User blog comment:JAlbor/Wikia at E3 2012/@comment-4896103-20120525014813/@comment-3420061-20120528023528

When I look back, I see this cartoony trend foreshadowed in DLC3's new elements. The look of the Omega Assassins (doing backflips in high-heeled boots?) and the anime-esque (as of right now, that's a word) Devastators in particular. Even the Drifters are goofy looking, albeit in a creepy way.

I that think you and I are on the same page, discomfort-wise. I also think that my discomfort ultimately comes from just having played too damned much Borderlands. Stockholm Syndrome, if you will. So knowing that about myself, I'm pretty much saying "bring it on, Gearbox-- I had no notion that the first game would be so fucking good-- I trust you to do something awesome with the second."