- Joined
- Feb 1, 2018
I am intrigued by the story and think it’s the better part of the mod (I also like the music), that’s true, but I did have some issue with the art because Sarv and Ruv almost feel like they had the cheap route taken out on them. They’re very similar in body type, have almost the exact same face, and most of their distinction only comes from their clothes and colour schemes (not a good sign to a character designer). It sticks out even more in the context of FNF considering how traditionally cartoonish the rest of the designs are in their exaggeration. If they wanted to go for a stickpeople look, they almost didn’t exaggerate its simplicity enough, so their designs are stuck in this strange sort of limbo.I like Midfight Masses and it’d probably be my favorite mod if it wasn’t for the fact that the charting is bad. I think the draw I have from it is the character Sarv herself who from what I’ve read is a demon who tried to better herself and enter heaven, but got declined and now spends her life playing Christian and trying to lead people to a path to good. Sort of similar to Daniel from FNV Honest Hearts, but in a more exaggerated and iconic way. I also like their styles. The “glorified stickmen” is a simplistic art style that fits with the FNF and Newgrounds style and, in my opinion at least, it’s kind of charming. I also don’t understand what you mean by edgy. It doesn’t seem that way from what I can tell?
Their poses alone sometimes have this issue too- Ruv comes to mind, because if you looked at his arrow sprites without hearing any of the music or looking at the shaky screen effects in the final thing, you probably wouldn’t even know he‘s meant to be shouting, let alone shouting so loudly he scares people and cracks buildings. It lacks that extra ‘pop’ to it that makes you really feel what’s happening, at least for me.
The dialogue isn’t majorly awful, but there’s plenty moments where I can remember there being small issues with the things like the punctuation and wording. Ruv’s dialogue in the prelude to his fight was eye-rollingly unsubtle back when I watched it, for instance. I do actually think it’s a good mod, I like some of it as well, but I still find it a bit amateurish in spite of it- which some annoying part of me is probably bitter about.