#confus

the remake on the other hand almost reminds me of those screenshots of the 2D version of kirby gcn. the characters are totally block coloured, with strong cel-shading and that characteristic floating outline. the textures even feel a little cartoonier, which is a very weird thing to notice on... cartoon characters. it’s not ugly by any stretch of the imagination but it very distinctly isn’t what KRtD’s original art was trying to do.

all of these art choices are basically the polar opposite of what SA did (while still remaining visibly Kirby). SA had its weird, ugly grey shading that was mostly compensated for with its intense ambient lighting. SA had its incredibly detailed backgrounds with a really strong depth of field blur that made most of aforesaid backgrounds impossible to see. SA had its trademark massive textures and bump maps that made it feel like you were looking at everything under a microscope. SA felt like a kirby game made in unreal engine.

a lot of these artistic decisions were scaled back in forgotten land, because outside of the character models, they were going for a genuine realism in that game, and by and large they struck a perfect middle with forgotten land’s visual identity.

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