Amgard wrote:Or very well-used shadow effects (think Deus Ex IW quality)
Of course it would be shadow effects. In many cases, that's clearly what its supposed to represent in the game, as when Cetsa and Kygar are talking on the balcony in Lide.
Of course, I also explained this already.
DSOK wrote:I think you could render the blacked-out characters in three dimensions; it would just take a lot more work. You would have to arrange very carefully all the scenes involving them, so that they would only appear in full shadow. You then depict them just as they appear. There's no essentialy difference between that and what Lun has done, but in two dimensions, it's not really possible to show any depth of shadowing, so the characters appear as completely black.
However, this makes me think of another question, What if there were voice actors for the major characters? That might give away Violet's identity when she appears in the dark with Kygar. It's not a major point, but it's another issue to think about.
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