The Shadow of the Colossus remake is state-of-the-art. However I can't help but feel something is lost in translation. First, the art direction seems slightly occidentalised.
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Some important graphic features are missing too, like the very specific eery glow Ueda and his team implemented. It was a uniform blurred buffer + brightness * distance instead of using actual color. It led to this incredibly murky look. The last 2 frames are recreated in Unity:pic.twitter.com/zN4B8sFwD1
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This effect was incredibly well used, and particularly advanced for its age. It was sampled in steam, fog, and smoke particles: look how the silhouette is blurred behind the geyser here!pic.twitter.com/1MImlA4etu
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Look how the sand clouds were blurring the silhouette. Incredible compositing, even today 99% of games don't do that.pic.twitter.com/B9eFpWaIWE
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And maybe the best example of this effect. Just majestic, you feel the light piercing through the dust... While it's just a blurred buffer sampled in the particles.pic.twitter.com/gR5T9aiHqR
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Also, I really don't like what they did with the protagonist in the remaster. Ueda was right to stylise the kid in The Last Guardian. Everything else is ace. Agro seems perfect in the remaster.pic.twitter.com/pkAHCo9K1H
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@bluepointgames please, you have 2 months to implement this crucial feature and rework a bit the particles effects. It's doable <33 replies 2 retweets 56 likesShow this thread
I’m not the biggest fan of the team ico signature ‘atmosphere’ and blurryness. So I don’t know if I’d personally miss a slight shift there. BUT I haven’t seen much to show that it’ll be wildly different. In some cases it seems MORE atmospheric. (PS4 bottom)pic.twitter.com/eRQrGrcMLr
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Will agree though that PSX trailer was almost TOO clean looking.
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