Two colliding art styles

[BOXman]

The IGN 16-minute showcase presented us with two distinctive art styles that just DO NOT get along. The pixel art (in-game) remains the same high-quality grim-dark stuff. The cutscenes, however, have a completely different art style; a style-fitting cartoon and light-hearted emotion. It doesn't fit the tone that was set by the first game or the current pixel art.

I hope that those cutscenes will be super rare. They are not badly drawn; they just don't fit the game. They fit more in marketing.

[mani45]

Have you played the first one?

[BOXman]

Yes. The first one had pixel-art cutscenes which fitted the tone and showed awesome detail on characters.

Here it's way too cartoonish in style .

[mani45]

Originally posted by BOXman:

Yes. The first one had pixel-art cutscenes which fitted the tone and showed awesome detail on characters.

Here it's way too cartoonish in style .

Well then let’s hope it’s the same in this one. Saying that though, Game itself will be epic so I can bear watching few cartoonish cutscenes lol! Don’t hate me haha

[Yemeth]

There are not a lot of those cutscenes in the game to turn you off tbh

[BOXman]

I hope not.

[PlayL4D2!]

Really it doesn't shock me for cutscenes to be different.

What no one mentions however is that backgrounds have slightly changed in style. It's pretty visible in the first game's DLC, the new zones have some kind of Painter style. But if it's consistent accross the entire second game, I don't mind.

[20Matt24]

Now is when some anon hero appears and remakes all the scenes but in the old pixel art style

[DEMANATI]

Originally posted by mani45:

Have you played the first one?

i played and got both endings, the pixel art cut scenes is what made the first game special. Like the other guy said, they fit the style of the game and add on the the atmosphere. The digitally animated cut scenes simply don't convey the grittiness that the game play establishes. I can see why they would change it, it probably saves time or they wanted to experiment. But it doesn't give off the same feel

[Gunaraj]

I totally agree with you. And I agree that they are not badly drawn but they look very poor, they look like drawings that someone makes in his notebooks to kill time, and I've seen that kind of people make better drawings than those of the scenes of the game.