I said ART and not the animations, they are good. Art is questionable. I know it is wip, but i like OG one more.
The new art looks like a old school H-Game or Summer Memories which the post said was the inspiration for the DX. If that is the uniform look the DX will have then there is nothing we can do about it. Even if you don't like the art style, it is better to focus on the improvement and additions to the game. Personally I was looking closely at the updated map and noticed there is a SM club, Brothel, and Demon Shop. Oh the fun we will have in there!
The thing is that this game, unlike ntr legend and summer memories, is heavy art based like Peeping Dorm Manager, and this I personally can't ignore. I still will buy this game. But the drastic change of artstyle and westernised look of it is a letdown. They don't even consider changing the artist after all negative objections in June, they just ignore it, like they ignore this game when the unity situation happened. I just hope that new art will be as good as old one, but wips are concerning me.
While I understand your concerns and have my own concerns, I hope no one spends too much time focusing on this one aspect. We only have a WIP so maybe the art style will still change. But even if it won't, I remember when The Wind Walker was announced, a lot of people disliked it because of the drastic change in art style from the previous game. But once the game came out, it become of the best in the series. Not to say you are wrong in your believes but I just don't think the change in art style will make as much a change as you might expect.
The publisher, Critical Bliss, did not want to use the art of the original because the quality of the original images varied throughout the game. The game had a long development so there are minor differences in skin tone, hair color, etc. could be noticed. The publisher decided to drop all the images and remake them using a new unified style for the entire game.
I don't think that it is a correct comparison. Zelda games were always about gameplay and story, art changes from game to game. The correct comparison for me is shining series. I like Tony Taka art. And I have no complaints, but old players were enraged because of that.
I think this is most likely the case. While the CG does look more cartoony now, having a unified art style I think will benefit the game more(also like that thicker booty). I also think the new animations look way better in terms of color and smoothness as well as the motion itself(grinding instead of just a janky up and down for the seated pose).
The thing is, it all comes back to one thing that is genuinely making me scratch my head with this situation; who the fuck asked for this?... At the end of the day, this is not the publisher's job. Whatever the creator, publisher or people/fans think about the OG art or the new is completely subjective and doesn't mean fuck all. If a game is good, it'll sell, if it's bad, it won't. However, it's so unnecessary. If people want a game to be localized, they want it for what it already is or shaping to be, they don't want a reshaped version of a board of people in suit think they want or will stick.
Hmm. I generally agree on the animations, seeing them side-by-side like that, though I think the original faces are hotter, and I'll note that the boob bounce in the second animation feels less energetic in the new version, even if it's much smoother. That said, it's WIP and I slightly prefer the newer animations in this comparison overall anyway, though I still consider the artwork to be a side-grade at best. Welp, here's hoping this turns out well. I'm not entirely certain a unified art-style matters as much for h-games, but then I might just be too used to games that just combine in-game graphics with cgs.
