There are plenty of great looking indie games but nothing that matches the pinnacle of pixel art of the time. We're talking about a time when we had publishers dedicating an entire team and budget to pixel art games. Saturn and GBA probably represent the last times we saw publishers investing in "AAA" pixel art games.
This game looks great too! Reminds me is Symphony of the nightI completely disagree with the premise of this thread but I will bring up the upcoming game Bushiden which to me looks a lot like it's going for a 32bit 2D game aesthetic:
I tried the demo of the game back in the PS3 days and i fell in love so hard i bought it instantly. Fantastic looking game, even today
Iconoclasts was mainly done by 1 guy, I think and Owlboy got in dev hell (also had mainly 2 or 3 devs?). Neither are examples the cost of HD 2D. Now, KoF XII and XIII on the other hand...
We tried with Gunlord X for Switch, but it got unfortunately completely ignored by all big media sites including Nintendo themselves.
I went PS1 that generation as my first console ever....big mistake not picking this one up as well. :((Too many good games we will most likely never see the light of day on modern platforms. We were all fooled lol
Get new eyes, OP.
Get new eyes, OP.
The former is a roguelike, the latter is not. DG is also getting a DLC (that will be free to current owners, at least) that heavily revamps the game in a not so distant future, and I would advise wait for it to play the game. It's pretty rough atm, though not unplayable, bugged or anything.
It's almost like what was true in your social circle wasn't true everywhere.
Yeah I was fortunate enough to have access to both. I generally preferred the Saturn's titles at the time it was still going but was grateful to have a PS1 as it really came into it's own in later years.
That's mostly because some of the best and most impressive games never left Japan and we were stuck with just the 3D games for the most part.
Is Hollow Knight vectorized? looks like rasterized art in each frame like Skullgirls/traditional animation to me, since one can see some imperfections and weight in the strokes of the outlines, etc. I think I remember reading that the sprites were .PNG.
I completely disagree with the premise of this thread but I will bring up the upcoming game Bushiden which to me looks a lot like it's going for a 32bit 2D game aesthetic:
Timespinner looks like it could have come straight out of that era
Your game looks great and is exactly what I'm looking for! Hope to find more of that ilk that covers that era of gaming.
It's also inferior to the PS1 version - a rare thing for sprite based games of that gen. You're right, Arcade is probably best though
Now that's what I'm talking aboutI completely disagree with the premise of this thread but I will bring up the upcoming game Bushiden which to me looks a lot like it's going for a 32bit 2D game aesthetic:
