Giuseppe Navarria @techdesign.rocks · Mar 28 the SaGa Frontier II remaster is out and it looks like garbage... one of the prettiest looking PSX games reduced to a weird mix of badly upscaled graphics and raw pixel sprites here's a screenshot from the remake and ones from emulated psx with a crt shader
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the shader is admittedly quite heavy handed but it helps in evening out the detail, the only nice thing about the remaster is being able to see a lot more of the environment in a single screen, but it's not of use when the beautiful hand-drawn art got mangled that badly!
it really is a testament to how these game were developed around the technology of the time. using limitations and ingenuity of the software and hardware to make it look better. hell of a difference between illuminated lcd screens and the light projection of crt.