Multi Beauty in a Sea of Grays and Browns - Gen 7 Consoles

[Fool's Requiem]

I've been watching a lot of videos recently, and one constant in regards to the 7th generation of video games is the excessive use of grays and browns being used in games following the success of Gears of War and the Call of Duty games, as well as a need to be "mature".

Made me wonder, what great games came out during that generation of consoles (X360, PS3) that were colorful and pretty. Bonus points if they're not needlessly serious. Wii games don't count, because Nintendo was not short on colorful and lighthearted games.

Examples:

Rayman Origins
El Shaddai
LittleBigPlanet
Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts
Street Fighter 4

Anything before Gears shouldn't really count. So no Kameo or Perfect Dark Zero.

 

[Raine]

There are tons, but Prince of Persia 2008 is the answer. Absolutely beautiful game, even if there was no real difficulty or challenge to speak of. Damn Ubisoft for being Ubisoft with it.

 

[Smacktard]

El Shaddai is pretty trippy and definitely visually unique, but I see you mentioned that one already.
Viva Pinata -- surprised no one mentioned this one.
Valkyria Chronicles is probably the most vibrant and colorful war game of that generation.

It's pretty telling that it's difficult to think of many examples...

 

[Fool's Requiem]

It's pretty telling that it's difficult to think of many examples...

No kidding. I searched "bear graphics on the PS3" and almost every game featured heavy doses of gray and brown. Even the Uncharted games. Vanquished is a game that people like to mention when "hidden gems" come up and that game is pretty much all grays and browns, too.

 

[Raine]

Just did a quick scan through my TA profile and pulled random screenshots from Google. There are lots more I could come up with, but obviously I'm super into JRPGs and Japan in general has never wanted for color.
Several of these definitely don't qualify as "great," but they're still colorful.

Bastion (see also: Transistor, Pyre)


Blue Dragon


Final Fantasy XIII


Final Fantasy XIV


ilomilo


Infinite Undiscovery


Lost Odyssey


Persona 4 Arena (see also: P4A Ultamix, BlazBlue and ArcSys' output in general)


Persona 5


Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope


Tales of Vesperia (see also: Tales of Xillia, ToX 2, Tales of Zestiria)

 

[Fool's Requiem]

JRPGs are not my jam, unfortunately.

 

[Raine]

JRPGs are not my jam, unfortunately.

A lot of those are Action-RPGs that may or may not be your jam?

Gimme a genre, I'm sure I can find colorful shit in this mountain of games!