The idea of combining 6 & 7 has really inspired me, and reminded me of a video aiden showed us.
This ties nicely in with the fact that Garth in a tutorial recommended looking into the work of Shynola.
With the last one Garth was talking about how the treatment is very simple, copying that of a SNES or similar, but that the real wow factor here was the animation, how it not just imitates the SNES games but also has a character of its own and feels quite natural, and smooth.