Valkyries, What Happens When Terrible Ideas Get Approved

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As far as characters go, I've always enjoyed the ones that were featured in LotB. There have been a few swings and misses here and there, but none have swung further from the plate than the Valkyries. Sure, the look of them is fairly questionable, not to mention their place in Maiden lore or that NF also made them four of the better characters in the game with the intention of getting people to use them frequently, but calling them valkyries when they look like anything but valkyries is insulting to my intelligence.

They and the reason given by the Nodding Frog staff is something that should be looked at just a bit more closely. I believe their reasoning was along the lines of, "to draw different types of players to the game" which is fine if you're willing to accept that as a reason, but my question is, "What type of players are you speaking of?", because I don't really see a bunch of new players here solely to get those chars after a month or so of them being around. As a matter of fact, I see more leaving than arriving, but I think that might be more bug-related than hentai invasion.

While I'm not against voluptuous women, I don't think it's really something we needed to have in the game. Calling them Valkries is also equally a bad choice as their look is nothing like they are depicted in norse legends. Even their names, while close, still kinda miss the mark. Should that be an issue? Well, when you start giving chars their own specific names like Kari, Val, Ragna and Eda, yeah they should be a bit smarter about it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_valkyrie_names

I know I'm probably alone on this one but who approved those graphics? Harvey Weinstein? Seriously NF, get with the times and at least think about making them look like they should, you know, like they actually come from norse mythology... like they could maybe have gone into a fight alongside Viking Ed, Invaders stylie.. that or maybe swap the Valkyrie name with one that could have been in Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi... like Darth Hentai!