7. Thinking This Character Design Progression Was Remotely Acceptable
And you thought Nicki Minaj was the most over the top, inflato-bottomed creation on this earth. Instead, Namco beat everyone to the punch (including the DOA girls) when they took what was previously already a
cleavage-heavy design for Ivy Valentine, and made her overall appearance about as pornstar-tastic as that name would suggest. Obviously teenage you would've loved it, but these days if you ever look back on anything like the original Tomb Raider design, Final Fantasy VII's Tifa model or in particular this smushed-together love letter to a 12 year-old boy's deepest desires, it's pretty clear that gaming really wasn't helping itself when it came to appealing to anyone outside the go-to basement-living stereotype mentioned earlier.