>>715640819if you are not willing to do art from scratch you would use a library which uses pbr which is something that started in mid 2010s.
ps2 / 360 era would be easiest if you do all the textures and models yourself.
before that stuff was made weirdly around hardware limitations, which is why when indie devs do it, it just looks uncanny.
>>715641372low poly is not just for old games.
you can have modern graphics techniques with low poly.
but he shouldn't have expectations that he can make something that looks like the old era.