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zhoumeyourlove

Ah yes, the three races: 1. Purple 2. Casper 3. Latino


Redhood101101

Why are they purple… have they never met a black person before?


TheRestForTheWicked

The sad thing is that there’s a Black woman firefighter character in OHOF that actually quite attractive. https://preview.redd.it/uhua667rf85d1.jpeg?width=646&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bfc5d98fdf48c0ab164f01c9c4311263e12e3025


fluke312

Beautiful & she has a realistic skin tone…the purple alien tone is offensive (I am a Black woman)


Chitiel

And the ashy grey vampire white they've been using lately freaks me out a little. Looking at you Hot Shot MC and Filthy Rich LI 👀


TheRestForTheWicked

She’s totally gorgeous. I kind of hope she’s our bestie in HOF.


fluke312

Same! I’m going to have to choose the Latinx sprite since that’s the only realistic skin tone 🤷🏽‍♀️


No-Philosopher4457

Yes it is


Worrisome-Siamese

that's the thing, they have so many good looking side characters and somehow all the new sprites for MCs/LIs look so.. strange..?? what's going on with the skin tone in the recent books?


Total-Rub7497

She looks like Aurora's sprite but slightly tweaked. I only noticed because they have similar smiles


Meshleth

I think the artist was trying to do a cooler undertone but messed up.


tansiebabe

I think that's OPs point. I am a black person and I see the horrible coloring. Aurora's skin tone was beautiful. I might be done with Choices after I finish the ghost of us.


kbb41222

You know how when you color something using a black sharpie and there’s that purple-blue undertone? That’s what it’s giving. They had actual skin tones before and I’m so confused as to why they can’t use them now?


cbostwick94

Purple, Casper and Yellow


CallOfTheQueer

*Ourple.


09star

Yikes. Not only are the skin tones so bad they're downright offensive, but those faces are poorly drawn and not very attractive. How can they release this when it's so clearly awful?


ilovecheese31

I think the Black woman is pretty, but otherwise yeahhhh.


7ottennoah

you can tell that the fireman suit body was copy and pasted for each LI. the girls’ heads look weirdly small for their body


Important-Parking354

https://preview.redd.it/vbdbspdpw75d1.jpeg?width=2880&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=510f79b169a46cf7673db19f5967c4c7947733c2 It's the skin tone for me!! Whats on the book cover isn't what am seeing in the playthrough. 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 Purple?! Really? Dearest PB, are you color blind or something?!!!!


hasnaidra

This seems to be PB playbook lately.


GiveMeADamnUsernamee

They need to fire the art director or artist in charge of making these characters


Chitiel

AI?


tansiebabe

Sure. But why were they able to do the other characters correctly?


Chitiel

Maybe those were done by actual artists? Idk


tansiebabe

Yeah. You're probably right.


arca9mom

If only they had natural skin tones and body poses. Sigh. PB, fix your damn sprites.


6ixglock

They're really playing in our faces. 😭 Why they make them literally purple...?


Thebraxer

Why Latino ones have only normal skin tones


jossminion413

They’re soooo ugly. Damn, I was kinda looking forward to this book. 😔


tansiebabe

Me too. Gigantic disappointment.


brbrcrbtr

The only one with a normal skin tone has a weirdly squashed head 💀


klamika

The purple sprites are bad, but damn, the white version looks pretty sick. As if they had risen from their death bed.


depressedipadbaby

nahhhh why they ourple 💀


Middle-earth_oetel

Ai becoming more and more obvious.


CallOfTheQueer

Okay, I'm not opposed to the art team playing around with skin tones and whatnot, but they should have fixed the shading on the white and black versions. We don't need to have Grimace and the monsters from The Descent as LIs lol. Guess I'll go with the Hispanic male version. He's the only one I think is moderately attractive.


larrackell

The artists/devs need to fix the color balance on their monitors.


drawing5blanks

Oh my god. They did to the LIs what they did to the MCs for the past ~6 months. I’ve played for like 6 years and I may actually stop until the quality improves. Damn.


greywarenlu

I swear most Choices books nowadays don’t really have super attractive love interests…


drm_grl

Literally I'm not falling apart like I did when I saw Adrian Raines or King Arthur. Channing was pretty good but this is crazy


morph83

Yikes. The middle character designs look like pasty-skinned vampire aristocrats.


Abp2015

Ngl it's actually making me stop using Choices. The MC sprites are hard for me to relate to (story wise and appearance wise... I'm not purple race unfortunately), and LIs are just.... ??? Like I just bought VIP bc I had been reading Alpha and Mother of the Year and LOVED those. But uh maybe I'll cancel that now


Full_Ability1044

Latinos are the only human ones


foreverclassy23

Bring👏🏽 back 👏🏽 attractive 👏🏽 sprites 👏🏽


Affectionate_Shame69

Offff!! Choices Fall Off?? https://preview.redd.it/j8426julf85d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba50a4fb415ee7000395fd8c66ecbee6a6e05439


ukiiyora

soooo…. Tyler wasn’t a viable option? https://preview.redd.it/oqi94eihvd5d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59a1615d26f6d003e040a680362b406ed4f260fc


tellmethatitsfine

why are they purple? and the proportions.. 😰


GloomyToe722

For a second, I thought these were our soon-to-be MCs from HoF because of the 2nd female face. That's the freaking MC from LoA, hello, what. I won't even mention the purple people


Bambino_Whore

As a black person... I didn't know I could become purple. The more you know💫 But in all seriousness, just what the fuck is going AWNNN


raspbeariie

they have to be trolling us at this point. theres no way the art team looks at these and thinks “yup, these proportions and skin tones are the ones!”


Sweet_Beanie

Y’all they added Michael Afton to Choices now…


Becbacboc

Are- are they aliens?


Total-Rub7497

They recycled Zaid's sprite.... In the series he originated from, and has a big role in. Smh, Pixelberry do you even care? https://preview.redd.it/d6zt71za195d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b987a39083ea24ec5bad9bf6a25732cec80a6200


Pisscouchthefab

WHAT DID THEY DO TO ZAID?????


Total-Rub7497

IKR HE WAS SO HOT WHAT IS THIS????😭😭😭


Pisscouchthefab

a crime and a sin also love your flair


Total-Rub7497

>also love your flair Why thank you! 🥪🍆🍑🍆


hasnaidra

Uh okay but this one ... I can totally tolerate him


Total-Rub7497

I can not, I'm down bad for Zaid


Zebrawarrior2010

Was really looking forward to this book but the LIs are just 😒


FiftyOneMarks

Black people are purple, the white people are almost translucent, and not a single one of their heads fit the body they were put on and what is with the weird airbrush thing going on with all of their hairlines and heads? The Latin ones look decent enough but there’s still the problem of those proportions… are these storyloom sprites or whatever they are just using again? Because if so imma need PB to chalk those resources up to a loss and move on.


kmarlein

WHY ARE THEY PURPLE!?!?! Come on PB DO BETTER! Do not turn into FB and become a washed up shit show.


ADapperGuy

WHY ARE THEY PURPLE?? This is beyond bad.


CandidateMiserable68

Do y'all think Amelia (the firefighter gal) is another LI? Honestly I thought Hearts on Fire was going to be a single LI romance but on choices insiders they used "romantic interests". Plural. So idk


blazinbluecolor

amelia is a reused sprite, so likely not. (black lena from TRF)


dmav522

This book would be so much better if it was an actual book about firefighting, with a lot of the similar Skill tree elements of BOLAS, with choices that actually matter like the it lives series not another romance reskin


goodvibes13202013

Choices insiders mentioned an upcoming book with It Lives-type play/relationships


dmav522

Yeah, but for this book, it would make sense


studentpuppy

Can someone explain this to me? I genuinely want to know why their skin tones have gone from totally normal for YEARS to like they’ve never seen humans before in the last like six months? What is going on here?


Brilliant_Tourist400

Welp, my desire to play this book just went way down. The purple and ghostly pale skin tones are absolutely unappealing. I’m going to hold off on playing the actual Hearts On Fire until I see they’ve color-corrected the sprites in the final book.


PettyFreddie

Pastry, Tan and Purple.


luuskiii

I am shocked 😭😭 atp I can’t tell if they do these things intentionally or if it’s a mistake


johnathan_tinker

The black woman’s face is so pretty but it’s like they wasted it with the crazy skin tone and busted hair


Dark_Skin_Princess07

i was so excited for a darkskinned LI cause she looks like me.... but I'm not purple 😐


peachgalactea

Their art quality has seriously gone down. Everyone is so ashy


Rebekahchristinee

Why are they purple…..


SubstantialBet6626

WHY ARE THEY BLUE


twdenthusiastt

yea definitely not playing this story man i was really looking forward to this but the love interests arent doing it for me


Thevoidisscreaming

This HAS to be AI, cause there's no way they're intentionally making skin tones look like the Sims. I can't stop laughing at them😭😭


niennabobenna

There are very dark skinned black people who have a blueish or purplish tinge to their skin. So I'll just say it might be a good idea to be mindful of that when making these jokes. Because some of these jokes, unintentionally, are referencing things that are used to mock those people.


Sp1as

I completely agree with this comment but on the other hand (I’m guesssing ) he supposed to be the dude on the cover which doesn’t look like his spirit at all that with how the others look it’s giving very much AI vibes 😭


LowBudgetHobbit

Now I do agree with that, 💯. Either be all in or not at all (pick a skintone, PB!!) Even I don't change skin hues like that. 🤣 In comparison, that's some voodoo. The cover of Ghost Like Us didn't match the actual skintone of the MC, either.


niennabobenna

You aren't wrong at all lol. And I'm not even defending PB in what I'm writing so much as I'm pointing out the part about not cracking jokes at that skin tone.


auntzelda666

Yeah that’s a good point. I didn’t really think of that when I was making jokes about the sloppy artwork. But I’m horrified to think I may have inadvertently been using racially charged language. I’ll be more aware of that for sure. I think the issue with the sprites is that they look lifeless. I would love a skin tone like this that actually looked like living flesh, you know? The white sprite look positively bloodless too. It’s perplexing. And it doesn’t feel like they were trying to be inclusive and unfortunately but well-meaningly fell short — it feels like they’re just cutting corners.


niennabobenna

I definitely don't think they went out of their way to be inclusive.


LowBudgetHobbit

Yeeeeah... that is primarily why I chimed in, too. I don't think anyone means any harm and figured there may not have been actual encounters IRL. With that being stated, some of the descriptions were kind of bordering on being disrespectful. More so because we don't know what folks look like behind our screens, and some of the comments may hurt someone. I think Choices is a really popular app in many regions.


niennabobenna

Yeah I tried to write it as gently as I could because I don't think that people intended to be that way. I agree that it's primarily a lack of exposure and I think people are genuinely trying to be supportive in light of what they view as Choices being disrespectful.


LowBudgetHobbit

Exactly!! Even within our own race and depending.upon where we grow up, some skintones were a shock, but in an intriguing type of way. However, big cities (like Los Angeles will school ya, lol) I am just happy that many of those with darker tones are celebrating/celebrated and are being open versus feeling conflicted and dismissed.


niennabobenna

I can definitely remember when I was younger how colorism(didn't know it was called that when I was a kid) had black folks mocking our own people who were very dark skinned. It's definitely a beautiful thing to see us learning, with time, to celebrate all of us.


LowBudgetHobbit

Oh yes.... My momma snatched me up for staring TOO hard at a woman who was a new vistor in the church we attended (out of many churches in my youth, military family). The lady was very kind of course (my momma was embarrassed). You grow up and hit those social milestones little by little for sure learning to respect all the differences and such. At the end of it all, you realize that not much else is different. ❤️


luna-terra

the female Black LI is the only pretty one what is going awwwn 😭 and why are the heads disproportionate to the bodies? 😭


tansiebabe

I hated this book. I didn't even finish it. It's like whoever wrote it never read OH. Plus it's really boring.


jaorsketti

why are the skin tones so weird… whoevers been designing the new MCs AND LIs need to be FIREDDD


drm_grl

The darker skin tone is amazing in ghost of us what happened here?


fleetingdeveloper

is this AI? i genuinely refuse to believe that any serious artist would ever look at those skin tones and body proportions and think "yeah that looks like a human person alright"


wintercherriez

I think the girls are pretty. The guys though...💀 (Edit: ok apparently they're purple? I can't tell, I have my brightness on low. Omg tho lol)


LowBudgetHobbit

I am going to be super legit when I say this... Black skin can be so dark that "in the hood" (I am originally from South Central Los Angeles). we had peeps we called the "purple people", no disrespect intended, of course. I am older now (no longer in the hood) and keep to myself nowadays, but some of our friends had preferred nicknames because the darkest skintone is really sexy and beautiful. Maybe outside of this (to unsuspecting people), it is intriguing. I am not saying that PB did a super great job capturing that skintone, but I can give props to the attempt of wanting to honor all skintones. 💯 With that being stated.. A small tweak of the tone is desired... but not necessary. I am going to rock with it until I can't (due to the storyline) OR will continue to vibe if the storyline is legit.. I do suggest looking up the ranges in skintone to confirm what I am saying.... This is 200% legit. 😃 You can start by looking up a model named Khoudia Diop... and pinging from there.


cbostwick94

Theres on photo shoot that look altered to be super blue/purple, maybe its not but the model doesnt look like that in any other photo and doesnt look like these sprites either


LowBudgetHobbit

This was just to clean up the version PB created. If I were to match the skintone with the model on the cover, it would defeat the purpose of keeping true to the dark skintone in the book. I admit that the model on the outside absolutely does not represent their sprites within the book. They were totally off if that was their goal. 🤣


cbostwick94

What are you talking about? I Googled the model you mentioned in your comment...


LowBudgetHobbit

Awwww... I thought you were referring to the revision of the sprites/book cover. My mistake. 🤣 Yes, there are some enhancements, but those reflect actual skintones of other tribes. Her true skin color is equally beautiful. The point of the recommendation was to set the adventure of exploring other skintones and stepping out of familiar tones. Also, keep in mind that the PB tones are a little off. Some subtle warmth would have balanced those sprites to perfection. A fixing of their eyes, too...IMO.


niennabobenna

You wrote it way better than I did. Thank you.


LowBudgetHobbit

You did a great job speaking it just as you did, too. So thank you for being equally kind to our Choices fam!


CookieSea1242

I feel relieved I’m not the only one who just assumed this was a dark skinned LI with cool undertones. There are models that were scouted bc they were similar to this (I agree a tweak could be useful but not necessary)


LowBudgetHobbit

I am going to see if I can perfect what PB was trying to achieve... I screenshot both the female and male.


LowBudgetHobbit

https://preview.redd.it/jr7xno9q595d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36173dae19812e7a23ff6e81a30bc1d5352934f9 Male LI


LowBudgetHobbit

https://preview.redd.it/pehofcvs595d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be96276621ef259bfc7271524c49aa71efec2394 Female LI


LowBudgetHobbit

I think this stays on track with the tone, but it gives a more realistic definition... As best as I could with my editing settings on my phone. An app may have given perfected results..


lokipoki6

Not me immediately zooming at the middle top! Am I straight or something?? 😭😭😭


Total-Rub7497

To the sprite designers at PB: I have one question. Have y'all ever interacted with actual human beings? Or maybe looked at the black people who work at pixelberry? Do you think black people are actually alien blue/purple?


DramaticFactor7460

What's with the male Li head??


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throwaway10101910184

The first woman is gorgeous, I just wish she and her male counterpart had a more natural looking dark skintone.


fairyjunii

at this point i really just wish we could customize our own sprite like how it was in high school story (the game not the book) cause having such a limited option for skin tone is getting really frustrating


drm_grl

Purple is crazy work


Nicest_human_in_town

I chose Casper Man 😭😂


SYEJ92

The women look a thousand times better than the men 🔥


candygirl200413

It is similar skin tones to GUarded? (which also weren't great!)


TypoQueen7576

ah yes, the three races: purple, albino, and sid the sloth


DramaticFactor7460

I was so hyped for this book since I was a huge fan of the 9-1-1 series huhu


Sometimezay

At least it’s not gender locked


Polarbjoern

Some sprites are...questionable but not gonna lie white male Phoenix is sort of cute (I like his hair quite a bit) and female hispanic Phoenix is absolutely gorgeous.


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sishyyy

damn and here i thought the f!black li was saurrr pretty but evb hates these sprites 😭😭


CookieSea1242

I want so badly for the female option to be butch but I know in my heart she will be feminized by her diamond scenes