Thing is however that mixing NES sprite designs with GBA battle backgrounds and how they modified the battle screen placement for 16:9 does result in dumb shit.

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Yet most of that work to "bring it up to the same quality standard as FFV" for I and II consisted of assets ported from the WSC versions. If they just wanted to "bring up the standard" they also could have just used the FFVI style Record Keeper party sprites considering that's where a lot of the enemy sprites came from anyways.