krabstew

really though the way i see it, why not. it would be appalling if it were a large company creating a game for a console and making money off it but as far as i can tell, it's a personal project of a group of people that even cited locoroco & other games as a source of inspiration. it's a flash game available for people to play on the web for free and a fun one at that. not as good as locoroco certainly but a commendable effort.

why not? this is awesome!

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"When FF7 came out it was really easy to distinguish CG:"

somewhat unrelated but that reminds me of those ads for sports games where the players (tiger woods and er, others) were rendered as video game graphics playing in the real world, low polygon count and all XD

i dunno, though i do see how using cgi can be misleading couldn't you argue that unless game ads use only in-game footage, they're all misleading?

the animal crossing tv ads uses live footage of kids riding bikes and people in animal suits to sell the game. "why, you can't ride a bike in ac at all i call shennanigans!" ...and so on so forth.

using cg is just implementing another tool to sell a game as is using live footage, narration, text and animations. i guess because cg resembles video game graphics it becomes misleading.

placing "not in-game footage" in the corner of the screen should suffice in allowing companies to continue using cg animations in ads i say