AGREE. There's a tendance with nowaday 2d tactical-rpgs.. Sprites are relatively butched.. I think that skilled 2d sprites designer are rarer since the devellopement is rater on real 3d environnement. Its a shame. The last good looking 2d tactical rpg I played was Vandal heart on psx. The game was arty and so was the characters sprites. Some games like FF V-VI, chrono trigger, Dragon warriors, Castlevanias, Metroids ..etc, are now myths. They were nice looking and well made. Konami and nintendo tried to rebuild their classic in 3d.. castlevania and metroid rather than using the old 2d scroller way. The results weren't really good.
I and sure that there would be a significant market around 2d oriented games even nowaday. Nintendo's famous gba and ds have a majority of 2d games.
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