/vr/ - Retro Games

Is it possible for a skilled (perhaps extremely skilled) artist to take an archaic sprite and actually upscale the detail while making it still look exactly the same character as what people's imaginations filled in for them back in the day? A.I. completely fails at this. Game companies outsource their remakes to Malaysia and give us globohomo art versions instead. But I still feel like there is a theoretical remastering process out there which is an authentic 1:1 recreation of what we saw in the original sprite, that could be achieved with the right talent, enough revisions and feedback, and perhaps even a touch of the genius