Launch Window Announce Trailer

I'm "stained" with Joy!

Nah, that's Mana  

Kojima is illustrating one piece of the KS-exclusive packaging, a sleeve for the tiers 100 and up.

purifyweirdshard Ah, yeah now I remember. Thanks for reminding me haha. Been so long.

Very interesting, didn't expect to hear anything until next update. Neat little surprise to comfort the fact that Metroid Prime Trilogy wasn't on the Direct. Abilities look interesting, specially the teleport one. Also that inverted castle at the end, damn the design of the casle must be perfectly crafted for it to work.

God damn I'm in love with the box art, amazing work @mana

Who else really liked the "invert" part at the end?

Finally! I have waited a LONG time for this! Bring on the demons! My blades are in danger of getting rusty!

The trailer rocks!

Impressions so far:

The good:

- "Invert", no elaboration required

Areas for improvement:

- During cut scenes / event scenes characters should have emotional expressions appropriate to the situation at hand. Not asking for Heavenly Sword type facial expressions but something that looks good, appropriate, and isn't the character's standard expression during regular gameplay. Please no close-ups of an expressionless Miriam.

Here's an example that looks bad: Zangetsu's face looks like it belongs to a pre-painted pvc figure (especially bad in motion) and Miriam's expression looks totally neutral. Also the coloring of Zangetsus face and upper body seems like a mismatch. Maybe it's just in this shot but worth looking into.



Here's an example where facial expressions are well done; all story segments ought to emulate this level of expressive detail:



- Note some of the game's assets still need to improve as can be seen in the screenshot above and in the wooden structure in the image below (the Galleon Minerva likely still needs a lot of work done based on the wooden structures shown in this trailer):



- Is there any way to turn off the numerical damage displayed after striking an enemy? Would be much appreciated.

- Any chance you can make the blood that splatters against the background look less tacky?



Note I really like the level of detail of the area in the foreground Miriam is standing on in the picture above and in the backdrop as well.

Not so much of a fan of the foreground stage in the picture below no matter how many times I see it:



Try experimenting with adding some coloring and/or additional shading in the areas highlighted in red for a more palatable visual here.

- Johannes face could look better:



- On a related note, for dialog sequences where the character models are shown up close, if you have a more detailed model than the normal in-game model please use those instead of the in-game model (see first demo). Yes consistency is nice but a better looking character up close is even nicer.

That's all that comes to mind right now. Seeing a lot of good things here, kudos to the team for a job well done so far, but there are still a number of things that need fixing as well. Keep up the good work.

PS: Happy Birthday Arsenical.