This is just a regular scene at the end of a bigger battle. The sprites look great at all times. In battle, we can see how the 2D sprites are nicely animated. There’s a multitude of poses and moves the characters can do, and they all look great. Each and every battle screenshot I took while replaying Grandia looks great, kind of like a strange, stylish drawing. That is, each and every that wasn’t completely covered in spell effects.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that the spell effects look bad, it’s just that they are more suited for dynamic presentation, not a still image. The sprites, on the other hand, constantly look great.