Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27951513-20160310231729/@comment-26018514-20160726233528

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

No. Actually, one thing I notice now is that Vol.3 showed a good number of weapons that were extremely basic and simple in design and use, except for 1 single thing: A bit of Dust added in.

It feels kind of uncreative. Like they couldn't think of a good weapon idea for "also a gun" RWBY, so they made a simple weapon that's not a gun, added a bit of Dust, and thought it would be awesome regardless.

(Though props for the nunchucks for at least doubling as glowsticks). Yeah, I'm getting the feeling Monty was responsible for the majority of the "Rule of Cool" additions like weapon design and animation... even a lot of the cooler fight scenes last volume were more "technically" good than awesome, I expect Volume four will still be working out the kinks as far as technical issues, but I hope they also figure out a way to reinvigorate the old aspects of what Monty brought to the project, like RoC, Timing/Choreography, Etc.

I get the feeling RWBY's success or failure could be tied to that improvement, not to mention that the other developments are running into a ceiling as far as how much better they can make it with how much value it adds to the show compared to how much cost/improvement... it doesn't matter if you can make the divots on a golfball inside a hole visible if no-one animates the crater that was supposed to be a sand trap.