Comments on: Final Fantasy 7 art director reminisces about the game’s early days as a 2D pixel art prototype  https://automaton-media.com/en/news/final-fantasy-7-art-director-reminisces-about-the-games-early-days-as-a-2d-pixel-art-prototype/ AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo. Fri, 21 Jun 2024 01:38:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: John C https://automaton-media.com/en/news/final-fantasy-7-art-director-reminisces-about-the-games-early-days-as-a-2d-pixel-art-prototype/#comment-3420 Fri, 21 Jun 2024 01:38:09 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=32762#comment-3420 2D Pixel Art was phased out due to 3D because of Virtua Fighters popularity with Japan at the time which when MGS1 came out on PS1 it’s fate was sealed. But for some of Japan i had noticed they decided do a route of 2D and 3D called 2.5D, that tried to have 3D backgrounds and 2D Sprites in the front. I think back in the day the reason why it did not work out was that 3D was not as polished with it not being as stylish or had much environmental effects going on which made viewers bored over time.

Which is why 2D-HD exists today and has made the resurgence that is desperately needed to keep newer fans and older fans interested. Because it fixes the issue of the 3D portion of not being interesting and has a nice modern take of 2D JRPG gameplay.

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