I'm kind of down on ZTD, even though I am happy that it's coming.
I was so excited for it, but the more trailers I see, the more blocky it looks technically. Uchikoshi I bet was just trying to please the shareholders by driving the tech behind the game forward but boy does it look rough. VLR had 3D characters and backgrounds but at least the narrative was told in a VN viewpoint, ZTD attempts to be cinematic and just utterly fails at it. I feel no tension whatsoever watching the trailers. That sense of dread that came from me reading the graphic and violent paragraphs of text in 999, or the way 3D was used in VLR in a static form with text filling the lines... it all came from my own head. ZTD with its "cinematic" approach leaves nothing to the imagination and you are left with something that you must watch.
I'm getting the game for the story, but my mood going into it is not very positive pretty much