Feel the "Character" of Games Have Gone Down?

[Koh]

That faux-retro art style is increasingly common with indie games, but stylistically they tend to be varied or copied. For example, CaveStory and LaMulana are pretty early examples of widespread indie games that adopted their own specific faux-retro styles, and you could name plenty of things that tried to copy their style. Then of course, the big building game Minecraft and all the clones that were born from it. What keeps them separated, however, is their soundtrack. Cave Story and LaMulana still have their own distinctive sound. Minecraft is...well, there's no music or anything, so, he he. Terraria's got a distinctive art style now, though it initially looked like a Final Fantasy 4/5 sprite edit fest (and truthfully, some of it still is), but its soundtrack is still pretty stylistically unique.