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This style seems achievable while retaining 3D rendering if the tiles are preprocessed in 3D instead of 2D and some clever shaders are used.
unfortunate that google explicitly forbids 3D model generation from their map data
I'm pretty sure that re-rendering the tiles to 2D and rehosting them on your own website is also forbidden. So no difference there.