Larian Studios art director Alena Dubrovina says Baldur's Gate 3 shifted art direction multiple times before settling on its final visual style.

But for star Robert De Niro, advances in film technology like de-aging could make movies ‘cartoony,’ like Marvel, as he explained: The technological stuff can only go so far.

The developers describe its cartoony, bare-bones aesthetic as “exhaustively optimised”, which is a polite way of saying that you’ll rarely find yourself stopping to admire the scenery.