[Crono]

@ the notion of built-up areas and not skyscrapers (which is a stupid idea to begin with, really it's a 2D game come on):

You can have larger blockable buildings without having to resort to ugly thin tall buildings that need to have half of the structure image'd for transparency. Bravo Evolved pulled it off in some small areas, pretty sure Era can too. Delteria did it in 2002 as well and they're not even modern.