that's why I said international release and not a localization (I did write that at first, but then I remembered people always imported that game on N64). S&P is basically no different of Murasame Castle on VC too (but that didn't had a lot of any text to translate lol)
Lucas is great and MOTHER 3 as well, that I can't deny; .. and I guess at heart, he is also a N64 character.. even if his presence has nothing to do with Saki's absence, at least we have some kind of balance here;
I passed through a phase that everything Rare made for Xbox platforms sucked and it wasn't worth crying for! lol; --I admit I was mildly interested in Conker: Live & Reloaded though.. and years later I got a 360 with Nuts & Bolts, and I didn't exactly disliked.. just got bored :p
I always assumed it was just a cost:benefit thing. Like they'd need to completely redo Saki's model to put it on the same level as everything else (look at that pic above, doesn't even individual fingers!) and it just wasn't worth it given how niche S&P is.
iirc, Dillon is the only AT to receive a major graphical change between games (without being cut and brought back)
Yeah I'm very well aware of Naughty Dog's inspiration and when I learned that later on everything made sense to me, that's why I loved Crash instantly so much XD (the aesthetics and Looney Tunes vibe helped quite a bit too);
just other day I was contabilizing the Nintendo characters that Crash already met; --Add Diddy Kong, some Koopa Troopas and Dry Bones there as well (they were both part of DK's and Bowser's moveset, respectively!)
man Brawl was uglyI dunno if this counts, but Kat and Ana had a style change between Brawl and Smash 4
Mac looks like De Niro in Raging Bull in that pic, that's kinda dopeman Brawl was ugly
wasn't Crash in that sonic racing game
i've never seen a game shit its pants as hard as Sly 4 while also having devs so utterly disinterested in cleaning up the mess they made
Oh yes, that one time Aku Aku was made into a magic wrenchwasn't Crash in that sonic racing game
Sly Cooper has great character design through and through imo; but at the same time, knowing the series really needs to embrace its theme with stealth sections, I guess that was where I drew the line and got me hesitant to try it out ^^"
"Get in, loser. We're doing meth. Guh-huh!"wasn't Crash in that sonic racing game
redesigns are more easy to swallow when its the only thing affected is indeed the aesthetics of a game for sure; take Crash of the Titans on DS for example... still got combat and Titan mounting, but the level design and the general moveset for Crash is closer to the PS1 games: narrow corridors levels, crates to spin and Crash can even belly flop, if I'm not mistaken;
I'd still be interested to see what a Smash Bros. game with a cohesive art style would be like. The comic book inspired art style used in the OG Smash Bros. illustrations were so charming. I'd love a game that looked like that.
I don't imagine a broader audience would appreciate such a thing though.
