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monocle_layton on 17 January 2017
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Hynad said:
monocle_layton said:

To be fair, not a lot of makers manage to make the cell-shaded style to look as awesomely and as "alive" as what's found in Wind Waker and Breath of the Wild.

Only Ni No Kuni and Gravity Rush 2 comes to mind.

Good point. Shows what a good artstyle can do to a game.

spemanig said:
monocle_layton said:

The problem is how judgemental people are. When Xenoblade/XCX came out, there was criticism towards the face models. People claimed it was ugly, lifeless, etc.

Now we have removed the mediocre models, but the characters have an anime-like appearance. I understand if you don't like anime, but the amount of blind criticism the game is receiving for the changes seems uncalled for. I haven't seen any sort of criticism towards Zelda's new looks, so it seriously seems people are either placing double standards or just like to complain for the sake of complaining.

You haven't heard coplaints about Zelda because there isn't much to complain about. I think XC2 looks good, but it definitely has a generic, stereotypically anime art style. That's a legitimate area of complaint, even if it doesn't look bad.

Also Zelda is bae.

Certainly. I'm not saying that XC2 is exempt from criticism. I just thought it has been blindly bashed by those who think anything which represents anime is the scum of the Earth. 

 

Personally, I would have liked to see them attempt to improve upon the models (instead of going into the anime-like route), but I don't think it'll kill me if the game is at least better than XCX.

 

On an unrelated note, it reminds me of a game I played on the DS several years ago. It might've been a final fantasy game- not too sure. The scene of the sky however at 0:32 in this video just had the idea strike my mind. Even after searching for 40 minutes, I can't find the game I'm thinking of. It's driving me nuts.