Wild Guns: Original Version & Remake Comparison
Three years before Nastume released The Ninja Warriors Once Again in 2019, they released a different remake of another one of their classic SNES games.
Wild Guns Reloaded is a remake of a 1994 Super Nintendo shooting gallery game, Wild Guns. The original release is an absolute classic, so a remake would need to be handled by the right team...
The development team, Tengo Project, is led by three designers who worked on the original version of The Ninja Warriors and Wild Guns.
Unlike The Ninja Warriors' remake, in-game sprites for the returning characters in Reloaded look nearly identical to how they appeared in the original version.
The difference in Reloaded versus the original version is the number of colors used. This is more apparent in Annie and Clint's alternate costumes. The original game had a 16-bit color limit whereas the remake utilizes double that amount.
Compared to the original, Reloaded features newly redrawn and reworked pixel art, a brand new OST, two extra playable characters and additional gameplay mechanics.
In a way, Wild Guns Reloaded and The Ninja Warriors Once Again feel like best possible versions of a George Lucas-style director's cut in video game form.
Kudos to Tengo Project for giving us a wonderful look into the development process behind their games. I used their promotional websites to get all of the comparison images for this article and the one about The Ninja Warriors.