I still think it's still be popular. After all the events in this game are quite different than the previous. It'll probably attract majority's attention. Especially,because one protagonist dies. But, not as popular right now though, since it's 16-bit. It would be hard to make it as awesome as it is today like VeloZer0 said. The fact that it isn't 16-bit means, ... it doesn't belong to that area.

And I agree with ShinGundam.
Prerendered games wouldn't exist, if so that happens. XD