Don't really need dynamic bounced light, just a second cone light with a wider angle and much dimmer. Doesn't even need to cast shadows if the game needs to be really lightweight, only give slightly more soft illumination on the edge of the strong light

we should return to all 2d graphics

It's the way our vision works, not the flashlight (mostly).

High intensity/white light flashlights can induce more of the first image, but even those don't make a hard transition of visible/not visible, as light splashes and our vision has a gentler transition.

I own both cheap flashlights, good ones with high CRI, some with high intensity and high CRI, some with high focus, etc. Pretty much all of them produce the second image in varying degrees because that's how human vision works.

Emisar, and it does a whole heck of a lot more than the picture. By default, it will light up a whole room when I bounce the beam off the ceiling. If I press the button twice, it turns a dark room into daytime. If I press the button twice, then twice again, it turns the room into a supernova and blinds everyone in it. I only use that mode for pointing at the corner of the room (when cats aren’t around) to take photos using refracted light.

There’s also like 70 other things it can do with its one single button, but I mostly just use “on” and “battery check”. It can tell you the room’s temperature! I’ve got two of his lights and they’re like 50 bucks each. One 18650. I have 20 18650s.

i think the night sky is just brighter where i am than most places LOL

"No! you shan't see except where I want you too!"

Well, that's exactly what it is.. it's not as though they're limited to that little cone light source, it's a choice to limit your FOV to create suspense or a sense of claustrophobia or whatever to help tell the story.