You shared a sentiment driven by nostalgia. How did you not understand that?
Edit: It's amazing how quick y'all are to downvote when none of you can articulate how OP's caption wasn't a nostalgia based comment. Uh, we lost something from 2000's era gaming 😔 Yeah, our collective intelligence apparently.
So here's the thing, that water is near certainly using a form of complex texture map programmed to react to certain objects like the player or lilly pads when certain conditions are met. It looks good, but hardly any actual deformation is being made. I personally have seen way better looking water in more recent games. Go play Sea of Thieves if you haven't, or Assassins Creed: Black Flag, both have amazing looking water. Hell, maybe Cyberpunk2077 or Batman Arkham Knight if you want to see some beautiful wet city scenes.
It uses some tricks to look good, but is kinda mid compared to some of the technical feats used with water in modern games.
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No. You saw an old game, and made up the idea that all sentiments about it are automatically “driven by nostalgia.” Because you’ve seen the word used before, but aren’t thinking about what it means, why it is applied in cases like this, or even about the subject you are addressing. It’s an automated gut-reaction on your part. It’s playing at critique without backing it up with analysis.
Water is hard to render. The majority of games don't really spend the effort because of the difficulty behind it then and now. While OP's game is an exception, his point is valid.
Nothing about this is nostalgic, he is just pointing out the difference between this game and most other games.
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u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7 Nintendo Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26
I'm talking about the water, not the nostalgia