Tuesday, April 27, 2004 |
23:38 - Flat is beautiful
http://www.1up.com/slideshow2/0,2096,a=123522,00.asp
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So this is what the next Mario game is going to look like, huh?
2 1/2-D lives! The spiritual descendant of not just the original Mario games—the ones I thought were fun particularly because of the fact that they were linear side-scrollers rather than the aimless 360-degree immersion worlds in vogue today—but of things like Parappa the Rapper, this game looks like it would actually be a lot of fun. I'd wondered, for example, whether we'd seen our last-ever true side-scrolling platformer, given modern game engine technology; but it looks like they're going retro and dipping back into ages past to try to recapture the kind of atmosphere that made the NES so revolutionary.
I dunno. There's just something oddly reassuring about this. I don't know what it is.
The animation is what will define what kind of game this is. The stills make it look like a living, 24-fps version of a Saturday morning cartoon or something. If I see this playing on a demo screen at Fry's, I'll probably spend a little while staring at it...
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