This game was *never* visually impressive. It's never even been close - in fact the renders have always been pretty garbage. The story has always been garbage, so has the dialogue. The saving grace was the fact that it was a feel good story and, primarily, the update pace.Well you're not even aiming high at all when comparing to most games, when there is so much RPGM slop, to begin with. However if you actually compare WVM to other games from his and superior tiers ranks .... aka 4 star rated and above.. it's hardly the best out there... and even less worth the wait. Obviously it would still rank fine, but hardly the "highest quality" in visuals today.
I'm sure it was, back in the day, at first. And it pretty much was the excuse and coping mechanism for some of the other truly mediocre aspects of the game, then the pace of releases, at some point. But today ? No way
Visually, even when it first released it was mid at it's very best. But it never needed to be more than that, visuals just need to be good enough to not detract from the overall experience, if you can make up for that in other ways.
The first 500 pages are entirely devoted to fellating braindrop so you would be forgiven for thinking this was the most amazing thing since sliced bread. You'll find the usual suspects gushing over how amazing and intricate the story is - how the characters are so alive and the renders are the very best on this site. I have no idea what the fuck is wrong with those people but I'm convinced they're either part of an elaborate inside joke and they never drop character, or that there's a whole lot of people on here that were the subject of catastrophically failed lobotomies.