Well, it's because I work in Unreal. But if you need a more detailed answer, I like the way volumetrics look in Unreal, it emulates a real camera with its highlights and everything else. And the picture that I imagine in my head is easier for me to realize in Unreal.

For me, any mention of Java games brings back a ton of memories. Yes, it is a really interesting era. Developers used many tricks and tweaks to optimize games. The game you mentioned looks more like a NES game than a Java game.

Yes, but after some time, hopefully in a couple of months

I will definitely finish this port, it's my ode to this game, I like it too much to abandon it

I will shout about this everywhere I can 😄

Personally, I find websites like PHONEKY (https://phoneky.com/) and Dedomil (https://dedomil.net/) very helpful. There are a lot of games and a lot of versions of these games, so some of them will work.

It's okay, I'm just crazy

In fact, you seem to be describing this particular game, it really does have this, it's one of the endings

It's a similar story here, only you turn into a cockroach only at the end 😄 But overall, no, I don't know.