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Water is genuinely hideous especially on larger open surfaces with really noticable gridding
Weird green-yellow-brown everything that looks like actual vomit
Whatever the fuck is happening with the light reflections against almost every single surface in the game looking like plastic
Not great landscape design that often ends up really flat, emphasizing the poop-brown dirt walls like in your own photo and their repeating textures
Sunset in particular turning the entire game into a yellow amorphous blob is genuinely bad design
Night time shadows and normal maps just have some off characteristics with how flat they are
As nice as the skybox is for stills, it gets kind of boring to have the exact same weather pattern forever instead of more dynamic clouds, clear skies, and other things
Crimson Mirelands isn't crimson, it's dirt brown everywhere
The beaches in particular just look wrong with their weird overly-done patterns. They would've been the best targets for an actual flat and matte texture, but still end up looking like reflective plastic at certain angles like most other surfaces on top of their overdesigned dark and light patches
If I had the will I could keep writing but there's so many things that bother me about the game in a vacuum. At the very least, the game is kind of redeemable in that at least the artstyle is very cohesive and isn't trying to be a lot of different things like SwSh and SV were. It doesn't feel like I'm playing a different game between areas like how SwSh's wild areas felt entirely different to every route or how SV's kind of detailed areas completely clash with the Team Star assets and bases that are so underdeveloped it makes me stare for a minute
