His art style is easily recognizable. Its sad, but I've heard so many people crying foul because DQ8 characters look like his work. Um, hello? He's been designing these characters since the beginning, hasn't he? If you look at official art from any game its all the same fair. Only difference is the video games themselves couldn't represent the art style (same problem with Amano and old 2D FFs). Now it's finally the way he invisioned it, the way it's supposed to be, and has supposed to have been all along, and people are mad or confused? Quite odd. I'll say I like the look of the game. Just not into the whole dubious amounts of random encounters and leveling up stuff. But I may check out the game someday