/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10174592
Yeah, to be honest SMW looks pretty archaic compared to the artwork in Sonic 3&K, which is pretty beautiful. Comparing the two is like comparing SMW to 8 bit Mario Bros.

Beautiful beautiful game

I'm still blown away by how beautiful the Sonic games were, and how they managed to make this little character sprite bloom with life

>>7428553
Wrong, Sonic beautifully has so many moments of expression no other game character had, would a lifeless husk like fat guido wobble and try to balance on the edge of a platform? As Sonic runs, he goes through different stages of foot animations, when you spindash it's so good as well. Mario simply is a shit mascot and a shit character, it doesn't really matter because he's had good games and remains successful, but he was always a shit design. Crash I would say, at least originally, was better than Mario, but still inferior to Sonic. Crash is nowhere near as generic as OP makes him out to be, and good character design was put in place to make him, but he's still not touching Sonic, every little detail about Sonic is pretty perfect. His name is Sonic....why? Because he's speedy, that's his thing, simple and concise. Why is he blue? Does their need to be a reason? No, but generally we associate the color blue with "cool", it is a cool color on the spectrum, Sonic is meant to be a cool character. Even that little nuance is perfect, Sonic's trademark move is the ability to turn into a ball to attack, well, I mean he is a hedgehog after all, turning that simple animal ability into an offensive move is a great idea. Crash is named so because he crashes into things...not quite as good, but fair enough, crashing through crates is a major part of the gameplay.....but then what else about him, hmmm he's orange just...cause why not, his trademark attack is spinning around like Taz....why? Meh, it's like the opposite of Sonic see, Sonic rolls, Crash spins, but what does spinning have to do with bandicoots? See, Crash is less perfect, even though he's not bad.

Sonic is the most beautiful, most alive retro video character to exist. His animations oozed life and personality, his design was pure perfection. He is the perfect one. You don't just control Sonic, you witness Sonic, you live with Sonic, you get to know Sonic, you are Sonic.

Sonic is by far the best retro video game character, in every sense. There was none more expressive, more immediately iconic, more full of life, more charming. Sonic was beautifully animated unlike any other, beautifully detailed, his designs and animations and mannerisms shined with pure life. Sonic is king, he didn't just get played, he lived.