I love MGS1 to bits but the graphics are probably weakest part of that game. Everybody being a pixelated origami man kind of detracts from the drama of the cutscenes. There's something amusing about the way they tried to add emotion to their characters when they couldn't make their faces move in the PS1 era. So many hand movements :AyyyyyOC-big: and head bobbing.

I've watched a lot of presumably zoomers playing through the series on Youtube. Their first reaction to seeing Snake in MGS2: "Oh hey, he's got eyes now!" :data-laughing:

The reason I picked Crash Bandicoot as an example is that the cartoony artstyle allowed them to make the characters' faces big and exaggerated enough to make facial animation work even on low-poly models. The PS1 just wasn't quite there yet when it came to depicting realism