Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

Splash screens are dumb as fuck

What is with Japanese game devs acting proud of being technologically in the 80s? Japanese games used to look like anime, then this gen they just look like shitty live action models attempting to look like anime and it looks awful. You play Capcom games and they feel like you're playing Dreamcast, they're stiff, look like a bad live action and anime mix, and just feel old. Serieses like megaman have so much potential to have ratchet at Clank style, modern, AAA level open world, but instead they just release another shitty 80s style side scroller