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[Kriven]

"Looks a lot better than"

This is not a fact.

I really don't like the visual styles of the games you've mentioned or the screenshots you've posted, Koh. In my opinion they look overly busy and a little mesmerizing; the objects and play layers don't seem distinct enough, and I would have trouble discerning the play field from the background. These aren't problems that Super Mario World has. And to be frank, I find them way more "bland" than SMW, too. While Super Mario All-Stars does have great visuals and doesn't suffer from pixel-clutter the way the other games you've pointed out do, I don't think they come across as being even half-way as unique the look of Super Mario World, which has always provided it with a unique identity.

It's fair to say "Super Mario World had some consistency issues from sprite to sprite, and as a result the styles sometimes clash." It's not a statement I really agree with, but it's a very defensible position. It's fair to say "Super Mario World's graphics are pretty stiff, and the visual style doesn't lend itself well to the nuanced animations available to a more technical style." That's true, that's pretty close to being a fact.

What you're saying is "Super Mario World is an inferior game because I don't like its style as much as I like the style of this other game". That's... neither fact nor conversational. It's like calling South Park a weak program because its visual style is more flat than Bob's Burgers. That just isn't true... the style serves the intent of the program, or in the case of SMW, the game.