Favorite/Least favorite Summon designs

Mystyrion · 01-22-2013, 02:45 PM

Unsure if this has been a thread or not, favorite and summon are pretty popular words on this forum and I didn't feel like going through 11 pages. So sorry if its been done already.

What are your favorite summon designs.
For example: Bahamut from IX is my favorite Bahamut design. I also really liked Zero Bahamut when I was younger.
Wasn't too happy with the Shiva design for XIV ARR. It looks plain and boring, nothing to really feature her element. I think VIII takes my favorite design on that.
Anima is one of my favorite summons, unsure if it has been in any other game than X, but it was a really interesting design.

Favorite/Least favorite Summon designs-anima-jpg

Favorite/Least favorite Summon designs-anima-jpg

**Cyanist** · 01-22-2013, 03:28 PM

Disliked: these three sister thingies. They really offended me for some reason :\

Really liked: Zantetzuken from VIII "Slice them all!"

Mystyrion · 01-28-2013, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by cyanosuke

Disliked: these three sister thingies. They really offended me for some reason :\

Really liked: Zantetzuken from VIII "Slice them all!"

Those sisters are definitely one of my least favorites. Terrible.
I've also never been disappointed by an Odin.

A lot of the summons from 10 stick out to me. Probably because they took kind of a different route with a lot of them. Some good some bad. Ixion and Valefor were alright. Yojimbo has an awesome design but as a summon, meh.

**Xanatos** · 01-22-2013, 03:56 PM

I love the way Shiva looks in IX and X, though my favorite cutscene of hers is in VIII, love when she suddenly opens her eyes and breaks that ice. She looks god damn awful in VII though. VIII in fact has some of the best summon cutscenes. IX has my favorite version of Odin, while X has Bahamuth and Ifrit. Leviathan's pretty awesome in IX looking more than just a sea snake like it's earlier versions.

**Heartless Angel** · 01-22-2013, 07:42 PM

Crisis Core's Phoenix, Bahamut, Odin, and Bahamut Zero are sexy as ****.

XII's Chaos, Zalera, Zeromus, Hasmal, Ultima, Shemhazal, Adramellech, Famfrit, Mateus, and Zodiark were all pretty sweet, major bonus points for making such sweet summoning sequences while NOT using the same handful of summons that every game in the series has already used.

Alexander in IX was just epic.

VII's Alexander was sweet, KOTR was interesting, thought by the end you were kinda bored of it.

Anima would probably be my top pick, followed by XII's Mateus. Those are both some pretty sexy summoning sequences.

**Kurt Zisa** · 01-28-2013, 12:12 AM

Most of the Espers from XII looked pretty amazing/imposing. They all seem to ooze power and godliness, Chaos and Zeromus were two that I didn't mind summoning almost all the time. Plus XII's summoning sequence never gets old.

I quite like Bahamut from X, it's one of the most badass looking summons IMO. It's Megaflare isn't as impressive as past iterations (shooting an energy beam through space probably tops that list) but the fact that it's constantly crossing its arms and kills enemies with a single swipe from its claws (if you're strong enough) makes up for that.

I was never very impressed with how III's set of summons looked. They were all quite bland in terms of their appearance and execution of their attacks.

**Fluffy** · 01-28-2013, 08:05 PM

But Mindy was so cute.

One of my favorites would be FFX's Ifrit. Following in that same vein, FFXIV's Ifrit looks really cool.

Various Bahamuts would probably rank up there as well, but X's was the one I liked the least.

**Recluse Writer** · 02-20-2013, 05:30 AM

Phoenix from VII was probably my favourite summon from the PS1-era games. As for the PS2-era, i'd probably have to say Yojimbo from X and Mateus from XII are my favourites.

XIII's summons were alright, but none of them really had that 'wow' stand out factor to them - at least for me. If i had to pick one, i'd say the Shiva sisters, and only because they're of the ice/water element.

**noxious.sunshine** · 02-20-2013, 07:20 AM

VIII's Shiva, and Siren.. And Carbuncle.

Def Bahamut & Alexander from IX

And again, Shiva from X, also Bahamut, and Anima

Wasn't a huge fan of any of the Espers from XII or any from XIII.. Except Bahamut.

**LocoColt04** · 02-20-2013, 09:03 AM

Originally Posted by Mystyrion

Wasn't too happy with the Shiva design for XIV ARR. It looks plain and boring, nothing to really feature her element.

You're not talking about that "natural" flesh-tone image floating around the internet, are you? That's not what Shiva will look like; Square-Enix posted the character map to show detail of the unfinished design and the internet ran away with it.

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Mystyrion · 02-20-2013, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by LocoColt04

You're not talking about that "natural" flesh-tone image floating around the internet, are you? That's not what Shiva will look like; Square-Enix posted the character map to show detail of the unfinished design and the internet ran away with it.

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Probably haha, I just saw Shiva XIV ARR and was like wow thats boring.

**LocoColt04** · 02-20-2013, 09:33 AM

While that will be her base character design, it's certainly not her color palette. She'll have some more Shiva-esque special effects surrounding her to accompany a far more appropriate color scheme.

To the topic, favorite and unfavorite summon/esper/eidolon/avatar/etc designs, eh?? I'll actually have to ponder on that one for a few. Just wanted to throw my two cents in on this Shiva discussion for now.