Well, I was very dissapointed and bummed out earlier today, now I'm a bit more relaxed and level headed, so I'd like to do a breakdown of the trailer, I don't like being negative and I'd like to always be as fair as possible, so I'll give Konami a chance.
The first thing we saw was the color scheme and font. I'm about to give an opinion that is likely unpopular, but I don't think Blue & Yellow is a combination that is doomed from the start, just look at an away Sweden or Brazil kit, it can look stunning. The mistake here was the choice of shades, they're both too bright and saturated, if they went for a Navy Blue and Gold Yellow, similar to PES2019, it would've been lovely, as it is now I don't like looking at it. The font is horrible, it's both ugly and unprofessional looking, I'd have loved something more sophisticated, or at least less exaggerated.
Next we get to the look of the game itself, I'm not sure if it's just placebo, but this looks better than the last trailer, however it still looks like a regular PS4/XBO game, unless they have a better looking version and aren't showing for... reasons? Either way, it looks ok, but that's dissapointing because the jump to Unreal was supposed to make the game look photorealistic, not just "ok". One thing I have to give them credit for is that the lighting and colors look better than vanilla PES2020 and PES2021, it's less saturated and the turfs are more realistic and easy on the eyes, however it still looks worse than PES2019 and night matches to me look poorly lit, as if the clubs are trying to save up on the light bills. Player models look decent, the kits aren't overly baggy and players themselves look more fit and less bulky, though again I'd say that it's still worse than a previous title, in this case PES2018. They've taken some steps forward, but in departments where they had previously taken steps back, so it's still dissapointing in a way.
When talking about the actual gameplay there is a clear focus on 1v1 and skills, which makes me believe this will be closer to FIFA than the previous titles were, I'm not sure if that's gonna end well, but I'll wait for it to come out to judge them on that regard.
Physical battles are a good thing, it's a part of the sport and nowadays we have the best technology ever at our disposal to replicate it faithfully, it looks good so far. Then they mentioned reworked fouls, could this mean that we'll finally have a more acceptable number of fouls? I don't know, all they've said it's that it's been reworked, but they didn't mention in what way, so that's concerning, it could go both ways, but hopefully we can have fouls like PES5 again, or at least like PES2011/PES2012.
Regarding team playstyles, I'm worried about the gameplan screen we saw, hopefully that's not all there is, but it could be considering it'll be crossplay with mobile, and I imagine that for mobile it'd be ideal to have a simplified gameplan, which wouldn't be a good thing at all. Also, this whole team playstyles thing, I mean, what an odd thing to show in a trailer... like, it's not like teams couldn't play possession or counter attack before, there's nothing new or interesting about this, it's standard... at least they've mentioned off-the-ball AI, hopefully it means that it'll be given more attention than in FIFA. Also, new controls, this could go either way too, but it looks like they're trying to make defending more difficult, which I'm ok with as long as it's fun, and as long as they don't remove basic defensive controls.
Duel camera, it's not for me, and it looks like this might be the only addition regarding cameras, which is dissapointing, we still don't have a camera similar to FIFA's Tele or End-To-End and that's a bummer.
The circle around the players, I'm ok with it, you'll probably be able to turn it off just fine, and it gives me ISS vibes which is welcome.
Seamless restart isn't a huge deal, but it's still good to have, I like this addition.
Now, things like the physics, player movement and weight, footplanting, it all looks similar to previous FOX Engine PES, since it's probably still exactly that under the Unreal 4 hood, in one way that's dissapointing, in another way it's fine because they did have a solid core, so I'm sure this will play at least decently, the speed of it also looks much more realistic than FIFA for example, so I'm glad they've kept that aspect about previous titles.
On a last note, I didn't mind KEEP ON MOVING as much as YOU ARE POWERFUL, so another step up.
Well, that was the trailer, and while there were decent things about it, it's still a huge dissapointment, it looks like at best we'll be getting a standard PS4/XBO FOX Engine PES with graphics worse than PES2019, menus which are an eyesore, simplified tactics and a F2P model... I mean, sure, it might be perfectly playable, like most FOX Engine PES titles were, but that's not what we were promised, when they skipped a year and showed that Messi trailer, it felt like they were going for a revolutionary, photorealistic, generational leap, and this isn't it.
If I had to give my excitement for eFOOTBALL a score, I'd give it a Disinterested Piqué out of 10.