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The high resolution gives the visuals some appeal, but the character designs are repulsive and the environments too drab.  You can tell the designers are European and unfortunately informed artistically by all those old Amiga games with dull, gnarled forests.  Nanatsu Kaze no Shima Monogatari accomplished this style much better 15 years ago, much less Vanillaware's more recent works.

I do think the bold outlines are a conscious stylistic choice.  It wouldn't be hard to change it if they wanted to.  The results are comparable to Daemon Bride, if not better.

Another benefit I forgot to add is that the "frames" will stay on-model.  If you look at some of the old GGX animations closely the anatomy would often shift in strange ways.  Capcom could exploit the deformation aspect of 2D animation magnificently (e.g. Wolverine in XM:CotA, which is still the best representation of the character) but the Arc System Works staff was never as talented and it just came across as drawing errors.  These models are a marked step up from the GGX sprites, at least.  Also, I wouldn't call slight anti-aliasing "blurriness", and dot graphics use a similar technique to soften edges.

Maybe I would enjoy BlazBlue or Persona 4, but I have heard many times that they essentially use a watered-down version of the Guilty Gear X system.  I really hope that they don't do the same thing with this game.

I have to say that I think this looks great.  It's the best cel-shading I've seen in a game and hopefully we'll see more of it, with improvements (Hard Corps: Uprising 2 would be nice).  If they were trying to recreate Metal Slug visuals in 3D I would probably take issue with the rendering but for anime-style it's sufficient.

They really nailed the Amiga look with Gun Lord.  Random art direction like waterfalls coming from the sky and gargoyles on mountains, and the illustrator and sprite designers look like they never consulted with each other.

The silhouette fad in these games is old.  How pathetic that these people think no style is supreme style.  It just highlights how hideous the forms of these characters are.

David Kong Country Origins Returns: Betrayal

The face on that Gun-Lord boss is made up of bad forms that aren't pleasant to look at.  The thin jaw, the eye placement which suggests they are as close as nostrils, and nostrils that appear to be on the cheekbones are the offenders in my eyes.  Really, it's just a second rate version of this design:

Here's a system tutorial for Double Dragon for Zeebo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N_cMoceAss

Here's a video from the iPhone version which seems to suggest an "updated" system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgmUt3lf1Fo

While new sprites are refreshing, honestly there have been better looking/playing OpenBoR games.  Also twenty-five years later you'd think they'd learn a lesson from Final Fight's scenario design (hint: have more than the same short-range enemy dressed up in a different sprite.)

"Polished" is a weird way to describe Super Contra's laggy aiming.  The FC version is great though (lol.)  Spririts is great but a bit too easy.  Uprising would be an arcade game, if not for the aforementioned Donkey Kong Country shenanigans.

What I mean by "2D anime-style backgrounds" is that the textures have a painted quality.

I'm thinking of re-writing most of my old reviews and Metal Slug will probably be the first.  I'd like to make it around 20-30 paragraphs and talk about every aspect of it as in-depth as possible, including the visuals which I stupidly ignored in the original.  I also left out much of the mechanical detail that make it (along with some of it's sequels) one of the best action shooters ever made.  I think I also included a dig at the later sequels which was also stupid, since they look and play better than any action shooter not called Metal Slug 1-3.

I thought the illustrator was Italian.

Hard to believe these words are coming from the guy who recently made Mega Man 10.  But yeah, you solve the problem of Japan being a year behind by aping the Western games from a year ago and maybe adding a few small tweaks.  Worked great for Amiga developers of the 90s and Lost Planet: Circle Strafe to Win.  What's the Japanese word for "cognitive dissonance"?

"eFeX"

He has a site, but I'm getting text instead of GIFs, most likely due to insane amounts of hotlinking.

http://galeon.com/efex/web/page1.html

"Unreasonableness"?

This looks bad (play-wise, as well as visually) even compared to the original, which I played recently and enjoyed except for the stupidity of generating power-ups by getting hit (even when it's just one ring it's stupid.)  It's a shame they didn't fix this flaw before it became ingrained.

Having the option to home in on a swinging vine?  It'd almost be a perfect parody of how brain-dead and insubstantial Sonic stage design has become if Dimps was in on the joke.