Most of what I'm seeing from you is that the style will be bad, but you can't possibly know that from screenshots of an EARLY BETA.
What I see happening is Pixel will incorporate the style into the game without the pixelated graphics or give the game a whole new style of its own. From what I've seen from Pixel, they'll make it work.
You can't keep looking at Pixel like they can only do one thing. The style that Cave Story had came from them and I think they can make another great one too.
Besides, the game probably won't look like this in the end. Who knows, maybe we'll see cell-shading.
I just really doubt the graphics will change much from what they've released, if they were I'd think they'd be smart enough to wait until the official style is decided upon and then make the screenshots for it.
Personally I feel like Pixel is kinda selling out his classic but that's a completely different topic and something I shouldn't get too into.
I just feel any style that isn't the original will seem worse than the original. The only acceptable thing I'd probably take is the "super 2D" they're doing with like BlazBlue and Rayman Origins.
KingVamp said:
QUOTE(Guild McCommunist @ Mar 8 2011, 09:16 PM) If I were writing my assumptions as facts I wouldn't be using that language. I clearly said it was speculation.
The facts are that...
A) The graphics of the new one are different from the original.
B) The screenshots are real and show any example of what the graphics are/will be.
Most of my stuff is based off opinion or logical assumptions.
Bring a new style might make it more appealing, playing in two different styles could be fun.
Like how Mario upgrades.
So it no chance they will just make this totally different than these screen shots?