/vr/ - Retro Games

The SNES and Genesis were soulless. Soul comes from developers working to push the limits of hardware and putting this above concern for a deliberate "art style". The 16 bit systems made the sky the limit with 2D, and hence you get affected, gauche, kitsch styled games like Yoshis Island.

Soul made a return in the 32 bit era as new constraints were imposed on 3D, but vanished for sure by the time of MGS2.

SMW gets a pass because it was the first pioneer into 16 bit, and SMB3 is the pinnacle of soul before the shackles were unleashed.

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