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damn you just completely do not understand what i'm saying....let's make this simple...is ff7 3d?? YES....is FF7 2d??...NO maybe just the background....even till this day alot of game still do that....so a 2d background still does not make a game 2d...
if you still dont understand...are the characters rendered in 3d?..yes
are the enviroment rendered in 3d?? yes...this might answer ur mithril mines area...it's still 3d..it's just triggered differently for you to walk to and from the platform of rocks..resident evil 2 didn't have camera rotation...and that was 3d...
what about it is 2d???...i have explained in previous post...read it..if you still dont understand...ask someone else....i dont know how much more explaining i could do to get it for you to understand...
and about the diagonal movement...i'm talking about the blocks...which i already explained...which you still haven't seem to understand...
one last thing...there are parts of uncharted 1 and 2 that play very similar to mithril mines area....i guess that would make uncharted the same thing??...2d movement??...