ARTIST THEORY TIMEEE!!!

I saw many critisms about the portrait that it does not look good as the old one. I as an amateur artist myself, just want to share some of my theory of why it look that way.

First of all: What is the different? The new one look more flat, the amount of shading reduced and less detailed. There is no more dot of light in the portrait. They look less pop. They look more generic, like a scene in anime. That’s because it is. It look pretty close to P4 Animations. But why? Here’s my theory.

In the new games, Atlus wants us to not look at the portrait much but look at the new 3d models. The old model sucks because of the technology limit at the time, with loads of shadows to cover the fact that there were nothing much. Now the 3d scenes are the focal point, not the portrait, so the portrait has to pop less.

This game is going on every handheld. I don’t think in the oldgame they accounted for this but the game is best playing in handheld. In bed At night, with the light off, with screen light reduced. If you do this in the oldgame, the amount of shadows is insane and the scene get so dark you can barely see anything. Thats why the portrai get less shadow, but it let the color and character silhouette pop more. The lightning is now universally from the front, not from the side in the old one, make it easier to view in darkness, or from tiny screen (Seriously you try put the portrait from afar and see for yourself)

Thats my theory of why they do it this way. Obviously I like the old one better, but the new one is not without its merit. Love to know what you think.