What games have the best sprite / pixel art?

What games have the best sprite / pixel art?

Metal Slug

Metal slug, not even a question.

You'd be better off asking which games have the next best pixel art after metal slug

Seriously though, Metal Slug

pixelshit here
my sprites are bad, so should I just start over completely in a different size? What size would you recommend to start over completely? I mean like how many pixels width/length?

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Metal Slug

Iron Snail

>all these teenagers saying Metal Slug's sprite art is good

Melty Blood

And certainly not BB. There's really no push or pull in the animations.

>That one contrarian faggot who thinks he's too cool for school

King of Fighters XIII had amazing sprites, but they used like, 3D rendering and then drew over them, so I dunno if that counts. Still, mostly any SNK game has amazing sprites.

What is the point in making pixel art that looks just like plain 2D art with jaggies?

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Bretty much this. Shame where they are now though.

Everything vanillaware, but especially Odin sphere imo.

Also Dragon Blaze on iOS/android, if you like phoneshit.

No idea but all you gotta do is make the face more anime to make people think its good.
No really its that easy. You'll see your luck change real fast.

>Implying that metal slug doesn't have some of the most objectively best sprite art period

I'm not even a fan of the series or sprite art either but come on

PC-98 eroges.

I like Ghost Trick's cool style.

Lady Sia's spritework is so crazy it almost doesn't look like pixel art.

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Owl boy.

Inb4 indie shit.

The art is really the only good thing about it.

Seeing the new KoF game in 3D was really depressing to me. I knew it was only a matter of time, but it was enough to kill any hype I could have for the game.

You sure got that right. But while the art itself is nice it doesn't have much in the way of actual animation.

The shading in it looks like shit

delete this sexist crap

>I'm acting like a fucking retard to BAIT you. I really got you.

I don't blame em, they were in a tough spot after XIII bankrupt the company. I still purchased XIV out of fanboyism though.

I don't mind KOF being 3d, but why is the art style so bland? a better shader and animations would do absolute wonders for the game.

Ideally you want them to fit a power of 2 size, since it's a nice way to maintain relation between scene and characters

I thought those were 3D models

UNIEL and KoF XIII are the only high res sprites that look good to me