Joanna Dark: Better As A Redhead or Brunet?

[The Esper Terra]

The brittish accent actually was something that bothered me in the original...
It smeeled way too much of Rare saying: "Hey, we got a female James Bond"
"Suse, that is also very reminding of Lara Croft" "Shaddup, you're fired"

As for the hair color, I think the red DO looks like hair coloring on purpose in 0, to bring her back to us as a younger look.

Anyone is game to go check if she is a real red head? I sure ain't gonna go take a bullet for that, plus I'm sure you guys would enjoy it more than I...

Hair colors pretty much comes equals to me since I take in the fact it made her look younger in Zero  

[iiRawreth]

Having fire red hair like how she did in Perfect Dark Zero was just not Joanna. I know her as the spy with an English accent and brown, natural hair. I wouldn't be able to take the game seriously if the main character looks like a Barbie Doll with impossible-to-recreate hair. It's kind of obnoxious. I love the brunette Joanna because it's just the Joanna I know :3 Her red hair isn't horrible though... just not awesome, you know =/ The XBox Game people are trying too hard to make this sexy, perverts-want-her video game character but giving sad old men boners isn't the point of the Perfect Dark series. I think my point has been proven ^. ^

 

[The Esper Terra]

iiRawreth

Having fire red hair like how she did in Perfect Dark Zero was just not Joanna. I know her as the spy with an English accent and brown, natural hair. I wouldn't be able to take the game seriously if the main character looks like a Barbie Doll with impossible-to-recreate hair. It's kind of obnoxious. I love the brunette Joanna because it's just the Joanna I know :3 Her red hair isn't horrible though... just not awesome, you know =/ The XBox Game people are trying too hard to make this sexy, perverts-want-her video game character but giving sad old men boners isn't the point of the Perfect Dark series. I think my point has been proven ^. ^

It pretty much was the same Rare team that worked on Zero...
I agree on most of what you said, but an opinion cannot be proven unless you would have facts...and since it is a matter of taste, there is no possible proofs...  

[Lord of the Vine]

soren_alenko

In the books it states that she's a natural redhead (inherited from a mother she'd never met, along with her blue eyes.) but it's never explained or any reason has been given to why she switched to brown hair. (another book to bridge Second Front to Perfect Dark please?)

Given that she works for an agency, I'd assume its to protect her identity.  

[phillipo]

soren_alenko

Dion Necurat

soren_alenko

In the books it states that she's a natural redhead (inherited from a mother she'd never met, along with her blue eyes.) but it's never explained or any reason has been given to why she switched to brown hair. (another book to bridge Second Front to Perfect Dark please?)

Given that she works for an agency, I'd assume its to protect her identity.

Don't know if it that worked out so well (if that is indeed the reason why), seeing as in Mission 1, De Vries recognizes Joanna right away.

I thought she asks "Who are you and what are you doing here?"

Unless you're referring to something else.


As for the hair, I'll have to go with most of what iiRawreth said. Joanna seemed more legitimate with the short hair and British accent. Short hair doesn't get in the way, and there's no reason to look pretty and perfect when you're shooting people. Let alone the fact that Fire Red hair does nothing in your favor on stealth missions. Function over form if you value your life.

The accent for me could go either way. If she had an American accent in the original, it wouldn't seem so strange in PDZ. But PDZ's voice just annoys me. If her accent was completely fake to change/hide her identity, then she made the right choice of what to change to.  

[Novuus Darkblade]

Origionaly you would probably end up going into her office anyhow to complete an objective on Sple-Perf agent difficulty. That reminds me of a feat I completed, if you ignore cassandras bodyguards before you get to the roof, you can chase her out the door where she will stand there doing nothing, blast her with your prefered weaponry and make some damage, once you get to the cut scene at the end she will still have the gun shots and arrows in her that you so happily emplied. hard to take her seriosly when she looks like she got hit by a gunship.