Good heavens YES in re: Super Metroid. That game is gorgeous. The Norfair Chozo Temple makes me so happy.
Part of the branding of Castlevania is in the artwork and the people who get all bumfussy about Kojima's work need to sit down. The first CV covers were pretty generic fantasytype art BUT they did lend a look to the series and Kojima has a similarly painterly quality to her stuff. Castlevania is gothtastic fantasy overwrought--yes XD
And Kojima's art makes SO MUCH SENSE in relation to--okay, the time period in which symbolism and the Pre-Raphaelites and Gothic novels and such were exploding all over the place. Dracula is one such novel so ta-da. But people just want to ignore this in favour of whining about how Kojima's guys can be androgynous.
When people whine too much I tell them to go google Tori Maia's work or Araki Hirohiko's and then come cryin to me about androgynous guys XD
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Date: 2013-07-20 06:11 am (UTC)Part of the branding of Castlevania is in the artwork and the people who get all bumfussy about Kojima's work need to sit down. The first CV covers were pretty generic fantasytype art BUT they did lend a look to the series and Kojima has a similarly painterly quality to her stuff. Castlevania is gothtastic fantasy overwrought--yes XD
And Kojima's art makes SO MUCH SENSE in relation to--okay, the time period in which symbolism and the Pre-Raphaelites and Gothic novels and such were exploding all over the place. Dracula is one such novel so ta-da. But people just want to ignore this in favour of whining about how Kojima's guys can be androgynous.
When people whine too much I tell them to go google Tori Maia's work or Araki Hirohiko's and then come cryin to me about androgynous guys XD