The art is horrible and ugly

[Rumi]

Let's be honest the game is well designed and fun but everything surrounding the raw game play is sloppy trash. This goes from the incredible creepy and ugly art to the fact that the cut scene art massively clashes with the portrait all the way to the talentless and out of place VA's.

I'm not even gonna talk about the Protag being a fake bunny instead of an actual bunny girl.

Massive downgrade in production quality from Rabi Ribi in every regard with only the game play being improved. Disappointing and sad.

[Zarathustra]

I do agree that the art outside of the full CG is pretty bad, it has that westernize anime style that I strongly dislike, while the CG art looks more anime and appealing. (I did rather enjoy the annoyed face the bear guy did at the end of his fight though.)

But the VA's sound just fine, I don't see an issue with that.

Another issue I have with the game is the characters themselves are just not great. Tevi is cute and her annoying father is fun, but everyone else sorta just sucks.

[Eros]

Originally posted by Pekora:

>draw a girl
>give her obvious female traits
>call it a boy

>MC is not an actual bnuuy
I will not even pirate your game now.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pozzed

based truth poster

[𓂀𓂏𓂀]

I'm not too far in, but I can say that a big part of Rabi-Ribi's appeal to me was its unrelenting approach to making sure every facet of the game's visual design down to otherwise mundane UI elements and menus had a cute touch to it. Visually it made the game diabetically saccharine and I loved that for it. I will say I'm a bit disappointed/sad this game clearly has a different art direction in mind, but it's not, like, terrible or ugly, and it doesn't ruin the game for me. It's just different is all. I'd definitely still have bought this on release even if I weren't going in blind as a big rabi-ribi fan. I kinda feel like some of you are being really hyperbolic. I could understand it better if the game was like, titled Rabi-Ribi 2 or something, but it's its own thing, and I'm having fun playing it.

[Fuinelen]

Originally posted by Zarathustra:

I do agree that the art outside of the full CG is pretty bad, it has that westernize anime style that I strongly dislike, while the CG art looks more anime and appealing.

So which is it? is the CG objectively bad because it is its own thing that adopts elements from both Western (and imo, in particular European) comics and Eastern manga, and "obviously" this can only be hideous as only pure unadultered manga-style is good, or is it "subjectively bad" because you just don't like the style, which is very much a "you" problem and not a problem with the art itself ?

[♫RL]

People actually complaining about the VA? It's fine, I've had absolutely no complaints so far. The only thing I can really say is that I want to turn off talking during combat and... that's it.
On art it's fine. Sprites are cute. Honestly people have too hard of a allergic reaction to "western" stylizing on colors and whatnot. Only thing is that portraits need more shading and that's about it. Besides that, character designs are better here than on Rabi-Ribi. Half of those designs are partly why I couldn't even get people to play it, but I should be able to here. Significantly less anime cringe.
With all that said... How are people expecting the UI to be as colorful as RBRB? It was very clear from earlier trailers that the story/scenarios was going to be darker in comparison to RBRB's "Uh... there's a weird phenomena FIGHT" story writing. There were at some points it got good, provided you can read through that.... very special translation it had. Although they mostly recovered that in the DLC. Either way, the UI matches the tone like how RBRB's UI matched its tone. I'm cool with what they're going for. Keep in mind, I'm not ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on RBRB's story either, I enjoyed the clown fiesta for what it was, but like... Lets be real here, it wasn't exactly anything engaging, it was just very silly. Which matched the tone of the game.

The only thing I can say is that games/movies should try to be more colorful sometimes. There's been a lot of muddying of colors recently so everything looks very muted. But that's not really a gripe with this game in particular, that's a gripe with media in general.

[King Fossil]

Originally posted by ♪RL:

The only thing I can really say is that I want to turn off talking during combat and... that's it.

Talking during combat is the best talking though.
Also you can do that, it has its own volume setting. Or at least I think that's what it does, I didn't touch it because why would I want to do that?

[♫RL]

Originally posted by King Fossil:

Originally posted by ♪RL:

The only thing I can really say is that I want to turn off talking during combat and... that's it.

Talking during combat is the best talking though.
Also you can do that, it has its own volume setting. Or at least I think that's what it does, I didn't touch it because why would I want to do that?

You can like what you like, idc. Personally I think there's been too much talking in combat in games. But personally I'm not referring to full voice lines like the demon's deranged rant, that had me laughing. I mostly mean repeated lines when you're dropping bombs or using up attack/down attack.
I will say though, thankfully they don't play /all the time/. Shoutouts to inti creates most recent games.

[Silfie]

Can't say I care much for how they westernized the art either, I feel kinda misled going into this game based on promotional material. It's not terrible, but it's a downgrade imo.
I never thought RWBY looked even remotely good, but I guess that explains the wild shift on artstyle and the poster cameo in tevi's room.

[Moon Rabbit]

I hate to say it but it looks very 'deviantart westerner doing manga style'. The character designs I'm not fond of either. Tevi herself is cool her engineer/postal look is cool, even witht the weird garters, but the other characters are really kind of bad. Cris-crossed leg belts, belt over boobs, one giant sleeve, the metal thigh boots, bandage on hair, etc.

The pixel art is really good. But the image art is, I dunno. Not bad. It's not bad art. But I just don't care for the designs. The color and shading is very flat. I dunno.

Tevi being human was a really dumb idea though. That one actually upsets me.

[Dranuv]

Originally posted by 𓂀𓂏𓂀:

I'm not too far in, but I can say that a big part of Rabi-Ribi's appeal to me was its unrelenting approach to making sure every facet of the game's visual design down to otherwise mundane UI elements and menus had a cute touch to it. Visually it made the game diabetically saccharine and I loved that for it. I will say I'm a bit disappointed/sad this game clearly has a different art direction in mind, but it's not, like, terrible or ugly, and it doesn't ruin the game for me. It's just different is all.

It is kind of hard to switch from having a tiny cute fairy as your partner...to having the complete opposite I guess. The character art is the part that gives me the most trouble at the moment.

[Juno Brier]

Apparently a different shading style is all it takes to make people lose their mind.

[Cumbusted]

Oh no, the spiritual sequel to a game is in a slightly different art style than the original.

That's craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy.
it's not like several years passed between each game or this one has a whole other aesthetic thing going for it.

[Rumi]

Originally posted by Juno Brier:

Apparently a different shading style is all it takes to make people lose their mind.

It's not just "a different shading style".. Although competent shading would have helped in making the portraits less bad. Look at the full screen CG, it's a massive improvement already just by following better shading and proportions.

[1404Daniel]

Looks fine, not everything has to be the same style

[New Breakfast]

not too fond of celia and sable's character design, plus the dialogue arts. other than that, the game is really good.