Game?

[Shadowth117]

No in the highest possible form. HELL NO. The game would be a mixed bag if they looked like that. Mostly because this game is NOT 3D

But if they weren't like that, one foot on some characters would be flying, and that'd just look cheesey.

Which is why the masks for those characters would cut off a line or two of pixels higher than the sprite like this. Assume the black is Sonic's collision mask and the red is the ground.

This is very simple to program and is commonly used to prevent a sprite like this from looking like its floating.