Capcom is going for a western look and the RE engine calls for them to scan people’s faces. But I can’t sit here and agree that they’re just adopting a new style and sticking their middle finger up at the long time fans. Itsuno has said in multiple interviews that going for pure western photo-realism wasn’t working for the gameplay or the action cutscenes. So they found a middle ground between the old style and the new. When comparing what we have seen so far from DMC5 to RE7 you can see a big difference. The developers at Capcom deserve some credit for understanding this and not just pushing forward.
I’ve seen/heard/read many people’s opinions that they don’t like the new look. That totally makes sense to me; I have plenty of entertainment/media that I don’t consume based on an overall aesthetic or something else about it that doesn’t gel with me.
I’m not gonna say that these opinions aren’t without some merit, and I don’t disagree with all of them. Based solely on the video footage we have so far, Dante and Nico have “realistic” depictions of facial contortions in their smiles that evoke the uncanny valley effect. But I also have to point out that none of the characters look objectively “disgusting”.
“OH MY GOD DMC5 LOOKS SO BAD WHAT’D THEY DO TO NERO!”
They cut his hair a redesigned his face a bit to look different from Dante and Vergil, look at 4 if you shave Dante and swap around their hair they look exactly the same 😐calm your shit guys
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