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Every time I see video game combat that looks like this I just want to take a nap. So much razzle-dazzle, so many shapes and colors flying around constantly, huge explosions for every move. I find it totally illegible and viscerally off-putting.
(No shade on Ys X in particular, it's just the most recent example I had on hand)
The worst is when one of these games has all of the explosion spectacle and it just decreases an illegible healthbar by 5%. Feels like a visual punishment overlaid over a slow button-masher to me
all that said, i appreciate when games clearly signal that i won't be interested in them
You can tell how much the average game dev loves anime since so many games look like an anime fight scene
but the cool thing about anime fight scenes aren't that they have lots of splashy effects, it's that they're choreographed and directed to visually convey the weight and drama of the action
The vfx are definitely intricately choreographed and synced with audio and character animations. It's just very hard for it to operate on that level unless the developer restricts encounters to 1-on-1 since lots of things can happen at once
a single animation being choreographed isn't the thing at all, though. the point of anime fight scenes is to communicate the flow of the entire fight, which is exactly what's being lost in combat like this. if every attack is layers of huge colorful arcs and giant explosions, the whole thing just looks like undifferentiated overstimulationāthere's no drama, no push and pull
what i mean is that functionally they are made via the same process, the output is just very different. for 2d games the storyboards, keyframes, coloring, etc are quite literally done by tv animators sometimes
