Pixel Art... WHY.. WHY WHY???!!!!!

[headlessRobot]

Such a great game! but pixel art is so annoying!! damnt it!! retro was NOT always god!! why this trendy obsession with Pixel art!!

[Smallpieceofham]

what makes you say pixel art is a trend?

[deburger]

not sure if it's even pixelart, looks more liike posterized low res graphics and that is not even close to true pixelart... sure, it has some aesthetics but most of the time it looks like a mess... have the same question... WHY? (my guess: it's faster to paint this way)

[deburger]

Originally posted by Kallisti:

this one looks good though

comparing to slain - yes, this one looks good

[DarkermX]

I love retro game as I grow up playing them but this one look kinda off. to blurry and can distinguish between player and enemy sometime. foreground and back ground object is too similar and its confusing. I have low eyesight so its a great problem.
give the main character more detail and different color so its easy for us to play and easy for the eye

[headlessRobot]

Originally posted by DarkermX:

I love retro game as I grow up playing them but this one look kinda off. to blurry and can distinguish between player and enemy sometime. foreground and back ground object is too similar and its confusing. I have low eyesight so its a great problem.
give the main character more detail and different color so its easy for us to play and easy for the eye

Same here.

[Misery1ndex]

such sexy pixels, i could just.....MmmMmmmm. God i love me some good looking pixels.

[AliceEngine]

The art is great, surely there are plenty COD and Fortnite reskins for you to play instead if you hate 2D so much.

[General Titmouse]

Looks good to me.

[Ritter Ayla]

Looks great imo, its pixelated but it its more like the 2.5 D retro look you'd find in say.. Castlevania SOTN for the PS1. Thats certainly the impression I got anyways, makes it stand out from even other retro looking games which are mostly 8-bit or made to look as if the were a drawing.

[mouth]

Bleh, why would it be retro? 2D games are alive and well. Not everything needs to be 3D! 2D is an art choice! Slain looked great. Valfaris looks cool too. Pixelart, man that is such a throwaway word nowadays. Not every 2D game is pixelart for Christ sakes. You obviously weren't around when Apogee was the king of 2D DOS platformers. Nobody called it that! Stop it!

[headlessRobot]

Ok, it seems that some folks have very serious reading problems. Am never said that 2d games are bad and not every 2d game is Pixel art, if you see my library i have many of them, like the beatiful Dust an elysian tail, Darkest Dungeon, Nihilumbra, The Cat Lady, Cuphead, Dead Cells.. and others. Am talking about the trendy hipster invasion where every great Indie game --it seems-- MUST BE DONE with blurry and annoying Pixel Graphics that in the most intense battle moments its like fire burning the eyes. I have nothing against games made with hand drawing or other techniques or NEVER said that every game must be 3D, am talking about giving an option to others like me who cannot stand pixel --Oh! sorry, retro-- graphics. Past wasn't always that good and am not a retro fan... i had an Atari 800XL decades ago, and believe it or not, i dont miss those days and i dont feel any nostalgia about the good old DOS games. Valfaris is great, but the pixel graphics just ruined the game. Sorry.

[mouth]

Well that's like your opinion man. I'm getting some "Alien Rampage" vibes from Valfaris.
Graphics are much closer to pre-rendered models turned into 2D sprites rather than pixel-art. It's stylish, colorful and cool. Hipster invasion my ass, I've been doing 2D games with sprites since 1996. Hipsters can suck it!

[TEITANBLOOD]

if you don't like this art style you should be slain on the Altar Of Metal Gods. Seriously man you don't like the art style, whats wrong with you?

[Horace Pinker]

to get our Contra on I think this is the perfect visual style for it. I often feel the same about pixel myself, but there are some games like this one where it just works very well. you guys should also check out Super Cyborg, it's a very Super-C like game.

[Oceano]

The game completely suits me, looks amazing!