I've played a lot of games in my life. A lot. But from Valve, To Insomniac Games, to Square-Enix, I've NEVER been so much in love with the ARTWORK in a game as I am with SK. Even when I stop playing the game, when I fall out of it, I still can't get over how beautiful it looks.
I mean, the characters and objects themselves are just adorable, but not so much that it's disillusioning. But even more than that, the level construction gives you a sense of how immense the Clockworks are. You can look off the edge of the land you're standing on and see enormous cogs turning ever-so-slowly miles below you.
I can honestly say that this artwork in SK is my absolute favorite out of decades of gaming. Is anyone else in with me on this?
Yes. I don't play any other games, because I haven't found any other games (for Mac/Linux) with a visual design like this one. I don't want musclebound barbarians and chain-mail bikinis. I want adorable wizards dressed as chefs wielding giant rocket-powered hammers.