Hello @triverse, certainly the control and impact that Sony had with the PlayStation greatly affected the 2D games of that generation, unfortunately the developers in order to stand out had to go with the flow and 3D was the fashion in those times. Others more daring as Capcom or Ubisoft if they launched games with this type of graphics, without discarding the fact that they had many 3D games.

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