OERBA YUN FANG

Final Fantasy XIII was such a weird game, like a shiny and impresive jewell with imperfections and a premium action figure serires as companion. While Lightning wasnt as despicable as i was expecting her to be, the character that made a big impression on my was Oerba Yun Fang, the very last character to joint the party and just like Quistis Treepe and Lulu in VIII and X, i fall in love of Fangs pretty quickly.

Not only she was pretty strong (she saves the entire Ccoon in the end) but she was absurlly pretty in the game and ultre femenin, with her raven wing black hair with blue and purple tones, her tribal tattos and crimson red lance, It was always a pleasure have her on screen, soo it was easy to buy her figure.

Part of the new Play Arts Kai line, she was a big figure tough in scale with Snow, she is shorter than him, thiner and much more lighter too. And just like Snow, she have extremelly weak ankles soo its even much more harder to make her stand, and like Snow, she cames with an ugly and useless base that dosnt help her stand (gladlly, Square get rid of those bases).

She is articulated on the head, chest, waist, elbows, shoulders, biceps, wrists, legs, knes, ankles and half feet and aside of the weak ankle movement, everything else moves fantastic and keeps the poses perfectly. Her shoulder articulations are not as ugly as Snow´s and while her wrists articulations are pretty basic and stiff, its pretty fune to pose her around.

The sculpt is OK, her face is pretty simplistic and most of the details goes to her costume, or lack of costume i say, she is barelly dressed since most of the cover comes from the blue robe wrapped aroind her body. This rove is made with sift plastic soo it dosnt get in the way of the articulations too much except on the left leg, since it almost cover it entirelly.

She got a necklas made with seashells and a hole on her chest to put the neckaless in place with a peg, but this neckaless keeps moving around soo the chest hole gets to be very intrusive visually.

The paint on her robe is really good, made with metalic and shiny blue and the simbols on the white part are perfecto. Sadlly the rest of the figure paint is not very outstanding aside of her tribal and Cie´th tatto on both her shoulders, her skin tone and face looks very lifeless.

Her hair is just a mass of blacknes and her eyes are perfectly painted and very femenine, but dosnt looks at all like Fang did on the game. Maybe is because her character model of the game is soo amazing, but she looks even more plastic than Snow do in this figure...

She dosnt have too many accesoryes either, just an extra hand to hold her spear and of course, her draconian spear. The sculpt is really good as well as the crimson colors, this spear can help her greatlly to get balance and stand and is also an incrediblly cool loocking weapon to fight.

Swnow was a little bit of a letdown but this Fang was much more a dissapointing for me. Its a shame that this is the only figure exist of such an amazing good looking character. The rest of the figure were not better tough since they all looked pretty anime and had theyr scale messed up (Hope was the same heigth than Snow) soo i just stoped getting them with Fang.