>>725410632
>I fail to see how being a 3DS game relates to that.
Back then handheld games were novelties, because the visual fidelity was so much worse than that of current gen consoles a lot of publishers just chose to release stylized or slightly less serious versions of their games.
Even at the start of the Switch era it was sometimes like this, look at Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition for Switch and mobile.
MGS Peace Walker and Monster Hunter Stories also come to mind for different reasons. PW, like Revelations, had plenty of retarded shit in it too that would never make it into a mainline MGS despite Kojima wanting it to be MGSV.
And Stories for obvious reasons. Even comparing MH Rise to MH World shows a massive leap in tone, visual fidelity, etc.
Handheld games used to have their own identity.