Thread 720271845

I like the moe art style of the PSP version the best, and I think the haters are just old people that prefer the 90s anime look of the PS1 version. Both art styles are like time capsules for the era of anime art they were released in.
The PSP art also has the distinct quality of appearing like TV anime design sheet art, rather than the more detailed art you usually see for game portraits.

moe shitterfication of art is always bad lets be real

It doesn't offend me like it does some people, but I understand why it does.
It makes everyone, especially rena, look like damn children when she is an adult, and the game wasn't designed around the overly cute moe style.
The modern remake does a good job of punching up everyone's portraits and voices without trying to turn star ocean into lucky star.

>>720272129
This is a case where they drastically changed the art style of the franchise from a detailed, painterly look, to this. Dawn of Sorrow doesn’t have bad art, but it’s weird that a Castlevania game looks like that.
Star Ocean 2 arguably had a moe artstyle to begin with. Just a 90s version. What a lot of people think of as moe is only a particular section of its evolutionary chain. What’s seen in Second Evolution for example has more of the qualities of 2010s moe creeping in as the turn of the decade drew closer. If it were released in the early to mid 2000s instead, Rena’s eyes may have been further apart, and her head wider in general.

The problem isn't "moe" - the problem is that it looks like a cheap TV anime. TV anime tend to lack the details and shading that you can get from an individual artwork, but it's fine because anime is animated. Portraits usually aren't animated beyond maybe eyes and mouth, so there's no reason for it to look this cheap.
On a side note, they just announced physical copies of SO1.

>>720272898
See, I like that TV anime look. I understand why it’s drawn that way for anime, and how it’s odd to use the style for a game, but having watched so much anime I just like how it looks. Playing SE on my PSP as a kid I think “oh, this actually just looks like it’s from an anime. Cool.”

>>720271845 (OP)
>>720272129
They were trying to cash in on the rise of moe anime in the late 00's.

>Generic moeshit artstyle
>Good

>>720272129
>moe
wtf are you talking about

I think the PSP art is bad both technically as well as in reflecting the character's age and personalities

Rena as toddler in the new art has very similar proportions to the PSP's young adult portrait

>>720271845 (OP)
Looks like cheap anime

>>720272898
>they just announced physical copies of SO1.
Oh, gre-
>LRG
Goddammit.

>Remake 20+ years later
>Actually improves the art