The sharp visuals have been mentioned, but there's also a lot of the love in the details of this work! A few examples: collecting M-A-G-E (ala S-K-A-T-E in the THPS games), the ability cooldowns matching the state of the game on-screen, and even the tears of the sadly-frozen snake...
To me, those are things that make it seem real, like a game that's available right now~ Great entry!