@coded_artist there is no upcoming remake of sh1. just sh2. although i wish it was for sh1, that would have been much better. with the lower poly graphics and general ps1-era jank they could have certainly done more to it without having people be so critical. i'd certainly be cooler with an evil-within-style remake of sh1 than i am of sh2.

a big problem with the cutscenes in the sh2 remake is that they are rendered in realtime and those realtime graphics aren't very good. you can see the aliasing from the hair all over the place and the rendering pipeline for most unreal engine games is super soft and kind of bland.

people always used to say that realtime rendering will age better than prerendered scenes will, since the prerendered ones have compression artifacts and especially back in the day were locked to lower resolutions that couldn't be upscaled like the actual game's graphics could be. however, the graphics were also more simple back then and it leads to them looking better at higher resolutions than whatever the hell this is in HD. you can't exactly just throw more pixels at it in this case. i would heavily prefer some compression artifacts than artifacts from antialiasing and such.

also in case you didn't know, that isn't the original photo of angela at the bottom there. it's been edited to exacerbate how round her face looks now. this is a better comparison using the real photo from the remake on the left and the original CGI on the right.