Look how much better the original Night Raiders looks.
They’re not hand drawn, they’re digital art and the designers don’t get the time that is needed to make digital art look good
or AI-generated
Just put the pixel versions up
Fuck every dumb moron who doesn’t like pixel graphics, they’re no-taste philistines who don’t deserve rights
You’re so real for this!
I have the opposite problem with tv shows that have run its course. Like modern day Simpson and SpongeBob just look so awful. Surely there is some kind of technology that would allow them to mimick hand drawn/early digital animation instead of the ultra clean smoothness of today.
It’s natural enshitification under capitalism. They found away to do it faster and cheaper so they did. Producers don’t know or give a shit what looks good.
there is some kind of technology that would allow them to mimick hand drawn/early digital animation
A lot of the better animation directors can and do do this, but it’s kind of va rarified skill.
Any examples?
Probably not. Pixel art is pretty labor intensive
oh hey I remember flash games
Looking at you Blasphemous 2
That pixel art is great because you can tell they’re pushing up against the absolute limit of what they’re able to convey within their technological restraints, and you use your imagination to fill in the gaps and smooth over the imperfections.
The concept of a hand-drawn-style remake isn’t bad, it’s just that creating good-looking assets would take even longer than the original pixel art if you wanted to have something similarly evocative, and nobody is going to pour that much time/money/effort into it unless it’s a labor of love.
I’m not sure how widely liked they are but I feel like this about all the updated re-releases of classic Final Fantasy games Square has done. There’s something cursed about the chibi sprites being rendered in smooth high res when the original reason for the artstyle was the limited resolution available at the time.
I also hate the FFVII-IX rereleases with that awful, awful font they use. It looks so incredibly bland and generic where the old crunchy one had tons of character
Even Squeenix realized that the hyper smooth art looked bad eventually, leading to the “Pixel remasters”.
I agree about the font though. I think that’s an artifact of the PC version being based on the mobile version instead of being a direct port like FF7 and 8 are.
A shame the original Night Slashers doesn’t have Ash Williams!
At least the new Hebereke looks good.
Night Slashers is the game. Also showing a screenshot from a fan mod with extra things added is weird.
The new art style looks too clean. I’m curious how it looks in motion.
Sometimes they come out looking great, but yeah this one looks like a flash game.
