Update 56 - New Music, New Video, And Coming Attractions

interesting, I kinda wonder about that too, we haven' seen the customize option just yet, and what with the various accessorizing, lumping it with the same slots as equipment wouldn't be how id do it.

Ooh, someone else noticed this?  Excellent!

So one must literally convince themselves that life is meaningless for a brief time in order to use an advanced dodging move of intangibility. 

Doesn't quite fit Zangetsu's obsession with vengeance against demons & alchemists.

Colours too faded? This might interest you
Since some people including me have had some issues with the colours or lack thereof in the garden section that was shown, I decided to take a screenshot and do a quick mockup of how some different / brighter colours could bring the scene to life. I might have gone a little overboard to illustrate the weight of the effect but I actually kind of like the lush look of the vegetation in the edit... What do you guys think?

I doubt that. UE4's material editor is definitely flexible enough to add more saturation to just about any colour.
But even if the materials are somehow too limited, the changes I made could easily be done with some colour grading post-fx.
It's more of an artistic decision rather than a technical one.

I don't think it'd make it cartoony at all to increase some of the color so it's not just a bunch of grey's and browns:

Let me just give an example :












Compared to some of the more colorful things we've seen :

The first pic below is one of the most gorgeous locations BECAUSE of the color in it and that was just a concept vid. I'm not saying it needs to be THAT colorful or that vibrant but it's one thing that first video of the game did better than what i'm seeing now. Things in the background have color.






I don't think anyone wants it cartoony but I think not many people want a drab colorless world either, I don't find it all that appealing to travel one of the biggest castle's ever and see the same shades of grey on everything. There's a balance games can hit, where it's moody and brooding while has color in it's world to suck you in and not feel lifeless.

The bottom pic shows how much just a little bit extra color or lighting can do for a location. It didn't turn it into a cartoon it makes it feel alive. Your point is valid that you don't want to go overboard with color because it can throw it off balance and the DS games did go overboard in that regard but let's be real right now...... THEY AREN'T CLOSE TO GOING OVERBOARD WITH COLOR....it could use a bit more.

I also agree that we need more color in the environments.
As of right now "Garden of Silence" just seem bland.
Just like in Yäns example you can see that it's quite an easy fix.

Even though they couldn't give out more information about a new demo in this update I am very happy that they atleast adressed it!

Yeah but I thnk you're missing what I'm saying. It's not the brown tint to everything that I'm talking about. It's the lack of objects in the actual background that uses a decent amount of color. I made a really good example of that :


Look at this pic for example - I'll use this as an example. The tile on the floors have black and white, they have a rust color around those tile, there's rich brownish pillars, the walls have a color to them due to the lighting, in the background there's blue and there's big red flags. There's color..... and it was loved when this pic was shown off, it certainly didn't look cartoony.

All you have to do is compare the above picture to this one below to see the difference in color ( Anyone else prefer the background in the original pic? It made the castle seem huge compared to the change they made in the recent one below)-


They recently added more color to this area based on a more recent pic of it but that is the kind of thing i'm talking about. Look at the walls, look at the pillars, look at the statues. I see just the flags and the rug has color in the whole environment. It makes the environment look lifeless, when people first saw this area we all loved the look but people complained about the lack of color. So it's not a tint thing, it's objects in the background. You mention the Village was more colorful, it was BRIGHTER sure but it wasn't really more colorful the new picture is just less bright looking it's still very red and has color. It's one of my favorite locations because of it, merely because there's some color difference. 



We can assume this is from the same location above so the colors repeat but that's what's a shame because again - Purple rug and what else has color here? Not a tint issue a lack of color. 


You said this looks bright, sure....but besides the moon and candles where's the color in the environment? 

Where's the color in the background?

The garden and the church do the same things..... Is there things with color in them? Sure, but it's very very miminal or way too toned down.


I mean what about this pic really separates itself visually from the above pics? The building itself looks cleaner but it's still has no color to separate itself. All I'm saying is the game could use more color in it's backgrounds. It won't make it cartoony as evident in the first picture of my post, it'll make it have some life.



I get in this room they probably wanted a contrast to the blood but the drapes in the background........nothing is with color outside of the windows and lighting. It just seems pretty widespread. IMO 
You mention Vepar as proof that people don't want color but it's really not addressing what I'm saying. Vepar had color but Vepar's colors were WAYYYYY too bright, she almost had neon colors which yes it sticks out in a largely colorless environment which is my point right? That the environment itself is drab? So a thing that has neon colors on a largely brown and grey environment will stick out. On top of that, I wasn't talking about enemies I'm talking about the backgrounds. 


The Village actually makes my point for me, was it toned down ? Sure, but the environment still had colors in it and that's what I'm asking for. Green trees, red sky, orange/red roof, green ground.... There's color in it, and it's more alive because of it. I never had a problem with the original village but it seems peoples issues stemmed with the lighting being off or something.

Hey, I got a great way to sum this up - 

More of this 







Less of this 





See the thing is, I was open to the castle entrance being grey because my hope is all the other areas would have more color but so far they all look pretty grey too. The locations themselves look nice. The environments like that work better in 2D but it makes it look super drab in 3D. Here's the thing, we are seeing a limited selection of areas within this castle it's just worrisome to me a lot of it feels of the same color pallette.