Tales of optional black outlines

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Tales of optional black outlines

Posted Nov 12th 2007 11:30AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Imports

The Tales of Innocence developer blog shows a new graphical feature for the game that will allow people to alter its appearance to their preference. At least, in one aspect. You'll have the option to add black outlines to the hero and monster models, giving the game more of a cel-shaded look. Or you could choose not to!

Black outlines certainly make everything look crisper, but in doing so they could expose you to deadly jaggies. Either way, the game seems to look nice for DS 3D. And it's certainly kind of them to provide options like this, which can change the whole style of the game.

[Via NeoGAF]

Tags: cel-shading, namco-bandai, rpg, tales, tales-of-innocence

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11-12-2007 @ 3:14PM

Foodie_Monster said...

I wish we could see a better screenshot of it, but for what it's worth, I think that the black lines make it look really good in many regards: Take into account how DQM:Joker looks, and seriously, it's almost like a PS2 cellshaded game (with really crappy textures), and that's a good thing for a 3D DS game.

11-12-2007 @ 3:35PM

Bluebreaker said...

I seriously hope this comes to America! We need more 'Tales' games!!

11-12-2007 @ 5:02PM

Brello said...

Jaggies never bother me, lousy framerate fluctuations do. Hopefully they'll dodge that bullet! I'll take sprites and 60 fps over polygons and 30. I'm likely in the minority on that one.

11-12-2007 @ 9:45PM

iofthestorm said...

"I seriously hope this comes to America! We need more 'Tales' games!!"
QFT. Nothing more I can add to this discussion. Someone should start up an online petition or something :P.

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