In an era of big video game remakes, the nostalgic combination of 2D-pixel art and 3D polish that is the HD-2D RPG was pretty much inevitable to take hold over the mainstream. The term HD-2D is used to describe an aesthetic that consists of classic 2D Sprites set to a 3D rendered background environment.
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