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I’m not sure the marketing brains at Square Enix intended HD-2D to become a brand when they first used the term to describe the sophisticated, emotive pixel-art aesthetic of the 2018 role-playing game Octopath Traveler. But they’ve certainly seized on the opportunity to turn it into one since then. This week sees the release of the ninth official HD-2D release, The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales — the latest entry
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