Shader 1 or 2

Wasted 30 minutes of my life. For science!

At first, I was half and half. I love the way Miriam looks in Shader 1 and I like the atmosphere of Shader 2. Now that I had the time to take in the details, I'm leaning towards Shader 1. Why? I'm really digging the tinted fog idea.

Shader 1, but both still need to be more cell shaded, so that it become indistinguishable from hand drawn sprites, like Cyberconnect's Naruto games.

I think they should really take to the artstyle of Lament Of Innocence.

The one critique I have is it all looks too CLEAN. Too sterile.

Look at how cartoony it looks compared to this -

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Here's what I posted in the KS comments:

Shader #1 looks better up close. But Shader #2 has more potential in my eyes with one major tweak. Give Miriam some anime style high contrast shading and lighting, and I think we'd be hitting a good 2D vibe with Shader #2. As is, she's TOO flat; it kind of reminds me of Attack on Titan before the BluRay update.

In fact, if you're going for a 2D appearance with the shaders, you may want to experiment with simpler flatter character textures and emphasize the shading and lighting. Currently the textured cloth kind of looks at odds with the flattened appearance the shader gives.

Choosing which shader I prefer took quite some time. I chose Shader 1 because Miriam's character model looks better than in Shader 2. On the other hand, Shader 2 presents a dark and gothic style background, which I also like. However, Shader 1 to me seems closer to the concept art of the game. I look forward to see the remaining 2 shaders. Overall, I like both shaders. It was really hard to choose which one is better.

There's definitely more life in the first one. It's still got too much of a 'Mighty Number 9' feel to the backgrounds for my taste though. I could totally live with it and I'm not trying to knock down the people working on it. I just figure we should be as open as possible about this.

It is gone lol

It all deals with the visual style. imo

Which is the thing they're trying to nail down. I mean I'll stop talking about it if you want but if we are discussing the visuals of the game and this will clearly be the one topic where everyone will do that...I feel like everything should be addressed.