: The vibrant HDR colors of the PC version are stripped away in favor of the GameBoy’s four-shade "pea-soup" green palette. Detailed 3D models of Thunderjaws are replaced by tiny, flickering 2D sprites.
To fit the Horizon universe onto a GameBoy, every element must undergo a radical transformation: horizon-zero-dawn-game-on-pc-highly-compressed-gameboy
: The sweeping orchestral score and high-fidelity sound effects are compressed into 4-channel chiptune music, using square and wave pulses to evoke the metallic screeches of the machines. The Appeal of the "Highly Compressed" Aesthetic : The vibrant HDR colors of the PC