A word on Sonic Rivals graphical style...

Okay, so I am playing Sonic Rivals quite a lot recently. The game is a little too short for its own good - I am stuck at one of the last levels and there was not really too many of them before I got to this point. Apart from that, the game is really great. The sense of speed is overwhelming, visuals are really nice and level design is terrific.

Still, as some of you might remember, I wrote that Sonic Rivals' graphical style reminds me of 16 bit era, especially "Lost Vikings", the game that I loved when I was at the secondary school. I played it on my PC back then, but there were many ports, so you might have played it on some other hardware, including Gameboy Advance if I am not mistaken.

I still stand by this opinion - even though Sonic has been translated to 3D, it manages to keep that old-school feeling. In order to prove this statement, allow me to present the following images :

Sonic Rivals - PSP

Sonic the Hedgehog - Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis port on the PSP in Sega Collection

Lost Vikings - PC

There is definite (and I think intentional) likeness between the first and the last Sonic. But if you look at two latter images, you will notice certain similarity in style as well. Or maybe not and it is just me? I am really curious to hear what you think, so if you have a couple of seconds, please let me know your opinion via comments.

Anyways, even if you don't, I thought it might be interesting to take a little history tour and show you for a split second how the dinosaurs of gaming era perceive the modern games.