You might be skeptical, but No More Heroes takes no shame in its purposefully dumb story and makes an extremely fun experience. As one of the more In this open-world action-RPG, you'll travel around on your scooter, beam-katana in hand, free to do as you please. If you're sick and tired of conventional video game experiences, you've come to the right place. Trying its hardest not to promote vandalism and gang violence, Jet Set Radio takes some extremely weird concepts and turns them into a highly stylized, totally unique, and radical time through the streets of Shibuya-Cho.
While battling the police, a mysterious organization, and other gangs with similar graffiti-related hobbies, you'll zip around the city on rollerblades with your spray-paint at the ready while listening to some sick tunes. Jet Set Radio added onto the Dreamcast's already creative and impressive lineup of games, and it would later get the HD releases it deserved.
In a time where first-person shooters were more than prevalent within the gaming industry and were arguably the most popular genre at the time, Borderlands made a name for itself with its expertly done cel-shading, a humorous and nonsensical plot, and by changing up the typical FPS gameplay formula enough to make it its own.
With the recent release of Borderlands 3 , the series isn't going anywhere anytime soon, and the first Borderlands game will inevitably still look beautiful for years and years to come. Dragon Ball is one of the biggest anime franchises of all time, but this isn't just another anime adaptation video game. Capcom , and Guilty Gear and dumps everything we know and love about Dragon Ball into it.
Graphically, the game's use of 3D models depicted as 2D sprites makes an extremely dynamic and awe-inspiring gameplay style, and it truly feels like you plugged in a game controller to your DVD player. Taking huge inspiration from the famous movie studio, Studio Ghibli, the Ni No Kuni series strives to capture the feel of Hayao Miyazaki's award-winning visuals into a full gaming experience.
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch and Revenant Kingdom both aim to make the experience feel as close to Studio Ghibli standards as possible, and it comes extremely close. If you're not playing for the stunning graphics alone, the gameplay within both titles offers something for everyone, with monster-catching, real-time RPG combat, action-RPG sword battles, and strategy elements to offer variety and charm to these beautiful games.
The Persona series is one of only a few cases where a spin-off series ultimately became way more popular than its predecessor could ever have hoped to be. With Persona 5 's release, the whole world was taken by storm with its picaresque, flashy art style and strategic and engaging gameplay. This hour journey somehow manages to always feel rewarding and exciting, with a fantastic story and one of the best casts of characters in modern gaming.
If you've got the time and dedication for a massive game like Persona 5 , you won't be disappointed. Initially criticized for its straying-away of a more realistic art style to take on a cartoon-like look, The Wind Waker would eventually become one of the most praised games in the Zelda series.
Even with an HD remake in tow, the original Wind Waker still holds up to this day. With a fantastic story that bleeds Zelda , characters you'll come to love for years, and a true sense of adventure while sailing the Great Sea, The Wind Waker feels like your own personal journey on your TV screen, and at the end of your adventure filled with pirates, monsters, ocean, and charm, you'll want to jump in all over again.
Okami cannot be described as anything less than beautiful. There's no other game quite like it, and you'll never forget it. Taking on a traditional Japanese style of art, Okami puts the player in the role of Amaterasu , and you traverse the stunning land, where you'll just want to sit still and take it all in.
For its gameplay, it adopts many tropes from Zelda , which is definitely a great series to borrow from as Okami 's gameplay remains on par with it. While the art style will never be lost to time, HD re-releases have cleaned up the muddier graphics in releases like the Wii version to let it shine its true colors as a work of art. Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing.
Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results. There was once a time when it took serious balls for a developer to decide to completely overhaul a series' visual style in favour of the cartoon comic book aesthetic of cel-shading, and you only need to look at the history of Nintendo's Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker to see how controversial that was.
Fast forward in time by a decade though, and everyone seems to be doing it. And now that we have over 10 years worth of cel-shaded video games to look back on, that once mysterious 'it' factor has become far less enigmatic.
At least, not at the same rate as traditional graphics do. Really, all you have to do is look at some of the examples in this article - some of which are over a decade old - and then compare them to their non cel-shaded contemporaries, and you'll immediately get an idea as to just how bloody well they've stood the test of time.
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