041cea No.15137989
I'm looking for beautiful 2D video games to play. Googling just gives me piles of indie side scrollers.
2100f7 No.15138002
wonder boy and the dragon's trap remake and odinsphere on ps4
bce13d No.15138035
In retrospect Vanillaware games look like better polished korean mobage from just screenshots.
041cea No.15138041
>>15138035
The back grounds in korean games look way worse and seem copy pasted. Also the terrible flash animation everywhere.
34007e No.15138053
>>15137989
Odin sphere's PS4 version.
7af6f9 No.15138107
>>15137989
Legend of Mana though it's a bit dated.
faf179 No.15138133
be2ec0 No.15138193
eab259 No.15138205
What about a 3D game with 2D environments? Baten Kaitos' greatest strength was known to be its backgrounds.
882e09 No.15138373
>>15137989
Ori and the Blind Forest, Starsector. Unfortunately lost my webums from them.
384a6a No.15138391
>>15138107
>>15138193
>other people appreciate Legend of Mana
I wouldn't mind a "remaster" but I know it wouldn't capture the same sort of fantasy feeling as the original and that's really sad. Having it run with a better combat system would be outstanding.
fec59b No.15138475
>>15138052
the game looks wierd in motion and plays to slow for my tastes. I hate how much the game breaks the flow of combos, but I'll give it points for mimicking vanillaware's art syle.
7af6f9 No.15138540
>>15138193
<3
>>15138391
There usually a couple of us that show up in threads where it is mentioned.
I'd love a remaster with cleaner sprite work, better combat, slightly less obtuse/ hidden mechanics, and some other QoL changes. But looking at the Secret of Mana remaster I'd rather they don't try.
b55acf No.15138545
Battle Chef Brigade also has a nice art style.
OP didn't say the games had to be good, just "beautiful 2D video games to play"
7c5314 No.15138782
>>15138205
They're called pre-rendered, and were particularly popular back on the PS1.
041cea No.15138832
Yup, game still looks good on an emulator.
764b3c No.15140350
>>15138545
>that lack of shading
Yeah nah. I'd rather take lower resolution sprites that are more detailed than HD flat bland crap.
>>15138832
>filters.jpg
4352ea No.15140358
>>15138107
Good post, the crafting system is insane
7af6f9 No.15140638
>>15140358
I really with all these MMOs that try billing themselves as "You can even become a legendary craftsman!" would adopt a system like LoM where we've named an entire practice The Kelson Method around the autist that discovered it. In an MMO setting you can even be a mega Jew with real trade secrets.
abdecd No.15141483
Loved the sprite work in the Fire Emblem GBA games. Also SNK games are a must.
>>15138391
The combat really did keep me from finishing the game but it was enjoyable from what I've played. Great soundtrack too.
7af6f9 No.15141543
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>>15141483
A change of weapon may have helped, but the combat really is bad. Being simple and a bit clunky isn't the worst thing, but often you find yourself not quite being on the right plane as the enemy so all your attacks miss.
The ost is fantastic.
abdecd No.15141577
>>15141543
>Try out all the weapons
>Figure out some hitstun exploit early into the game just from fucking around
>Switch to the hammer and stuck lock everything while dealing absurd damage
>What made the combat a little more interesting at first is now boring as hell
That game and Seiken Densetsu 3 could both use a remake.
eab259 No.15141692
>>15138782
Pre-rendered is 3D by definition. Baten Kaitos backgrounds are hand drawn.
>>15141590
Ghost trick has amazing animation, but I wouldn't call it beautiful 2D.
19757c No.15144432
>>15141692
why not? it uses 2d sprites rotoscoped from 3d models
795aeb No.15144498
>>15141590
>3d with meme shaders
>2d
750e9d No.15144517
>>15137989
>Samorost
The game is actually a pretty calm point n click, I would recommend the whole trilogy. There's also the Submachine games, they are not exactly beautiful but still pretty showy
9759c4 No.15144586
>>15138545
>>15140350
>Battle Chef Brigade
it got an art downgrade before release. pics related are how it looked in concept art before the devs decided they wanted their game to look like trash. the game itself is also a floaty, buggy piece of shit.
15ad4a No.15144593
If you want a time killer get Soda Dungeon on your smartphone
7af6f9 No.15144607
>>15141577
I know it's awful.
I still need to play 3. I tried years ago, but must have gotten distracted by another game immediately after starting.
db77a3 No.15144646
>>15144586
It tells a lot when the uncolored animated stencil against the comparatively detailed background is more pleasing to look at than the finished product.
f0c80a No.15144708
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If you don't mind furshit, Dust is gorgeous and genuinely fun.
8d3f1b No.15144721
>>15144586
how pozzed is it?
3428a8 No.15144791
>>15138545
If by "nice" you mean half assed and unfinished then okay.
b55acf No.15145049
>>15144721
Not very, there's exactly one gay character and they're completely inconsequential to the game and completely avoidable. The game's main problem is the gameplay just sucks ass. The action platforming sections are floaty and you will get your ass handed to you by monsters that have attack ranges longer than your dodge distance. The Match-3 segments use an awful control scheme and sometimes when you mean to rotate jewels once you end up rotating them twice instead. This can fuck you over if any of the gems you're rotating are fragile and ready to break, as some puzzles can become unsolvable if you break things out of sequence. You're also given jack shit amounts of time to complete your cooking objectives.
>>15144791
The hand drawn art is done well but yes, the lack of any shading makes all of the outdoor scenes look awful when compared to the concept art. Unfortunately it's also the kind of art style that attracts tumblrinas, as evidenced by shows like Korra and Voltron.
041cea No.15145073
>>15144432
I think that kind of rotoscoped art is considered cheating.
There's some older cartoons from eastern europe that used it a lot.
e93ec9 No.15145099
>>15145073
>Donkey Kong Country cheated
>Doom cheated
>Practically every early Disney movie cheated
There is no cheating in art as long as the results are good.
638935 No.15145137
>>15145099
Hold up, rotoscoping is still 2D art, it's just "traced" for every frame.
Pre-rendered is literal 3D renders printed out as sprites, the art was never 2D, it's just 3D art "downported" as 2D sprites.
So Donkey Kong Country didn't cheat it's 2D art.
It was a trick to have 3D graphics but within 2D graphics limitations.
>>15144432
It's 3D renders, it's the same as saying the guy's pictures in Mortal Kombat are 2D art, it's not, it's just photographs exported as sprites.
Techincally they're 2D graphics, but not 2D art.
041cea No.15145170
>>15145099
Well yeah. If you ask purists, rotoscope animation is an inferior art form.
638935 No.15145205
>>15145170
It's not as impressive as drawing cool shit from scratch, that's for sure.
But using rendering software to get 2D images of 3D models isn't rotoscoping.
It's literal 3D graphics, you're just not getting them rendered in real time on the game, they're rendered before in a more powerful tool, converted to sprite format, then the game shows you that. That's why it's called pre-rendering, it's 3D graphics rendered before the're shown in the game.
0118b9 No.15145219
>>15138107
>dated
I say it still holds up perfectly fine. Even the soundtrack is great.
53d150 No.15145930
>>15145049
>one gay character
That's 100% pozzed my dude. No two ways around it.
7f3468 No.15146003
Every single Vanillaware game looks like ass the moment anything starts moving. They are god fucking awful at animating anything to the point I wish they'd just stick to still images.
902ad5 No.15146313
>>15145049
>how pozzed it is
>Not very, there's exactly one gay character
Then it's definitely pozzed, it's not a matter of how many faggots are in the game, but if there are any period.
99e8cd No.15147689
>>15146313
well then the entire world is pozzed isnt it?
ec2f83 No.15148291
>>15146313
So I guess you think God Hand is pozzed.
4bacf9 No.15148387
>>15138545
Does that dragon have autism
034db8 No.15148424
>>15145049
>completely inconsequential to the game
That just makes it all the more bizarre, why even include it in the game, why reveal it to the player if it is of no consequence?
Theres usually just one answer for shitty hamfisted "story" elements like that. Its pozzed pandering.
f9ebd5 No.15148469
>>15146313
Don't be a faggot.
b55acf No.15148491
>>15148424
If you decide to speak to the character, they first give you some awful combat item that you don't really need because they want to help you out. Then they ask you if you've seen a certain "cute orc girl" around town, you then tell her that she was expelled earlier in the week and they go, "Darn, what a shame.", and never bring it up again. That's it.
That's not "pozzed". The tranny character from that D&D game Beamdog "enhanced" is an actual example of pozzed pandering. You faggots use the term so much that you forgot what it actually means.