Rumble Roses XX Slider Showcase

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Coming this Saturday is a special video: The Rumble Roses XX Lambda Slider Showcase. One of the less-known features about Rumble Roses XX is that you can customize both created wrestlers (the Lambdas) and the pre-made girls themselves with body and muscle sliders. "Body" sliders are the body bulk; You can adjust the bust, 'body' (I think torso), hips (read: dat azz), arms, and legs from 0% to 100%. Musclewise, you can do arms, 'body' (read abs) and legs from 0% to 100%. Aside from the obvious cosmetic difference, adjusting the muscles to the minimum or maximum changes the wrestler's moves, as well as effecting how much damage each move does - the less muscle, the more submission damage you do, and the less damage you do with power moves. I think; someone leap in if I'm messing all this up.

Anyway, I like playing around with the sliders, so we're going to take a closer look at what exactly you can do with them. This week we're going to be looking at the Lambdas, who the sliders have a more noticeable effect on. To wit, I've cooked up four lambdas to represent the four different extremes you can have (zero on body and muscle, max on body and muscle, and one each of max body/minimum muscle and vice versa). Here's the cast:

Left to right: 0% all (Karen), 100% Muscle 0% Body (Blackrose), 100% Muscle 100% Body (Lucy), 100% all (Andrea).

Now let's take a closer look at each combination....

0% Muscle, 0% Body: I'm not really a big fan of this. Her arms, legs, and hips being small are all OK, but combined with the minimum-sized boob slider... look, they don't all have to be Aisha-sized Double D's spilling out the top and bottom, but it just makes it a little creepy. That's all I'm saying.

You can leave the rest minimized and turn the boob slider up, of course...

100% Muscle, 0% Body: For my money, this is the least appealing option. Just look at the versus screen picture: Aren't those arms gross? I don't get it. She looks more malnourished than muscular.
On a weird note: Look at the image on the side there - don't her boobs look bigger than Karen's, even though they're both at 0%? Must be the Body "Muscle" slider inching them up. Sure, why not. Maybe if she had 100% Muscle on her Body and the Arm and Leg Muscle sliders weren't maxed out it wouldn't be so bad. Hmmm.

100% Muscle, 100% Body: If you want muscles, this is much more like it. I'm personally not a huge muscle fan (Gina Carano is about as muscular as I like to see short of She-Hulk), but RRXX' muscles never get like gross huge. Honestly, I find this way, way more appealing than the 0% body option with the max muscles. Just check out her arms:

Looks much better with a little more meat on there, no?

0% Muscle, 100% Body: Man, check her out. Not pictured: Huge thighs. Okay, I'm going to come clean right now: This is my favorite choice. So shoot me. Is it because it has maximum boob size? Maybe. Maybe this is your mom's favorite choice. Sick burn. Sick burn.

Seriously: Is this my favorite size because I like curvy women, or is this my favorite size because I like women who don't look like they can get snapped in half by a stiff breeze, or is this my favorite size because I got brainwashed by a certain poster on the old RRXX GameFaqs messageboard who kept talking about snuggle muffins and making ^_^ faces? I don't know why, but here you go.

And that's it, really - enjoy the video, and Next Time, we'll examine the effect the sliders have on the pre-made wrestlers.

** Update **

And the video: