The color palette early on shifts in a way that makes the game feel very surreal in a sense, and
the pixelated design of the game mix with a pseudo-3D scrolling effect add to that.
Not exact matches
In addition to the regular Paper Mario aesthetics, the
game also uses many novel character, enemy, and background
designs, including a fully
pixelated world and the use
of sprites from the classic Super Mario Bros. for certain techniques.
The
game sports a really cool
pixelated art style that gives it a character all its own while offering tight gameplay and a lot
of player choice in how certain elements in the
game look such as the
design of the ship.
Our friends at Raw Fury have just launched a sale on their first title, Kingdom, an award - winning and IGF nominated sidescrolling strategy
game that has enamored thousands
of kings and queens with its
pixelated charm, simplistic
design, and brutally challenging and addictive gameplay.
So if Sonic 4 implemented the classic style
of Sonic (short / black eyes), in either 2D, 16 - bit HD,
pixelated or 3D, it would be a perfect addition to the classic
games cause his old
design would be reflective
of the previous Genesis
games, which is what this
game was originally advertised as.
With the resurgence
of many
of those franchises (as well as Tim Schaefer trying to relive the days when he did something other than
design failed business plans and
games that sound better on paper,) Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick reunited again to bring us a perfectly encapsulated blast
of old - school gaming, a
pixelated wedge
of surreality that brings back the days when puzzles were kind
of obtuse and
games were dialogue - heavy, and none
of that was in any way a bad thing.