I'm sorry, as someone who has no nostalgia for super Metroid and the 'competent' artists(?) who spawned it, I am going to say that image is ugly and it makes me think you have poor taste. If you want to see what actually great modern sprite work is, check out the very well done La Mulana. I've seen this exact same style in countless other games, like in Superbrothers S&SW (but that was one of the earlier ones), before and I've grown completely tired of it. The look they use has unfortunately become a generic staple for many indie games now. Here, let me upload a picture to make it more obvious for you: If Legend of Zelda and Secret of Mana are their inspiration, then why not actually make high quality sprites, instead of those generic non-shaded stuff every indie game uses ?Īre you seriously accusing this game of *not looking good*? They got a bunch of money to make a game with that style. Using a pixel art style is just part of what they were selling. They're doing a very smart blend of an art style that recalls nostalgia, while implementing it in a way that could only be done today.Īnd if you listen to the interview, making an old school action RPG with modernized gameplay was their whole pitch. Seriously, the movement is gorgeous in this game. The lighting engine is absolutely gorgeous and they have some of the most detailed sprite animations I've seen. Secondly, while there are some cheap knock-offs, there have been a handful of games in this style lately that are absolutely gorgeous. Art and programming are two very different things.

It's a tremendous feat to actually ship a game, no matter what platform you're using, and simply because they have simple graphics doesn't negate their ability to be a developer. First, no matter what it looks like, you just look like a bit of an ass by putting developers in quotes.

While applying a quick pixel filter and throwing some bloom over top of it may approximate a static screen shot of many indie games as of late, your ignorance shows through.

Hyper light drifter sprite sheets