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Most beautiful 3DS game?
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Jonneh3003
Banned
Kingdom Hearts 3D
Resident Evil: Revelations
Majora's Mask 3D
Monster Hunter Stories
Kid Icarus Uprising
Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon
Toadthemushroom
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There are a lot of beautiful 3DS games but IÂ’d have to go for LuigiÂ’s Mansion 2 as the prettiest. The animation is superb, and the use of dynamic shadows and lights impresses throughout while also adding a lot of atmosphere to its locales and scenes. 3D effect is stunning as well.
Props to the OP for waxing lyrical about Superstar SagaÂ’s remake. It really is gorgeous, the use of light and shaders on top of the pixel art and drawn backgrounds gives it a lot of subtle depth in motion.
Props to the OP for waxing lyrical about Superstar SagaÂ’s remake. It really is gorgeous, the use of light and shaders on top of the pixel art and drawn backgrounds gives it a lot of subtle depth in motion.
The backgrounds are incredible, but the 3D models and effects are just okay.
ElectricBlanketFire
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Jonneh3003
Banned
3DS wishes it could produce visuals like that.
EX Troopers. Between Citra, bullshots, and the PS3 port, it is seriously tough to find native 3DS shots of this game -- but it's worth it.
3DS has some seriously beautiful games. The specs might not be up to standard anymore, but the super strong art directions crafted by Capcom, Square Enix, Nintendo, and even Namco more than make up for it.
3DS has some seriously beautiful games. The specs might not be up to standard anymore, but the super strong art directions crafted by Capcom, Square Enix, Nintendo, and even Namco more than make up for it.
Heartskips
Banned
Another JP only release with great graphics/artstyle is Labyrinth no Kanata/Beyond the Labyrinth
-shadow-
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No idea what this is like, but this gives me Shadow of the Colossus vibes.
Poltergust
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-Most Capcom games (Resident Evil: Revelations and the Ace Attorney games)
-Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
-Mario & Luigi 3DS games
-Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
-Mario & Luigi 3DS games
The Real Napsta
Member
Metroid Samus Returns
SomewhatGroovy
Banned
Damn time flies
I thought the DQ7 remake was actually rather nice looking
both SMTIV and IVA had quite nice looking environments too, especially the indoor stuff
but yeah, if you want consistency from start to finish, you'll probably have to go with one of capcoms games, either RE:RE, Mohun Stories or ExTroopers (although the latter isn't really that impressive)
yeah, especially the ... not sure how to call them... the black rooms where you gain additional powers. although the further you get, the uglier the game becomes in my opinion. Also a lot of graphical glitches start to show up.
it was pretty awesome in parts, especially story-wise. Too bad it never made it over...
both SMTIV and IVA had quite nice looking environments too, especially the indoor stuff
but yeah, if you want consistency from start to finish, you'll probably have to go with one of capcoms games, either RE:RE, Mohun Stories or ExTroopers (although the latter isn't really that impressive)
Another JP only release with great graphics/artstyle is Labyrinth no Kanata/Beyond the Labyrinth
yeah, especially the ... not sure how to call them... the black rooms where you gain additional powers. although the further you get, the uglier the game becomes in my opinion. Also a lot of graphical glitches start to show up.
it was pretty awesome in parts, especially story-wise. Too bad it never made it over...
rochellepaws
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On top of what has already been said I've add Hyrule Warriors Legends as a game which looks very comparable to the Wii U version and I was quite impressed how well they scaled it down although I hear it was a struggle performance wise on original 3DS hardware.
Captain Europe
Member
Definitely agree with superstar saga, don't think I've ever seen lighting like that on sprites.
Bruce Springsteen
Member
Because of the low resolution of the console, 3DS games just never look good in pictures and video, they almost always looks significantly better in person
Citra screenshots/videos are pretty impressive too.
PotionBleue
Member
Kid Icarus Uprising not only looks great, but it also has one of the best 3D on the system.
Agree with all of the titles so far. Never understood why people don't see that this little machine can make some great looking games. No they are not HD but the art design they used was amazing. I will go back longer to the DS titles like Spirit tracks, Okamiden, Metroid Prime hunters, World ends with you, Mario and Luigi inside story and there are others.
The Hermit
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Revelations. It's almost feel impossible that it looks like that
What is this?
EX Troopers. Between Citra, bullshots, and the PS3 port, it is seriously tough to find native 3DS shots of this game -- but it's worth it.
What is this?
ArkhamFantasy
Member
I think Bravely Default wins this hands down.
Bruce Springsteen
Member
But thatÂ’s more because of its beautiful art style than the actual technical achievements of the game
Kid Icarus. It may not have had the highest poly counts on the system, but it did have amazing art direction, really nice effects and awesome cutscene direction. I liken the pace of it to something like Gurren Lagann. It just keeps escalating! The fact that it did its visuals in real time (you can actually move the camera around in the cutscenes like in Metal Gear) AND in 3D without ever dropping a frame on the 3DS is pretty impressive.
The Hermit
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it literally tells you within the first 2 words in your quote...
it's ex troopers
I know (I can read lol) but what it's about.
Sometimes I feel people at gaf can't read the subtext anymore or it's lost in text form
YankeeDonB
Member
I won't argue about technical achievement, but Bravely Default is the prettiest game I've played on there.
As the screens show, it's a third-person shooter, mostly on foot but sometimes in a mech (with some of the mech levels being shmup-style instead). The gameplay is lock-on based, with emphasis on dodging rather than aiming. You follow a linear, mission-driven progression with cutscenes that evoke comics. You fight monsters, mechs, and enemy soldiers in roughly equal measure.
It's technically a spinoff of Lost Planet, though the astoundingly anime plot and tone might make you doubt that fact. It completely ignores the whole "freezing to death" angle that Lost Planet had.
There was a LTTP thread for it not too long ago, if you want to know more.
James Scott
Banned
A bit of a shame that 3DS games peaked in terms of impressive tech showcase so in year 1.
Revelations and MGS3D are very impressive as is the likes of OoT3D.
Revelations is probably the most impressive game technically.
Kid Icarus looks really nice too
Revelations and MGS3D are very impressive as is the likes of OoT3D.
Revelations is probably the most impressive game technically.
Kid Icarus looks really nice too
Well many people have yet to be able to play it but Dragon Quest XI is impressive for a 3DS game. It had to sacrifice 3D effect but it uses a beautiful 3D engine able to display many things at once, runs flawlessly and has some top-notch animations.
The animations in DQ11 3DS are truly, truly impressive. Here's a pretty good example: https://youtu.be/KrjvdfIOoaI?t=834
sixteen-bit
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Tekken 3D
JordanN
Banned
I use to defend 3DS graphics vigorously, but now I find a lot of the 3D games to be very dated looking.
That said, I will always appreciate the 2D [spritework]. I wish 3DS got more of that.
Mighty Switch Force, Project X Zone and DBZ: Extreme Butoden are the only good ones I can think of. Even the original DS had a lot more sprite games. :/
That said, I will always appreciate the 2D [spritework]. I wish 3DS got more of that.
Mighty Switch Force, Project X Zone and DBZ: Extreme Butoden are the only good ones I can think of. Even the original DS had a lot more sprite games. :/
there's an easy explanation for that: 3ds hardware has no native way of handling sprites. sprites you see in 3ds games are apparently flat polygon models. That's different with the original ds