New games: Big Day feels like ‘90s juice in videogame form

Something I’ve had to understand about myself lately is that I’m getting old, and that means my nostalgia gland kicks into overdrive when I see something that looks like Big Day - a pixel-art shooter that harkens back to the glory days of the Genesis. It’s Sega’s Genesis system specifically I’m thinking of here, because that console featured a lot of games that had a kind of muddy, grungy look that Nintendo’s bright and fastidious SNES generation kind of shied away from. Big Day features spot-on pixel art, and it has a certain fuzz to it that you only saw on systems like the Genesis and TurboGrafx-16. And it’s about killing lots and lots of dudes. Granted, some concessions have been made to modernity: Big Day looks quite a bit better than the games from which it draws its inspiration, and you don’t need to blow out a cartridge’s contact points to get it to work. There’s a crispness to the visuals, too, that you never saw in Sega classics like Altered Beast, but the inspiration is there, plain to see.

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