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Basically this thread is an excuse to post screenshots and gifs from 2D games with an art style you really enjoy

I'll start:

Rayman Origins

Shovel Knight

Suikoden 2

A Link to the Past

Fez

What are your favourites, and what is it you like about them?

Anything goes, new games, old games, indie games, games not yet out. Just post some examples of 2D games with awesome art styles

Edit: I think a mod changed the title, It was meant to say 56k warning. I don't know what 600 baud means

 

[Eblo]

Kathy Rain

I usually don't care for games that go for oversized pixels to net that retro feel, but this game pulls it off so naturally. Really made me feel like I was playing a classic point-and-click.

 

[Blade30]

Breath of Fire 4. I love the art and music in this game. It's shame there aren't many games like this in hd anymore.
Well it's in a 3d environment, but it has has sprites, does this count?

 

[Kenzodielocke]

How do you get Suikden II look so sharp? Emulation?

 

[toythatkills]

What are your favourites, and what is it you like about them?

I might ask you the same thing.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

Momodora: Reverie under the Moonlight

Gorgeous sprites, lots of great female characters, and I really enjoy the subdued atmosphere

 

[Gurnlei]

Wakfu.

Great artstyle and animations. Show is even better.

 

[Jawbreaker]

Slain

Ori

Cuphead

Owlboy

Hyper Light Drifter

Yoshi's Island

 

[Bahorel]

I honestly wish I could forget about Rayman so I could play origins and legends fresh all over again. They're such beautiful games, I love them.

 

[Dylan Sexbang]

Gonna go ahead and post

Guacamelee
and

Rabi Ribi

 

[mrmickfran]

Yoshi's Island still looks gorgeous.

Contrast to New Island.

 

[boromi]

Yoshi's Island still looks gorgeous.

Contrast to New Island.

Basically, contrast to every other Yoshi platformer, excluding Wooly World. Even the DS one was weak at imitating the artstyle of the original imo.

Golden Sun / GS: The Lost Age

Besides combat, both original Golden Sun and The Lost Age still look great.I just really like how they did colors and shading. Let's forget about Dark Dawn.

Night in the Woods

It's really good with the use of colors and space. Extremely consistent style as well

 

[capitalCORN]

Astro Boy GBA

Maple Story

Noitu Love 2

 

[StayDead]

Wonder Boy and the Dragon's Trap looks amazing in motion.

 

[added_time]

Muramasa The Demon Blade

 

[Reich]

Donkey Kong Country Return ? Tropical Freeze ?

 

[Fantastapotamus]

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

Runner 2

Botanicula

Sword and Sworcery

Valiant Hearts

 

[dlauv]

This one's pretty good.

I also like SvC Chaos. It doesn't get a lot of attention because it was kind of a quick licensing fulfillment. I liked seeing the Capcom characters get the SNK sprite treatment, even if the color usage was a bit dour.

 

[Kyleripman]

Gotta be the Night of the Rabbit for me:

Looks like a lovingly made cartoon. Just all-around charming.

 

[ldar247]

Megaman Battle Network

I really love the dithered anime look a lot of old PC-98 games have:

Possessioner

Policenauts

 

[Sinatar]

Slain

 

[Chitown B]

A.N.N.E.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1445624543/anne

Still waiting....

 

[petran79]

Purring Quest

 

[Crab Milk Mickey]

Recently, Hollow Knight and Flinthook.

Noitu Love 2

Konjak is really good with his style of pixel art. Iconoclasts looks great as well and even one-off experiments like Legend of Princess are instantly eye-pleasing.

 

[Syril]

I like the look of Megaman ZX. Everything reads really well for gameplay purposes and it does a good job representing Toru Nakayama's artwork.

 

[Smeags]

Child of Light

The UbiArt engine is pretty incredible.

 

[Sinatar]

Jetpack Squad

 

[AdanVC]

Dis is my jam.

2D Graphics >>> 3D Graphics in videogames IMHO.

Metal Slug series and pretty much all Neo Geo games are my fave because how well animated they look.

 

[GinoFelino]

Jetpack Squad

This any fun to play, too? It looks awesome

 

[Sinatar]

This any fun to play, too? It looks awesome

Not out yet. But it's from the Intrusion2 guys so it'll probably be a hoot.

 

[retroman]

Streets Of Rage II

 

[lmbotiva]

Guys please, don't create threads like these, my wallet can only take so much lol, everything here looks so beautiful

 

[nailbombxx]

Despite the game's lewdness that turned many people off, Dragon's Crown has a fantastic old school fantasy art style, with wonderful animation that really shines in its enemy design and backgrounds.

 

[monstercameron]

shank

beautiful looking games!

 

[WillAble]

Legend of Mana (PlayStation)

It seemed like every developer in 1999 was focusing on how to best utilize the newest 3D technology, so it was refreshing to see such nice looking pixel art. The amount of detail in every section of the game is impressive.

The storybook-esque town maps were a nice touch as well.

 

[MikeyB]

It has to be Muramasa. It is one of the few games that I think is beautiful.

I think that the painting style gives each place a greater sense of place than 3D games have yet. Each area hangs together well to generate a mood (at least for me).

Edit: I forgot about Shank. It is also really well done.

 

[13ruce]

The Shantae games look amazing.
Wario Land Shake it also look pretty freaking nice.

Edit: the 2d GBA metroid games and most if not all Castlevania games look very damn good.

 

[CaviarMeths]

Two recent games from NIS not mentioned yet. Both are muted in colour, which allows them to be especially vivid and expressive in the limited colours they do use. They're gorgeous games.

The Firefly Diary / htoL#NiQ:

A Rose in the Twilight:

 

[Trilobit]

Machinarium

 

[kagamin]

It's wish I could find more good screenshots of this game, maybe I need to take some:

 

[monstercameron]

Dust an elysian tale

 

[purseowner]

Some great suggestions so far.

Odin Sphere

Tumbleseed

Spelunky

VA-11 HALL-A

Kalimba

Steins;Gate

Flowers

Nidhogg

Splasher

Nom Nom Galaxy

 

[Boem]

Broken Age

 

[2+2=5]

Op you made the thread i wanted to open even if may idea was more about original artstyles.

Anyway:
Bloodrayne betrayal

too bad i'm not able to pass this section(the giant saw follows you)

I didn't play it but i would say dakest dungeon too

Also almost everything on the amiga because many of its games had a dinstictive artstyle(not really representative but whatever)

and pc 98 games too, but i never had a pc98.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

Copping my post from another thread. I think it fits.

I always loved the style of the sprites and backgrounds, but especially the animations, in the PSX and GBA Mega Man games.

Some of my favorite backgrounds:

I always felt like they had that slightly gritty, but not dystopian, future look down. Even out in the wilderness, there's always little signs of technology, whether it's mechanical vines in the background or the robots wandering around each stage. The city stages were always my favorites, though.

 

[blu]

Anything Bitmap Brothers, frankly.

 

[Roe]

Lumines on the PSP

 

[Ryouji Gunblade]

Metroid Fusion

 

[Grief.exe]

I love these threads.

 

[Wozman23]

140

Apotheon

Bulb Boy

FLY'N

forma.8

Hohokum

Hue

ibb & obb

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Narita Boy (upcoming)

PixelJunk Shooter

PixelJunk Sidescroller

Rise & Shine

Shank

Soft Body

Snapshot

Sound Shapes

Stick it to the Man

Velocity 2X

Spoiler

I think I'm done.