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>>5290036
>is that something the artists wanted
The Death of the author, faggot. What matters is not what the artists wanted, but what actually looks better. Scanlines add a lot of fake detail to the image, kind of like adding noise to an edited photo makes it less artificial. Pixels are ugly when they're large monochrome squares with colors from a very limited palette. For these reasons most pixel art looks better with scanlines regardless of the original intent.