The original sprite characters were cute and attractive in their own way, yes that goes for the male ones too. What the fuck, game devs? Does everything have to be a Konami style thirst bait delivery system?
The pixel art is pretty good and it does look mostly ok (a lot of reused and edited art), but the art that appears when theres dialogue it's fucking weird. (Fio, Iri and that two other girls, Nadia and Leona look normal) They also sexualized the two girls that give you items (I remember that she had a pretty funny role in Metal Slug 3D)
What is worse is that they had less horny designs that they changed to hornier ones. Madoka (Support Npc that gives you items in the original games) before and after. Besides these having nothing to do with the Metal Slug art style, I think theres one that is legit a basically naked catgirl.
Madoka went from "attractive woman I'd ask out on a date if I was single" to "more doe-eyed le sexualized but le innocent waifu slop for the weeb slop hogs" in that art direction pass.
The pixel art is pretty good and it does look mostly ok (a lot of reused and edited art), but the art that appears when theres dialogue it's fucking weird. (Fio, Iri and that two other girls, Nadia and Leona look normal) They also sexualized the two girls that give you items (I remember that she had a pretty funny role in Metal Slug 3D)
Good gravy. The pandering is so universal and lacking in thematic consistency that it's just le monster girl fetish fuel there.
May as well have a slime girl with weapons stored inside her slime body too, just to hit all the fetish checkboxes.
What is worse is that they had less horny designs that they changed to hornier ones. Madoka (Support Npc that gives you items in the original games) before and after. Besides these having nothing to do with the Metal Slug art style, I think theres one that is legit a basically naked catgirl.
Madoka went from "attractive woman I'd ask out on a date if I was single" to "more doe-eyed le sexualized but le innocent waifu slop for the weeb slop hogs" in that art direction pass.