@PurpCat Come to think of it why don't devs just build on the FOSS id tech engines in this day and age? There should be plenty of docs and support by now and it runs everywhere without the bloat of stuff like Unity, UE, etc. (most of which is completely unneeded for smaller projects)
Namely, it's about mimicking the artstyle of Megaman Legends and a few other games, and "what you think they look like". It's also popular now, literally the fucking credit sequence in the Sonic 3 movie was based on "early 3d consoles" and not "sprites" because sprites aren't vogue anymore but PSX slop is.