it suffers badly from japanese flat world syndrome, textures are bad especially ground textures, trees look terrible and vegetation is generally sparse, lighting is quite flat in many cases and downgraded from showings a few years ago, the open world is purportedly gated into segments for performance reasons, monster models look pretty bad, animation is pretty iffy, there are visible clipping problems (this was every few seconds in the titan demo), the character designs are bad (especially cidney, but the squad look bad too). bounding/colision boxes on movement are weird in some footage, and camera and animation transitions into qte moments in the titan demo were jerky. all of this runs at a low dynamic resolution with visible aliasing, the user interface is crowded and ugly, and visual components of combat such as visual feedback on hits are poor. finally, both of the publicly released demos ran substantially under 30fps and had bad drops, as well as bad frame pacing.
honestly this is one of the ugliest high budget titles i've seen in a long time. i assume because they made it on white engine black engine crystal tools luminous engine luminous studio pro rather than using an off-the-shelf engine made by people who actually have experience developing and releasing games.
the particle and smoke effects, and some of the weather stuff looks pretty good though.
i get that i'm a negative nancy and a lot of people in these threads are very excited for the game and everything, but i'm not making stuff up out of thin air.
It is probably the best looking out of all the recent PC screenshots (they had PC UI). But yeah on PC it looks as good as Duscae or better, which still had full global illumination. I will always keep the demo alone for that reason. loved the lighting there.
