[GekkePrutser]

Monkey Island was always heavily cartoony. Even in the days when cartoony was the only option for resolution reasons they had these woolly clouds and caricature faces and buildings. I think the style fits perfectly with the previous games.

[DrSiemer]

The original games used frame by frame handdrawn pixel art. This is tweening and morphing sprites, which creates a very different look and feel.

The choice makes sense though, as creating handdrawn animations for today's resolution and framerate is an immense amount of work.

I'd still argue it could use a little more contrast between fore- and background, but we will have to wait for the game itself to see if it works better without all the quick cuts.