I blame AI, it clearly isn't doing good job. Not only it essentially redesign characters by turning them into very generic fantasy, but also it often fails to understand what original was trying to do - best seen with base dendroid, instead of being being walking tree it now have a fur and bird face with a beak.
I agree that the AI didn't do a good job but I'll also say it's a hard task to reimagine these sprites as they're so fueled with nostalgia + our own thoughts on what they look like since they're low res, HOMM3 HD showed that to me when I realized I actually wanted to see the lower res version because it sparks my nostalgia & imagination, I can't think of another game that's done that for me
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u/Zepto23 Dec 05 '23
Lost its charm imo