Excellent posts so far- especially the story's dos and don'ts. It is very key too always be aware of dry spells and scenes that feel like fillers rather than enhancers. As for the main character, the pose and posture is interesting, and the examples are great. So far we have concluded that the main character is "well grounded" and is modest. So I think his stature and physique should differ quite a bit from, say, Sora's. Sora feels like a stiff breeze would blow him over, but he also looks like an adventurer from the start so its taking one for the other, depending on the actual character traits and body type. Love that sense of purpose that Tidus has in the water with his sword, that's what Merle needs too. He needs to fit in the world and have reasons to either protect it, explore it etc. We definitely need to show sketches of what he should look like to further nail it down before we continue with other aspects of the game, so we can move on to other things. Without the vision we are still in the dark about who is driving the game. However, i'm not saying that we shouldn't read up on everything we can tho...