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Nuvendil on 06 September 2017
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curl-6 said:
Nuvendil said:

If you are responding to my XC2 paragraph, the characters in XCX and XC1 were also blatantly anime.  So I take it those are also cartoony games?  Samus and other characters have anime facial designs in Metroid Prime 3, is it cartoony?  Twilight Princess characters ARE anime, blatantly.  Take it that is cartoony?  That standard seems really arbitrary and vague since it means a game can be 95% fitting of the non-cartoony categorization but then because 5% or less fit this standard, BAM it's cartoony.  

I think you're line in the sand approach is just inadequate for evaluating the diversity of a lineup.  It's a sliding scale and no, Nintendo doesn't have any games that go all the way to the Call of Duty/Battlefield end of being fully realistic, but they have games spread across the scale very generously.  

None of those games are full-on anime/toon though. They may have some character proportions reminiscent of the style but they have their own separate identity.

Nintendo doesn't need to go as far as Battlefield, but something in the realm of a Metroid Prime or an XCX would be a godsend. Again, it is not a lot to ask for, for a major platform holder to have at least one first party title that at least semi-realistic in style. Nintendo themselves in past generations have always had at least something to fill this niche.

I beg to differ, the characters in XC1 and XCX are absolutely anime, even employing numerous anime animation tropes and habbits in their presentation.  It's not even up for debate.  And now you've stepped back to semi-realistic and I reiterate that XC2 thus far firmly sits in that area of the spectrum.  Just because the characters are anime inspired doesn't negate that the game is otherwise comprised entirely of "realistic" textures, folilage, meshes, etc etc etc.  Just like with XCX's first trailer, if the faces were hidden from camera the whole "cartoony" debate wouldn't even arise in any capacity.  

That is not to say Metroid won't be MORE realistic.  But this whole, realistic and cartoony dicotomy doesn't make any sense.