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The thing about graphics is while indeed they should have lower priority, the game still has to look pleasant to the eyes. Accomplishing this doesn't require the latest graphical technology and techniques, just good art direction. I, just as you, grew up playing what we call now "old games", though in my case it was Super Nintendo, not the 8bit console. And I can say with confidence that if I boot up Castlevania Dracula X (yes, the bad Rondo of Blood port) or Super Mario World right now, the first thought that will cross my mind when the game starts will be "Well, for a 5th generation game, this doesn't look bad at all, in fact it's good!" and why's that? Because those games have good art direction, something that unfortunately the demo lacks heavily.

The problem with 3D graphics is that when it is badly done, it can look extremely generic and unpleasant to look at. Changing that involves clever usage of lightning, textures, colors and materials. Lightning, for example, is something the backers have been pointing out since early 2017, when the development updates with areas made by the new team were being rolled out. Lack of environment detail, bad usage of colors (or the lack of), all of them are things that we all have been complaining since the very early stages of development, yet we got a demo that looks worse despite our feedback. That's why we are worried. Yes I agree that gameplay is top priority, there is no good game out there that has bad gameplay and good graphics, the opposite being true however. But even still, when we already know that gameplay-wise and music-wise Bloodstained is in good hands, the next thing we should focus our attention is the art direction, because right now the game looks generic with extreme lack of polishment, save for the character models.

Quoting myself from the other thread:

Also, here is a better quality picture of the castle entrance, although I was expecting more of a difference from the compressed youtube video screenshot.



Edit: And whatever happened with that procedural generation gimmick shown on this development update? Since that video we haven't heard a word about it, and there is no sign of it on the backer demo.

The ground is different too, now it's just plain gray rocks. Also, the candles are utterly pointless on the new demo, there's nothing being lit by them now lol.

Well shit, I uploaded on Postimage, here is the link for the gallery: postimg.cc/gallery/20q6xi80e/ . There's a button to download the original image, so use that.

Imgur is not that good because it applies a rather bad compression algorithm, so I tend to use alternatives.

Edit: whatever, here is an imgur link: imgur.com/a/l4fFD6f

Got you covered, uploading full 4K uncompressed screenshots right now, will edit this post in a minute.

Edit: Done!

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Just the links because one image is 11MB~, so it would  make navigating a pain.

Copy-pasting what I said on the shoutbox:

Finished stage 2, game is just what I was expecting, pretty good so far. They really got right the feel of the old games, although I found it somewhat easy, though I'm just at the beginning. Also, here's some footage I recorded of the first stage, case there's someone wondering:

Wew, unexpected. From what I can see it seems fun enough, the soundtrack and gameplay are apparently spot-on. I wonder how big the game is, at least we don't have to wait that much to see for ourselves.

By the way, the artwork is way too diferent from what we have seen until now. Did they change it specifically for this game or what?