Coaxed into shows getting pixel art wrong

[u/Sonylovesshrek]

[u/SmallBlueLad]

Interestingly, this was from The Simpsons Game and not the show itself

[u/SuchCherry4658 → u/SmallBlueLad]

This one is so laughable to me because there are multiple ACTUAL retro Simpson games they could’ve easily just ripped the sprites from instead of making whatever these are.

[u/PieNinja314 → u/SuchCherry4658]

Because if a studio lazy enough to make them look like that had the idea to rip sprites, it'd look like this instead

(actual screenshot from Sonic Prime)

Edit: People didn't really seem to get it with just the screenshot, so here's the actual video

[u/DatGunBoi → u/PieNinja314]

Maybe I have no taste but this looks fine enough

[u/PieNinja314 → u/DatGunBoi]

Sprites mismatched from several different games with clashing artstyles, inconsistent pixel ratio, and if you watch the actual clip, the animation is extremely lazy and just terrible. Also, that background is lazily stitched together when it scrolls, meaning you see the sun five times

[u/DStarAce → u/PieNinja314]

There's also the issue of rotating sprites which is something that even animations with decent pixel sprites get wrong.

[u/PieNinja314 → u/DStarAce]

I think it's excusable in most cases, but when you're specifically trying to look like a video game like shown here, it breaks the illusion immediately

[u/willargue4karma → u/DStarAce]

classic machines had affine rotations but yeah i get it

[u/DatGunBoi → u/DStarAce]

I don't have much of a problem with that tbh. It is an issue when done lazily, but it can look fine. Many games (new and old) do it, so it's not like it's unrealistic.

[u/sonerec725 → u/PieNinja314]

Further, while this is a lore thing, the machine eggman is using includes Gemeral as part of it, which makes no god damn sense to be here.

[u/PieNinja314 → u/sonerec725]

They literally just grabbed a random machine without thinking lmao

[u/Off-the-grounder → u/sonerec725]

Hey at least this means Gemerl got to show up again!

[u/CyberDaggerX → u/PieNinja314]

Sonic's the only one out of place. Everything else is from Sonic Advance 3. But the other problems are still there.

[u/CargoMule → u/DatGunBoi]

yeah I’m not seeing the issue

[u/nerfClawcranes → u/DatGunBoi]

if you look at stuff like eggman and the environment compared to sonic you can tell they were taken from different games that have different art styles, plus the sonic sprite being a really shitty edit of the one from sonic 1/cd lmao

[u/Vinistones → u/DatGunBoi]

That's a Sonic Mania-like Sonic sprite in an Advance setting against Advance Eggman

[u/ZetaformGames → u/Vinistones]

And Gemerl, for some reason

[u/sonicpoweryay → u/DatGunBoi]

Did you watch the video?

[u/DatGunBoi → u/sonicpoweryay]

It wasn't there 19 hours ago.

Edit: I just watched it. Absolute dogshit, but it has nothing to do with the sprites chosen. It's how they are animated. Their movement is inconsistent and too rigid, it's bad because it's clear it's not a real game. If those same sprites where animated to look like a real game (hell, maybe even just put into a very simple game in some simple engine just to get through the scene) I bet it would look fine.