Why does this game look so bad...

[D. Flame]

Did they change engines or something? Even Ryza 1 is more visually appealing. The characters just look so out of place against the backgrounds.

[Dupa]

I think somethings wrong with the PC version as well. I mean i dont play Atelier for graphics but god the textures are bad and several of the options on PC does nothing. Textures low are the same as high for example. Like textures on Yumia is fine, textures on other characters looks 2 generations old. Theres no texture filtering (there is a line for it in the config of the demo but it does nothing).
It does look significantl worse than ryza 3 in several areas...
Im gonna wait untill the full release and see if theres something missing from the demo

[Naval Neuenmuller]

agree, the demo texture looks very low even with high setting

[lilkillpappy]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Did they change engines or something? Even Ryza 1 is more visually appealing. The characters just look so out of place against the backgrounds.

I was just playing Ryza, and Yumia looks WAY better in every single way possible.

[Claw]

Textures look absolutely awful. Very low quality. I really don't think - I can't believe even - that this reflects the finished product?

[jclosed]

I can't say much about the textures, but for those that find the game looks blurry and over-lighted (especially in the tower start), I can recommend the following settings that I use:

Note: This is on 1080p and 120fps with all other settings maxed out on a RTX 4070 Super:

Anti-aliasing: TAA
DOF - Off
Bloom - Off
Light Shafts - Off (this causes the most blurriness if set to on)
Motion Blur - Off.

Now everything looks a LOT less blurry, and pleasant to look at. It won't solve the textures. If that is a bug, it has to be solved by the developers themselves.

[ingosupercute]

I feel like people are forgetting this is still a studio Gust game and they never really had high end graphics or good textures. Furthermore all other Atelier games use a trick by dividing the world into smaller segments, even if they gotten a lot larger larger over time, the world in the Secret series is still being partitioned.

Personally I think the graphics are a step up. As mentioned already in this topic character animations have gotten much better, their expressions, the flow of hair, the movement of cloaks. But also the open world does look a lot better. It's not 2025 state of the art but all environmental details have been significantly improved and the game does not look like a budget production anymore.

I feel like what rubs people the wrong way is the change in color saturation or warmth. This game looks a bit colder, more sifi. Hard to explain. Many Atelier games got this distinct colorful warm feel to them, and Yumia doesn't. It's more in line with popular mobile genre anime games. I'm not the greatest fan of this but it's still okay.

[Rizo the Hunter]

Maybe because it is open world? I dont think Koei has ever done a high fidelity open world game before.

[FinalBreath]

downloaded the demo yesterday...the game looked incredibly bad...graphic options does nothing to improve...not what i see in the trailers...

[REIVENTH]

game designed to work on Nintendo Switch in mind so these are the result with low environment texture etc

[Sage Pirotess]

Originally posted by Rizo the Hunter:

Maybe because it is open world? I dont think Koei has ever done a high fidelity open world game before.

No ryza looks better.

[Crimson Wanderer]

I played the demo for a couple of hours, and while the landscapes do look great, there are something about the character models that feels very uncanny, I managed to take a snap of some very awkward looking faces here and there that leaves me ???, I also believe that Ryza (at least 1 and 2, because I haven't plyed 3) looked better than this.

[Rizo the Hunter]

Originally posted by Sage Pirotess:

Originally posted by Rizo the Hunter:

Maybe because it is open world? I dont think Koei has ever done a high fidelity open world game before.

No ryza looks better.

Is Ryza open world? I have all three but havent had a chance to play them yet.

[Xafron Chi]

I agree. I was surprised actually. I have a 3070ti and I turned graphics to high. It looks...not the best, yet I'm still getting FPS dips. Perhaps because of the open world? Not sure.

It's not unbearably ugly or anything, but it could be better.

[ingueferroque]

It is also releasing on Switch.

[Sage Pirotess]

Originally posted by Rizo the Hunter:

Originally posted by Sage Pirotess:

No ryza looks better.

Is Ryza open world? I have all three but havent had a chance to play them yet.

Yes