Yeah thanks for confirming my suspicions on this.
I think there’s a lighting space where things are playable enough (80% playable? the parito’s law of playableness?) and we’ll probably call that normal daylight.
Part of me also wants the extremes of it being too bright or dark or washed out or whatever to be “random days” during the day/night weather cycle. The washed out colors where there’s more ambient light than daylight seem annoying to play in the way that it would be annoying to swordfight in the rain? It would also incentivize having your own personal lightsource and everyone could find their own personal favorite “lightsource” so I could have a lot of them.
I dunno, we’re still tweaking htis. I am definitely going to follow your route and have mostly direct light in the fighting game portion of this game, though. The shadows help make this very, very clear and I’m really happy about that.