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Message: [QUOTE="Tonberry, post: 156047, member: 124861"] But that was never the point? Monster sprites were deliberately kept as their Amano designs in order for them to feel more threatening for the player. I think the style mixing is part of the charm. Also, the entire point of the PRs were to base the games on their original versions in order for there to be a reliable way to experience them on modern systems (with some but minimal QoL and widescreen etc), that’s why the later additional stuff like extra dungeons were ”removed”. They’re not treated as remakes, but remasters of the [I]original[/I] releases. Abstraction has always been a big part of roleplaying games compared to purely skill-based games, the information was the important part so you could sacrifice stuff like animated sprites to make the individual static ones stand out more. Same with crazy overblown attacks animations that you’d never see in an action game at the time. Heck not even up to like FF12 would that have been made common. As for the Cecil v Kain thing, they likely just use a stand-in for a player character, with unique AI and conditions, and not an actual monster, so they’re able to borrow the systems for an actor to make him animated, instead of using the template they’d originally use for monsters. [/QUOTE]

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