Posted on 11/08/2015 at 08:44 PM
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Cartoon like or caricature like graphics are also traditional. Think of all the Atari games, arcade games, NES games, Genesis games, DOS games. pretty much every system up until the PS2/Xbox, and you see how dominant non-realism has been. And I personally think World is better looking than the Wii and DS NSMB, it's just not as technically advanced. The models in NSMB look like sterile plastic toys. They did nothing interesting with the modeling, shapes, or textures when they converted the Mario look to 3D, the lighting is flat,and the color gamut is a radioactive eyesore.
Anyway, outside of realism (including comic book/ illustrated realism like Street Fighter 3 or Starcraft), I like Donkey Kong Country Returns/Tropical Freeze, Super Ghouls and Ghosts, Day of the Tentacle, Frontier: Elite 2 (kind of cheating, but I like the style). And most recently, Transformers:Devastation. I want a game of every 80s cartoon done like that.
You've given me an idea to do a blog about games with my favorite cartoon graphics, (using the definition of 'cartoon' relating to humor and/or cuteness). It's a style that I have come to appreciate more and more, and it looks great in video games.