Doing an HD Remake the Right Way: FFVI Edition. So Final Fantasy VI - - a beloved classic that contends with Final Fantasy VII for the title of best Final Fantasy game of all time - - is releasing on Steam this Wednesday. This game is the crown jewel of the SNES era of JRPG's and deserves the utmost care and respect. Instead, Square Enix bungled it and everybody is complaining about the art style. I posted my own nuanced response on twitter as well: The problem with the Final Fantasy VI remake has much more to do with graphics programming than art style. Direct image link.

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We'll get back to this image later in the article.)The Final Fantasy VI PC re- release is a direct port of an earlier i. OS version. Final Fantasy V got the same treatment, used the same engine, and was also released on Steam a few months back. As you might expect, they share similar technical problems. I had a lot to say about Final Fantasy V, so if you're reading this blog for the first time I recommend at least skimming the first article, in what has apparently just become a series: Back?

Cool. Now, before we begin, I want to address a discussion pattern I've seen: ALICE: This art is terrible! Just give me the original pixel art at this point. BOB: What's wrong with the new stuff? At least it's HD. ALICE: Where are your eyes?

See the smudging? You're such a phillistine. BOB: What, you think ugly blocky pixels are better? You're such a snob. What we have here is a failure to communicate. Alice is trying to point out glaring problems with the technical implementation, but Bob just hears "Alice is a weird hipster who thinks grainy black and white silent films are better than digital HD in full color with surround sound." Meanwhile Bob is trying to say that literally anything looks better to him than pixel graphics because he wasn't born in 1. Alice hears is, "Bob's inability to see these problems can only be explained by a congenital visual impairment that covers his entire field of view with jpeg artifacts."Yeah, Alice and Bob are a bit strawmannish, but you've seen this argument play out before.

I'm not interested in telling Alice and Bob what they should or shouldn't like. I am interested in giving Alice and Bob a proper technical vocabulary so they can put their feelings into words. In the end my central point is this: This game could have - - and should have - - looked much better, regardless of whether you prefer HD art or pixels. Anyways, let's start with an official screenshot from Square Enix. Blurring(Direct image link)First of all, the entire screen is stretched horizontally by about 2. In an official screenshot.

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Yes, pedants, I know the Super Nintendo did not have a square pixel ratio. But this is a different matter. Locke's head and other visual elements are obviously distorted from the proportions the artists intended. Steam's latest survey. It's the single most important resolution to get right. Yes, I know this was originally a mobile game with a native internal resolution of 1.

Square Enix. Personally I feel that pillar- boxing is always better than stretching, but judge for yourself (Direct image link). Next, everything on that FFVI screenshot is blurry. And just to reiterate - - in an official screenshot.(NOTE: Since this blog has a tendency to auto- size images, especially if you're on a mobile device, I've cropped the following image to 4.

Open it in a new tab if necessary.)Take a look (Direct image link): Note that I have not zoomed in at all. That's the exact per- pixel output you'll see on a 1. Also, notice the harsh tiling boundary artifact on this column (Direct image link): Here's how the original looks, for comparison (Direct image link): Now check this detail out (Direct image link): From the looks of it, the new tile art was done by taking the original pixels and drawing higher resolution versions of them.

The problem with this is that pixel art inherently lacks detail - - so this little pixelated seam blends because everything's blocky already - - a stray pixel still reads as a chunk of mortar, a highlight, a shadow, or a bit of texture. But when you go to HD, suddenly you lose your ability to fudge things.

You don't have a few pixels that represent a brick, you just have a brick. And if it's weirdly sliced in two with a boundary that doesn't line up, that just looks wrong. If I had to guess, the artists worked on the tilesets one tile at a time without paying much attention to how they would be composed in game. Next, look at these artifacts: aliased (that is to say, "blocky") pixels are clearly visible, but blurred into an ugly, smudgy mess (Direct image link). Again, I am not zooming in here at all! This is exactly how it shows up on your 1.

Grabbing this screenshot from the i. OS version shows where the problem is coming from (Direct image link): This is how the game is "meant" to be displayed natively, which will only occur if your native display matches the internal resolution. NOTE: This screenshot is probably from a retina build of the mobile game, because the original internal resolution of this engine (which is what the PC build uses) seems to be 1. The character sprites are drawn as high- res pixel art, but scaled with some sort of filter. However, the game tiles themselves are drawn with pixel art but left unfiltered. Then, the fit- to- screen scaler kicks in and throws another bilinear filter on top of everything and disproportionately stretches it to whatever you've got. Also, if you look closely, you'll notice that even those "native" blocky pixels are awkwardly stretched - - some of them are 5x.

Either the developers have poor crafstmanship, or they're trying to match the non- square pixel ratio of the original SNES. If it's the former that's just plain bad. If it's the latter, that's bad and crazy. I mean, you're making new art from scratch, for a display with 1: 1 pixels! What are you doing hard- scaling the ratio at the last minute?

That's like carefully carving a beautiful wooden door only to find it's an inch too wide for the frame and just brutally hammering it until it fits. Okay, remember this image?

Let's get back to it (Direct image link). Some people prefer blocky pixels, some people prefer smooth HD gradients, but taking blocky pixel art and applying a bilinear filter is literally the worst of both worlds. The very least the developers could have done was to upscale the high- res sprites with the XBR algorithm by 2x or 4x, and then downscale with bicubic filtering, and save that as the new master asset. Running Man Episode 256. This effectively anti- aliases the image, and since the sprites are fairly high resolution to begin with, the results are pretty good. This way, if any bilinear filtering is applied on the entire game screen, the results won't be as bad because there will be no blocky pixels to smudge. Things would still be blurry, but tolerable. But why tell you when I can show you?

Here's how the raw pixels would look if everything had just been given a clean nearest- neighbor 4x scale (Direct image link): Certainly blocky, but admittedly higher res than the SNES, and the art styles are internally consistent. Here's how it would look if instead of bilinear filtering the sprite art, you antialiased it with an XBR upscale and a bicubic downscale. Swap that in, and it looks like this (Direct image link): Not perfect, and it's still standing out against a pixelated background, but compare (Direct image link): I don't generally agree with taking raw pixels, upscaling them with a filter, and then matting them against raw, unfiltered pixels, but if you're going to do that, at least do it the least worst way.

And while I'm at it, may I suggest trying for consistency? Direct image link)At this point it should be clear that the new pixel resolution simply isn't enough to achieve respectable detail at 1.

But even so, they could have at least given us some options such as unfiltered raw pixels, or letting us pick from a list of upscaling algorithms.