I'm glad you're going to make her taller Gors,I think that'll help.And Dragonboy,just because a character is taller,it doesn't mean it's superior to the shorter one,just look at Mario and Luigi.
To me,Belle currently looks like a player 2 character,which is p.much a clone of the main one with only a few differences,as if she started out as a recolor and later was changed slightly to make her stand out more (again,like Mario and Luigi).
To me,rival characters should be cooler than the main one,even if they aren't "superior".I think the rival should look cool and interesting enough to make the player want to play as the rival instead.Who never wanted to play as Blues rather then Rockman,or Knuckles in S3 before S&K came out?
Another thing I think is cool,is to make certain aspects of the two rivals reverse mirror each other.When I designed the two main girls of my game,they were kinda like this:
Main:
Biker shorts,Blonde,Jacket (doesn't show any skin)
Rival:
Legging pants,Redhead,Tanktop (with belly and arms uncovered)
etc
Of course,they didn't follow the "clone" rival archetype,and looked nothing like each other,but they were opposites in personalities,so I tried to show that on the designs.Maybe you could make her sleeves rolled up and so on.
To me,Belle currently looks like a player 2 character,which is p.much a clone of the main one with only a few differences,as if she started out as a recolor and later was changed slightly to make her stand out more (again,like Mario and Luigi).
To me,rival characters should be cooler than the main one,even if they aren't "superior".I think the rival should look cool and interesting enough to make the player want to play as the rival instead.Who never wanted to play as Blues rather then Rockman,or Knuckles in S3 before S&K came out?
Another thing I think is cool,is to make certain aspects of the two rivals reverse mirror each other.When I designed the two main girls of my game,they were kinda like this:
Main:
Biker shorts,Blonde,Jacket (doesn't show any skin)
Rival:
Legging pants,Redhead,Tanktop (with belly and arms uncovered)
etc
Of course,they didn't follow the "clone" rival archetype,and looked nothing like each other,but they were opposites in personalities,so I tried to show that on the designs.Maybe you could make her sleeves rolled up and so on.