Because you’re focused on the visuals from a single user perspective…

1. There’s the world state and game logic to consider as well, and this would be relevant even in a 2D sprite based game.
2. The article makes it clear that it’s the couch co-op split screen that is causing the most headaches, with whatever additional overhead there is in maintaining another active character and rendering of the world on screen.

I’ve had a lot of cats as pets over my life to date.

Three of my favourite were all black kitties.

Then there was my dark tortoiseshell who will always have a special place in my heart.

It is a fun game, but if you know what you’re doing it’s so exploitable to get powerful components early.

Back when reddit premium was a thing I was quite happy to sub to that to pay towards costs, and make use of the benefits like X gold to give people per month and increased sub limits etc

Then they messed about with all that and I dropped my sub …

And I haven’t been back since the protests started so 🤷‍♀️