Reminds me of the time in HL2 development when they toyed around with Breen having glasses. The 2nd one is described as “vaguely homosexual” by Greg Coomer in an email seen in the raising the bar book.

There’s people on their deathbeds like this.

I was gonna ask if you could do hl1 stuff with your resolution and all that, but I was too busy to respond. Glad you’re doing it and it looks amazing!

As someone who kinda (I’m working on it) has that currently, we weren’t taught this shit or we were taught wrong.

Peach’s castle is very vibrant and lively imo.
The music plays a huge role of course, but it geniunely does kinda feel like a royal art exhibition with fun mushroom people!