Please change Penny Yin's costume.

My eyes go cross-eyed every time I see Penny in the splash screen. Her anatomy is all wrong. As has been pointed out by others, her cleavage shouldn't start at her throat, and her body positioning would hurt a contortionist.

She reminds me greatly of Jim Lee's complete redesign of Psylocke because he decided he'd rather draw a hawt Asian chick. "Psychic knife" and all.

So, uh, I guess it's "authentic", but not IMO in a good way.

I might as well rerun my old list of what's wrong with Penny's costume:

1. The face clutter. There's just too much going on there. Pick either metal cheeks OR metal eyebrows OR NFL face paint, but not all three. One is a detail, all three makes her look like she dunked her head in a bucket of spare parts. It loses all sense of style and becomes too busy for what it's worth.

2. The colour scheme. It's chaotic and disorderly. She has a top that has a black primary and a red secondary colour with white as a detail colour and a bottom with a red primary and a white secondary with white AND black as detail colours. It's a mess, and it makes it confusing to take in.

3. The business. Penny has so many buckles and straps and zippers and belts and metal ribs following so many body lines that her costume is simply confusing to look at. A good costume uses our mind's ability to parse visual information and gives us a look that says more than the picture itself. Penny's costume is so busy that all I see is a miasma of lines, shapes and colours that I cannot reproduce off memory on pain of death.

4. The thigh-high high-heel boots complete with decorative panties. That's just trashy, and I don't buy the excuse that Penny's just being rebellious. This is the costume of a superhero woman as drawn by a man who's never had to walk around dressed like that. It takes refuge in tights superheroes in order to show us a fetishied look that really doesn't belong on Penelope Yin. I'm sorry, David, but it is. We need more super women wearing sensible shoes, please.

5. The lack of identity. Quick! Describe Penelope Yin's costume in a single sentence! Did you manage to get out more than "It's red white and black?" Because that's the extent of its identity - it has these colours and it kind of has shapes on it. But there's nothing about Penny that stands out by which she can be remembered, aside from "she has a belly button, wish I could have one." There's nothing iconic about it, and there really should be SOMETHING.

Penny needs a new costume, and preferably a much simpler one. Her current look is a victim of its own enthusiasm - it's so over-designed and overly complicated that it fails at being memorable and interesting. It trades visual appeal for bare complexity, and in the process of doing so trades artistry for raw graphics. And that's never a good trade.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Get rid of the faceplate, change the colors a bit and the outfit becomes awesom!

Even better would be a better looking face, but I won't ask for that to be changed.

Over all, I like Penny's outfit and wish it's pieces were available for me to use!

It's those metal faceplate things that confuse me too. She almost looks like a cyborg, and I'm pretty sure they're not trying to suggest that Penelope got assimilated or did a stint with the Freakshow sometime after Faultline...

Other than, it is the sort of overdone and kinda silly look that she'd IC'ly aim for, so there's that.

*shrugs* They weren't exactly required to poll the entire playerbase for costume ideas, and "design by committee" NEVER ends well, anyway. As such, any input here is simply personal opinion regarding what looks good, bad or indifferent on ANY costume in the game. It's fine that people don't like Penny's look. I don't much, myself. But did we really, honestly need a thread about it? Yes, yes... feel free to skip the usual "but I'm entitled to an opinion" excuse. Not every personal opinion requires public expression.

The costume concept art posted (Thanks!) looks better than how it's been done in-game (changing her hair -- the biggest one -- rendering her seamed heeled tights as boots, belts are definitely at least cloth and not metal bands, etc) and in official splash art, but still kinda weak. Where's the blue he's talking about -- her hair? Ehhh. Besides, she has no actual relationship to Statesman (to the best of my knowledge). Why is she even aiming at all for Asian Liberty? Why not just Asian Clockwork-Befriending ***-Kicker?

The top, minus the metal boob support arms and the extremely uncomfortable-looking midriff belts, can stay -- it can even keep the belts if they're put over clothing, for the sporty "I was going climbing but then duty called" look, if that's really what they like.

The legs -- hm. I'd prefer something with a bit more body to it. If they're keeping the sporty look of the top, shorts. Otherwise... I don't know. At least add some white to the top, or change the white panels to match the coloring of the top.

Please break the trend and just give her actual boots. It's all the rage these days. Female crime-fighters are no longer heels-only.

The face thing pretty much has to go. As others have said, it's helmet or under-eye makeup. I kind of like the eye makeup as it's done with the rest of her makeup in the concept picture, but...

Edit : Oh, yeah, the collar. It actually looks cute in the concept picture. In the splash art it looks like a pet collar.

Some changes she may need are:
Smaller techy pieces in her costume, specially in her face.
Keep it white and red, or black and red. But not black, red and white.
The white part of her current costume doesnt make sense.
Other than that, she looks good.