Blitzcrank's Poro Roundup: Bandle City "Visual Update"?

Ebonmaw Dragon·8/20/2015, 11:53:43 PM·5 votes·4,935 views

In order to make a pause of all those PROJECT threads... i decides to create this Thread about the new minigame "Blitzcrank's Poro Roundup".

In this minigame we can see a lot of things that are very interesting... even if the game is not "canon".

And the most interesting of all those things is the Stage of Bandle City

http://i.imgur.com/dmM968S.jpg

Which is very different from the other pictures of the City that we have seen in the past

http://apollo-na-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1420425576558/BandleCity.png http://i.ytimg.com/vi/X_SwxLhEW0Y/maxresdefault.jpg

In the minigame, we can see different buildings from the City:

On the Top of the stage there are buildings similar to the houses of the Smurfs, with a lot of mushrooms, but keep a slight reference to the "medieval style" from the old pictures of Bandle. https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQSkSwJTpb1hCAqgesG8XPJ_sWt5fWbdW4FFXXvCV7UWlbXtF2q0g

In other hand... on the bottom of the stage... we can see the roofs of buildings, with an strange style that mix futuristic technology (that slightly reminds me to "The Jetsons") and nature.

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/thejetsons/images/2/28/Orbit_high_school.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120109205505

That mix makes sense, but differs a lot from the old medieval style that the City had. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Vannes_medieval_buildings.jpg

However... i think that the changes to the city (if they keep them for the future) and fit more with the yordles than the old style.

So, what do you think about the "changes" in Bandle? or the game in general?

PS: Another nice thing about the game is that we can finally see a part of the Void.

2 Comments

PrimarchKyle8/22/2015, 1:59:19 AM1 votes

I'm afraid I don't see it as quite so strong a departure as you do, to me it looks just like they made the existing Yordle setting "cuter" to fit with theme of the game, it still has a vaguely rural medieval look to the houses. They are especially Tudor, but it would be hard to compress a tudor style house into the artwork. I think the artists just did an impression of Bandle City. I mean the Piltover section has no skyscrapers, or any buildings at all, but I'd hardly say that means they visually updated Piltover to be a barren field criss-crossed by highways (though that might very well be Jinx's preference).

Or maybe we're just in another area of Bandle City for the Round--Up, sometimes different neighbourhoods have their own style.

Tesla Effect8/22/2015, 2:11:07 AM1 votes

All in all, Bandle City event cant get any sooner.