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Message: [QUOTE="Lena CE, post: 99461, member: 26523"] There is a fundamental difference between a game trying to capture PC98's aesthetics and a game trying to capture some other era. Hell even if they aren't using a system like the NES or the SNES as a benchmark, comparing the largely static images seen in VNs to what more traditional experiences like beat-em-ups or platformers have to do feels misguided. Of course when you're creating a handful mostly static image with little to no interactivity you can truly go all out with your artwork and art stle. Idk, it just feels like an apple and oranges comparison, especially when the example of a game "doing it right" is another VN-style experience. I love VNs, but I wouldn't pretend that someone could make a platformer look as consistently amazing as a static PC98 screenshot without putting in absolutely dreadful amounts of work in. Still, we do have examples like Hyper Light Drifter and The Last Night that try to use a lot of contemporary techniques to create some jaw-dropping scenes, with the latter of which being in development for like a decade or so. [/QUOTE]

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