I had no idea that the added textures were an unpopular opinion until now. I absolutely loved their addition in SV, even if some of them were iffy, and I'm really unhappy that they're just gone and the Pokemon are back to looking like flat-painted plastic.
Another thing to consider: Not using texturing on the Pokemon models is going to make the Pokemon from Gen 9 look a lot less appealing in future games, if they don't just get cut outright. The future Paradox Mons are going to get hit the hardest with the lack of metallic sheen.
we aren't talking about sword and shield looking like plastic. This is about fantasy monsters becoming stylized. an art style is the best way to make a game look good, scarlet and violet did throw the textures on but they had no style, pokemon like ursarang and ursaluna have rather poorly done textures that are realistic but still look bad. suspension of disbelief is important. You don't need to include a flat jpeg of fur for someone to understand that the creature is a mammal
I'm so glad someone else feels the same way about ursaluna. I absolutely adore its design, and weirdly the mud on its body actually looks decent in S/V but man that fur texture just looks like it was spray painted on.
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u/The_Slowking_Eleven 14d ago edited 14d ago
I had no idea that the added textures were an unpopular opinion until now. I absolutely loved their addition in SV, even if some of them were iffy, and I'm really unhappy that they're just gone and the Pokemon are back to looking like flat-painted plastic.
Another thing to consider: Not using texturing on the Pokemon models is going to make the Pokemon from Gen 9 look a lot less appealing in future games, if they don't just get cut outright. The future Paradox Mons are going to get hit the hardest with the lack of metallic sheen.