澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Stellar Blade and Goddess of Victory: Nikke developer Shift Up has 🧸released the first snippet of art for its upcoming game Project Witches, newly renamed to Project Spirits, and it's as over-the-top horny 💙as you'd expect.

I had to crop the bejesus out of it to make a SFW listing image for this article, so here's the full piece, as spottedꩲ by Genki:

I don't expect anyone is shocked by this style, nor do I think Shift Up's biggest fans are upset about it. Speaking as someone who disliked 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:how ridiculous some unlockable outfi♑ts looked on Stellar Blade's female lead Eve, I actually prefer the Nikke approach of making the entire game loudly and proudly sexualized so everything's at least coherent. (澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:I do, after all, play Zౠenless Zoꦓne Zero.)

More surprising, especially given Shift Up's pedigree for character designs, is an accompanying row over alleged generative AI use in𝓰 the reveal art for Spirits, which features two women framed by dramatic temples demonstrating the "Eastern Fantasy" theme discussed in (machine translated) job applicati🉐ons attached to the project.

Reactin🍃g to the reveal , some Nikke fans pounced on the bizarre thumb on the left woman's left hand. Snippets of the background are more curious still, with the wood frames of several temples showing the sort of bizarre artifacting, inconsistent smoothness, and illogical nesting of details typical of generative AI.

It's difficult to say definitively that this art was made with or assiste🎃d by AI, but Shift Up has notably been of using generative AI in previous promotional art. Studio boss Hyung Tae Kim has also repeatedly AI, or at least AI-assisted, illustrations on his personal Twitter, and seems to be an a🌄dvocate for the technology.

AI aside, the style for Project Spirits has been widely likened to Shift Up's first game, Destiny Child, which launched in 2016 and shut down a few years ago. This, coupled with Nikಞke, may also provide a rough idea of what to expect from S💟pirits.

Job listings for Project Spirits suggest it will be closer to Nikke than Stellar Blade, at least in terms of format and monetization. Machine translated details f♎rom combat, art, and nar♛rative listings indicate it will feature multiple playable characters, open-world areas as well as towns and dungeons, and a focus on action gameplay. An abundance of playable characters would be straight from the gacha action RPG handbook, and not at all unfamiliar to the house of Nikke.

There'🎃s also mention of cross-platform support, and though we don't know those platforms, it's increasingly common for modern gacha action RPGs to launch on both mobile and console or PC. To really hammer it home, multiple listings also specify applicants familiar with games like Genshin Impact and Zenless Zone Zero.

This is still just speculation, but it's mighty informed speculation. Stellar Blade is a good, sort-of open-world action RPG, and Nikke remains a powerhouse in the gacha space, so in a post-Genshin world filled with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:games like Wuthering Waves and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silver Palace, it seemed inevitabl✱e that Shift Up would try its hand at a similar formula. It certainly has the experience and appetite for these kinds of games.

Project Spirits, whatever shape it takes, may end up being exactly that. If you were holding out hope for another no-nonsense single-player game in the style of Stellar Blade, well, you can still hold out until we get more official details, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:there's always Stellar Blade 2.

Stellar Blade is already the third top-selling game on Steam more than a week before launch, and just its demo has reviews and players most full games would kill for.