>>11916360
>July 1995

Again, people looking at this and not understanding the negativity lack the context.
Just look up more reviews from 1995 and you'll see the same negativity about many, many, many 2D games. Reviewers had seen Daytona US, Virtua Fighter, and more importantly, the PSX and the Saturn. *Anything* non 3D was getting shat on for "looking like 8-bit games" and being "old stuff you've already seen", no matter how good the game was.

It's like people complaining about Sony of US not allowing 2D games to get released on the PSX in the first couple years. This is why, reviews like thist! People have forgotten this because now "pixel art" is "soul" and trendy. In 1995 a lot of people didn't want to see 2D anymore, it was seen as backwards.

Picrel are reviews of Dracula X for SNES.

Now check out Earthbound reviews and do a CTRL+F search for "1995" to see actual reviews of the time

https://www.mobygames.com/game/6676/earthbound/reviews/

You may check out other SNES game reviews from 1995 (or after) and they're all the same with the exception of DKC3 which was probably paid reviews (or not wanting to shit on the one paying for your ads), but even those sometimes had snarky comments like "some might think this is oldschool/we have seen all this before" etc