>>533513476
It had soul because the artwork was shit quality and lazy as fuck. As time progressed, making better artworks became easier so it was expected that everything around it became higher quality, which results in artworks with honestly too much polish.
You'd be hard pressed to ever get something like Metal Dragon again. Shit proportions, shit shading, all topped with a standard JPEG of some clouds they pulled from some stock photo art pack lying around the office.