Comment by ssully
6 years ago
Maybe in screenshots they look bad, but Celeste looks great it motion. Lots of good lighting effects, motion effects, and other things that make it look modern.
Undertale has really basic art in certain sections (like in the provided screenshot), but it really ups the detail in a lot of areas (especially certain boss fights) that again, make it look modern and better then the authors games.
>Lots of good lighting effects, motion effects, and other things that make it look modern.
The trouble with those effects is that they run at high resolution, which calls attention to the low resolution of rest of the art. I much prefer a consistent art style like Shovel Knight (still the best looking modern pixel-art game IMO), where it's all low resolution. Celeste also uses that hideous cartoon style for the characters, where the noses are solid red. It looks like they have a contagious disease.
Undertale has the same problem with inconsistent styles, but the inconsistencies are less frequent, and the character designs are better, so I prefer it to Celeste, but I still wouldn't call it good. It's like an inferior version of Earthbound, and Earthbound was criticized for its primitive graphics 24 years ago.