• 🗑️😸@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    The style is called Rubber Hose, for anyone wondering if there is a name for this style.

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    11 months ago

    The art direction is on point and that goes a really long way. Hard to gauge how the gameplay feels from watching a video (though it looked a little basic and clunky?). If they deliver a good story and nail the humour this style calls for this could end up a surprise hit.

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      11 months ago

      The 1 minute long trailer had me bored by 30 seconds in. I like the art style but they have a long way to go with so few assets and such little variety in death animations. It has to be a huge variety of assets and animations if their whole project is based on the art style.

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    11 months ago

    So what was Cuphead? I know, I know, it’s not an FPS, but it could use the exact same title format and nothing would be different.

    This game is only using an art style. There’s literally no way this would cause any IP lawsuits even if it released today, unless you’re actually playing as Steamboat Willy and the whistling tune plays somewhere in the game. Which, to my knowledge, isn’t the case.

    It’s an interesting art style to give an FPS, but that’s about all this is.

    Edit: holy shit I just realized: this is an entire game based on GMod Nextbots. You’re just shooting at animated PNGs that shoot back. Holy fuck.