It boggles the mind to think that the tall, busty, blonde bombshell Amazon from the original was somehow turned into a freakish amalgamation of Donald Trump’s face and Meg Griffin’s body. When it comes to the character design and some aspects of monster design, however, the artists working on Diablo 2 Resurrected failed miserably. That being said, some areas of the remaster are very good such as the careful building of the 3D models over the original 25 FPS engine to retain the mechanics of the original as well as the dark, forbidding environmental design. The artists undertaking the responsibility of bringing the world of Diablo 2 back to life, albeit with significantly higher visual fidelity, should view themselves as museum workers trying to restore a piece of art to its former glory, it doesn’t matter whether the art is unrealistic or uncouth, the art exists as it does and their job is to preserve it as it was originally intended. When remastering a game that is a genre-defining masterpiece such as Diablo 2, the focus should utmost be on preserving and enhancing the original aesthetic of the game, not on altering the aesthetic to fit what you think it should be.
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