Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Character Creation (Male & Female, Full Customization, All Options!)

hello and welcome back to another character creation video my name is Lumin and today we're having a look at Avatar frontiers of Pandora this is the first person action adventure game set in the open world of the Western frontier of Pandora it's an avatar game it's also a Ubisoft game so they're using the same Ubisoft open world template that they usually use where you're going to be liberating a bunch of camps let's just say that now if you'd like to do a deep dive to discover all this to discover about this game you can find some L below and as always there will be time stamps as I jump in here I just want to say I've been pretty curious about this I was curious to see how they would handle character customization for a na'vi and here we are I want to see if you can make a unique looking character an interesting looking character I want to see how far they'll let you push it how far they'll take this blue color you know will we be able to make it really bright really dark uh will we have lots of interesting and unique options all those questions and and more will be answered right now let's have a peek guys we're going to start by looking at the body types now I'm doing it in this way because kind of disappointingly I want to say all the options are exactly the same on the male body type versus the female one as you switch between them here and because this is what I do I look at the menu to details as you switch between them the body itself changes okay so I can zoom out that's the female body type you can sort of spin around and look at it and the male body type looks like this right it's very similar you can see the one is clearly a male body type the other one's clearly a female body type but as you change it you will notice that the face really doesn't change there's some minor movement on the ears there's something teeny weeny that's changing on the top eyelid and then around the neck you can see a little bit of movement the jaw might be squaring out a tiny bit more on the male but like the options and the face and everything going on above the neck it's all the same and because of that I'm just going to go through the character creation once then we're going to randomize and we'll sort of see what's up okay the voices will be done at the end as well but again you're making a character and the body is just sort of like an extra that you throw in on there you know like you really look the same on both right now that we got that out of the way let's jump in and let's look at the options that are available face you get to pick some presets there are some pretty cool looking presets they're interesting they different that's for sure and what I kind of like about this in the customization of a na'vi is that they don't need to stick with like the tried and true features that human faces have they sort of they have this weird cat-like property to them with the nose and the eyes and stuff like that I don't know what it was based on I don't know why you know James Cameron or whoever made them the way they are uh I I do remember reading an interesting little fact about it where he said he made them blue because that's the only color that wasn't taken it's like okay man uh taken what did someone claim all the other colors okay man that's this is interesting it's just it's just a little fact about the Avatar franchise that you might not know when you go into proper customization you actually get a bunch of options here you get to change your face shape uh you can sort of make it broader uh more squared out or thinner this is also sort of a masculine versus feminine thing uh or it's sort of just like uh you know a face size kind of thing where you where you're puffing out the cheeks a teeny bit you're pushing the jawline out a little bit you're making the chin a bit bigger but it's mostly just as you can see for the bottom half of the face uh so we'll take the first one for now and then on the face details uh this is sort of it's like the overall Contour or set of Contours for the face so you're not actually changing the physical layout of the face you're changing the shading on the face you're changing your age lines you're changing a whole bunch of other stuff right not so much the markins either that's separate that's in a different part uh but this one it'll allow you to sort of change the way the face looks and how it all comes together and because of the way this is is actually handled I would suggest you go for the other options first then you come back here and you see what looks best on yours cuz I mean some of them have what looks like makeup on some of them have heavier lines that make you look a little older some of them have uh no lines that makes you look a bit younger so the face details they are interesting uh then we're going to move on to eyes I already noticed the moment I jumped in here that I wasn't really a big fan of how they do the eyes it's one of these situations where yeah I mean the eyes are pretty big but the colors are not all that bright now you are very much being funneled into creating a na'vi this is what you've got on offer these are the eye colors that are canon in this world for these characters so you know You' you've got a limited set right it's it's not like you can go completely crazy and make your eyes pink or purple uh or or pure black or anything like that I mean I do find it kind of weird because like they have the the yellow tones and the orange tones then they have this one blue or gray tone here it's it's kind of a strange situation but you can see generally what the color is that they want you to use then the the shape very minor this must be the least impactful eye shape option that I've ever seen in my life like you moving this and and like I'm talking millimeters like like like micro millimeters look at this it's it's teeny weeny there's like literally nothing changing here next up we have the nose shape uh you can basically just make your nose a little bit longer once again micro changes your your main bulk of of the movement on the face is done by just picking the the template at the start uh so B basically nothing there the nose uh was simple the mouth is I want to say even more simple you it's like it's not much okay like it's everything just moves so little I don't understand I don't know why they even put the options here ears there at least there's something happening okay so look at the ears it's like they get a little longer like they took each of them and they just stretched it a little bit and they're like yep mhm let's call that a day we're done that's that's it so that's that's it for the face customization again you want to choose one of these okay you want to take one here that you like and then I would say you customize then you do the face details and then you're basically done this other stuff here it's so nothing that I wouldn't even care all right I wouldn't worry about it let's take default phas one and then let's go back let's have a look at the hair before I click on this I want to say I was excited about the hair because I've watched some of the movies I have seen some of the characters and the cultural aspects that could be poured into the options available here are so massive that this has to be interesting right no wrong you're wrong this is not interesting they've barely done anything here I don't know man like they've got the braids okay and I like it they got like the plats built in you they got some that look sort of like on the verge of being like I want to say dreads with braids where it's like a messy braid but like like I mean it's seven it's seven hairstyles that they look all right but they really just look all right and again like come on you've got this this vast culture to draw upon all these cool and interesting looking characters and then you give us like this now my my first guess was that what they're doing is they're giving you a simplistic set of options here that could potentially be expanded upon let me show you how long it goes with paid DLC and like that's kind of it's kind of sad if that's the case it's kind of sad each of them has this long ponytail that goes all the way down uh it's very limited okay there are a few styles that could potentially be seen as male a few that could be seen as female H that's about it all right and like what they've done with some of them and I think some of them look relatively nice but like man they seven Styles and they all sort of you know variations of the same thing I I don't know like I don't don't get me wrong here I appreciate the idea that we can actually customize a navi that we can make one of these characters our own but like what the hell man like what are these hair colors again I I guess that this must be just well the kind of thing that that we are working in the constraints of this character type of this race and and like these are the colors man this is it and I guess that's fine if you're trying to play a role here and you need to be this Nai specifically but if they start selling stuff on the store afterwards and they sell all the cool colors and styles on the store ah dude that would be a very sad moment okay here's the probably most interesting option of the lot is it the most impactful yeah arguably yes I would say most likely they usually say that the body type and the skin tone options are like super impactful and the hair is right up there with it in this case the hair wasn't all that impactful but the body options they are definitely interesting now I have a criticism here my my one criticism is that no matter what you do you can barely see the the bioluminescence pattern like you you the best thing to do here is to go for the darkest skin tone and I'm going to do that immediately then you can see basically where these dots are changing so your bioluminescence pattern it's these glowy dots and and my my criticism comes in the form of like the Creator itself here makes it kind of hard to see what's going on with most of the skin tones this is the only one that makes it obvious they should have allowed us to dim the lights here to see this like sort of glowing in the dark now the patterns themselves are pretty cool and again like I would say if you're looking at the the Character Creator as a whole this is the most interesting part because this is like this is Nai dude this is what they're about blue skin glowing dots boom boom that's it you hit in the notes of the na'vi that's the song of their people but it's quite limited you have these teeny weeny little dots that I want to say you're barely going to see there are some patterns here that I can't really make out because again the dots are so tiny and they don't let you zoom in further here but yeah I mean like again it's one of these options where I think to myself it's great that they included it but like couldn't they take it a step or two further and make it a little bit more interesting for us I don't know I don't know and don't get me wrong I'm not complaining I'm I'm giving constructive criticism I'm I'm just here you know I'm a gamer and I want games to be the best that they can be that's it so really don't misunderstand now that's the bioluminescence patterns there are a few they look all right it's kind of cool I bet they look great in the dark I bet they look great in the dark this one is the most interesting it's got like an actual like cross pattern here very straightforward less natural looking more sort of man-made but let's take the basic one cuz it's got a lot of dots on the face then let's look at the skin patterns quickly now the patterns it's like your tiger stripes or your zebra stripes you get a lot of different ones here and I want to say if you take these and you combine them with the skin tone and the bioluminescence you can actually make a pretty interesting looking character but you know I'm just thinking about the thumbnail I'm going to make here and it's probably going to be one of the most boring thumbnails I've ever made just a bunch of blue dudes you know but again you're buying into the Avatar fantasy okay it's like you're doing this I really like the darker blue skin tone the skin tones that you have available here um and I'm going to sort of randomize at the end and you'll see all the different options that you can possibly have but the skin tones that they have here they are different variations of this blue they go a little lighter you can see they add a little green here you going for like even close to like a SE green or or what could you even call that I don't know but basically you've got the blue ones here with with the darker and the lighter versions then you got the slightly Greener ones here that are still sort of a A variation of the blue but they give you a little bit more uh Green in the mix so you can sort of get like a sea green or a seaweed color or like a lyen or a Mossy color or something it's okay it's kind of nice um but again I I feel like this is where you get the most impact cuz you can actually see the dots very clearly and when you're on most of these other ones it's kind of hard so for now I'm going to take that one and I'm going to continue and that's just so I can stare at it while we listen to the voices because we are in fact done now it was the face the hair and the skin now as I mentioned the body types they change your character a little bit they make the character look a little bit more masculine and a little bit more feminine you can see that the jawline does move a little bit more on certain faces than on others uh but yeah it is what it is the the the face is stained much the same right now voices there's three voices here you've got a masculine one a feminine one and then a neutral one you helped me before I'll help you now you helped me before I'll help you now stay where you're needed you helped me before I'll help you now stay where you're needed you helped me before I'll help you now stay where you're needed you helped me before I'll help you now stay where you're needed you helped me before I'll help you now stay where you're needed yeah I got nothing but good things to say about the voices they sound great I like the three options I actually really like that they put the slightly more neutral one in there I take it it sounds good the voice actors and actresses they sound like they did a bang up job I mean we just hear in one line but the delivery was good it sounded nice it's a good sounded voice perfect great awesome now now at the end here I'm just going to show you what it looks like when you uh have a peak without the clothes on this is the mail body there you go you have yeah this whole little thing going on with the butt cheek sticking out uh it's yeah yeah it's it's what it is then you can go back you can check the female body out same thing uh you've got the little rag around the groin and butt area and you've got some straps around the the chest great great that's cool nice underwear um decent looking bodies I I I seem to remember these guys being really tall uh so that's a thing that's different dear thing it's cool yeah I like it now we're going to randomize let's have a look at what's available you helped me before I'll help you now that's actually pretty cool so like jumping from the one that I just had there to this that's a big difference right you helped me before I'll help you now stay where you're needed that one not so much you helped me before I'll help you now stay where you needed okay so I'm just going to talk over the voices and I'm going to keep skipping we're going to look at a bunch of these you helped me before as you can I want to say quite clearly see there's not a huge amount changing you are now basically getting different variations of the same thing you helped me before I'll help modifier that's being switched around here and and moved around and changed is definitely the skin tone like that's that's making the biggest difference I me like if you look at the face I'll help you now what I want to say is try this quickly where you're needed focus on the eyes and the bridge of the nose and then as I skip through these characters look how similar it remains throughout you helped me before I'll help you now stay where you're needed you helped me before you helped me before you helped me before you helped me before you helped me before you helped me before I'll help you now I mean it's all right stay where your need and that's basically what I'm going to say as I jump into the outro here I'm going to say that there are a bunch of options that I feel could have been added to this to make it more interesting would have been cool to customize the tail would have been cool to customize a little bit of the body uh you know just some of the proportions and stuff like that because it would make it more interesting for us they definitely need more hair styles uh a few more options on the skin would have been cool or a little bit more direct control over say the brightness of the biolumin Ence the size of the dots and all that stuff I understand that a lot of it is locked into what the race is and isn't and I I get that I also get that you playing into the fantasy of being a na'vi here and I get that it's just a little disappointing because there aren't that many options here and to be honest with you to be perfectly honest with you I stretched this video way longer than it needed to be cuz I was curious to see like all the options and and how much they can affect the character I will tell you I could probably have made this video 5 minutes and you would have seen everything there was to see uh and I me again it's just a little disappointing you know it's a big new Avatar game or it's it's it's you know it's a game based on one of the biggest movies of all time one of the biggest movie series of all time so yeah I mean they really could have done a little bit better with it however again uh I think that anyone that's a big fan of Avatar and anyone that wants to once again jump into that specific fantasy they'll get what they want here yeah they'll get what they want I just hope that they don't get what they want here then jump into the game then see something on the store that's actually more of what they want or more something that they originally wanted and then they're forced to buy that that would suck so yeah there you go this has been Avatar frontiers of Pandora thank you for watching please again don't think that I'm being negative about this just to be negative I just want to see the best possible games that we can have you know and uh there's just a few things that could be improved upon here is all I'm saying all right if you'd like to support me in what I do you can find My Links below my twitch stream and my coffee page if you want to throw money at me as always you can uh give this one a like and share it and 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Length: 19min 4sec (1144 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 07 2023