>>717603991
True, the first game did look more like a pop-up storybook than paper. TTYD kinda ditched that look early on though. And honestly, if the games never abandoned the RPG format, the whole complaint about the Paper aesthetic would just be a minor annoyance at worst to most people. The Paper stuff is bad not because of how it looks but because of how hard the devs leaned into it with every aspect of the game like gameplay or making a stapler a boss.