...Hey, let's not Ignore that this has been a staple of Disgaea since it's first game-
FFTactics did it first, but Disgaea, and Nippon Ichi in general made a literal living off this style.
Shit look at CROSS EDGE!
The way people talk about HD-2D games you'd think they're making 100 of them but in reality, it's trademarked by Square Enix and they only made like ten? Lolololol
Even for Indies you don't see this often because the assets will clash hard if you don't use them well!