In this thread, but I'm not referring to this thread only or mostly. I've read people online complain about the fact that they even are chibi in model, this was also a complaint I saw for LA:RE and that it is using the chibi model look for the characters. Not "why do the chibi characters look like that?" Its "why are they chibi in the first place?"
And that's a fair comment to make about how it's not liked because it isn't 1:1 as LA:RE, but so far I've seen people comment "why are they chibi??" Not here necessarily, but in general. Ive seen people have a problem with the fact that they are chibi before even thinking of why do the chibi models look like that
To address you both at once, the point is that even if they looked identical, the complaint of why are they chibi still exists regardless of how glorious the world looks and how good the quality of the models is, they are still chibi(or chibi-like?) in form. The aesthetic that it strives to achieve is similar to each other (LA models vs DP models), it's not the quality of the models or how it meshes with the environmen, it's that some still have an issue with it being Chibi at all. Some people had issues with LA when revealed as being chibi, similar to the situation in the here and now where people have an issues that the models are chibi to begin with. Which, again, is why I am saying that even if the game looked 100% identical to LA:RE, the comment some make of "why is it chibi/chibi-like(??)" still stands regardless.
Even by looking at them side by side you can draw some comparisons between the models and what they are striving for.
