[batmansmk]

Taste is indeed subjective. Many of my daughter’s children book uses this style which stimulates our imagination every night when reading bed time stories. This style makes the story mysterious (none of the shapes are realistic), approachable (you saw the paper cut outs due to the use of textures and the shapes as if they were made with scissors). It is flat as a reminiscence of the original games, but also because it facilitates the point and click gameplay (no 3D to struggle with). On the palette side, it uses heavily saturated vivid colours, which accentuates the exotism of such a travel. I love it on my end.

[DrSiemer]

The target audience is mainly retro fans, not children. I'm not crazy about the choice myself. It makes the animations look awkward and unnatural. I suspect it's a huge time and cost saver though.