Actually criminally underrated.OK, is there a reason I've never heard about these games? Are they overrated? What's going on here?Geez I didn't need to know this game was being made. That looks ugly af. Compare this to the recent-ish and very good The Journey Down:
One of the best adventure games of the decade. Full of soul. And yet the Monkey Island guy shows up with this eyesore.
They have one thing in common, both look cheap and low effort. I think I mentioned earlier that the nuMI style lacks any sense of space. You not only don't know what it is that you're looking at, but often also what plane it occupies in relation to the characters. Foreground? Background? What's that? Think I'm exaggerating? Exhibit A proving that creators sometimes lose track of it themselves, even in more readable scenes:
What the actual FUCK.
Even the ugly Special Edition had a better artstlye than this.
The decline, illustrated in 3 pictures:
The virgin Secret of Monkey Island Guybrush vs the chad Return to Monkey Island Guybrush.
Guybrush's voiceover and character was a disappointment for me in the third episode as well; that's not how I imagined his voice to sound like at all.
It's (at least) two things.There's something about modern art and animation that has always bothered me. It's as if it looks too clean or polished.
The first thing that comes to mind is The Simpsons. I haven't watched it since the early 2000s but when I see a commercial or ad the modern animation seems like a huge downgrade. The 90s episodes had softer colors and edges. Modern animation is too sharp or detailed. I can't quite put my finger on it but it's like there's too much stark contrast. It's jarring and I honestly find it unpleasant to look at the second image. Every color is so bold in a way that my eyes don't know how to focus. Maybe I'm just getting older.
I don't know if this is related to the issues others have with ReMI's art, but I get a similar feeling as with The Simpsons example. The ReMI art is too clean and polished. On one hand the art style looks objectively well-done and unique in its own way, but on the other hand there's something that feels "off". The foreground blends into the background, like Strig and Jenkem noted.
Every single time.
This is what he started out as but since then his build progession has gone into a dead end. Should respec
Looks like some guy hanging out of the window, either a drunkard or someone who got murdered? Maybe you can examine the guy and he's related to a puzzle or something.
It's a pretty cheap trick to lump an entire group of individuals into a single mass, attribute every statement of any of them to all of them, and then call the mass hypocritical. I can assure you I have not met with the other "codexers" and had my comments approved by consensus. I don't care about graphical "fidelity" (a misnomer, since the word implies some source to which the art is faithful as a reproduction). I care about art style. This art style is crap.
Are you lumping me in with a group to tell me the group you lumped me in with lumps people into groups? I recommend paying attention to people you are actually talking to when you talk to them.
Ah yes, Crispy and Curratum, posters whose opinions are totally valid
