keep the Expatiette deck in the box though…
Good call, I've got a feeling that being exposed to the awesome Expatriette can influence young girls to remove their right eye and carry guns at all times.
Or blast daddy with a super soaker full of ice cubes during his nap.
"Eat liquid nitrogen rounds!".
I don't have Rook City, so my Sentinels is pretty much blood-free. Plus, she likes "playing" with the dividers and oversized villains cards.
I hadn't thought about what Sentinels has to say about women in the workplace. All of the super-scientists in the base game are female. What a great message - way better than the fashion model/designer version of the Wasp the Avengers has been selling her.
Although Tach's one-strap unitard is a little questionable, if only because that limits the possibilities for the support she would obviously need for moving at those speeds. I'm just going to assume that it's built in to the fabric somehow.
The Wraith's bathing suit is not what I would expect from a "crime fighter" - though other heroins proved that revealing some breast can distract many opponents and give a tactical avantadge.
Hey Wraith wears more than Visionary does. (We can count those bandage wraps as clothing, right?)
But still on the whole better than what actual comics would normally offer.
On this I agree. I am a fan of Power Girl, but not of her heroic costume :)
I hope comics writer will look at the game and take inspiration, both story-wise and design-wise : I think it does a very good job at following all the evolutions of the "genre" and use them in a "mature" way, while capturing back the joyfull, heroic epicness that seems lost nowadays except in a few titles.
There was this pretty cool thing a cartoonist I like did a while back where he showed his own take on the Justice League and their villain counterparts. He tried to reboot them so that each character had unique powers, a cohesive backstory with interesting possabilities, and a decent costume. I am pleased to say Power Girl got an outfit that wasn't just fanservice:
(Taken from here: http://dresdencodak.tumblr.com/post/10979241054/rebooting-the-justice-league )
"Visually I wanted to keep her short, curvy build, but place emphasis on her strength instead of her sexuality."
I like this costume much better ! I like his version of Wonder Woman too.
One thing I always found strange with costumed heroins is that they only have one costume to wear - and not different ones for different situations/moods. My CoH heroins always had special "toxic environment" outfits for fighting in the sewers :)
So the Assistant got bent out of shape when 5 random people were saved over her.
And Vengence will have 5 new heroes.
Therefore, the 5 random people saved will be the 5 new heroes in Vengence (which accounts for why one of them will be the Assistant's Nemesis)
Hee HEE . . . I assure you, your math won't work out in the long run.
*runs away, gleefully*
If that we true and the 5 strangers were heroes, why wouldn't they be able to save themselves? That'd be way too coincidental, I think.
But what's with the math comment, Christopher? There are five hero decks, are there not? So five heroes? Unless of course, my guess I made two weeks ago was correct, that one hero deck might contain more than one person? Hmm?
Math is hard, yo.
Note, however, that there's been no denial that the five people saved over the Assistant were from Vengeance ;).