Let us commence with an All-Out Attack! Alter's Aegis - ART WORKS ver.
Hello everyone, today we shall take a look at my favorite girl from the marvelous Shin Megami Tensei Persona 3 games, Aigis.
As mentioned the lovely Aigis originates from the PS2 and PSP RPG Persona 3. Which is a spin off of the long running Shin Megami Tensei series of RPGs from Atlus.
Aigis is one of the several party members that you recruit throughout the game. She is an anti-Shadow weapon developed by the Kirijo group which are the main backers of the party through the game.
In other words, she is a robot created to beat your resident monsters in Persona 3 created by your party's benefactors.
I was captivated by Aigis even before I played the game when I saw this illustration which was included in the art book with the special edition of the game.
I really love Aigis' visual design so much. She has this old school, steam punk style that I find rather cool, even more so now since robot girls seem to be out of vogue.
Speaking of which, this really nice rendition of Aigis is based on an illustration by Shigenori Soejima who is the character designer for the several iterations of the Persona 3 and Persona 4 games.
I actually own the art book that contains this illustration. If you are a fan of Soejima's works, or a fan of the newer series of Persona games then this book is for you. I specially like the interview included at the end.
When I was playing the game I was so anxious to finally be able to have her in my party, alas she joins about halfway through the game or so.
After she joined Aigis was a main stay in my party even if at times it was disadvantageous for certain areas or bosses.
Luckily enough for me in P3:FES, which was a tweaked re-release of P3 with extra content, contained an epilogue where Aigis was the protagonist.
Boy did I get my fill as this epilogue was a nice long 30 hours worth of unadulterated dungeon crawling fun.
I really, really like Persona 3 so an extra 30 hours worth of dungeon crawling to learn and experience more about the events of the game and the characters seemed welcomed.
Persona 3 was one of those games that came along, where it picked my interest and just blew me away.
Everything from the visual design of the game, the character design, the music, the setting was something new and fresh to me.
The contemporary setting of the then near 2009, the modern Japanese metropolis setting was something that I had not experienced before.
After all until that time, the RPGs that I had played had been set in either fantasy, steam punk, or space operas.
The unique style Soejima has gave the game a unique look I hadn't seen before and has come to become part of the series since then.
The music by Shoji Meguru is one of the most memorable things I experience in the game, his mixture of jazzy, hip hop and rocking tunes was something completely new for me. His work on Persona 3 and 4 are among the most memorable gaming soundtracks I ever heard.
Perfect example of this would the battle themes for Persona 3 and Persona 4.
I really love Persona 3, if I ever sat down and made a top 10 or even a top 5 list of favorite RPGs this game along with Persona 4 would be up in the top 3.
You wanna know how much I love this game?
I bought it four times, the special edition of the original release, the updated release of P3:FES, the portable rendition of P3P and now the PSN release of P3:FES.
As for the figure itself, the sculpting of the body is really nice.
Random person who came to this blog before, here you go, your "sexy robot ass" that you searched for and some arrived here.
The base is pretty simple and compact, reminiscent of the dungeons of the game. Aigis attaches with a single peg on the side of her left leg, she does not actually rest on the base.
The one thing that I love to bits are all the small details included on the figure such as the opened chamber on Aigis guns showing the single cartridge loaded.
The writing that you can find on her such as her shoulders, arm bad, head band and so on.
The mechanical bits that you find such as the wiring on her arm or her guns on her wrists.
The tearing on the coverings of her legs and her hips are quite nice.
I love her face quite a bit, her bright blue eyes, her lips, the faint blush on her cheeks, her nice long eye lashes. Aigis is one pretty gal.
About the only thing I did not like was her hair, I would have preferred a matte finish rather than the semi translucent that Alter went for.
This figure has gone on to become one of my favorites in my collection, at 1/6th she is quite an imposing figure, I think Alter really outdid themselves this time
Perhaps I am a bit biased since I love Aigis to bits.
That's all for now, hope you liked the pictures were I put a bit more effort than usual.
One last thing to mention, an email subscription widget has been added to the block. Works quite nice and you can get the complete post with full sized imagines with the convenience of automated emails. Give it a try if you want, tried it out myself with last week's post and it works quite nicely.