The visuals have a comic book-esque look to them and work quite well aside from the sometimes clunky facial
animations during dialogue.
Not exact matches
Even
during the EA Access phase where EA allowed players to check out the game before the rest, players had already begun to ridicule the lip syncing, the occasionally odd turn of phrase in
dialogue, and some of movement
animations either quirking out or simply stopping.
Facial
animations — especially
during dialogue moments — are particularly ugly, which only serves to amplify the weak writing and voice acting.
We'd have liked more voiceover work
during dialogue scenes — this is another area where budget or time issues seem to have hamstrung Stoic's vision, because there are fully animated and acted scenes early on and these quickly drop off in favour of written
dialogue and basic
animation.