I'm willing to give those who us AI as a tool a shot. It is a tool, and it can be used with skill or it can be used poorly.
This game chose poorly.
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First and most obvious (in the red circles), everyone's favorite AI abomination, mangled hands and limbs! Not sure it really needs to be expanded upon. Just look at your own hands, and notice how they don't look like whatever-the-fuck is going on here.
On top of that we have awful cropping. They're already using AI to do the heavy lifting of generating the image. Under the best case scenario, the most charitable interpretation you can have, is they are doing it because it will free up the dev to spend their precious time doing other more important things. Apparently not among those things is watching a tutorial on how crop images. They literally chopped off the top of the character's head, and frequently cut into the outline work around the edges (see all the green highlights). Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.
Next up, we have nonsensical character details, like what-in-the-fuck is going on at the bottom of that tank top. You have little to no creases, them BAM! Spare tire and/or black waist sash. Are they a pirate? Pirates wear oversized waist sashes. Also, did they just wake up in blue jeans? Also-also, why does he have a fucking 8-pack set of abs? Abdominal muscles are split into 4 distinct pairs, and if really defined, the top 3 pairs stick out to form the classic '6-pack' abs. This alien has 10 distinctly defined abdominal areas, meaning that even if you ignore the bottom pair, you're left with 8-pack abs. That also ignores that they have a spare tier's worth of extra torso between their navel and their groin. Fuckin' yikes.
Of course, we can't end this AI nonsense without looking at the smudgy nonsensical mess that is the undefined background (check the yellow highlights). You've got the telltale hard edges curving into soft edges. Nonsensical room geometry. Undefined details and textures. Like, what is happening with the texture at the bottom of the door? Are those shadows supposed to be doorknobs, and if so, why are they on both sides? How does the placement of that door square with the opening into what looks to be a bathroom? Again, it is all hot nonsense that falls apart the second you look at it closely.
But that's not all. Surely if they've saved all this time cutting the corners with the visuals, then surely the dev has had the time to make sure the rest of the experience is as polished as it possibly can be.
Right?
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Hahahahahaha! Yeah, no. Extra punctuation, and zero punctuation. They have enough exclamation points for two sentences, and yet they fucked both up. Glorious lack of attention to any detail.
Just like that, one frame in, and I'm already checked out. When the very first screen so readily demonstrates how few fucks were given, it's impossible to care or get invested in what's there.
