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Chewster posted...

Also, I think Super Mario 64 looks like total shit, not just in the way most N64 games do. I can't really even describe it, but it's like the graphics are... too cartoony? They aren't really that cartoony, but they fail at realism, the textures are too bland and there are too many sharp contrasts between areas. It looks like an early N64 tech demo, not the first full-fledged game. Plus the levels are kind of just floating in space and they didn't really even try to hide it with clever boundaries or backgrounds.

To be fair, it pretty much was an early tech demo. Nintendo was very much working in uncharted territory with SM64, so it's to be expected that they kept things as simple as possible when putting together the game (so as to not get bogged down by trying to figure out more nuanced aesthetics at the expense of having a good game). Similarly, MK64's "3D" character models are just 8 2D images stuck together, which is leagues behind some later things that came out of the system.
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