A Hodgepodge Of Final Fantasy XIII Screens

I think they meant it’s refreshing in that Snow looks like…hmm, well, a guy who is not so pretty boy-ish. Cloud, Squall and every other Nomura design (for younger male characters) are all pretty boy looking. I personally don’t hate it and don’t knock the anime hair that guys do in real life (because I do it myself) but, Snow’s simple, more manly and less feminine design is just different compared to Noct’s design. It’s not an extreme masculine design like say, Kratos from God of War. A typical western male design happens to be quite beefy. A typical Eastern design is more effeminate. Snow is neither too beefed up nor anywhere near effeminate (in looks, anyway).

I think other examples could be say, Dante in DMC3. 19 years old but has a slight pretty boy look to him. Jump forward to DMC4 where he’s in his 40′s and he looks like a cool man. Maybe it’s the facial hair! Basically the point is the design of Snow isn’t femine, he doesn’t have a typical slender body (nor too beefy), he doesn’t have hair that would take nearly an hour to do. He’s what most would call a typical manly looking design. Cloud (again for example’s sake) is far from that. Once again, I’m not hating on Cloud’s kind of design since a lot of straight, non emo guys do do their hair and dress sharp and have slightly femenine features.