Why so pixelated?

[FreddieForever#1]

Wasnt this game inspired by symphony of the night? that game was from 100 years ago and not this pixelated.

[globi (mind goblin)]

i personally really like the style and i think it is one of the better looking years in years. in fact just rebought it for 5 bucks because i loved it on the switch

[FreddieForever#1]

Originally posted by Peaceshaker:

i personally really like the style and i think it is one of the better looking years in years. in fact just rebought it for 5 bucks because i loved it on the switch

They should have at least put something in the graphics option to smooth it out like symphony of the night

[Adam Palomaino]

If I'm not mistaken, around a year ago there was a mod able to smooth things out, before this huge patch/DLC came out. Maybe there's such a mod for the dlc too?

[Goofball]

Aesthetics are a thing for some of us.
I've found the retro feel of the graphics to be a huge part of the charm of this game.

Not sure what you're hoping to accomplish with this complaint though.
Like what, you think the devs are going to go "oh crap, FreddieForever#1 is right!" and totally redo the graphics for the entire game for you?

[Bonobi]

Originally posted by FreddieForever#1:

Wasnt this game inspired by symphony of the night? that game was from 100 years ago and not this pixelated.

It just needs the bilinear filter. You can use Reshade to make it like that with the gaussian blur and surface blur.

[Adam Palomaino]

Originally posted by Goofball:

Aesthetics are a thing for some of us.
I've found the retro feel of the graphics to be a huge part of the charm of this game.

Not sure what you're hoping to accomplish with this complaint though.
Like what, you think the devs are going to go "oh crap, FreddieForever#1 is right!" and totally redo the graphics for the entire game for you?

Aesthetics seem to be important for him aswell dude, hence his question I guess. He just happens to have different tastes to yours. I've also read about people playing on some big ass monitors who have a hard time reading ingame text.

To the OP, it wasn't a mod, but a reshade I found at nexusmods. It kinda smoothed things a bit. It might make text more readable or whatever. The creator/uploader mentioned only activating HDR and FXAA.

I just tested it out and since it's a reshade, not a mod, it works OK after dlc. It kinda makes things a lil bit blurrier on the edges, I guess you just have to try and judge by yourself.

[FreddieForever#1]

Originally posted by Bonobi:

Originally posted by FreddieForever#1:

Wasnt this game inspired by symphony of the night? that game was from 100 years ago and not this pixelated.

It just needs the bilinear filter. You can use Reshade to make it like that with the gaussian blur and surface blur.

I see,do you have a link to that reshade maybe?

Originally posted by Chuanz:

Originally posted by Goofball:

Aesthetics are a thing for some of us.
I've found the retro feel of the graphics to be a huge part of the charm of this game.

Not sure what you're hoping to accomplish with this complaint though.
Like what, you think the devs are going to go "oh crap, FreddieForever#1 is right!" and totally redo the graphics for the entire game for you?

Aesthetics seem to be important for him aswell dude, hence his question I guess. He just happens to have different tastes to yours. I've also read about people playing on some big ass monitors who have a hard time reading ingame text.

To the OP, it wasn't a mod, but a reshade I found at nexusmods. It kinda smoothed things a bit. It might make text more readable or whatever. The creator/uploader mentioned only activating HDR and FXAA.

I just tested it out and since it's a reshade, not a mod, it works OK after dlc. It kinda makes things a lil bit blurrier on the edges, I guess you just have to try and judge by yourself.

Yeah thats what i want, a little smoother and blurring of the edges, how do i find this reshade?

[Adam Palomaino]

Originally posted by FreddieForever#1:

Yeah thats what i want, a little smoother and blurring of the edges, how do i find this reshade?

Go to nexusmods, search for Blasphemous mods (only 3 files available, so should be easy enough to find), one of them is the reshade. It includes 3 presets, "brz + edge" being the one I used last year. It uses cartoon filter, FXAA and SMAA, looks neat.

[Bonobi]

Originally posted by FreddieForever#1:

Originally posted by Bonobi:

It just needs the bilinear filter. You can use Reshade to make it like that with the gaussian blur and surface blur.

I see,do you have a link to that reshade maybe?

https://reshade.me/

You just need the surface blur filter, then you can adjust the slider until it's filtered to your liking. Or you can just do what Chuanz suggested. Whatever is good enough for you.

[FreddieForever#1]

I tried it now with reshade and it looks much better, thanks for the suggestion.

[Efreet]

I always chuckle at those threads, how can something be less or more pixelated if it's in pixel art?
You either never looked at Symphony or misremember because you played it on a crt.
Actually it may be interesting to replay Blasphemous on a crt tv.

[FreddieForever#1]

Originally posted by Efreet:

I always chuckle at those threads, how can something be less or more pixelated if it's in pixel art?
You either never looked at Symphony or misremember because you played it on a crt.
Actually it may be interesting to replay Blasphemous on a crt tv.

English isnt my first language so maybe i should have said something else, i used FXAA and made it smoother and it looks better now.

[Efreet]

Don't worry it was just a general statement, i have nothing about you personally.

[Adam Palomaino]

Originally posted by Efreet:

Actually it may be interesting to replay Blasphemous on a crt tv.

There's also a CRT filter within reshade lol, I saw it yesterday while tweaking a bit.

Me, personally, I like pixel art. I'm old enough to not have had a choice for a few years haha.

But to put an example, there's this game, Viktor, a 2D twin stick we could say? The 1st one is action oriented, no pixels. But the 2nd Viktor game they did it much more RPG oriented and pixel art. Same main character, but pixelated. And coming from the 1st game (non pixel, crisp and clear), I have to say I would have liked to have an option to choose pixel or non pixel. And it wasn't as much of "aesthetics" as it was bc of plain "readability"). I get what the pixels do for ambientation, for the whole feel of the game.

But still I think it could be an optional thing. A slider, ON / OFF. You choose.
Because I might be wrong but AFAIK it's that easy to implement by devs. Not different from a sepia, cinematic grain, or black and white filters. It's just a filter you choose to apply.
The way it is now, you sure can do it on your own, but you need to know how. So probably having that very option in the game menu wouldn't hurt.

I friggin' love this game, and I'm old enough to not have a real problem with pixels. And still I'd like to be able to choose. So, I can understand where younger players's "complains" could come from.

Even when having a prefference, I'll usually play my first playthrough as suggested by devs (pixelated, unmodded, normal difficulty etc), whatever the original experience was that they had in mind for us. And then, if I want to replay it, I might try something different. I would have never played RE2Remake with a naked, giant yo-yos Claire in my first playthrough, if you know what I mean. But others might think completely different. There's so many people today who won't ever consider going thru the same game twice. Not me, but hey.

[De Cecco]

A CRT and smoothing filter would be great, because older games did not look all pixelated like many seem to believe.
The also TV's had a lower resolution.
Older games or indie pixel art games look pretty bad on modern HD resolution screens.