Press coverage about Update#56 (10/31/2017)

Personally, I appreciate the aesthetic differences between character & background. I'd gotten used to the controlled character standing out from their surrounding environs since the days of Harmony of Dissonance. The sprites of the controlled characters in the DS games even stand out (e.g. don't even look like they "truly belong") to me, especially with the black outlines they had.

I understand why some people are still upset about the character/background shader choices, but to me? It's just the same situation as past games. I'm perfectly fine with Miriam & the other two playable characters standing out in the gorgeous Castle environment, because that's how 2D Igavanias have always been.

ZeroSbr

because to me the visual design of the characters and enemies look a helluva lot more visually appealing to me. The environments don't pop at all.



If I enjoy the visual designs of the characters in a game like Viewtiful Joe than why would the backgrounds be realistic? The backgrounds and the characters match the same style here and it works due to it. So to me I wouldn't want the characters in Bloodstained to look more like the environments because the environments are my issue with the game, the characters look great. 


To me 


this 

Looks way more interesting and beautiful than

so to me the problem was never... why can't you make Miriam more realistic like the second pic to fit the more realistic background. It was why didn't you apply the shader and more of a 2d art style to the background to fit the good shader over the meh shader. To me it feels like they kept the background like the original shader but improved the character one. So I settled with the better shader and the more realistic background because there wasn't any other choice really. My HOPE was they'd add more color to the backgrounds so at the very least it'd pop more.

purifyweirdshard

The curse of being tagged. 

ZeroSbr

My last response purifyweirdshard .............

Yeah, I get it you rather the realistic look to the whole game, I'd prefer the stylized look of the characters for the whole game.
Your last sentence is a great way to close this, we both would like more consistency. In my case it'd be making the backgrounds pop more and a bit more stylized or visually appealing. To you it's tone down the characters to fit the backgrounds. The common thread is ...consistency.