Better Visuals? Toggle Animated Lines!

[[ACE] cbordeu]

I just wanted to drop in and suggest / remind everyone that the lines from the "pencil drawn" visuals can be toggled to be "animated" in the graphics option. This was the way the game's visuals were conceived, but we ended up leaving it off by default for three reasons:

1) It causes motion sickness to some people. We didn't want to alienate anyone from the get-go.

2) Animated lines cause way more video compression in youtube videos and streamed content. Unfortunately the visual style takes a really big hit when compressed in video. The game looks way better than even the trailers.

3) FSR also does some weird stuff with the animated lines.

So if you don't feel motion sickness, have no plans to stream or record video of the game, and aren't using FSR for additional performance - then my humble suggestion is to toggle the animated lines to 'on'. Or well... if you just prefer them static... that's fine too

Have fun!

[CowboyYojimbo]

Thank you for this recommendation! I just started (on PS5) and switched them on. The game is immediately compelling and absorbing.

[Cahalith]

I really like the effect and I encourage everyone to try the game with the animated lines turned on. Really unique idea - or at least, I don't remember ever having seen something like this in a game.

I'll also say that my first impression from playing the demo last year was that the animated lines underscored the art style brilliantly, but they made the screen a bit 'busy', which not everyone may like. But in the full game, I'm not getting that 'business' in a negative way at all. Either the animated lines got toned down a bit or I just got used to them. So if you don't like the 'busy' look, I encourage you to keep playing for a bit until it 'clicks' with you

[Wese]

Stumbled across this option in the menu yesterday aswell and tried it out. It truly gives the whole game that anime look, which is very fitting. would recommend aswell.