Well, my point is, Ok, I make Mystique. She'd have a unique sprite, unique animations and clothing to her own sprite, unique story content, dialog, etc., this is all work, but no more or less than any other character so far, so that's fine. Then you'd add the option to switch into the forms of the other girls already in the game. There's some *slight* work involved in this, in being able to call the appearance of the other girls while potentially that actual girl is still visible, that sort of thing, but I could make this work without too much trouble, so I don't view that as a huge problem. But then you have the other potentials that shapeshifting would bring, like why can't she also turn into Storm or Jean or one of the other girls that isn't already in the game? Why couldn't she get herself bigger or smaller boobs? I know a lot of players would be fine without these options, but it would bother me that they not exist, and would take a lot more work to actually implement. I think it's better to just not have the character in there. Besides, there are plenty of other characters to play with.
My plans at the moment are that if I do include them, I might come up with a more original redesign for them, some combination of the Evo style with more of a comic costume design or something, I don't know. I'll give it some thought.
