It has modern 2022 gamers aesthetics. Larian did their research and know their audience.
Goofy movement, colorful, silly this and that humor. Blood/gore is goofy looking. Sex is cringy...characters behave like what adults think kids imagine adults behave like. This is a PG13 game at heart trying to show gamers its really like a rated R flick.

For me it so hard to take seriously. I like dark fantasy, realistic colors touching a bit on horror. Tons of atmosphere. BG2 kind of felt like that. Notice also the game world...in BG2 there is NOTHING no UI elements that disturbs the world, the UI is AROUND the play area, not in your face. Its incredibly immersive.
The perfect analogy would be the 90s first Matrix movie versus that wanabe <<Matrix??>> movie that just got released. Or the 1997 Ghost in a Shell movie versus Arcane <league of legends> for style.

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