curl-6 on 10 December 2013
| Trunkin said: I much prefer the aesthetic of Mario Galaxy. Everything isn't obscured and uglified by an overuse of DOF and bloom. Mario himself looks much more alive and "organic" as well. SM3DW characters look like plastic toys. The effects in SM3DW are much nicer, of course, and the models/enviromnents naturally have a higher poly count, but, judging specifically based on videos, I'd say Galaxy wins hands down. |
I liked the use of DOF and bloom, it softened potential jaggies. I do prefer Galaxy 1's epic space backdrops over 3D World's plainer ones, however.
Overall, 3D World doesn't have quite the visual impact today that Galaxy had in 2007, simply because the latter shattered people's perceptions of what the Wii was visually capable of, while 3D World doesn't do the same for Wii U.
That said, 3D World is still a beautiful game, at least in my view. There were several times when I stopped and thought, "wow, these are actually some of the best graphics I've ever seen in a video game".
