Except that you are.
I've already expressed that. It's too far of a difference. The styles don't work together. The character is bright, with strong lighting on her, and simple shadowing, while the backgrounds though poorly textured attempt to go for higher detail, less saturated colors, less dramatic of lighting while having a more complex shadowing. The boss fight at the end of the demo stands out even more. There are times when parts of the boss are up close on screen and she has this thick black outline around her. Nothing else in the world has that and it looks off. Enemies in the demo are all brightly lit, but not a single one of them casts a damn shadow, everything else casts a shadow. It makes them feel unconnected not in the same universe. It's not a good choice at all.I'm trying to zero in on what is is about this game that bothers you that isn't true of all cel-shaded games. "Only characters are cel shaded" doesn't mean shit. That's Guilty Gear Xrd, that's Gravity Rush 2, hell, that's Street Fighter 3. So the cel shading can't be the culprit, and if it's not that, what is it?
The character moves floaty and weightless, with out any form of grounding shadow, while the world around her doesn't move or look like that.
They've done a decent job of modelling the main character and the boss, while all their other assets look like they were bought from Turbosquid or some other website.
https://youtu.be/zov9o9Ka3ts?t=10m5s
The whole package looks cheaply made It all speaks of them basically trying to recreate the way things were done for SoTN, and not to be a broken fucking record but what works in 2D doesn't always work in 3D. They originally wanted 500,000 to do this game and got 10x that plus a non-disclosed amount from the publisher, but it looks like it's still running on the 500k budget.
I mean shit look at this Castlevania 1 remake being done by 1 dude, Bloodstained really isn't looking all that much better than this. At least the characters have fucking shadows, and some dynamic lighting going on here. The animation is shit here, but some of the texture work is leagues better.
On a different note the Wonder Boy remake looks absolutely fucking amazing, and I think the Wonder Boy remake is coming to the Switch.
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