In a bid to inject a little nostalgia into these modern gaming times, a No Man's Sky fan has decided to create some retro box art for the game as if it had been released in a more bygone era. It's not uncommon for people to take a more recent title and give it the "demake" treatment. Fans have made Resident Evil look like a 16-bit Sega Genesis title, and there's even been a PlayStation 1 reimagining of Bloodborne to give it a more classic look.
As for the 2016 space exploration game itself, No Man's Sky's enormous map size, which is said to consist of around 18 quintillion planets, was one of the biggest appeals when Hello Games hyped up its IP several years ago. However, even those who didn't play it upon launch will likely be familiar with the backlash the developer experienced when it turned out that the title had been oversold on its content. But the British studio has managed to redeem itself, and numerous updates later, NMS seems to have turned itself around and is enjoyed by many today.
Alongside its creative aspects, with its base building mechanics, some No Man's Sky players like to show their appreciation for the game in other ways. Take Reddit user spongeldn as an example. In a recent post on the site, a couple of images have been uploaded which suggest an alternate timeline in which NMS was released on much older consoles, namely the SNES and Sega Dreamcast. Both images are impressive in their own right, capturing the look and feel of the games that would have been released on these systems all those years ago.
Many in the comments have lavished praise on spongeldn for their work, with one person suggesting an idea to make the game look like an old PC release, complete with huge cardboard box packaging. It's a shame the Sega Dreamcast had such a short lifespan. While it was quite innovative when it released in 1999, such as having internet capabilities at a time when home internet was just starting to become more common, it struggled to make much of an impact. It would have been interesting to see how Sega's final console would have coped with something as ambitious as No Man's Sky.
With No Man's Sky releasing for Nintendo Switch in 2022, the memory of that tumultuous launch more than six years ago is fast becoming a distant memory. Hello Games has certainly listened to a lot of the feedback, and with the studio releasing several free DLC, the fan base has grown into a dedicated community over the years.
No Man's Sky is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Source: Reddit