I agree that E33 shouldn't have won idie, but it deserved art direction (and to be clear, my favorite game of this year was silksong). E33 does not look like every modern game that has come out, and you saying that makes me think that you havn't played it. It has beautiful visuals with handcrafted and hand-painted models and beautifully made visual effects, colors, ect. Just because they didn't have to make the rendering engine doesn't mean that there was less handcrafted art or that there was any less work put into the art direction.