FLYINGJESTER'S PROFILE

Did you search Spheredev for isometric engines? The Majestic Map Engine had an isometric branch (which has been abandoned), and the Brutal Map Engine is isometric (but not quite perfect). There might be more I don't know about.

No, it's not. It looked fine in dragon quest, because the art style was the same. It looked fine in final fantasy, because the art style was the same.

Look at the overworld image. It's a cartoony headed character in a very 2D-pixel-art world.

Now look at the battle images. They are much more photorealistic, much higher detail, and look hand drawn.

Those two things are not just different images, they're different styles. It doesn't look like the same tools, same inspiration, same artist, or even same team worked on both scenes.

And I'm not even saying this is bad thing. But that's what was asked.

I don't think any of those battle scenes look like they are the same game as that overhead image. Because the style is so incredibly different. On the on ehand, you have pixel art. Then you have a more hand drawn battle scene.

It just looks like two completely different games because of the two completely different styles.

The battle scene doesn't look like the same game.

Sphere is still quite capable. I've heard commercial games have been released in RPG Maker, and Sphere has the capability to vastly outdo RPG Maker (freedom and limitations wise, to be sure), although very few people put in that kind of effort to Sphere. It's still being developed, too, and the new version will be more compatible with releasing games on steam (and commercial games in general) than the earlier versions.

You could check out spheredev.org, that is Sphere's actual home.