Armor equips not changing the Miriam's look

I personally don't think so. The consensus seems to be that Miriam can look good in anything so I don't really think small aesthetic changes are going to "ruin" her look. Plus, the minor changes caused by the hairband and the boots don't seem to be "in your face" they seem rather minor.

Also, isn't this thread more suited for the Game Features category? I could be wrong though.

Extremely tedious and probably pretty expensive to make every piece change her looks. 

They're already modeling the headgear. I you develop games, and find yourself using the phrase "extremely tedious" to describe your job, it's not for you. There are plenty of people who enjoy 3d modeling. And once you have a piece of armor modeled, textured, and rigged, the animation process handles the rest for you.

It's not like the days of 2d anymore, where you would have to draw each piece frame-by-frame. You only have to create it once, and reuse it for every pose.

Refer to crocodile . 

A hairband doesn't constitute a whole suit of armor. It is tedious because it just drops more work on people that already have a lot of work to do in the first place. 

Although, this might be something possible in the future since Bloodstained is getting a staggered release.

I personally think they should all change her look. The reasoning behind not changing in older game is you'd have to redraw every set of moves since the game was 2d. Doing new 3d models based off previous models or making real time modeling that allows the armor to be its own model layed over a character is vastly easier and not very expressive.

If we're not getting a 2d game which, im sure it what everyone actually wanted, we should see benefits of being forced into 3d.

They seems to be willing to change the characters out fit in their previous games.
In 2D games this is a lot of extra sprite works.
It requests redoing the character graphics many many times and each time you will be dealing with a ton of sprites.
So what they do was simply change some colors on the characters.(doing some palette tricks)
But in 3D games it is much easier to do such things.
Maybe to IGA,it is a "it's about the time to do this".LOL

@op: Not really weird, plenty of games out there where there're no visual changes for every individual pieces of equipment beside a few costumes. Having costumes in the game is really nice. I don't expect every headpieces to show on Miriam with the exceptions of headband, scarves and boots.

I figure it has to do with the over all design Iga-san does. He tends to not go overboard with character armor aesthetics the way others do. He keeps with minor changes. So I would suspect this to be the same.

Notable, Alucard in SotN had cape color and boot changes. Then weapons and shield. Miriam seems to be following the same kind of thing. Whether others viewing agree or not.

It could be a time based issue too as to why Iga-san kept to that. With so much to ultimately do, big castle, lots of bosses, enemies, other characters, etc. They might not be able to do all that and maintain consistency with each, including mode changes and the programing and such. Not saying that modelers do much or anything with programming but it isn't a big team working on this. Especially when Inti-Creates is already split into a few fragmented groups as is.

Just another opinion

The other thing to consider is how body equipment will interact with Miriam's crystal and aura effects. The crystal flower on her back is an important part of her design, after all, so I imagine most armors would have to either have the same opening on her back her present dress does, or find another way to deal with the glow, petals, etc. from behind her. It may be more practical to just leave her look as it is, especially since her "basic" dress is so distinctive.