I think those pixelated graphics look bad on hd devices. I feel like people should just give up the ghost and render games like this as just clean 2d drawings. I'm pretty sure that's what developers were going for back in the day anyway.

I feel like "games with soul should be pixely" is just a misapprehension caused by misinterpreting the defects/limits of past works as being the standard, kind of like how people discovered old greek statues with the paint peeled off and thought the statues were intentionally made as monochrome.