Darn, this looks hella interesting. Can't wait to give it a play.

This looks awesome. Subbed!

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Great art, but it's one of those things where it's hard to look at.

Art doesn't have to be easy to look at. They're going for a specific style, which they have achieved. This is such a back handed way to post a comment on a project, especially when there's nothing technically wrong with the work, you just think its hard to digest and decided everyone else needed to know.

I'd take art that's ""hard to look at"" (it's not) over the homogenous consumer-diluted crap we get from triple A titles 95% of the time.

I thought their comment was valid. I think the game looks very cool, and I personally won't have an issue playing it, but I do think some players might benefit from a "low-contrast" mode where the black is made to be a very dark grey. However, that of course is up to the devs to decide if it's worth doing, or if it conflicts with their artistic vision.

Yikes, didn't intend to start something and I should have been more detailed. My apologies, I left a short comment after viewing the screenshots without thinking about how it would be taken.

The art is very precise and obviously very well done. My problem with it that for me personally, it's almost blinding where I can't literally look at it for too long because it blurs and physically hurts my eyes. That's on me. I just had this come up with another game actually. But I know I'm not the only one. It's a very contrasting palette of black and white that is incredibly sharp and well defined. Again, it's amazing artwork, no question about that. It's the brightness that jumps out and makes it hard to focus. And this is just me looking at screenshots and not playing the game.

You're justifiable in defending it and I wish I had elaborated more. You and Arch are great artists and respectable as well as those that came to defend me and I appreciate that as well.

edit: Good example is the screenshot of character cards, where those unhighlighted make a good contrast for the bright white highlight card. That doesn't bother me in the slightest looking at it because it's not just two stark colors.

Yo I didn't know Ness was making another game :O

As someone who makes lofi color games I get comments like that all the time that read more to me as simply a eye/preference/readability issue hence "great art but difficulty looking at." Personally I have keratoconus and things like straight up thin white over pure black tend to be super blurry to me with a ghosting effect. It's an extremely common problem especially with website colors such as this CSS page. I can kinda deal with it but making a bold art choice like this is very clearly going to be not everyones thing especially for usability.