Looks like the Cybertroony anime effect, how sad. Didn't Valheim do this too? Is this the fate of all indie games now? Create your off brand troony netflix anime look?
This is literally just because the guy responsible for the top image had left the studio the and the devs were too lazy to look for a good replacement, so they with the cheaper normal koren tier anime route its not joe normie would care anyway
Cybertroony anime was the perfect psyop to normalgays. It made them unironically believe that downgraded and underpreforming piece of shit was the best thing ever and that there really wasn't anything wrong with it at all. Not surprising everybody is gonna start doing it now. Shitty and mediocre game that you promised too much and cab't deliver in a timely manner? Look pretty korean animation cutscene trailer!
Looks like the Cybertroony anime effect, how sad. Didn't Valheim do this too? Is this the fate of all indie games now? Create your off brand troony netflix anime look?
Too bad the artist behind the first game's cutscenes left, I don't know why they didn't have the current artists in the studio replicate the artstyle rather than outsource the cutscenes to an animation studio.
mind you, animation wise, they're better, more fluid for example.
But the cutscenes in the first game were more like slideshows anyway, it would have been cheaper and easier to do that in my opinion.
This is literally just because the guy responsible for the top image had left the studio the and the devs were too lazy to look for a good replacement, so they with the cheaper normal koren tier anime route its not joe normie would care anyway
Cybertroony anime was the perfect psyop to normalgays. It made them unironically believe that downgraded and underpreforming piece of shit was the best thing ever and that there really wasn't anything wrong with it at all. Not surprising everybody is gonna start doing it now. Shitty and mediocre game that you promised too much and cab't deliver in a timely manner? Look pretty korean animation cutscene trailer!
Team 17 just messed up big time by not dropping the game in Russia.
They went and lost their star animator from the squad, only to swap them out for some super lackluster animation studio in Madrid.
https://twitter.com/holmik_vereshag/status/1692919534661812329?s=46&t=aWft_OFjXjtHyNoHB-qEVw
>Team 17 just messed up big time by not dropping the game in Russia
Only on steam, you can buy it with no bullshit on egs Which ironically enough is becoming a better option than steam in russia, service issue indeed
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Team 17 just messed up big time by not dropping the game in Russia.
They went and lost their star animator from the squad, only to swap them out for some super lackluster animation studio in Madrid.
https://twitter.com/holmik_vereshag/status/1692919534661812329?s=46&t=aWft_OFjXjtHyNoHB-qEVw
Seriously? This sucks. This whole current Ukraine-Russia shit is messing with vidya.
Well thats moronic why does he care about that. Russians pirate everything anyways.
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Seriously? This sucks. This whole current Ukraine-Russia shit is messing with vidya.
There's probably more to it. Team 17 are one on the most notoriously pozzed companies and probably made the devs quit their collaboration with the guy, costing the world another vidya piece of art for shitty woke points.
I doubt he left on his own because Blasphemous gave him massive exposure worldwide and nobody would willingly miss on a job opportunity like this. Team 17 is just fricking moronic.
Ahi me voy otra vez
Ahi te dejo Madrid
Tus rutinas de piel
Y tus ganas de huir
Yo no quiero cobardes
Que me hagan sufrir
Mejor le digo adiós
A tu boca de anis
I still don't understand this logic. This is reverse psychology. Instead of providing access to your entertainment products and propaganda through them, and for the money of the Russians themselves, you put a barrier in front of them, from which they shrug their shoulders and take it for free, simultaneously sending you insults for the fact that you deprived them of the opportunity to legally pay for your products. But what strikes me most is that companies such as SEGA, Capcom, Blizzard, etc, having officially left Russia, continue to engage in Russian localization. Russian subtitles will even get a remake of Persona 3 and a new Yakuza, which is nonsense at all, the games in this series have never had a Russian localization, even after the events in Ukraine.
couldnt spot a troony in the dev diary, seems like a normal indie gamestudio with men doing the entire work and some female diversity hires for HR stuff
call me blind, but Blasphemous had some of the best pixel art I've ever seen in some parts.
Pixel art is hard. I can't blame them for not delivering on that. However, the new art looks lame, not just worse.
Too bad the artist behind the first game's cutscenes left, I don't know why they didn't have the current artists in the studio replicate the artstyle rather than outsource the cutscenes to an animation studio.
mind you, animation wise, they're better, more fluid for example.
But the cutscenes in the first game were more like slideshows anyway, it would have been cheaper and easier to do that in my opinion.
Very well said, they could've just done stills in the same style and I don't think people would have been as disappointed. Definitely feels like a loss of identity considering how predominant those scenes were in Blasphemous's atmosphere and marketing.
What is it about Pixel art that looks so much better than any sort of drawn art, even if said pixel art is to the level of detail that is might as well have been drawn?
it technically is pixel art but he's just using the pencil tool to draw instead of the brush and he's not employing pixel artist techniques or utilizing a pallet well.
>Be Blasphemous devs >Entire selling point of your game is great pixel work >Lose the guy doing the pixel cutscenes >Instead at least trying to ape it you go the cheap ass route and hire some no name animation studio
Yes, it's Spanish Catholic metroidvania with a lot of gore because it's inspired by flagellants and the first one is pretty good. I don't remember much Latin.
So far, the animated cutscenes are the only downgrade. everything else is just more of the first one, art style and direction are still just as good as the first one
Was the ruskie just in charge for the pixelart? Or for the concept art and artstyle aswell? Because if he was just responsible for the pixel art, it means there still is the creative backbone present at the game kitchen
I was hoping they wouldn't do this. The big patch trailers for the first game used the same anime style, and I hated it because it clashed so hard with the in-game aesthetic. It's a gothic horror fantasy, not a colorful anime.
Except the first game ends with a man in a giant embryonic sac descending from the sky after Penitente gets laid to rest. It was always meant to have one.
looks ass, seems like they used AI generated shit too, the unique look of the first game is ruined, they should have either offered the russian artist guy more money or get someone to imitate his style, many people could do it
IGN review also said you meet the same enemies over and over and over again, seems boring and tedious
People will post the picture of the man with breasts and claim it's troony representation, but honestly, considering how malevolent the divine powers in this setting are, degenerate mutations is exactly what you'd expect.
>trans inclusive feminist
Did those morons forget there was a troony vs feminist civil war? It's like putting a ukrainian with a russian in the same team. Wont belong before the studio implodes at this rate.
Get your leftist terminology straight.
Trans-inclusive feminism is a subset of feminism that is pro-trans. That means that's the only type of feminism permitted in the company - trans-exclusionary feminists are not welcome.
>How do you people not know this?
All I know is some feminists got curb stomped by trannies just like in women sports. Pretty funny how feminists got put in their place and basically lick the boots of men pretending to be women. Feminism is a joke.
You need to know what happens around you. We are all affected by the ideas of people, they turn into policies that affect us. These mentally ill people are all activists that work hard to change everyone's life.
no big loss.
Holmik was always one of the messier and unskilled pixel artists on pixel joint.
his work always looked halfway finished to me. he's capable of good animation but he usually gets lazy and makes low framerate crap
https://pixeljoint.com/p/99826.htm
shame he likely got replaced by some troony tho.
I wouldn't support this company anyway.
they're both pretty bad the top one is very unrefined pixel art with sloppy shading that looks blatantly unfinished.
the bottom one is very unremarkable but acceptable cartoon art with thin line work, all the same thickness and looks like it was done with the line tool in flash.
>Trans inclusive feminist homosexuals fire their best artist because muh oinkraine >Replace him with a literal "she/her" amerimutt troon
what did you expect?
i dont care about russians, i dont care about trannies working at a company, the game is fun to play and the fact the cutscenes arent animated like the first one sucks but nobody ITT thread saying >DROPPED, UHH NOT BUYING, THEY MISTREATED RUSSIANS? FRICK THIS GAME
was ever going to play Blasphemous 2, youre bored and you want attention
Bullshit. I was about to buy it when I saw the troony statement posted. I played and enjoyed the first one, it's a great game. They lost my money because of their political extremism.
Stop projecting. I will not buy something made by a woke company and I will expose them at any opportunity.
Looks like the Cybertroony anime effect, how sad. Didn't Valheim do this too? Is this the fate of all indie games now? Create your off brand troony netflix anime look?
This is literally just because the guy responsible for the top image had left the studio the and the devs were too lazy to look for a good replacement, so they with the cheaper normal koren tier anime route its not joe normie would care anyway
>too lazy
They literally could not readily get a replacement because the publisher was being shit.
Cybertroony anime was the perfect psyop to normalgays. It made them unironically believe that downgraded and underpreforming piece of shit was the best thing ever and that there really wasn't anything wrong with it at all. Not surprising everybody is gonna start doing it now. Shitty and mediocre game that you promised too much and cab't deliver in a timely manner? Look pretty korean animation cutscene trailer!
Still mad huh
>Still mad huh
Nta. No reason to change a correct opinion.
Team 17 just messed up big time by not dropping the game in Russia.
They went and lost their star animator from the squad, only to swap them out for some super lackluster animation studio in Madrid.
https://twitter.com/holmik_vereshag/status/1692919534661812329?s=46&t=aWft_OFjXjtHyNoHB-qEVw
>Team 17 just messed up big time by not dropping the game in Russia
Only on steam, you can buy it with no bullshit on egs Which ironically enough is becoming a better option than steam in russia, service issue indeed
>implying ruzzians buy games
thanks to virtue signalling we lost the iconic cutscenes
i fricking hate team17
I dont get it
the animator was russian?
He's a pixel artist and pixel animator. He left the studio because Team 17 won't sell their game in Ruzzia.
Well thats moronic why does he care about that. Russians pirate everything anyways.
He was probably forced to leave. The usual troony virtue signalling
Seriously? This sucks. This whole current Ukraine-Russia shit is messing with vidya.
>oh my god this literal large scale mass murder is affecting my hecking vidya
lmao
>oh my god this literal large scale mass murder is affecting my hecking vidya
yes, why should i care about subhumans killing each other
make my vidya that i will pirate and shut the frick up
Artist is @DmitryDeceiver, one of the best pixelshit artists I've encountered.
There's probably more to it. Team 17 are one on the most notoriously pozzed companies and probably made the devs quit their collaboration with the guy, costing the world another vidya piece of art for shitty woke points.
Not working with russians to begin with is the better business practice
I can tell you're a slav.
I doubt he left on his own because Blasphemous gave him massive exposure worldwide and nobody would willingly miss on a job opportunity like this. Team 17 is just fricking moronic.
the worst part is they couldn't even get japs to do it, instead they hired span*ard weebs to make pseudo-anime
Ahi me voy otra vez
Ahi te dejo Madrid
Tus rutinas de piel
Y tus ganas de huir
Yo no quiero cobardes
Que me hagan sufrir
Mejor le digo adiós
A tu boca de anis
I still don't understand this logic. This is reverse psychology. Instead of providing access to your entertainment products and propaganda through them, and for the money of the Russians themselves, you put a barrier in front of them, from which they shrug their shoulders and take it for free, simultaneously sending you insults for the fact that you deprived them of the opportunity to legally pay for your products. But what strikes me most is that companies such as SEGA, Capcom, Blizzard, etc, having officially left Russia, continue to engage in Russian localization. Russian subtitles will even get a remake of Persona 3 and a new Yakuza, which is nonsense at all, the games in this series have never had a Russian localization, even after the events in Ukraine.
Many corpo's thought the Ruski market was going to be cut off entirely anyway, so might as well get points for cutting them off voluntarily first
Allow me to inform you
https://thegamekitchen.com/contact-us/
>We are proud to have a trans-inclusive feminist team. So is our hiring policy.
couldnt spot a troony in the dev diary, seems like a normal indie gamestudio with men doing the entire work and some female diversity hires for HR stuff
is that ingame?
no way they are using the promo art for the cutscenes
It's the same guy who made the trailers for Blasphemous (1)'s DLC. Now it's every single cutscene in game. No more Papers Please style pixel art.
call me blind, but Blasphemous had some of the best pixel art I've ever seen in some parts.
Pixel art is hard. I can't blame them for not delivering on that. However, the new art looks lame, not just worse.
The actual game still looks great. Backgrounds, enemies, NPCs.
But yeah cutscenes have a completely different art style that looks really bad. Which is a shame.
It was obviously traced, but it still looked amazing and gave them game lots of soul
Better than flash-shit
Too bad the artist behind the first game's cutscenes left, I don't know why they didn't have the current artists in the studio replicate the artstyle rather than outsource the cutscenes to an animation studio.
mind you, animation wise, they're better, more fluid for example.
But the cutscenes in the first game were more like slideshows anyway, it would have been cheaper and easier to do that in my opinion.
Very well said, they could've just done stills in the same style and I don't think people would have been as disappointed. Definitely feels like a loss of identity considering how predominant those scenes were in Blasphemous's atmosphere and marketing.
What is it about Pixel art that looks so much better than any sort of drawn art, even if said pixel art is to the level of detail that is might as well have been drawn?
It gives you nostalgia for a better time
that's not pixelart though amerifart, that's just a drawing.
it technically is pixel art but he's just using the pencil tool to draw instead of the brush and he's not employing pixel artist techniques or utilizing a pallet well.
>It's real
This game has ONE thing going for it, why would they do this.
soul
soulless
Everything in this game is an upgrade so far except for the cutscenes. Wow they're bland compared to the old ones. Hope they patch that
>Be Blasphemous devs
>Entire selling point of your game is great pixel work
>Lose the guy doing the pixel cutscenes
>Instead at least trying to ape it you go the cheap ass route and hire some no name animation studio
selling point of your game is great pixel work
yeah, during gameplay
Redpill me on Blasphemous
Is it really just a Christian metroidvania? The art looks gorgeous, I'm just worried that i will be bombarded with latin
Yes, it's Spanish Catholic metroidvania with a lot of gore because it's inspired by flagellants and the first one is pretty good. I don't remember much Latin.
POST TORRENT LINKS ASAP
I WANT TO PLAY BEFORE WORK
Is there more than one weapon this time?
Its pretty much the whole selling point
Cool i'll pick it up on sale.
Jesus Christ what a loss. Devs are high on their own farts. Good job destroying the one thing kind of unique and interesting about your game.
So far, the animated cutscenes are the only downgrade. everything else is just more of the first one, art style and direction are still just as good as the first one
Yeah, because the russian guy obviously left after 2022, so he had time to do everything except the cutscenes
Was the ruskie just in charge for the pixelart? Or for the concept art and artstyle aswell? Because if he was just responsible for the pixel art, it means there still is the creative backbone present at the game kitchen
only the pixelart
then it isn`t as big a loss as everyone makes it out to be. Sucks to lose a good artist, but it would suck even more if the creative brain left
I was hoping they wouldn't do this. The big patch trailers for the first game used the same anime style, and I hated it because it clashed so hard with the in-game aesthetic. It's a gothic horror fantasy, not a colorful anime.
it's a game that didn't need a sequel.
What games 'need' sequels, anon?
What games are 'needed' at all?
Why does anyone say this like its a reason in itself for something to NOT exist
Marvels avengers infinity war part 1 didn't need a sequel
Except the first game ends with a man in a giant embryonic sac descending from the sky after Penitente gets laid to rest. It was always meant to have one.
That ending was added like two years after the release, to setup the sequel which was already in development
Thats the same style as last dlc trailer.
looks like AI
I thought this as well. It's too clean and symmetrical.
>still no game that scratches that itch
Loop Hero kinda scratches it for me a tiny bit
What game?
You expecting a cartoon to look as good as pixel art? Are you moronic?
>You expecting a sequel to look as good as the first game?
Yes, troony. have a nice day.
Is this a game?
No, just pixel art.
YESSSS ITS UP
I was excited for the sequel, but I don't want to support pro-LGBT developers, so I will buys this game at an 85% discount some time down the road.
>game was literally defined by it's baroque pixel art
>Get rid of it in favour of a random pseudo anime artystyle
What the royal frick?
Most of the game is clearly still pixel
Cutscenes clearly make minimal presence in the marketing, as they do in the game itself
>it's not a big deal just accept it bigot
Never. Get lost, subhumans.
Get mad b***h
It's just a few irrelevant cutscenes, stop being hysterical
yikes cash in sequel
looks ass, seems like they used AI generated shit too, the unique look of the first game is ruined, they should have either offered the russian artist guy more money or get someone to imitate his style, many people could do it
IGN review also said you meet the same enemies over and over and over again, seems boring and tedious
cash grab sequel with soulless ai art
So how pozzed is it compared to the first?
People will post the picture of the man with breasts and claim it's troony representation, but honestly, considering how malevolent the divine powers in this setting are, degenerate mutations is exactly what you'd expect.
bare breasts? I like the casual, non-sexualized nudity of the first game, is there more of it in the sequel?
>man with breasts
They have americans?
sounds like troony shit tbqhwy
The eternal curse of a second game.
Does the gameplay have the same visual style?
The first game is a piece of shit, 6/10 at best. I don't care about your shitty slopgrab sequel.
Oh GOD it's worse than I thought.
Anyone played this? Tell me about it.
Top
>Looks actually penitent
>Eyes appear sad
Bottom
>Generic blank face
That and the top face looks masculine, the new face on the bottom looks androgynous.
Dropped.
>horizontal management
>become responsible for the future of the company
Will I be compansated for this responsibility?
>trans inclusive feminist
Did those morons forget there was a troony vs feminist civil war? It's like putting a ukrainian with a russian in the same team. Wont belong before the studio implodes at this rate.
Get your leftist terminology straight.
Trans-inclusive feminism is a subset of feminism that is pro-trans. That means that's the only type of feminism permitted in the company - trans-exclusionary feminists are not welcome.
>trans-exclusionary feminists are not welcome.
Basically every biological woman that steps out of line and doesn't bow to her troony overlords.
You have 3 stages of feminism. The second stage is not troony friendly, the third stage is.
How do you people not know this?
Yep. They went full moron and lost my money. And the game looks even worse.
You will get paid abortion and castration leave.
That's not what the first one was.
>How do you people not know this?
All I know is some feminists got curb stomped by trannies just like in women sports. Pretty funny how feminists got put in their place and basically lick the boots of men pretending to be women. Feminism is a joke.
You need to know what happens around you. We are all affected by the ideas of people, they turn into policies that affect us. These mentally ill people are all activists that work hard to change everyone's life.
>game where you literally enact the meme of le kill le god with le capital G was made by a pro-trans team
Imagine my shark
>pro troon anti russia studio despite their star designer being russian and their game supposedly being "pro catholicism"
oh nonono
maddening
no big loss.
Holmik was always one of the messier and unskilled pixel artists on pixel joint.
his work always looked halfway finished to me. he's capable of good animation but he usually gets lazy and makes low framerate crap
https://pixeljoint.com/p/99826.htm
shame he likely got replaced by some troony tho.
I wouldn't support this company anyway.
His art looks great in Blasphemous.
>be a studio
>be filled with trannies and women
>dogs became dogshit
incredible, who could see this coming
A shame
Art aside, how is the gameplay?
Better than the first game or about the same?
This, I want to know how's the gameplay and story.
they're both pretty bad the top one is very unrefined pixel art with sloppy shading that looks blatantly unfinished.
the bottom one is very unremarkable but acceptable cartoon art with thin line work, all the same thickness and looks like it was done with the line tool in flash.
Good to see Silksong fans still upset their game will never exist
2 more months
I'm not in a rush. It could come out in 5 years as far as I'm concerned.
>Trans inclusive feminist homosexuals fire their best artist because muh oinkraine
>Replace him with a literal "she/her" amerimutt troon
what did you expect?
I'm starting to believe the sequel curse is real.
They didn't fire, he quit
Shameless cashgrab is shameless
Shit I didn't know the people behind the game were so pozzed. Now I even regret buying the first one.
i dont care about russians, i dont care about trannies working at a company, the game is fun to play and the fact the cutscenes arent animated like the first one sucks but nobody ITT thread saying
>DROPPED, UHH NOT BUYING, THEY MISTREATED RUSSIANS? FRICK THIS GAME
was ever going to play Blasphemous 2, youre bored and you want attention
Bullshit. I was about to buy it when I saw the troony statement posted. I played and enjoyed the first one, it's a great game. They lost my money because of their political extremism.
Stop projecting. I will not buy something made by a woke company and I will expose them at any opportunity.
oh no how will the devs EVER recover?!?!?!?!
ah yes because small studios never go out of business
geuninely thinking your purchase has this much value is insane levels of narcissism hearty kek
wait did they get rid of the pixel art? are they moronic?
Pixel art gameplay is there but no cutscenes in pixels
First one was a boring af dark souls wannabe.
i was never a fan of the artstyle on the cutscenes but frick thats shittier
Gameplay looks pretty much the same other than the two new weapons, so why does this cost so much more than the first one?
dilation station tax
Wtf, Is the entire game in the faux anime style or is it just the cutscenes?