I already said this once but there is no filter. They remade the sprites.
They didn't, the sprites are filtered. You must be retarded if you think SE in their legendary laziness would remade every single sprite in the game...
Imagine thinking this is a completely remade sprite when it's fucking full of upscaling artifacts and looks like shit.
They literally said in an interview that they remade the sprites while trying to keep them close to the original you dumbfuck. They were hoping they could update the graphics while keeping the retards who jack off to pixelshit happy, but obviously that didn't work as you can see by this thread. Here's a link to the interview, though I doubt it will do you any good since you probably can't read moonrunes.
https://www.famitsu.com/news/202208/17272199.html
You can try to argue that they just upgraded them with AI or a filter or whatever, but the fact remains that these are the actual sprites you are looking at. They aren't just running a filter over the game.
Other tidbits from the interview:
- FFXII The Zodiac Age was the turning point that allowed them to remaster Tactics Ogre Reborn
- Double speed fast forward
- Entirely new sound effects created by the god Yajima who worked on Vagrant Story and FFXII
- Some Skills and Spells axed because there were too many
- Limited amount of skills and spells individuals can equip
- Union level is a level cap on your army (probably because levels matter more now)
- No new story or events, but new music will appear during the story
- Game fully voiced and recording personally attended by Matsuno (He said he doesn't watch anime so his voice actor picks are like for FFXII, VAs that dub western movies and foreign dramas)
- Script is brushed up by Matsuno so it flows better listening to it rather than reading it
- Unit individual leveling is back, as well as training function of the original TO.
- Power leveling is even stronger now (leveling up low level characters that join higher leveled encounters)
- Takashi Katano is the director just like FFXII The Zodiac Age
- UI was made for mouse and keyboard
- AI is better and has more decision layers