Setting aside the whole wanting to fuck cartoons aspect, I do like that older stylized, semi-realistic but still anime console game aesthetic, it has its own charm.
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At least when it doesn't fall into the same uncanny valley as MGS4
IIRC the CGI artist who made the first game's cutscenes had huge trouble making convincing looking white people since he didn't have references to work off of. The Silent Hill games definitely tried to lean more on realism with their character designs, which makes sense since they were trying to make their games have a believably American aesthetic
I think they aged well. I prefer, say, Link in Majora's Mask than some more modern anime games that try to 1:1 the proportions of modern light novel adaptations.
Setting aside the whole wanting to fuck cartoons aspect, I do like that older stylized, semi-realistic but still anime console game aesthetic, it has its own charm.
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At least when it doesn't fall into the same uncanny valley as MGS4
The old Silent Hill Face phenomenon, I think back on it fondly
IIRC the CGI artist who made the first game's cutscenes had huge trouble making convincing looking white people since he didn't have references to work off of. The Silent Hill games definitely tried to lean more on realism with their character designs, which makes sense since they were trying to make their games have a believably American aesthetic
I think they aged well. I prefer, say, Link in Majora's Mask than some more modern anime games that try to 1:1 the proportions of modern light novel adaptations.
Same, though I can respect the transition to a more photorealistic style given that they've done a decent job with it.