After seeing the trailer, I am not a huge fan of the visuals.  They are not bad, but they're not as exciting as I had hoped either.  The characters look too much like the generic "realistic cartoon" style that's popular now with games like Fortnite and Overwatch (I noticed a Metroid callback in one of the designs as well), and the environments look mostly like any other twin-stick shooter on the market, and everything looks way too dark.  Of course, the gameplay is what's important at the end of the day, but I was hoping for a more unique Amplitude Studios touch in the art department here.  If the goal was to look like a comic, I would have preferred something more unique like hard-drawn graphics, or maybe a "3D comic" approach like XIII, Void Bastards, or (to a slightly lesser extent) Borderlands.

CristataC wrote:
However in the actual gameplay parts of the trailer the graphics seems different from this style. I think the darker environments makes it look different from the tiresome bright and colorful design of the very standard "realistic cartoon" style these two games popularized.

I do agree that the art style doesn't look as goofy in the actual gameplay.  I don't mind dark-ish environments to prevent a Fortnite-esque rainbow explosion, but something about the way that the darkness/shadows are done in the trailer bothers me. You can't really appreciate the environments because a large portion of everything is obscured by shadows which restricts your field of vision and makes everything hard to see. Maybe there's a power management mechanic like in Dungeon of the Endless and all of the rooms in the trailer are unpowered - don't know. It just sort of feels like one of those shooters (2D or 3D) that overdo the darkness in order to support a flashlight mechanic.