>>7541185>stylized based on og artwork from ff7This would be so great. I don't know why Square dropped the anime look and started going with a pseudo-realistic aesthetic for the FF series. It really looks dumb when retroactively applied to older designs. Ever since Advent Children, FF7's original feel has been lost to that tryhard CGI crap. It just completely loses the feel of the original.
Like, when the art is this stylized and cartoonish, you don't really question how ridiculously spiky Cloud's hair is because it works with the overall design. But now that they're going for Spirits Within 2.0, they had to tone down the spikyness of his hair to this awkward halfway point that's too tame to be memorable, but still too ridiculous to look good on their hyper-realistic character models. Same thing for the crazy-ass buster sword. It looks like a charming caricature of a massive weapon on the old character designs, but in the remake, he looks like a fucking cosplayer toting around a plastic prop.
Unironically, old: good, new: bad.
