/vr/ - Retro Games

dunno, maybe it's like Megaman II. They knew what worked, and they only needed to improve over it while doing minimal changes to the core gameplay.

From my point of view, It was a good moment. People just wanted "more" and no one would complain about "it's exactly the same but with more color, the formula was still fresh (outside japan) so there was no need to reinvent the game and make hit or miss changes. Plenty of time to focus on the content, rather than the engine and game logic.

I hate that after getting burnout from red, playing the japanese roms and even the very early partial translations, I never got to play it when it released. Moving from high school to uni and no time for games sucked.