Games with multiple art styles

[Psych the Psycho]

Here's an interesting question I've just thought of, does anyone know of any games with multiple art styles? This could be something like the character having a realistic style and the environment having a cartoonly style.

I know 3 games with multiple art styles; Poker Night 1 and 2 and Comic Jumper but are there others?

 

[Sack of Cheese]

First thing that came to mind is Wet, it has this cool style when Rubi gets blood thirsty.

Spoiler

Then there's Kingdom hearts 2 where Sora entered the classic black and white Disney world.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well a more straight forward option is Half Minute Hero HD, where you can switch between pixelated and modern sprites, sadly whoever did the update had no flipping clue and made the whole thing dull as balls.

 

[hazabaza1]

Saints Row 4 goes from 3D shooter sandbox to Streets of Rage to Text Adventure.
Nier has a couple text bits as well if those do actually count.

Ooh, and the Borderlands games have some FMV bits when a supporting character talks to you at times.

 

[LadyLightning]

Plenty of PSX-era JRPGs have 2d character sprites in a 3d rendered world. Star Ocean 2, for example. Valkyrie Profile.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Would the Paper Mario games count?

I mean, there are moments when it seems to kind of shift to 3D (like the wall crumpling ala actual paper) in order to move the gameplay along, but other than the examples already shared here in this thread, that was the first thing to come to my head.

Weak example, I know.

[sub]Sorry.[/sub]

 

[TehCookie]

Psychonauts where all the different worlds have different aesthetics. In Okami one of the unlockable costumes is the realistic rendered version.

 

[Souplex]

Not an individual game, but a series: Fire Emblem.
Most games have relatively different art styles from each other.

 

[MysticSlayer]

The games based on the Code Lyoko show had two art styles, but that some comes with the territory of working on a game based on a show that uses a different art style between the "real world" and "virtual world".

There was also the moment in Oblivion where you enter the painting and everything looks like you are in a water color painting.

Call of Duty 4 had a couple cheats which gave weird filters to the game, such as black and white. I think one even gave a yellowish-orange hue to everything.

Also, you can transition between the classic and modernized versions of Halo: Combat Evolve's graphics in the HD remake, but I don't really think that counts as separate art styles, just different graphical options for the same one.

Finally, Paper Mario does it with the shift between 2D and 3D at times.

Not sure if any of those fit what you were thinking of, but they all at least come close to fitting.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

I'm currently playing a game that shows character's as portraits for everything except when you enter a battle, in which case the style is like Paper Mario with all the character's being chibi, flipping to change posture or expression, ect. I rather like it.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

There's a game out there called El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron.

It's pretty much garbage in terms of story and play but every zone and level has it's own unique art style.

 

[DazZ.]

Evoland is a very short RPG that takes you from black and white Gameboy style graphics through snes Zelda, then playstation era Final Fantasy ending up somewhere around Diablo. That's a fun little 4 hours.

Spoiler: Evoland Trailer

 

[Username Redacted]

There's a game out there called El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron.

It's pretty much garbage in terms of story and play but every zone and level has it's own unique art style.

I was going to put this game up for its artistic merits as well. That said, I would, in addition to calling its writing garbage also call its combat system...lackluster. That said it is, as you say, wonderfully diverse in its visual direction and probably from that perspective the second most creative game I can recall having seen of late. #1 in that department would go to 'Folklore', another gorgeous game with shit writing and even shittier combat.

 

[CrazyBlaze]

I'm not entirely sure if Nier counts. For most of the game its a platformer, hack n slash, bullet hell game with the game chancing to side scroller or top down game every now and then. One section of the game changes to a text based choose your adventure type of game.