>>13596973Who knows. Maybe they cheaped out because they know fans will love them because the brand is too big to fail at this point.
A more cynical perspective I conjured up in my dirty apartment though is that they went cheap, not because they're intentionally cheap/lazy, but because game development and multimedia works are currently the top priority at Cover now thanks to Holoearth/ALT. It's stupid but I've made up that the only reason why they went with these designs is because they'll make more sense of an open world fantasy game, and because it'll be easy to depict them as being action stars in manga/anime PVs, as opposed to awkwardly trying to shoe-in characters like Sora, Matsuri, AZKi as action MCs for example.