It's possible to have photo-realistic lighting without photo-realistic art. For example see the Link's Awakening remake: https://d1lss44hh2trtw.cloudfront.net/a

It's possible to have photo-realistic lighting without photo-realistic art. For example see the Link's Awakening remake: https://d1lss44hh2trtw.cloudfront.net/assets/editorial/2019/02/zelda-links-awakening-nintendo-switch-remake.jpg https://d1lss44hh2trtw.cloudfront.net/assets/editorial/2019/... Even the Final Fantasy 7 Remake arguably doesn't have a photorealistic style. Everything is very exaggerated and it has a distinctive art style despite using very physical rendering