I welcome the resurrection of 3D logos, flat logos look nice but start to bore me. This blob, however, is just weird and not really unique in the sense that I would mentally link it to the platform.
The live player shadows look promising, I got bored with New Super Mario Bros U because it's missing interesting interactions with other characters. Having humans fill in the gap is a nice idea, this is also one of the things that motivate me in the souls games.
I switched to vscode a while ago. The remote development extension pack is great.