"Octopath Traveler—the first HD-2D title—was developed while referencing FFVI, as it had the highest quality pixel art. I would love to see how the game we referenced would look with the HD-2D ...

As the name suggests, it's a two-pack compilation featuring remakes of the first two entries of the Dragon Quest franchise, reimagined with gameplay improvements and a gorgeous HD-2D art style ...

Developed by Square Enix Team Asano, “HD-2D” is a critically acclaimed graphic style that combines pixel art characters with 3D backgrounds, then adds high-definition visual effects to deliver ...

This latest batch of remakes, which will be packaged together in as inline release, is being overseen by Team Asano, and utilises pixel art characters with 3D backgrounds, hence the term HD-2D.

Producer Masaaki Hayasaka believes it would make sense since that Final Fantasy 6 heavily influenced the HD-2D art style.

That success is what Square is banking on again, with its upcoming release of Dragon Quest I and II: HD 2D Remaster. Following the same art style as the aforementioned III, as well as other ...