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Meet the cast of KNACK (+ new screens)
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thesuperfunk
Member
I think it looks fantastic!
WordsintheWater
Member
Really tempted to pick this up at launch, haven't played a platformer in forever.
nogoodnamesleft
Banned
played this last week at the ebgames expo. great game. probably the cleanest looking next gen game (iq wise. saw very little to no aliasing)
game is HARD. even on normal. took me a while to get used to. its certainly not a button masher. you need to dodge and move around very quick. if i was getting a ps4 on launch this is the game id probably get.
game is HARD. even on normal. took me a while to get used to. its certainly not a button masher. you need to dodge and move around very quick. if i was getting a ps4 on launch this is the game id probably get.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
wish it had a better art direction
DangerMouse
Member
Reposting my thoughts from the other thread. 
Nice to have some character info. The characters look good in these.
Had no idea Ryder was related to Lucas, that's cool. Now I'm expecting his role to be quite different from what I thought before.
Will definitely be playing this.
Nice. I thought the voice cast sounded great in the old trailer, I'm looking forward to hearing them.
Nice to have some character info. The characters look good in these.
Had no idea Ryder was related to Lucas, that's cool. Now I'm expecting his role to be quite different from what I thought before.
Will definitely be playing this.
Nice. I thought the voice cast sounded great in the old trailer, I'm looking forward to hearing them.
That's good to hear.
EdReedFan20
Member
It has a great pedigree. Mark Cerny assisted Naughty Dog and Insomniac in shaping Crash Bandicoot, Spyro: The Dragon, Ratchet and Clank, and Jak and Daxter. I'd wager he knows a thing or two about making a good platformer.
Totally. Such a painfully uninspired art style...
BrokenEchelon
Banned
I've always felt squeamish about this game. On one hand it's supposed to allude to the mascot days of yore and invoke nostalgic memories of PSX/N64 days gone by, on the other hand...those screens look like shit.
It's like trying to create a soul by following a recipe.
It's like trying to create a soul by following a recipe.
supaflyryguy
Member
I just posted this in another thread regarding these screens, but it's worth posting here again, because it's a total "can't unsee" thing:
Community Forum
Member
There's some scribbles.
valkillmore
Member
Very good to hear. Most games I play on Normal difficulty settings if given the option. I'll be playing this one on Hard.
Looks good to me, better than the non-Rachet stuff Insomiac has ever done.
Personal pet peeve of mine - I always look at the character's mouth to see just how well the dev has lip synced the dialogues.
Thanks to you actually, not long before you can make threads on your own.Thanks for picking this up, artist!
lol seriously. Can't unsee.
SloaneRisette
Member
Damn I really can't unsee that now.
FacelessSamurai
..but cry so much I wish I had some
Man this game looks very bad from these screens!!!!
This reminds me of the time I realized that none of the characters in the original Toy Story blink with both eyes at the same time. It's always one before the other.
we.are.the.armada
Member
Hey is it true that Ico/SoTC people worked on this game or something? I'm not really seeing it, I dunno, maybe in Knack itself, hmmm...
WordsintheWater
Member
That's what makes me so tempted to buy it, even though I heard some negative impressions. Games like these are so refreshing to play every once in a while, instead of dark and gritty stuff all the time.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
It's a Japan Studio game...those games were made by Japan Studio...so there's going to be some overlap in the development team.
WordsintheWater
Member
I hate you so much right now, can't unsee it haha
It is likely, since team ico moved to Sony's main offices and development priorities changed. Having said that, the vision and leadership for the game wouldn't necessarily change when new devs join. There could be influences, but we haven't seen much to spot them.
MagnaderAlpha
Member
I'm probably one of the few who loves the art direction. It gives it its own unique look. Glad they didn't opt for yet another "realistic" looking game. Talk about bad art direction. Give me artistic style in the look of characters over the overused realism you see in most games. Besides, I'd much rather take something uniquely cartoon(CG toony) than what eventually happened to Overstrike/Fuse. Hell, give me more unique artistic styles in gaming. Open the flood gates and let it flow in!
Whoa!!!!
I thought the same, especially Knack himself. Seems odd too since the game wasn't out of the PS4's potential from what we saw before.
flipswitch
Member
Dont know if it's my phone, but those screens appear to be using sweet-fx in someway
Gherid__lacksGPS
Banned
I'm on the fence about this. If it were 40, it would be a no brainer. But with injustice taking one spot on my likely two game launch list....I really am interested in it, though.
valkillmore
Member
Yeah he kinda does resemble knack
LOL! I'm having a great night on GAF. I wish I could hug every one of you.
It would be great if there was a FMV intro of Cerny introducing Knack to us. You know, another throwback to the PS1 days.
I actually think it looks better than before. Maybe I'm misremembering what the reveal models looked like.
Here's a comparison between the reveal chracters and the new screens. The lighting is definitely different. Ignore the sharpness of the old screens because I captured them from a 1080p Youtube video. This will give a sense of lighting, geometry, stuff like that.
Left: Reveal
Right: New
Left: Reveal
Right: New
Glorified G
Member
I don't think that post came out the way you intended