I love the highly saturated beach aesthetic of early to mid 2000s games. Something about it just felt really comforting. It was also around the time where my family moved to a new place. It was the summer, it was really warm, and I was sitting in my room playing videogames that looked just like this. We even had a small pool in the backyard, and whenever I would go swim, I'd imagine myself being at the places I explored in the games I've been playing.
Now it's summer again, and I still think about those times. It felt so different back then