Some water pics I took while playing Steambot Chronicles this afternoon. This game ain’t a looker but it sure does rule so hard.
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Pikmin 3’s Twilight River is what comes to mind for me — Watching your little guys pile onto a lily pad to float along the water is such a nice moment and the whole stage is designed around it!
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red ninja end of honor has good water
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La Mulana
Wonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trap
Psycho World
Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys
The first four are from my old screenshot Let’s Plays, the fourth one was posted by Kishi on the Talking Time forums.
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Reverse: 1999 has a mode where you make a little wilderness space for your dudes to hang out in, and you can get various tilesets to decorate it. All the tilesets have different colored water and I don’t know why they would do that
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It’s hard to find examples without spending a lot of time combing (or capturing) and trimming footage, but my absolute favorite usage of water in a video game is when you’re controlling a fast-moving vehicle or mount and you can skim across the surface of the water, sending those jets of mist up around you. Star Fox 64 is the best example I can think of, Ranger X does this, maybe the Panzer Dragoons? It’s such a specific feeling and it hits me just right every time
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Ace combat is a great example of this, because you’re not often that close to the surface so It’s always a nice surprise.
(best thing I found is a youtube short 
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Luftrausers does it! Big time. Skimming the water is like half the fun of playing this game for me lol
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The reflections in the water in Tales of Phantasia, more than the digitised voices, the action battle system, or the smutty language in a late-game cutscene, were what really impressed me about the game, for some reason:
Sadly they weren’t there for the GBA port:
Which is a crime worse than not picking up on the spell check converting Ragnarok to “Kangaroo”.
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ＷＡＴＥＲ ＰＨＹＳＩＣＳ
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I saw doubting between water looks and water physics (or motion because reflection and refraction are physics).
Also the proximity water splash its a motion but rocks because how cool it looks.
And in the realm of water physics, we have to mention Hydrophobia
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loved this reflection on the GBA Pokemon! That felt next gen
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