Dreamy!

warui gang

i'a swear the goombas keep "hitting that gritty" while i'a not looking

this is a very indulgent gushing post but GOD i still get so giddy whenever i remember how the first 3 paper mario games had such a consistent evolution of art styles; PM64 had a lovely children book illustration aesthetic, especially the artworks being drawn with pastel pencils - TTYD had a really great comic aesthetic with hints of pop art - and SPM went SO HARD on the digital, computer aesthetics. SO hard. like the first two games had these overall art style themes but SPM cranked it to a hundred where almost everything is stylized with digital art in mind - and varied too!! every world tries to have its own take on computer-made art, and this theme even drips into the UI and any random effect the game throws at you, through a LOT of use graphic functions, symmetry, etc. it is legitimately SO inspiring