I always thought MGS2 was ugly. Even in 2001. PS2 has a lot of blurry textures and a greenish hue to many of its games and the bloom lightning I hated.
Anyway. SNES had some late games that could almost pass for 2D Saturn games. Before I get into them. Starfox on SNES looked better than the Morph series on Atari Jaguar which was supposedly "64-bit" ..it wasn't but still more powerful than SNES and yet...
Anyway here are just a few that to me could easily pass as a 2D SEGA Saturn game. (make no mistake Saturn was a beast in it's day but few could utilize it's 3D well,it was a 2D powerhouse tho)
Super Mario RPG could easily pass as a 32 bit RPG.
Rendering Ranger
Wonder Project J
Game looks good but the intro seems near CD quality in animations
Far East of Eden on SNES had no business with sprites this large and detailed
Bite my shiny metal cockpit!
