Comment on Day 614 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
solok333777@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
I see you breaking down your gaming into mechanical challenges and comparisons to past games with mechanical emphasis. Curious to see what you thought of the other elements, story, presentation, acting, art direction, etc.?
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I try to brush on story when I can, admittedly though I’ve been a little hesitant on story though too because back when I was doing my Last of Us Part II run, I made a big fuck up and assumed information I thought was common place was common place. Turns out it was not common place.
Presentation was really good. I love the Cold War aesthetic, and it doesn’t feel like it’s just stereotyping it too “here’s some Soviet imagery”, though some things like the Gravure Models on the walls kind of took me out. For acting I’d say it felt a little stilted at times. That’s not a major mood killer for me, but there were times it just kind of felt like they were reading off a script. With Art Direction though for this game, absolutely love it. I especially loved the sort of muted coldness the mountains had, a thought I can’t make up my mind whether I liked it better with the Nostalgia Filter or not.
solok333777@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Thanks for the reply! I see what you mean especially about the nostalgia filter, it does conflicting things in my mind as well. It changes the color grading to approximate how the PS2 release depicted images, but because of the new rendering system, its not necessarily comporting with the new art direction that Delta goes with. But it still looks “fun,” even if it feels artificial sometimes.