/vr/ - Retro Games

Despite what retards will tell you, sovl isn't just "thing I liked as a kid". A game has sovl if it:
>has a quirky but not WHOLLY original aesthetic
>contains eerie, offbeat, or unexplained elements
>evokes a sense of nostalgia, not for the happy parts of childhood, but for rare, confusing peeks into the complex adult world
So Super Mario World does NOT have sovl. What you see there is what you get. But Ocarina of Time DOES have sovl, ex in the happy mask salesman and the cows you find in random caves.
A lot of sovl comes from a game being poorly translated from Japanese, with jokes and ideas seeming bizarre or scary due to missing context.