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Any progress?

Just for kicks, I found a pic from years ago when I ported the Mystic Ruins hub into the game.

Ryo and Shenhua look horrible. What happened to the character designs? Even if everything is WIP, to start off with this just completely discourages me. Ryo looks like he literally aged the 14 years they've been gone (or more) and he's applied lots of makeup to try to look as young as he did then, and Shenhua looks like the pretty actress quit and some lesser attractive generic Chinese girl took her place. I hope they change this...

I tried doing this very same thing some years back and it honestly was impossible for the most part. I got the Mystic Ruins hub imported after deleting a majority of objects so the polygon count could be extremely low. Every single level is just too huge with too many polys to possibly take up any single level slot, so you'd have to really chop up the levels so you can transition between parts, which would result in a wonky level design where the level suddenly cuts off with a pipe so you can jump in and transfer to what continues. At least that's all I ever could come up with. What have you guys considered?

Pretty close resemblance, year of release says it's not too far fetched this was an influence.

Nice avatar, btw =P

From what I heard from my brother, there's plenty of shops that sell tons of magazines going back to years ago. He was a Dreams Come True fanatic at the time and found magazines with interviews with them dating back to the early nineties. So it's not too far fetched you could find some old magazines over there.