Board 8 > Post an animated series, comic, or video game, and I'll tier its visual design.

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Hawkeye (David Aja)

S Tier

A Tier
X-Men (Jim Lee)
Dragon Quest
Persona 5
Ace Attorney
Bioshock: Jeez, there are two ways to do this, which is Bioshock 1/2 vs the whole series, because Infinite has its own aesthetic. I'm going to assume you mean 1/2. Rapture is pretty much perfect -- this Ayn Randian hyper-libertarian Great Man ideological dream gone wrong is a great idea for a setting, and the underwater 1960s aesthetics are great. I love how everything is cramped because they needed space because it's underwater, but it's all very opulent anyway, and of course fallen to ruins. Infinite's interpretation of Rapture is much worse, of course, I don't think they quite understood what made it work. Although, I'll give Infinite this: it's not a retread of the first game, like 2 is. 2 just took the first game and replaced libertarianism with socialism. I can so easily imagine a third game taking like another 19th century failure ideology like anarchism and just being about that again, and to its credit, Infinite doesn't do that.
Batman: The Animated Series: Gothic, stylish, beautiful... perfect. Everyone's favorite Batman. The style had to be altered for Superman, and it never quite worked right. I read they considered a Wonder Woman spinoff and it never took off, too bad.
Batman Beyond
Paper Mario
Cuphead
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

B Tier
Hotline Miami
Warhammer 40K: I was wondering when this would get nominated! 40K is a brilliant piece of parody, so long as you don't take anything in it seriously at all. I see people trying to take it seriously, and it's like, the main Space Marine faction is named after a color of paint. The main human army is themed after WWI, a war with famously absurd tactics and incompetent generals, and the Orkz are just football hooligans. One thing a lot of people don't know is that the entire look of Chaos is lifted from Nemesis the Warlock, though basically everything is lifted from something else. Anyway, this is basically a synthesis of all sci-fi, which is good. I'm not really a 40K fan, but I do like parts of it.
Skies of Arcadia
Kirby's Epic Yarn
Return of the Obra Dinn
Superman (Max Fleischer)
Night is Short, Walk on Girl
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Pokemon RBY
Pokemon Adventures
Wario Land: Shake It
Stein's Gate (VN)
It Takes Two
Viewtiful Joe
Bleach
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
Observer
Dead Space
Bayonetta
Kingdom Hearts
Superman Smashes the Klan
Kubo and the Two Strings: I'm gonna be hypocritical here, because even though I've given low scores to similar stop-motion animation, in this particular case, I think it sort of works. I'm not really capable of explaining whhy, though? At least it never actively attempts to be gross and weird. I guess when your characters are already monkeys and undead, you don't need everything to look precisely good in the first place.
Tales from the Crypt
Comix Zone
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
Punisher (Greg Rucka)
Samurai Jack: Boy oh boy, has any ending ever been more disappointing? It's not even the worst ending or anything, it's just super disappointing. Bleh. Anyway, Saumrai Jack's animation has always worked for what it is: some kind of simple story about a wandering adventurer.
Hollow Knight
Mario Strikers
Journey (Game)
Punch-Out!! (Wii)
Futurama
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
The Last of Us Part II

C Tier
Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: The best possible style to include all of these characters. It's probably for the best that this never got a sequel. Mr. Rogers still makes me laugh.
Kholat
Mirror's Edge
Flip Flappers
Arcane
FLCL
Hawkeye (David Aja): I've never seen this before. It's oddly simplistic and to the point? I kind of like it.
Red Dead Redemption
Koumajou Densetsu: Scarlet Symphony
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Zenless Zone Zero
One Piece
Yu-Gi-Oh!: I hate titles that end with exclamation marks, it makes it awkward to put colons after them. Anyway, the thick lines are good and all, but gigantic eyes (even by anime standards) and bizarro hair is what people remember. That, and the fact that the Ancient Egyptian religion is canonically the one true religion.
South Park
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Yoshi's Island
Courage the Cowardly Dog
The Sims 4: I think I've never used the word 'zoomer' before, but something about its art style forces me to.
Little Nightmares II
Transformers
Code Name STEAM
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
Blacksad
Warioware: In general, rather than the specific game used earlier? I appreciate that it has its own identity separate from Mario, even if it's weirdly ugly.
Odin Sphere
Shadow of the Colossus
Vib-Ribbon
Adventure Time
Ib

D Tier
Halo Legends: The Duel
Waking Life
Pizza Tower
Peanuts
Mob Psycho 101
Monokune (2007)
Mega Man (Ruby Spears)
Speed Racer (Anime)
Va11 Hall-A: Honestly? Not a giant fan of this art, or the style the characters use. This is not super memorable to me, sorry.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964): I hate stop-motion. Classic Santa Claus, though. Can you... can you imagine anything today being this wholesome? Even kid movies aren't this wholesome, it's actually slightly off-putting to me.
Bob's Burgers
Bucky O'Hare
Parappa the Rapper
Donha Donha
Hylics
Hulaing Babies
Kaiba: I want you to know that I googled this, got Seto Kaiba from YGO, and briefly assumed there was a spinoff starring him. Anyway, I watched the trailer, and I'm not impressed. The thing that stuck out most to me was the big guy with a hole in his chest that stuff comes out of, I'm forced to assume he's the main character because that's obviously a power no protagonist would ever have.
Code Lyoko
Umineko (Original)
Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction
An Untitled Story
The Midnight Gospel
Gnosia
Katamari Damacy
Dusk
xkcd
Teacher's Pet (Disney): I've never seen this before. This is super unattractive. Bad.
Homestar Runner
Ren & Stimpy
Mad Rat Dead
Minecraft
Homestuck
Gumby: Never watched this as a kid, it always looked gross. Clay stuff and stop-motion has always sucked to me.
Metalocalypse
Generic Moe Anime
Ed, Edd n Eddy
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Space Funeral
Treasure Planet (1982)
Reboot
Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou
Duckman

F Tier
The Legend of Zelda (CD-I)
The Nutshack: I watched part of the pilot, and this is just the worst thing.
Monster by Mistake
The Problem Solverz
The Prince (TV): I remember this being cancelled! Yes, this is gross and all, but just for the weird moral issues of making a TV show parodying a real life one-year-old, this show has earned a very low spot on the list. It's even worse than CGIing Leia and Tarkin back to life.
Joshua and the Promised Land
Angela Anaconda

If we can do movies now, Mad God (2022)

Bakemonogatari

Alice's Wonderland Bakery

Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Okami

S Tier

A Tier
X-Men (Jim Lee)
Dragon Quest
Persona 5
Ace Attorney
Bioshock
Batman: The Animated Series
Batman Beyond
Paper Mario
Cuphead
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

B Tier
Hotline Miami
Warhammer 40K
Skies of Arcadia
Kirby's Epic Yarn
Return of the Obra Dinn
Superman (Max Fleischer)
Night is Short, Walk on Girl
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Pokemon RBY
Pokemon Adventures
Wario Land: Shake It
Stein's Gate (VN)
It Takes Two
Viewtiful Joe
Bleach
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
Avatar: The Last Airbender: TLA is a show that just completely nails all of the basics. It doesn't really do anything new, but all of the fantasy tropes it uses, it understands perfectly and gets right. The worst parts of the show's style are, weirdly, when it goes full-bore anime chibi and stuff. I would call TLA an almost perfect show, really, and a perfect example of how far you can go with just really nailing the basics of what you do.
Observer
Dead Space
Bayonetta
Kingdom Hearts
Superman Smashes the Klan
Kubo and the Two Strings
Tales from the Crypt
Comix Zone
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
Punisher (Greg Rucka)
Okami: Super stylized Japan, got it. Instead of talking about that, I want to talk about what foreign countries Japan uses in games of this nature. Like, Pokemon has a billion games, and it's used Japan four times, the USA, Hawaii (which I'll count separately), France, Britain, and soon-to-be Spain. I can't recall any Japanese product ever that involves Latin America, the Middle-East, India, or China in any way, except super brief cutaways for whatever reason. I guess there are RotTK stuff for China, too, but still.
Samurai Jack
Hollow Knight
Mario Strikers
Journey (Game)
Punch-Out!! (Wii)
Futurama
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
The Last of Us Part II

C Tier
Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
Kholat
Mirror's Edge
Flip Flappers
Arcane
FLCL
Hawkeye (David Aja)
Red Dead Redemption
Koumajou Densetsu: Scarlet Symphony
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Zenless Zone Zero
One Piece
Yu-Gi-Oh!
South Park
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Yoshi's Island
Mad God (2022): There's enough gross creativity in here that I have to give it a C at least, but as I said before, I'm not a fan of stop motion. That said... it flows so well that parts of it barely look stop motion at all.
Courage the Cowardly Dog
The Sims 4
Little Nightmares II
Transformers
Bakemonogatari: I looked it up, and though it appears to be a boiler-plate anime at first glance, I slowly realized there is indeed some weird stuff. I think it's going to for horror in a lot of these scenes, but it doesn't land for me at all.
Code Name STEAM
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
Blacksad
Warioware
Odin Sphere
Shadow of the Colossus
Vib-Ribbon
Adventure Time
Ib
Alice's Wonderland Bakery: I'm probably on some kind of list now for watching part of the first episode on youtube, so thanks. I'm going to say that Alice in Wonderland is like the most overused of the classic 19th century canon? Anyway, I have no idea what you expect me to say about this, it's Alice in Wonderland as a five year old cook in modern CGI. They added new characters like a book, presumably because it's difficult to rationalize the mad hatter as a baking enthusiast. Wait, didn't he really like tea?

D Tier
Halo Legends: The Duel
Waking Life
Pizza Tower
Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls: Honestly? The fact that this is animated in MS Paint gives it a lot of credibility with me. Obviously, it still looks like complete ass, but I respect that someone tried something so weird.
Peanuts
Mob Psycho 101
Monokune (2007)
Mega Man (Ruby Spears)
Speed Racer (Anime)
Va11 Hall-A
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
Bob's Burgers
Bucky O'Hare
Parappa the Rapper
Donha Donha
Hylics
Hulaing Babies
Kaiba
Code Lyoko
Umineko (Original)
Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction
An Untitled Story
The Midnight Gospel
Gnosia
Katamari Damacy
Dusk
xkcd
Teacher's Pet (Disney)
Homestar Runner
Ren & Stimpy
Mad Rat Dead
Minecraft
Homestuck
Gumby
Metalocalypse
Generic Moe Anime
Ed, Edd n Eddy
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Space Funeral
Treasure Planet (1982)
Reboot
Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou
Duckman

F Tier
The Legend of Zelda (CD-I)
The Nutshack
Monster by Mistake
The Problem Solverz
The Prince (TV)
Joshua and the Promised Land
Angela Anaconda

Ghost Trick

Something a little different: this is a 6-minute short film by Mark Osborne called MORE. I don't know how long you're spending on each nomination, so if you don't feel like watching something this long, that's fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCeeTfsm8bk

Goodnight Punpun

Dreaming Mary (game)

Well since you brought it up

Bioshock Infinite (particularly, Bioshock Infinite's own world, not like the Burial at Sea stuff)

Yakuza (series)

Library of Ruina

Over the Garden Wall

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion

Street Fighter VI

Bloodborne

Super Mario Bros (NES)

Dragon Ball Fighterz

Super Mario Galaxy

Team Fortress 2

S Tier

A Tier
X-Men (Jim Lee)
Dragon Quest
Persona 5
Ace Attorney
Bioshock
Batman: The Animated Series
Batman Beyond
Paper Mario
Cuphead
Team Fortress 2: A master class in character and environmental design. Everything is perfect, everything nails that early-to-mid 60s aesthetic, all of the characters are super distinct and memorable. I look at something like Overwatch where most of the characters are completely forgettable (does anyone remember Orisa at all?), and Team Fortress 2 just effortlessly mogs it.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

B Tier
Ghost Trick: Possibly the most impressive sprite-based artwork of any game? It's at least the most complicated. I couldn't believe how complex some of Cabanela's movements are. The sprite work is so good that it sort of overshadows the completely okay portraits the game uses. I'm glad it has a more stylized approach than Phoenix Wright, it would have been easy to just use the exact same art style. Great music, too.
Hotline Miami
Warhammer 40K
Skies of Arcadia
Kirby's Epic Yarn
Return of the Obra Dinn
Superman (Max Fleischer)
Night is Short, Walk on Girl
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Pokemon RBY
Columbia (Bioshock): I can imagine that someone was like "We can't do Rapture again, but Bioshock's shtick is old-timey sci-fi aesthetics. We can't reuse the 60s, but anything later than that will be too modern, and anything earlier than 1910 will be too primitive to have the level of sci-fi we want, even steampunk isn't enough. Also, we used an underwater city already, and we need some kind of other wacky sci-fi city." So, the solution? A flying city with 1910s aesthetics, but making only a weak attempt to integrate the sci-fi elements into it, unlike Rapture. I really like Columbia as both an aesthetic and an idea (the idea of a religion based around the Founding Fathers and taking an idealized version of America at its height to the point where it grosses out the actual Americans is brilliant), but you can really see that they made less of an attempt to make the flying city's technology genuinely look something out of 1910, as opposed to Rapture, where the 1960s underwater city is way more plausible. Like, Rapture is all confined and has lots of narrow hallways because the water pressure forces this design, and everything has those heavy metal bolts everywhere because it's the 60s, while Columbia has the general aesthetics of turn-of-the-century San Francisco with guys in red vests and circular light brown hats, but it lacks, like, giant elongated lightbulbs sticking out of the city's engines that show what's working and what's not, or something like that. I remember there's a section in a laboratory that just looks like a modern lab, except there are no computers, and there's literally no attempt made to make it look like something era-appropriate. Besides the clockwork George Washington robots and the snake oil salesmen-esque vigors (again, a really cool idea), it's a much weaker attempt than Rapture, but the aesthetic itself is still so strong that I think it still carries the game as a visual medium. I also appreciate that they didn't try to replicate the big daddies; the closest thing is the robots, but only in a combat sense of 'here's the big enemy that's harder to kill.' I think they really needed to either set the game in maybe like the 40s, where the technology they clearly wanted was more plausible, or to just dial down some of the more fantastical elements in exchange for keeping the setting. Like, it doesn't HAVE to be a flying city, this could have been a city on a mountain or in Antarctica or something, it just needs to be cut off from the rest of the world. I obviously understand that they want classic-America-at-its-height aesthetics, which limits them to 1900-1950, but I think the flying city was ultimately a bad call, but not a ruinously bad one. This is getting a little off-topic, but the game's theme is also about racism... until it's just not anymore, halfway through. What I'm saying is that the visual design is good, and there are a lot of good ideas at play here, and that puts it above most of the list... But compared to Rapture's super polished and cohesive vision, it's obviously not as good.
Pokemon Adventures
Wario Land: Shake It
Stein's Gate (VN)
It Takes Two
Viewtiful Joe
Bleach
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
Observer
Dragon Ball FighterZ: Pretty much the most accurate translation of Dragon Ball into 3D models possible. I'm almost a little sad that this series continues to be popular? I watched a little of the new series, and it's got nothing on Frieza and Cell from back in the day. I like Android 21, she has a style that looks like she could actually be from the real series.
Dead Space
Bayonetta
Kingdom Hearts
Superman Smashes the Klan
Kubo and the Two Strings
Tales from the Crypt
Comix Zone
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
Punisher (Greg Rucka)
Samurai Jack
Hollow Knight
Mario Strikers
Journey (Game)
Bloodborne: Call me crazy, but I'm not a fan of Victorian aesthetics or Cthulhu stuff. I'm okay with them, mind you, but neither really gets me excited that much. This is the best possible combination of them, though.
Punch-Out!! (Wii)
Futurama
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
The Last of Us Part II
Okami
Library of Ruina: I can't quite explain why I like this more than normal anime art. It's not the fact that most of the characters have dusters or long coats. I still remember a day from college in the blazing sun when I saw a guy in a black trench coat, black fedora, and red sunglasses. I'll always remember that guy, for the rest of my life.
Yazuka: Is there a word for 'realistic, but stylized?' Because Yakuza is a perfect example. I like Kiryu's brutal and stylish fighting styles, but I don't really have much to say about this game because I don't know anything about organized crime or Japan.

C Tier
Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
Kholat
Mirror's Edge
MORE: I watched the whole thing, yes. I don't like stop motion, but this is pretty good. I can't recall stop motion ever being used for just a normal world, it seems like a style that inherently lends itself to slightly gross wacky worlds? Anyway, the idea of a drab world and a put-upon worker who invents a machine that can give you some kind of joy, only to lose part of himself (literally) is really good. I don't know, I'm sort of on the fence about this one.
Flip Flappers
Arcane
FLCL
Dreaming Mary: Pink. I don't know what else to say. I mean, it's obvious in one second that this is a 'cutesy artwork with dark themes' game, there are a billion of those out there. I like the weird pig guy, that was out of nowhere.
Hawkeye (David Aja)
Red Dead Redemption
Koumajou Densetsu: Scarlet Symphony
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Super Mario Galaxy: I played this game, and I barely remember anything about it. At least SMS is sort of memorably bland and bad? I mostly just remember Rosalina's picture book and playoing the game over again as Luigi.
Super Mario Bros (NES): It all started here... Looking at the game from as much of an outsider perspective as possible, I have to admit that it is pretty trippy, and the logic of the stages doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Zenless Zone Zero
One Piece
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Street Fighter VI: I'm trying to judge this in objective terms rather than relative to the rest of the series, because I fall into the contingent of anti-Chun-li's-new-costume, but honestly, it's fine. Street Fighter is a series that more-or-less handled the transition into 3D well, but not spectacularly. I'm not a giant fan of the ink aesthetic it uses for stuff? I don't know where they even got that idea. I suck at real fighting games, so I don't really touch this series much. Not sure I like the new characters' designs. Hobo Ryu is funny, as is Ken.
South Park
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Yoshi's Island
Mad God (2022)
Courage the Cowardly Dog
The Sims 4
Little Nightmares II
Transformers
Bakemonogatari
Code Name STEAM
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
Blacksad
Warioware
Odin Sphere
Over the Garden Wall: Sort of unremarkable to me, sorry.
Shadow of the Colossus
Vib-Ribbon
Adventure Time
Ib
Alice's Wonderland Bakery

D Tier
Halo Legends: The Duel
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion: Seriously, where are these nominations coming from of things I'd never heard of? I used to think I was a nerd.
Goodnight Punpun: I like that the characters are drawn to look a little ugly, but that's about all I have to say.
Waking Life
Pizza Tower
Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls
Peanuts
Mob Psycho 101
Monokune (2007)
Mega Man (Ruby Spears)
Speed Racer (Anime)
Va11 Hall-A
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
Bob's Burgers
Bucky O'Hare
Parappa the Rapper
Donha Donha
Hylics
Hulaing Babies
Kaiba
Code Lyoko
Umineko (Original)
Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction
An Untitled Story
The Midnight Gospel
Gnosia
Katamari Damacy
Dusk
xkcd
Teacher's Pet (Disney)
Homestar Runner
Ren & Stimpy
Mad Rat Dead
Minecraft
Homestuck
Gumby
Metalocalypse
Generic Moe Anime
Ed, Edd n Eddy
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Space Funeral
Treasure Planet (1982)
Reboot
Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou
Duckman

F Tier
The Legend of Zelda (CD-I)
The Nutshack
Monster by Mistake
The Problem Solverz
The Prince (TV)
Joshua and the Promised Land
Angela Anaconda

The Dark Spire

Alice's Wonderland Bakery is actually a sequel series to the original 1951 Disney canon movie, and it takes place far in the future starring the descendants from that movie (IE the Alice in that show is the great granddaughter of the original Alice) Though some characters like the Cheshire Cat and Doorknob don't age and are the same ones as the movie.

Anyway nominate the Tracey Ullman Simpsons Shorts.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/9/5/AADoKzAADjDL.png

Monster Sanctuary

It's Such A Beautiful Day

The World Ends With You

Splatoon

Zero Time Dilemma

morrowind

Sonic Mania

Chrono Trigger

S Tier

A Tier
Chrono Trigger: Absolutely perfect designs for everyone and everything. I can't think of anything I would change. Unlike Dragon Quest, which has some weaknesses thanks to varying levels of technology existing throughout the series' run, Chrono Trigger was made at the end of the SNES' lifespan, which means the developers had absolute system mastery by that point, and Toriyama to do all of the design work. There's nothing this game does less-than-perfectly... except starting a series, I guess.
X-Men (Jim Lee)
Dragon Quest
Persona 5
Ace Attorney
Bioshock
Batman: The Animated Series
Batman Beyond
Paper Mario
Cuphead
Team Fortress 2
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

B Tier
Ghost Trick
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: In terms of design, A+ job for a fantasy setting. Everything is so unique compared to your normal setting. The graphics, though, just weren't there yet. This game looks like complete ass even compared to games from like 1995, but everything about it just oozes fantasy. Actually, the main thing I remember about this game is from Board 8. I remember when it came out, and someone on Board 8 mentioned it as the apex of all video games, saying that walking near an NPC and him turning his head to face you, as if he was looking at you, is the most impressive technical achievement in any video game ever and basically can't be topped for realism.
Hotline Miami
Warhammer 40K
Skies of Arcadia
Kirby's Epic Yarn
Return of the Obra Dinn
Superman (Max Fleischer)
Night is Short, Walk on Girl
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Pokemon RBY
Columbia (Bioshock)
Pokemon Adventures
Wario Land: Shake It
Stein's Gate (VN)
It Takes Two
Viewtiful Joe
Bleach
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
Observer
Dragon Ball FighterZ
Dead Space
Bayonetta
Kingdom Hearts
Superman Smashes the Klan
Kubo and the Two Strings
Tales from the Crypt
Comix Zone
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
Punisher (Greg Rucka)
Samurai Jack
Hollow Knight
Mario Strikers
Journey (Game)
Bloodborne
Punch-Out!! (Wii)
Futurama
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
The Last of Us Part II
Okami
Library of Ruina
Yazuka
Sonic Mania: Did you mean the gameplay? Because it's just classic Sonic. Did you mean the cutscenes? Because those are a little more distinct. They get Sonic's speed down, which is whawt matters. Goddamn Sonic, no series has ever fell harder. I'll give it this, though: Sega's never been so protective of the brand that it squashes weird new ideas, like Nintendo does with Mario. Sonic in an Arthurian storybook? Shadow killing the President of the United States? Sonic turns into a werewolf? Throw it all in.

C Tier
Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
Kholat
Mirror's Edge
MORE
Flip Flappers
The Dark Spire: When I first pulled up screen shots of this game, I didn't expect it to be an RPG. How bizarre. Pretty good for a DS game, though.
Arcane
FLCL
Dreaming Mary
Hawkeye (David Aja)
Red Dead Redemption
Koumajou Densetsu: Scarlet Symphony
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Super Mario Galaxy
The World Ends With You: Distinct from normal anime, which is good. I like the goth girl with eyeshadow. Very punk vibes, when there's nothing I can think of less punk than anime video games.
Super Mario Bros (NES)
Zenless Zone Zero
One Piece
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Street Fighter VI
South Park
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Yoshi's Island
Mad God (2022)
Courage the Cowardly Dog
The Sims 4
Little Nightmares II
Transformers
Bakemonogatari
Code Name STEAM
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
Blacksad
Monster Sanctuary: The spritework really just looks like normal spritework. If I was going to think of the Platonic ideal of a sprite game, it would be this. The actual art is very 90s in its feeling, even if it's clearly not from the 90s.
Warioware
Odin Sphere
Over the Garden Wall
Shadow of the Colossus
Vib-Ribbon
Adventure Time
Ib
Alice's Wonderland Bakery
Zero Time Dilemma: Speaking only about its visual design and nothing else... It's fine. Serviceable. Not as good as the first game, which has a really classic anime look, but it's fine. I've read people say that much of this game was determined by the fact that the writer played the Walking Dead games just before making it, and rewrote everything to fit into that mold. No idea if that's true or not. I'll say this: the greatest strength of this series is that it treats the craziest stuff realistically, and this game sort of continues to do that.

D Tier
Halo Legends: The Duel
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Goodnight Punpun
Splatoon: Again, this is one of those things that doesn't appeal to me at all, but I can acknowledge the artistry behind it and appreciate that it appeals to others. The bright, vibrant colors in an urban setting and the general vibe of the characters feels almost graffiti-ish. I remember when the first game was announced, and people were like "did they invent this IP just to have a new character in Smash?", because this is by far the most visually interesting new game Nintendo's put out in forever. Jesus Christ, that was seven years ago.
Waking Life
Pizza Tower
Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls
It's Such A Beautiful Day: Someone really likes weird experimental animation, I see. Stick figure animation was never really my thing, but I appreciate the weird narration style and juxtaposition with real life videos. As it goes on, it gets a little more horror-y? Not quite, but I don't know how else to explain it.
Peanuts
Mob Psycho 101
Monokune (2007)
Mega Man (Ruby Spears)
Speed Racer (Anime)
Va11 Hall-A
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
Bob's Burgers
Bucky O'Hare
Parappa the Rapper
Donha Donha
The Simpsons (Tracey Ullman): Will anyone get on my case for saying that this art is ugly and that things improved drastically when they launched the show properly? Although, I'm not sure if I like this art more or less than the later computer era of the show, where everyone's movements are slightly too smooth.
Hylics
Hulaing Babies
Kaiba
Code Lyoko
Umineko (Original)
Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction
An Untitled Story
The Midnight Gospel
Gnosia
Katamari Damacy
Dusk
xkcd
Teacher's Pet (Disney)
Homestar Runner
Ren & Stimpy
Mad Rat Dead
Minecraft
Homestuck
Gumby
Metalocalypse
Generic Moe Anime
Ed, Edd n Eddy
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Space Funeral
Treasure Planet (1982)
Reboot
Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou
Duckman

F Tier
The Legend of Zelda (CD-I)
The Nutshack
Monster by Mistake
The Problem Solverz
The Prince (TV)
Joshua and the Promised Land
Angela Anaconda

Damn I can't figure out what goes in your S tier

Jet Set Radio

The Books of Magic Vol 1 (the original Neil Gaiman mini-series)

Kirby and the Forgotten Land

1970's Garfield.

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Danganronpa (2, if you're going to focus on one specifically)

Halo Legends - The Package

Yoshi's Crafted World

heathcliff

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MORE: I watched the whole thing, yes. I don't like stop motion, but this is pretty good. I can't recall stop motion ever being used for just a normal world, it seems like a style that inherently lends itself to slightly gross wacky worlds? Anyway, the idea of a drab world and a put-upon worker who invents a machine that can give you some kind of joy, only to lose part of himself (literally) is really good. I don't know, I'm sort of on the fence about this one.

Glad you (sort of) liked it. Stop motion is hit or miss for me too, but I think the gloomy atmosphere of MORE works well with the medium.

Inspired by another nomination, let's do...

Garfield Minus Garfield

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Chrono Trigger: Absolutely perfect designs for everyone and everything. I can't think of anything I would change. Unlike Dragon Quest, which has some weaknesses thanks to varying levels of technology existing throughout the series' run, Chrono Trigger was made at the end of the SNES' lifespan, which means the developers had absolute system mastery by that point, and Toriyama to do all of the design work. There's nothing this game does less-than-perfectly... except starting a series, I guess.

if absolute perfection is A tier I don't think you need an S tier

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Alice's Wonderland Bakery is actually a sequel series to the original 1951 Disney canon movie, and it takes place far in the future starring the descendants from that movie (IE the Alice in that show is the great granddaughter of the original Alice) Though some characters like the Cheshire Cat and Doorknob don't age and are the same ones as the movie.

I forgot to respond to this, I didn't realize it was a distant sequel. I assume then that the Queen of Hearts featured descends from the one in the movie? What a weird concept for a show, to make it about cooking.