/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2150675
There are a lot of examples of games on the PC-98 where they used digitised images. Even in your example there might have been a scanned sketch that the artist drew over. However I suspect the image in question is entirely hand-made. Even if the vegetation and trees look sloppy, they don't look like an color-index scanned drawing would.

It seems more like the artist decided to paint the scenery as you would an oil painting, rather than placing individual pixels deliberately, like he did with the characters in the foreground.